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17.7.05 Iraq suicide bomber kills 98; Saddam indicted
Iraq suicide bomber kills 98; Saddam indicted
By Haidar Kathim
MUSAYYIB, Iraq (Reuters) - Stricken townspeople swept away the wreckage of a fuel truck bomb that killed 98 people south of Baghdad and three more suicide car bombers hit the Iraqi capital on Sunday in a devastating new campaign.
The tribunal empowered to try war crimes issued its first charges against Saddam Hussein and said it would announce within days when the ousted dictator will stand trial for his life.
The overnight attack in the highway town of Musayyib was the most lethal since the Iraqi government took power in April and the second deadliest single bombing since the war began in 2003.
It prompted denunciations of the authorities in parliament and calls for local militia to take up arms.
Some 15 suicide bombers have struck within just over 48 hours in the capital and along the main road south in what al Qaeda's Iraq wing has declared is a campaign to seize Baghdad.
In Saturday's attack a suicide bomber blew up a fuel truck near a crowded vegetable market outside a Shi'ite mosque in Musayyib, in a lawless area U.S. troops call "the triangle of death." In addition to the 98 killed, hospital sources said 75 people had been wounded, 19 of whom were in serious condition.
"After the bomb I went over there and found my son's head. I could not find his body," said Mohsen Jassim of his son, 18.
"This is a black day in the history of the town," Musayyib police chief Yas Khudayr said.
The town is just 30 km (20 miles) from Hilla, where 125 people died in February in postwar Iraq's worst single blast.
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On Sunday, angry crowds railed at the authorities outside gutted buildings, while bulldozers swept aside
Source: http://today.reuters.com/news/NewsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2005-07-17T151459Z_01_N17202720_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-IRAQ-DC.XML
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