5.05.2005

Afghanistan: "It's a Slaughterhouse"

Talk about burying the lead paragraph way down in the story to prevent embarrassing this president:

BAGHDAD — A suicide attack killed 60 people in the northern Kurdish city of Irbil and assaults in the capital claimed at least 31 more lives Wednesday and today, in the bloodiest 24-hour period in Iraq in more than two months.U.S. and Iraqi officials said the Irbil attack was carried out by a bomber who blew himself up about 9 a.m. Wednesday in a crowd of job seekers outside a police recruitment center in the Kurdish provincial capital.

In a statement posted on a militant website, the radical group Ansar al Sunna claimed responsibility for the bombing. The building where the attack occurred also housed the local offices of the Kurdish Democratic Party. Ansar's statement said the attack was revenge for Kurdish cooperation with U.S. forces. Streets were streaked with blood as more than 150 wounded people were taken by taxi and ambulance to hospitals.

"It's a slaughterhouse," said Jwan Abdul Qader, a 30-year-old nurse at Irbil's Rezgary Hospital as she and other staff members struggled to aid the wounded.
Mr. Bush, uncontent in just turning America into a horror, has now killed two other countries. And he and Condi have their eyes on Iran, Syria, Cuba, and hell, anything else they can get their hands -and bombs and depleted uranium - on.