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IRAQ: People are preparing for funerals in Baghdad after more than fifty people were killed by a coordinated triple car bomb attack in a fruit and vegetable market

People are preparing for funerals in Baghdad after more than fifty people were killed by a coordinated triple car bomb attack in a fruit and vegetable market in a Shi'ite area of the city on Saturday (December 2). Angry locals screamed in rage against Saddam Hussein's Baath party and speculated Sunni insurgents may have planted the bombs in retaliation for a raid on a nearby Sunni rebel stronghold on Friday (December 1) by Iraqi and U.S. troops. A resident spoke of three huge blasts going off in the space of two or three minutes, sending black smoke billowing through the narrow lanes of the old Sadriya quarter and leaving a scene of carnage and devastation. A dozen cars were charred and market stalls were burnt out. Sources at police headquarters and the Interior Ministry said 51 people were killed and 90 people wounded. The bombing came two days after U.S. President George W. Bush met Iraq's prime minister to discuss ways to avert all-out civil war and 10 days after the bloodiest attack since the U.S. invasion killed more than 200 people in the capital. Bush, under pressure to change course in the unpopular Iraq war after a stinging defeat for his Republicans in Congressional elections, pledged in his weekly radio address on Saturday to seek bipartisan consensus on the way forward.

ITN Source | December 3, 2006Watch more videos from ITN Source

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