Stephanie Gesselle
A bombing in northern Bagdad killed 28 people on Monday. This was the deadliest attack in Bagdad since last a bombing killed 51 last June. This was a synchronized triple bombing. The bombers made their attack on a main street of the Sunni, Shiite village of Adhamiya. At about 8am, when the streets were the busiest, two parked cars erupted. The bombs went off about five minutes apart and left ruins in heir path. Sources say, the streets were covered in blood and cooking gases and burst pipes leaked murky sewer water into the streets. A municipal bus was badly damaged as one onlooker said, “it turned into a lump of coal. Hamza Abdul Kareem, an army sergeant suggested that until this morning, the village had been “peaceful and beautiful”. Some discrepancies in the actual number of casualties had been reported. The local hospitals reported 49 people had been brought in after the attack and many had serious injuries. However, the Interior Ministry declared 68 to be wounded and the American military reports numbers as low as 35. According to sources there have been at least 19 bombings in Bagdad over the last month and that this is only part of a recent up rise in violence over the past several weeks. The bombing was said to be an attempt to eliminate several members of The Awakening movement. This is a groups which had been assisting the United States in combating Al Quieda, in Iraq.
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