More Bombings In Baghdad

It has been another deadly day in Baghdad as a bomb has exploded killing many innocent civilians near the Green Zone.

A parked car bomb exploded in a commercial district of central Baghdad Thursday, killing 18 people and wounding dozens more.

The bombing took place off a bridge in Tahrir Square, a district of clothing shops just outside the heavily fortified Green Zone, which houses the U.S. Embassy and much of the Iraqi government, a police official said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release the information. The policeman and a hospital official said 18 people died. The hospital official said 57 others were injured.

The attack is the latest in a string of violence to grip Iraq's capital after several months of relative calm that followed a surge of U.S. forces last year.

There has also been a rise in the deaths of our Troops, and this could get even deadlier, as the terrorists find new avenues of attack, despite the increased troop levels, and security measures already in place!


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