Iraq's blackest day

On the other hand Dubya(you know the guy to thank for all this) will be bike riding today.

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160 dead and 257 wounded as car bombs and mortars hit Baghdad













Iraq's blackest day leaves 160 dead and raises fears of all-out civil war

"I saw a car from a wedding party, covered in ribbons and flowers. It was burning. There were pools of blood ... and children dead."
- KAREEM AL-RUBAIE, NEWS PHOTOGRAPHER

Six car bombs killed 160 people in a Shiite stronghold of Baghdad yesterday in the bloodiest attack since the 2003 Iraq invasion.

The authorities imposed an indefinite curfew on a city fearful of a sectarian civil war, while leaders from all the main communities, including Nuri al-Maliki, the Shiite prime minister, and Tareq al-Hashemi, the Sunni vice-president, made a televised appeal for calm.

"We call for people to act responsibly and to stand together to calm the situation," their joint statement said.

A further 257 people were wounded in the series of blasts in the capital's Sadr City slum. Parked vehicles packed with explosives caused carnage in the streets and a market. Mortars also landed nearby and residents seized a seventh car they said was driven by a would-be suicide bomber.

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