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August 16, 2007

Iraq: At Least 400 Killed in Tuesday's Truck Bombings 
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http://enews.voanews.com/t?ctl=18B8610:A6F02AD83191E1602C7B7C247AF4649F9574F7DCC14957C0 Attacks in two
Yazidi villages were deadliest coordinated attack in Iraq since the
US-led invasion in 2003





Iraqi soldier videotapes the ruins of a coordinated suicide attack in
the town of Qahataniya, 15 Aug 2007The Iraqi interior ministry says
the death toll has risen to at least 400 people in suicide truck
bombings Tuesday against a religious minority in northern Iraq.

The explosions of four truck bombs in two Yazidi villages were the
deadliest coordinated attack in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion in
2003.

Iraqi soldiers, police and volunteers continued to pull bodies from
the rubble of the devastated villages Thursday in Nineveh province.
Hundreds of wounded are being treated at hospitals across the region.

The Yazidis are a non-Muslim, Kurdish-speaking community that belong
to an ancient religious sect. Sunni militants regard them as infidels.







Iraqi firemen at scene of car bomb explosion at popular shopping
complex in central Baghdad, 16 Aug 2007

Meanwhile, a car bomb exploded in Baghdad Thursday morning next to a
shopping complex, killing at least seven people and wounding 15
others.

The U.S. military also says two American soldiers were killed and six
wounded in fighting Wednesday north of the Iraqi capital.

U.S. commanders blame al-Qaida for Tuesday's truck bombings, saying
they were designed to undermine the sense of progress that U.S. and
Iraqi forces are creating.

The attacks were far deadlier than the six car bombs that killed about
200 people in Baghdad's Shi'ite slum of Sadr City in November 23 last
year.

Some information for this report was provided by AFP, AP and Reuters.


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