From cnn.com:
Two large explosions shake central Baghdad near national theater, causing unknown number of casualties. Details soon.
& Thanks PLS:
Two car bombs went off near a Christian church. After the first car bomb went off the Iraqis responded to the scene, started trying to establish order when the second car bomb went off.
They are talking alot about wether Christians are now going to be targets, and the new stratigie of setting of one bomb to bring out the sequirity forces and then blowing them up too.
A Picture, posted byJeffreyH of Freeperville, thx Pixie for link:
more from PLS:
just showed a guy being put in the Ambulance and it looked like his arm was blown off.
Apparently the other bomb tageted another church, and there was a third church targeted unsuccessfuly.
This appears to be in addition to two
earlier explosions.
At least four Iraqis (Fox reports 5 dead in this blast, incidentally. -Sandals) -- including two police officers -- were killed and 32 others were wounded when a suicide car bomb exploded outside the Sumer police station in the Palestine neighborhood of Mosul on Sunday morning, according to U.S. and Iraqi officials.
Also on Sunday morning a roadside bomb exploded near a Baghdad hotel, killing two Iraqi civilians and injuring two others passing by in vehicles, Iraqi police said.
There's apparently a story on MSNBC but there is a router down between them and me; I can't access them.
Reuters reports via FOX:
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Two car bombs rocked Baghdad in a matter of minutes on Sunday in what was apparently a coordinated attack on the city's Christian community. At least 20 people were wounded.
An Iraqi security source says the attacks were the work of homicide bombers, Reuters reported.
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An ambulance driver said two people were killed, according to Reuters.
The first blast hit outside an Armenian church just 15 minutes into the evening service, witnesses said. The second bomb blew up outside a Catholic church about 200 yards away.
"I saw injured women and children and men, the church's glass shattered everywhere. There's glass all over the floor," said Juliette Agob, who was inside the Armenian church during the first explosion.
CNN has a further detail:
Police and emergency workers responded to the first blast, which occurred near the theater, then found a second car they believed had been rigged as a bomb. The explosives in that vehicle detonated before it could be disarmed, according to police.
SOB. Scum. Just scum.
If anyone has some information, please share. Can't get at a TV just now.
Some irrelevant personal notes. For some reason this really shook me. I was reading about a zoo tiger that escaped and calmly walked half a mile through New York, which is amusing and refreshingly none-pertinent. I go back to the home page and there's the breaking news up top, two huge explosions in Baghdad... I don't know. It just kinda hit me hard for some reason.