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when u talk about wars, thier bad but when u talk about KIDS being involved, now this shit has gone to fucking far. I WISH DEATH upon those faggets down at Iraq. I hope they burn in hell when they die. Just pisses me off when they have to kill little innocent kids going to school. Poor little things, i love kids.
BAGHDAD, Iraq(AP) Near-simultaneous explosions ripped through three police stations in a southern Iraqi city on Wednesday, killing at least 40 people, including schoolchildren in a passing bus, and injuring some 200, a hospital official said.
A fourth explosion near Basra's police academy went off about two hours after the initial blasts. There was no immediate information on casualties from that blast.
At one station in the Saudia district of Basra, four vehicles were seen destroyed including two school buses. At least one of the school buses appeared to have been full of passengers.
About 10 elementary school students whose bus was passing by the Saudia station at the time of the blast were among the dead, Iraqi Police Col. Kadhem al-Muhammedawi said.
Cars outside of the station were charred. The interior of one of the school buses was burned out, the seats shredded.
The facade of the Saudia station was also heavily damaged and there was a hole 6-feet deep and 9-feet wide in front of the Saudia station.
More than 40 people were killed and at least 200 injured in the blast, said Ali Hussein, an emergency physician at Basra's main hospital.
Bloodied and badly burned bodies were seen being rushed to the hospital.
Dozens of bodies could be seen in the morgue and in the hallways of Basra's Educational Hospital, the city's largest.
British military spokesman Squadron Leader Jonathan Arnold said the blasts were believed to have been caused by car bombs.
Al-Muhammedawi said, however, that the blasts may have been caused by rocket attacks.
Also Wednesday, about 35 Iraqi insurgents attacked U.S. Marines in Fallujah with rocket-propelled grenades and small arms, setting off a heavy gunbattle, the military said. No casualties were immediately reported.
The violence came a day after Iraqi leaders named a tribunal of judges and prosecutors to try Saddam Hussein, placing a longtime opponent of the ousted dictator in the forefront of the case against him and his former Baathist inner circle.
On Tuesday, A senior member of Ahmad Chalabi's Iraqi National Congress was appointed to head the all-Iraqi tribunal a potentially controversial choice.
Chalabi, a longtime exile who returned to Iraq and was named to the U.S.-appointed Iraqi Governing Council, is mistrusted as an outsider by many Iraqis who want to see Saddam prosecuted by Iraqis who were present under his brutal rule.
Meanwhile, guerrillas fired a barrage of mortar rounds at Baghdad's largest prison, killing 22 prisoners in an attack a U.S. general said may have been an attempt to spark an inmate uprising against American guards. The slain prisoners were all security detainees, meaning they were suspected of belonging to the anti-U.S. insurgency or to Saddam's former regime.
A U.S. soldier was killed by a roadside bomb in the northern city of Mosul: It was the 100th American combat death in April, the deadliest month since the U.S.-led invasion began in March 2003.
At least 1,100 Iraqis have been killed in fighting since the start of the month, according to an Associated Press count based on reports from hospitals and Iraqi and U.S. officials.
BAGHDAD, Iraq(AP) Near-simultaneous explosions ripped through three police stations in a southern Iraqi city on Wednesday, killing at least 40 people, including schoolchildren in a passing bus, and injuring some 200, a hospital official said.
A fourth explosion near Basra's police academy went off about two hours after the initial blasts. There was no immediate information on casualties from that blast.
At one station in the Saudia district of Basra, four vehicles were seen destroyed including two school buses. At least one of the school buses appeared to have been full of passengers.
About 10 elementary school students whose bus was passing by the Saudia station at the time of the blast were among the dead, Iraqi Police Col. Kadhem al-Muhammedawi said.
Cars outside of the station were charred. The interior of one of the school buses was burned out, the seats shredded.
The facade of the Saudia station was also heavily damaged and there was a hole 6-feet deep and 9-feet wide in front of the Saudia station.
More than 40 people were killed and at least 200 injured in the blast, said Ali Hussein, an emergency physician at Basra's main hospital.
Bloodied and badly burned bodies were seen being rushed to the hospital.
Dozens of bodies could be seen in the morgue and in the hallways of Basra's Educational Hospital, the city's largest.
British military spokesman Squadron Leader Jonathan Arnold said the blasts were believed to have been caused by car bombs.
Al-Muhammedawi said, however, that the blasts may have been caused by rocket attacks.
Also Wednesday, about 35 Iraqi insurgents attacked U.S. Marines in Fallujah with rocket-propelled grenades and small arms, setting off a heavy gunbattle, the military said. No casualties were immediately reported.
The violence came a day after Iraqi leaders named a tribunal of judges and prosecutors to try Saddam Hussein, placing a longtime opponent of the ousted dictator in the forefront of the case against him and his former Baathist inner circle.
On Tuesday, A senior member of Ahmad Chalabi's Iraqi National Congress was appointed to head the all-Iraqi tribunal a potentially controversial choice.
Chalabi, a longtime exile who returned to Iraq and was named to the U.S.-appointed Iraqi Governing Council, is mistrusted as an outsider by many Iraqis who want to see Saddam prosecuted by Iraqis who were present under his brutal rule.
Meanwhile, guerrillas fired a barrage of mortar rounds at Baghdad's largest prison, killing 22 prisoners in an attack a U.S. general said may have been an attempt to spark an inmate uprising against American guards. The slain prisoners were all security detainees, meaning they were suspected of belonging to the anti-U.S. insurgency or to Saddam's former regime.
A U.S. soldier was killed by a roadside bomb in the northern city of Mosul: It was the 100th American combat death in April, the deadliest month since the U.S.-led invasion began in March 2003.
At least 1,100 Iraqis have been killed in fighting since the start of the month, according to an Associated Press count based on reports from hospitals and Iraqi and U.S. officials.
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