UPDATE ON BOMBINGS IN BAGHDAD, IRAQ: 70 KILLED. 230 INJURED

FOX NEWS and much of the other media in the United States continue to ignore what is taking place in Baghdad, Iraq.

Two bombs were set off on Friday in two pet markets in Baghdad and the latest figures indicate 70 Iraqis have been killed and 230 people have been injured.

Not since the introduction of 30,000 more U.S. troops into Baghdad and the rest of Iraq has there been such a serious bombing.

The success of the "surge" is a figment of the imagination of President Bush and FOX News, the propaganda branch of the Bush White House.

What little success the "surge" brought about in Baghdad and Anwar Province in Iraq had more to do with the tribal leaders banding together to push Al Qaida out of the region than anything the U.S. military has done.

Bill Corcoran, editor of CORKSPHERE, http://corksphere.blogspot.com/, a blog which tells the TRUTH about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Pet markets bombing in Baghdad leaves 230 casualties

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Baghdad - Voices of Iraq
Friday , 01 /02 /2008 Time 9:24:03


Baghdad , Feb 1, (VOI)- An Iraqi security spokesman on Friday said the casualty toll of two pet markets bombings in Baghdad rose to 230.

The attacks were the deadliest in the Iraqi capital since 30,000 more American troops flooded into the centre of the country last spring.

“The toll of the two bombing that targeted al-Ghazal pet market and Baghdad al-Jadida pet market rose to 54 deaths and 176 injuries”, Qassem al-Musawi, the spokesman for Baghdad’s security plan told Aswat al-Iraq-Voices of Iraq(VOI). Al-Musawi noted “the two bombings were the result of a suicide attack by two female suicide bombers”.

The spokesman played down the effects of bombing and considered them as “attempts to undermine the morale of security forces and to chip away at Iraqi confidence in the permanence of recent security gains.”

Earlier, a police source told (VOI) “Casualties from Friday's earlier bombing attacks on two pet souks (markets) in al-Shurjah and Baghdad al-Jadida (New Baghdad) areas rose to 115”.