Bush may have claimed a great reduction in the sectarian violence in Iraq; causalities attributable to the suicidal attacks on army as well as civilians targets are mounting day by day, killing scores of innocent people in and around the capital town of Baghdad.
In different volatile incidents on Thursday, suicide bombers smacked an Iraqi army post in the north-eastern part of Baghdad and civilian areas across the nation, killing about 72 people, together with 27 bodies dumped in the capital city.
The bloodshed possibly erupted after the Democratic-controlled U.S. Senate failed to pass the war funding bill, which also includes the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq by the end of 2008, with adequate votes to supersede a veto by the president.
The carnage started as early as 9 a.m. when a suicide car bomber slaughtered 10 Iraqi soldiers and injured ten other soldiers alongside five civilians at a checkpoint in Khalis city is in Diyala province. Other incident occurred in the capital town close to Baghdad University, slaying 8 civilians and hurting 19 others, including students.
In another happening near a market in central Baghdad, four residents were killed and nine injured when a roadside bomb exploded, which possibly was planned for a passing police patrol.
Apart from these incidents, about 30 tormented bodies were found in different parts of Baghdad, describing the bloody tale written by the representatives of sectarian violence in Iraq.
