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Suicide Bomber Kills Over 100 in Iraq
Mon Feb 28, 2005 06:10 AM ET
http://olympics.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=7756199
By Haider Abbas
HILLA, Iraq (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber killed 105 people and wounded 130 near a crowded marketplace south of Baghdad on Monday in the single bloodiest attack in Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein.
The bomber drove a car into a crowd of people queuing outside a government building in the town of Hilla, 100 km (62 miles) south of the capital. Many of those killed were shopping at stalls across the road.
Reuters television footage showed a pile of bloodied bodies outside the building. Smoke rose from the wreckage of burned-out market stalls as bystanders loaded mangled corpses on to wooden carts, usually used to carry fruit and vegetables.
Others were piled into the back of pick-up trucks.
"We finished now transporting the bodies from the site. There were 105 people dead and 130 wounded," said doctor Mahmoud Abdul Ridah, an official in the local health authority.
"We've called on people to donate blood and have opened a center for that," he told Reuters. "We've called on doctors from Kerbala, Diwaniyah and Najaf to come and help and they have started to arrive."
The toll makes the blast the single deadliest attack since the fall of Saddam in April 2003 and makes Monday one of the bloodiest days of the two-year insurgency.
The worst day was last March, when more than 170 people were killed in a series of suicide bombings in Baghdad and the holy city of Kerbala, just west of Hilla.
The target of the latest attack appeared to be a crowd of people waiting outside the building to get health certificates needed to apply for government jobs.
Insurgents, fighting to drive U.S. troops out of Iraq and wreck the country's transition to democracy, have often targeted people looking for state jobs. They frequently target police and army recruits but have also killed local government workers.
The attack came as Interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi acknowledged Iraq's security forces were still unable to take on the insurgency without the help of U.S.-led troops. Continued ...
Iraqis should be able to start taking over more and more security responsibilities very soon," he wrote in the Wall Street Journal. "But we will continue to need and to seek assistance for some time to come."
POLICE AND CIVILIANS KILLED
Elsewhere in Iraq, a hospital official said one civilian was killed and two were wounded when insurgents fought with Iraqi troops in the town of Baquba, northeast of Baghdad.
Two policemen were killed in the capital, one by a gunman and one by a roadside bomb, police sources and witnesses said.
The U.S. military said gunmen killed four people and wounded two in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Sunday. A bombing near the town, also on Sunday, killed eight people.
The military also said a U.S. soldier was shot and killed in Baghdad while manning a traffic checkpoint. The death raises to 1,137 the number of U.S. troops killed in action in Iraq since the March 2003 war.
Allawi's government and its American backers insist the insurgency is being defeated and have announced a series of high-profile arrests in recent weeks to support their claim.
The government was expected to give details later on Monday of the capture of Saddam Hussein's half-brother, Sabawi Ibrahim al-Hasan al-Tikriti, a top-level Baathist accused of directing the Iraqi insurgency from Syria.
Ibrahim, an intelligence chief and one-time adviser to Saddam, was number 36 on the U.S. military's list of the 55 most-wanted people in Iraq. His arrest was announced on Sunday.
A senior government official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters that Syria, under pressure due to accusations it was behind recent attacks in Israel and Lebanon, had played a role in giving Ibrahim up.
Syria has come under fire from the United States after the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri in Beirut nearly two weeks ago. The Lebanese opposition blamed Damascus for his death.
Iraq's U.S.-backed government has repeatedly accused Syria of abetting militants, charges Damascus denies.
(Additional reporting by Michael Georgy, Luke Baker, Mussab al-Khairalla, Omar Anwar and Waleed Ibrahim in Baghdad, Sami Jumaili in Hilla)
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