- BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's
information minister said
- Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf gave the figures at
a news conference, breaking them down by city. In Baghdad, 194 people had
been wounded in bombing but none had been killed. The most deaths were
30 in Babel, south of Baghdad, and 14 in Basra.
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- He said there were also deaths and injuries in the southern
towns of Najaf and Kerbala, in the southern province Qadisiya and in the
northern provinces of Ninawa and Salah ad Din.
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- "They insist to strike civilian areas in a criminal
manner and those evil people believe that by expanding their war crimes
they can weaken us. They are not only criminals, but idiots, for believing
that," Sahaf said.
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- The United States and Britain launched war on Iraq on
Thursday to overthrow President Saddam Hussein for his alleged weapons
of mass destruction. Baghdad denies it has such arms.
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