While George Bush argues for giving his troops more time to bring a modicum of security to Iraq, the bombs seem to get more lethal. The one that went off on July 7th in the market place of a little fanning village north of Baghdad called Amirli, populated mainly by Shia Turkomans, was one of the bloodiest since the American invasion four years ago. It was said to be hidden in a lorry piled with farm produce, a common means of concealment. The shops were crowded with Saturday shoppers. At least 160 villagers, many of them women and children, were killed.
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