Archive for February, 2008

Female bombers strike markets in Baghdad (AP)

Friday, February 1st, 2008

AP - Remote-controlled explosives strapped to two mentally retarded women detonated in a coordinated attack on Baghdad pet bazaars Friday, Iraqi officials said, killing at least 73 people in the deadliest day since the U.S. sent 30,000 extra troops to the capital last spring.

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Bush lobbies for economic deal (AP)

Friday, February 1st, 2008

AP - President Bush prodded Congress to pass an economic stimulus package Friday, pointing to a new report that ended a 52-month streak of national job growth.

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Female bombers kill 72 at Baghdad pet markets (Reuters)

Friday, February 1st, 2008

Reuters - Female suicide bombers, detonated by
remote control, killed 72 people in attacks blamed on al Qaeda
at two popular Baghdad pet markets on Friday, the Iraqi
capital’s worst bombings in six months.

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Ambassador: al-Qaida using new tactics (AP)

Friday, February 1st, 2008

AP - The U.S. ambassador to Iraq told The Associated Press on Friday that suicide bombings by two mentally retarded women in Baghdad strapped with remote-controlled explosives show that a resilient al-Qaida has “found a different, deadly way” to try to destabilize Iraq. At least 73 people were killed, officials said.

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Coordinated bombings kill dozens in Baghdad (McClatchy Newspapers)

Friday, February 1st, 2008

McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD— Two coordinated pet-market suicide bombings killed at least 65 people and wounded nearly 150 Friday in Baghdad, the worst violence in the city since August.

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Female suicide bombers kill 64 in Baghdad pet markets (AFP)

Friday, February 1st, 2008

AFP - Powerful blasts, both triggered by female suicide bombers, killed at least 64 people and wounded more than 100 as they ripped through two Baghdad pet markets on Friday, officials and witnesses said.

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Iraqi VP refuses to ratify Baathist reconciliation law (AFP)

Friday, February 1st, 2008

AFP - Iraq’s Sunni vice president refused Friday to ratify a law supposed to reintegrate former members of Saddam Hussein’s Baath Party into public life, saying it would instead worsen their exclusion.

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At least 64 dead in Baghdad market bombs (AP)

Friday, February 1st, 2008

AP - A female suicide bomber blew herself up at the main pet market in central Baghdad, killing at least 46 people and wounding dozens in the deadliest bombing to strike the capital since 30,000 more American troops began flooding into central Iraq last spring, police said.

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Michigan town split over disaster firm

Friday, February 1st, 2008

PELLSTON, Mich. — Officials in this small, job-starved community hope disaster pays.

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Parents defend daughter jailed in Italy

Friday, February 1st, 2008

NEW YORK — The parents of an American student accused in a sensational Italian sex slaying said in an interview broadcast Friday that their daughter could never have committed such a crime.

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