Bombings In Baqubah Ambush Near Kirkuk

Juan Cole 08/06/2006

Bombings in Baqubah, Ambush Near Kirkuk

Reuters details guerrilla violence on Saturday (and late Friday. An army checkpoint sprayed with fire, killing 5 soldiers, near Kirkuk. Three bombs in Baqubah wounded 10. 7 bodies found in Kut. 9 bodies found in Baghdad. Then there was fighting in Ramadi.

Morgue refrigerators made for 5 bodies are holding many more in Iraq today, says al-Hayat. Some hundred persons are being killed a day. The bodies are often hard to identify, and some families actually sniff at them to determine if it is their relative.

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page