October 19, 2006

AFP.com | Iraq cities blitzed in multiple attacks


AFP.com | Iraq cities blitzed in multiple attacks: "BAGHDAD (AFP) - A deadly series of bomb attacks in three Iraqi towns has marked another day of brutal violence that left scores of people dead as a fierce debate over how to prosecute the war gripped Washington.

The northern city of Mosul shuddered Thursday under 10 apparently coordinated attacks erupting at 20-minute intervals, including several suicide car bombs, mortar fire and small arms assaults against US-led forces and Iraqi police.

The bloodiest attack was a massive suicide truck bomb against a police station that local authorities say killed 11 and wounded 26 -- the vast majority of them innocent bystanders -- but more blasts followed." Read complete post here.