CHRISTIANS UNDER ATTACK IN IRAQ

String Of Baghdad Bomb Blasts Kill 16

(AP) BAGHDAD A series of bombs exploded in rapid succession in a shopping district in a mainly Christian neighborhood of Baghdad on Wednesday, killing 16 people and wounding 87, police said.

Scattered attacks around Iraq killed five other people, and the U.S. military announced the death of two soldiers — raising the toll of one of the deadliest periods for American troops this year.

At least 17 troops have been killed in combat since Saturday, including eight U.S. soldiers who died in gunbattles and bomb blasts Monday in Baghdad — the most killed in a single day in the capital since July 2005.

An intensified U.S.-Iraqi military sweep launched in Baghdad in August has been clearing neighborhoods house by house of weapons, militiamen and insurgents.

Despite the sweep, the capital continues to see a deadly combination of attacks by Sunni insurgents and tit-for-tat killings and bombings by Shiite militias and Sunni groups, which have killed thousands this month.

Just before noon, a car bomb and two roadside bombs blew up within 10 minutes in a shopping district of the Camp Sara neighborhood, which is predominantly Christian, 1st Lt. Ali Abbas said.The blasts left 16 dead and wounded 87, including shoppers and 15 policemen, destroying cars and collapsing part of a nearby building, he said.

Bodies lay in the street next to the smoking wreckage of burning cars. Rescue workers piled corpses into an ambulance parked next to the crumbled facade of a building, while a policeman warned residents to leave the area for fear more bombs would explode.

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The "Religion of Peace" continues onwards in their "peaceful endeavors"...

The dhimma contract must have been found to be null & void because of what the head dhimmi of Christians said in his September 12, 2006 lecture...

Truth hurts and obviously moslems & islam is suffering from the blow, though in all honestly the lecture was mostly to the post-Christian West...

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