News - Religion in Iraq
By ED JAMES RESCUERS dug through the muddy wreckage of collapsed clay houses in north-west Iraq yesterday, uncovering at least 200 bodies from suicide truck bombings the US military blamed on al Qaida.
SUICIDE bombers driving fuel tankers attacked an ancient minority sect in northern Iraq last night, killing at least 175. Three or four simultaneous blasts targeted residential areas of the Yazidi sect near the northern city of Mosul. Up to 200 other residents were injured.
By PAUL WAUGH IRAQ was reeling today from one of its worst terrorist atrocities after 200 people were killed and more than 300 wounded in suicide bomb attacks on members of an ancient religious sect.
A U.S. Army general in Baghdad blamed truck bombings that have killed at least 200 people on al-Qaida in Iraq, at least at first glance.