Things are going from
bad to worse in Iraq.
At least six foreign soldiers were killed and 27 injured in a string of attacks on U.S.-allied forces and Iraqi targets in the southern city of Kerbala on Saturday, military officials said.
Hospital officials in Kerbala said at least seven Iraqi civilians and police were also killed and 80 were wounded.
"There were six coalition soldiers...killed," Major Ralph Manos, an officer with the Polish-led multinational force based in the region, told Reuters.
He declined to give the soldiers' nationalities, but Bulgaria confirmed four of its soldiers had been killed in Kerbala and a Thai foreign ministry spokesman said two Thai soldiers had died in a bomb attack at their military base [...]
Dimitrov said that as well as the deaths, at least 27 Bulgarian troops were injured when a car bomb hit the Bulgarian military headquarters in the city.
Meanwhile, 19 American soldiers have had their lives needlessly
snuffed out since Saddam's capture, lending evidence to the obvious -- capturing Saddam hasn't made anyone safer, and hasn't brought us any closer to victory in Iraq.