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To: DeplorableIrredeemableRedneck who wrote (6039)	3/8/2007 7:24:13 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20106

Bomber uses food handouts to lure victims Sydney Morning Herald ^ \| March 8 2007 \| Richard Oppel in Baghdad smh.com.au A SUICIDE bomber who lured Iraqi pilgrims with cakes, and gunmen firing out of passing cars turned joyful preparations for a religious celebration into a day of carnage. At least 149 Shiite pilgrims were killed and more than 200 wounded in the attacks in Hillah, in southern Iraq, on Tuesday. The US military also announced an unusually high death toll of nine soldiers, including six victims of a huge bomb blast north of Baghdad. The deaths coincided with an optimistic assessment of his new Iraq strategy by the US President, George Bush. He told a veterans' gathering in Washington: "It is too early to judge the success of this operation. This strategy is going to take time.Yet even at this early hour, there are some encouraging signs." In Hillah, a southern city on the road to the holy city of Karbala, a suicide bomber drew people in by handing them food, an age-old custom during the annual Arbaeen religious festival. "The first bomber with the explosive belt was giving cakes to the pilgrims," said one survivor. The next bomber waited a few minutes for relatives and friends to rush to the wounded. The late-afternoon attacks in Hillah followed a dozen attacks around Baghdad that killed at least 32 pilgrims heading south to Karbala. Most were killed by hidden bombs or by gunmen firing on pedestrians in drive-by shootings. The pilgrims made easy targets, waving flags as they marched near the River Tigris or walked along the highway. The Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, said: "This terrible crime against harmless people will not pass without punishment, and those who are calling for division, which they started through their twisted fatwas, carry the responsibility of this massacre." Another five pilgrims were ambushed and killed in southern Baghdad yesterday. (Excerpt) Read more at smh.com.au ....