{"id":2484,"date":"2005-10-31T19:53:38","date_gmt":"2005-11-01T02:53:38","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-10-31T19:53:38","modified_gmt":"2005-11-01T02:53:38","slug":"death-and-chaos-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/31\/death-and-chaos-in-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"Death and Chaos in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>U.S. aircraft bombed a house near the Syrian border before dawn on Monday in what the military said was a precision strike on an al Qaeda leader.<\/p>\n<p>A local hospital doctor in the Iraqi town of Qaim said 40 people were killed and 20 wounded, many of them women and children, and a tribal leader said there were no guerrillas<\/BLOCKQUOTE><A HREF=\"http:\/\/lefti.blogspot.com\/2005_10_01_lefti_archive.html#113077361956225305\">See Eli <\/A>on how typically disgusting this bombing and the manner in which the bombing is reported are.<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/today.reuters.co.uk\/news\/newsarticle.aspx?type=worldNews&#038;storyid=2005-10-31T153120Z_01_YUE150198_RTRUKOC_0_UK-IRAQ.xml\">The US<\/A> has had it&#8217;s worst month this year for casualties in Iraq since January:<BLOCKQUOTE>    Seven U.S. troops were killed in three roadside bombings near Baghdad, the military said on Monday&#8230;[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>    That made October, which saw Iraqis vote for a constitution and put Saddam Hussein on trial, the worst month the Americans have suffered since January, when violence surged in advance of a parliamentary election.[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>    A week after the U.S. death toll since the 2003 invasion passed the 2,000 mark, it rose to at least 2,025 with the deaths of four soldiers in an attack on a patrol near Yusufiya, just south of Baghdad, and two in a similar incident near Balad, 60 km (40 miles) to the north of the capital.<\/p>\n<p>    It brought to 92 the number of Americans to die in October, the same as in August and the highest since 107 died in January.<\/BLOCKQUOTE>And in Basra, a <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20051031.wbomb1031\/BNStory\/International\/\">huge car bomb<\/A> has just exploded:<BLOCKQUOTE>A car bomb exploded Monday night in a commercial district of Iraq&#8217;s second-largest city of Basra, and it appeared at least 20 people had been killed and 40 injured, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The blast went off about 8:30 p.m. in an area filled with shops and restaurants, many of them packed with people out for the evening during Ramadan festivities, Lieutenant-Colonel Karim al-Zaidi said.<\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. aircraft bombed a house near the Syrian border before dawn on Monday in what the military said was a precision strike on an al Qaeda leader. A local hospital doctor in the Iraqi town of Qaim said 40 people were killed and 20 wounded, many of them women and children, and a tribal leader [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2484"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}