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“This administration is populated by people who’ve spent their careers bashing government. They’re not just small-government conservatives—they’re Grover Norquist, strangle-it-in-the-bathtub conservatives. It’s a cognitive disconnect for them to be able to do something well in an arena that they have so derided and reviled all these years.”

Senator Hillary Clinton

Sunday, December 19, 2004

40 dead in Iraq

Safer:
Car bombings hit the Iraqi Shiite Muslim holy cities of Karbala and Najaf Sunday, causing an estimated 40 casualties.

The Najaf bombing occurred just yards from the Imam Ali shrine when a suicide bomber drove a car into a funeral procession, killing at least 30 people, broadcast sources reported.

Officials said the Karbala attack near the city's bus station killed at least 10 people and injured 37.

Also Sunday, three mortar grenades slammed into a well-known mosque in Baghdad, injuring four of its guards and damaging the structure.

posted by Scott @ 10:15 AM