February 27, 2011 | Filed under: News | Posted by:
Article by WorldNews.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. Putting aside for a moment the mass protests against the U.S.-backed governing regime in Iraq, including violent crackdowns that have left dozens of peaceful protesters killed and hundreds beaten and imprisoned; it was on this day (February 28) in 2005, at the height of U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s “shock and awe” campaign, that 114 people were killed by a deadly car bomb in the Shiite dominated city of Hilla. Several months later in June, more than a 1000 Shi’is were stampeded to death in the course of a religious ceremony in Baghdad. Five months later, the town of Haditha was the scene of a roadside bomb attack against a…
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