Archive - Aug 15, 2007

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DEATH TOLL CLIMBS IN IRAQ WAR'S DEADLIEST SINGLE ATTACK

The death toll from a series of suicide bomb attacks near the city of Mosul in Iraqi Kurdistan has passed 250. Emergency workers and local residents are still searching through the wreckage left by the blasts. The near-simultaneous truck bombs targeted the Yazidis, an ethnically Kurdish community which practices an ancient religion that pre-dates Islam. The American military has blamed the attack on Muslim extremists opposed to the practice if the Yazidi religion. In addition to the more than 250 confirmed deaths, at least 350 people were injured, making it the single deadliest attack since the start of the occupation.