Word: bombs
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...heard the news as I stood outside the patients' ward of the field hospital at Camp Ramadi five days later. Three had been killed by a roadside bomb, we were told. McClung was among them. I had seen her briefly only the day before, and we had plans to meet that afternoon. But it was very late at night when I finally saw her resting in the morgue alongside her slain comrades, Spc. Vincent Pomante and Capt. Travis Patriquin. I watched at the edge of the room as the medics unzipped the body bags one by one before stepping forward...
...Three hours later, forensic police sifted through the Victory Monument bus-stop wreckage for possible bomb components, collecting and photographing a handful of nails, a metal wristwatch band and twisted chunks of metal. After watching the police comb for evidence, German tourist Irina Martin said she was heading back to her hotel instead of going to Bangkok's famous New Year's countdown at the Central World shopping mall complex, as she had originally planned. "I heard rumors from other people that there might be more explosions at midnight," said the kindergarten teacher from Hamburg. "It's not worth going...
...quiet.? But other parts of the city sounded with the unrelenting rhythm of Iraq's daily violence, which carried on as usual.? Two parked cars exploded in a mixed Sunni-Shi'ite area of northwestern Baghdad, killing 37 people and wounding 76 others.? Earlier in the day, another car bomb went off in Kufa, a Shi'ite town about 100 miles south of Baghdad.? That blast killed 31 people and wounded another 58.? Afterward a mob swarmed a man blamed for parking the car that exploded.? Moments later, he was dead...
...investigation into the Haditha tragedy started with a simple Google search. I checked back to see what the U.S. Marines said had happened on Nov.19th. In a three-paragraph communiqu?, the Marines claimed that a roadside bomb on a convoy of Humvees had killed one Marine, wounded two others and had also killed 15 Iraqi civilians...
...didn't make sense. In the video, the corpses I had seen, unzipped from the U.S.-issue body bags, were wearing pajamas. Iraqis are conservative; they don't wear their nightgowns and pajamas outdoors. The corpses also had bullet wounds, not the kind of gaping tears caused by roadside bombs. Also, most of the damage filmed inside the houses looked like it was from bullets, not from shrapnel blown in from a streetside bomb. In other words, it seemed pretty clear that these Iraqis had been shot dead inside their houses, and that the Marines involved were lying...