75 dead, 130 injured in one instant

Are you too numbed to feel the horror of those numbers? Did you see them and think immediately "Iraq?" (If you did, you were right.)

On Saturday, six Americans were killed and 15 injured by an out-of-control dragster at a charity event in Tennessee. Did you feel that horror? Did you tune in to watch that aftermath?

I don't ask these questions to accuse anyone, just to wonder aloud what happened to my own outrage. I see "75 dead," I think "Iraq." The new normal.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6767427.stm


Baghdad truck bomb kills dozens


Rescuers inspect the damaged al-Khilani mosque in Baghdad
The prayer hall of the al-Khilani mosque was destroyed


At least 75 people have been killed and another 130 injured in a truck bomb attack near a Shia mosque in the centre of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.

The massive explosion in the busy Sinak commercial district destroyed part of the al-Khilani mosque and sent large clouds of black smoke into the air.

It was the latest in a series of recent attacks on Shia and Sunni mosques.

The bombing came as US forces began a major offensive against militants linked to al-Qaeda north of Baghdad.

Around 10,000 troops are taking part in Operation Arrowhead Ripper in and around the city of Baquba in Diyala province, a centre of the Sunni Arab insurgency.

The US military says 22 militants have been killed, but local officials say there have also been civilian deaths.

.... Shi & Sunni less than 2 months prior to starting
this nightmare. And yet "they" keep talking about al Qaeda
who number less than 3,000 (Iraq Study Group).

Surging into the afterlife - that is all. Fuck you George Bush.
Sp.