By John Kenney The delegation arrived at the market (in Baghdad), which is called Shorja, on Sunday with more than 100 soldiers in armored Humvees ... and attack helicopters. ... Sharpshooters were posted on the roofs. The congressmen wore bulletproof vests. ... At a news conference shortly after their outing, Mr. McCain ... and his three congressional colleagues described Shorja as a safe, bustling place full of hopeful and warmly welcoming Iraqis - "like a normal outdoor market in Indiana in the summertime," offered Mike Pence, an Indiana Republican.
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Four back-to-back explosions at two markets in central Baghdad killed at least 67 people and wounded 155 on Monday, charring drivers in their cars, shredding stores and setting ablaze a seven-story building full of clothing stores that burned for more than six hours, witnesses and officials said. The blasts -- three at Shorja market, the capital's largest bazaar, and one at Bab al-Sharji a few blocks away -- struck shortly after Iraq's Shiite-led government marked the anniversary, by the Islamic calendar, of an attack last year that destroyed a revered Shiite mosque in Samarra. That bombing, which shattered the shrine's golden dome, set off a wave of sectarian violence in Iraq that has yet to be extinguished.
BAGHDAD - Haider al-Hussein, a merchant in Baghdad's popular Shorja market, wrapped his head in a black turban, donned a green uniform and, sword in scabbard, began the fight between good and evil before an audience of Shiite Muslims. During the week he works in a market that has been the target of car bombs. But today he's playing the grandson of the prophet Muhammad, who also was named Hussein.
Fool me once ... Experience - even the experience that comes with age - does not necessarily make for good judgment. Take Sen. John McCain, for instance. On April 1, 2007, he and three Republican congressmen made a special tour of the Shorja marketplace in Baghdad.
MIAMI - Pentagon prosecutors have filed a sealed motion with the Guantanamo war court that apparently proposes allowing the general public to watch military proceedings against an alleged al-Qaida terrorist. The filing for now is secret because intelligence experts from the Defense Department and other U.S. agencies have 15 business days to scrub it of classified information.
... were planted in different parts of the Shorja market in downtown Baghdad, striking as shoppers w...
...ctimas, casi 60, murieron en el mercado de Shorja, donde dos bombas estallaron casi simultáneamente...
killed, 19 wounded by bombs in market BAGHDAD (AP) -- Three bombs ripped through a sprawling market here Sunday, killing eight people.
... were planted in different parts of the Shorja market downtown, striking as shoppers were prepa...
... on the two biggest markets in Iraq, the Shorja (ph) market and the Jajriya (ph) market. These ha...
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- A day after members of an American congressional delegation led by Sen. John McCain pointed to their brief visit to Baghdad's central market as evidence that the new security plan for the city was working, the merchants there were incredulous about the Americans' conclusions. What are they talking about?" Ali Jassim Faiyad, the owner of an electrical appliances shop in the market, said Monday. "The security procedures were abnormal!
... arrived at the market, which is called Shorja, on Sunday with more than 100 soldiers in armored ...
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Shiite and Sunni Arabs packed mosques and markets brimming with sweets, while chil-dren laughed as they tilted up and down on a ride at an amusement park in a run-down Baghdad neighborhood. Sheep, meanwhile, were slaughtered and hung by their hind legs and food was distributed to the poor Tuesday as Iraqis celebrated the Islamic feast of sacrifice, Eid al-Adha, on a rare day with no reports of violence.
...," said Ubu Usama, a shopper in Baghdad's Shorja food market. The holiday also prompted conciliator...
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