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Insurgents kill nine more in Iraq bombing
(AP)
Updated: 2005-09-30 19:45
Sunni-led insurgents killed at least nine people with a car bomb in a crowded
vegetable market Friday, the Muslim day of worship, in the second blast against
Shiite civilians in as many days, police said. The death toll rose to nearly 100
from the previous day's attacks in another Shiite town.
Elsewhere, in the southern city of Basra, an Iraqi police convoy was ambushed
late Thursday, killing four policemen and wounding one, said police Capt.
Mushtaq Khazim.
The new surge of violence before an Oct. 15 referendum on Iraq's constitution
has killed at least 194 people, including 13 U.S. service members, in the past
five days.
The insurgents have vowed to wreck the referendum, whose passage is crucial
to prospects for starting a withdrawal of American troops.
Al-Qaida in Iraq, the country's most feared insurgent group, has declared
"all-out war" on the Shiite majority that dominates Iraq's government. Moderate
Sunni Arab leaders have urged their community to reject the constitution, saying
it will fragment Iraq and leave them weak compared to Shiites and Kurds.
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