TUZ KHORMATO, Iraq – A suicide bomber detonated a truck full of explosives in the crowded outdoor market of a Shiite farm town on Saturday, killing more than 100 people and levelling houses and stores, police officials said.

The blast north of Baghdad, hours after a smaller suicide bombing in another Shiite village killed more than 20, suggested Sunni militants are regrouping to launch attacks in regions further away from the capital where security is thinner.

Saturday’s blast ripped through a market in Armili around 8:30 am, destroying old mud-brick houses and setting cars on fire. Farmers’ pickup trucks drove victims 30 miles to the nearest health facility, in Tuz Khormato.

Authorities and residents spent hours digging bodies out of the rubble of two dozen shops and houses, police said. Accounts of the final toll varied, hampered by the difficulty of the search and the farming town’s remote location.

I am so glad to see that the surge is working in Baghdad, it needs to be a more peaceful place after over 4 years of wide open violence…

To see Baghdad peaceful, more or less, while other parts of Iraq are ripped apart just does my heart good, now all the insurgents can get out of Baghdad and see more of Iraq, the countryside is lovely this time of year…

OK, enough of the sarcasm, is there anyone that can stand and say, in ALL honesty, that Iraq is NOT a civil war?? The majority of recent attacks aren’t directly targeting our troops, and for that I am very happy, but the insurgents ARE targeting the Iraqi people, men, women and children, in what can only be described as heinous acts of terrorism against their fellow Muslims, different sects certainly, but in relation it would be like the Baptists, the Methodists and the Presbyterians declaring war on each other, and yes, that does sound ridiculous, but it’s basically what we’re seeing in Iraq, a much simplified analogy that gets the point across…

Col. Sherzad Abdullah, of the Tuz Khormato police, told The Associated Press that 115 were killed and some 200 wounded. An officer with the provincial security coordination center, which compiles casualty figures for the central government, said at least 100 died. The officer spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not allowed to release numbers.

I hope everyone reading this realizes, the people doing these bombing are nothing more than monsters, they are murdering their people, and it’s all in an effort to stop any kind of democratic government from taking hold in Iraq, it’s all sectarian politics…

Yes, the surge IS making Baghdad a safer and quieter place, by driving those that perpetrate the violence to easier targets outside of Baghdad, and I still say, until ALL of the Iraqi people are ALL willing to stand as one and rid their nation of this garbage, it’s never going to happen by our efforts and a series of half-assed efforts from the Iraqi government…

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More than 100 die in Iraq suicide blast

UPDATE: BAGHDAD (AP) – A flurry of bombings in Baghdad killed 26 people Sunday, and officials said the death toll from a giant suicide truck blast that devastated the market of a Shiite town north of the capital a day earlier could be more than 130.

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Toll in Iraq Bombings Could Surpass 150

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