CHILDREN OF THE DAMNED--VERY GRAPHIC

This YouTube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opdwA6XKvWM showing the horrors of war on the children of Iraq is by its nature very GRAPHIC and should be viewed with extreme caution.

Nobody is telling the American public about the war in Iraq anymore, and it is the mission of this blogger to keep bringing images and the latest news from Iraq to people who still care about what is going on in Iraq.

SERIES OF ATTACKS HIT BAGHDAD

BAGHDAD ROCKED BY SERIES OF ATTACKS

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BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb killed two people and wounded five when it exploded in Baghdad's southern outskirt of Zaafaraniya, police said.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb wounded four street cleaners in the New Baghdad district of the capital, police said.

BAGHDAD - A Katyusha rocket killed one person and wounded two when it landed on a house in western Baghdad's Shi'ite Washash neighbourhood, police said.

BAGHDAD - The bodies of three people were found in Baghdad on Wednesday, police said.

HAWIJA - Gunmen in a car attacked a checkpoint manned by members of the Awakening council, neighbourhood patrol volunteers fighting with the U.S. and Iraqi forces against al- Qaeda, wounding three of them in the town of Hawija, 180 km (110 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

MOSUL - Clashes erupted between gunmen and the police killing one policeman and wounding two on Wednesday in Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. police detained 16 suspected insurgents after the clashes.

BAGHDAD - Clashes between the Iraqi Army and the neighourhood patrol of Baghdad's Sunni Aadhamiya district left three patrolmen wounded on Wednesday, members of the patrols said.

STRING OF SUICIDE BOMBINGS HIT IRAQ

String of suicide bombings in Iraq

The attacks, including the deadliest to hit Baghdad since August, came days after US military delivered an upbeat report on security in the country, according to the Christian Science Monitor.

By Vaishnavi Chandrashekhar
posted January 02, 2008 at 10:00 am EST

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Two suicide attacks in Iraq, including the deadliest to hit Baghdad since August, killed at least 56 people and wounded at least 42 on Tuesday and Wednesday. The attacks came days after the US military delivered an upbeat report on security in the country, reporting that levels of violence had dropped over the past year.

A female suicide bomber attacked a checkpoint of neighbourhood patrol volunteers Wednesday morning in Baquba, the capital of Diyala province, reports Reuters. The attack killed 10 and wounded eight, police said.

It was the latest in a wave of suicide bomb attacks that has appeared to intensify in recent days and weeks, even as overall levels of violence in Iraq have fallen.

Two policemen and four patrol volunteers were among the dead, police said. Among those killed was Abdul-Rafaa al-Nidawi, whom police described as the coordinator between U.S. forces and the volunteer patrols in the city.

The attack was on one of many "mainly Sunni Arab neighborhood patrols, paid by US forces to oppose Al Qaeda fighters, [which] have frequently been targeted in recent months," reports Al Jazeera.