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By Jim Randle
Baghdad
17 January 2007
More than 20 people are dead in Iraq in the second day of surging violence that killed more than 100 people Tuesday. VOA's Jim Randle reports from Baghdad, it is the worst bloodshed in weeks.
Firefighters work on scene of car bombing in Kirkuk, 17 Jan 2007
Bombings and shootings were reported across the country.
Sirens wailed1 in the northern city of Kirkuk after a suicide truck bomb killed at least eight people and wounded perhaps 40.
In Baghdad, a bomb attack in a Shi'ite area killed 15 people and wounded more than 30.
South of Baghdad, a mortar2 attack on a residential3 area killed one person while a police officer was found strangled.
While two separate attacks in the southern city of Basra wounded British soldiers.
This witness says one attack was made by a roadside bomb.
Tuesday, more than 100 people died in attacks around Baghdad. Two bombings hit a university killing4 70 people and wounded more than 100 others.
Iraqi army controls traffic outside Al-Mustansiriya University in Baghdad, 17 Jan 2007
The surging violence might signal a campaign by Sunni insurgents5 to do as much damage as possible before the deployment6 of more than 20,000 additional U.S. troops.
Most of the new troops will back up the Iraqi army in a security sweep to rid the capital of Sunni and Shiite gunmen.
Some critics of the plan say it will be difficult to carry out because some Iraqi police and military units have been infiltrated7 by members of sectarian militia8 groups.
But U.S. Brigadier General Terry Wolff, who leads training efforts, says training new leadership for the security services will help.
"Dealing9 with the militias10 and infiltration11, particularly infiltration, is really a function of leadership and so a lot of the training effort on going is focused on insuring you have the right leaders in the right positions that are capable of leading from the front and appropriately," he said.
U.N. officials say sectarian violence killed an average of 94 Iraqis each day last year.
1 wailed | |
v.哭叫,哀号( wail的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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n.灰浆,灰泥;迫击炮;v.把…用灰浆涂接合 | |
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adj.提供住宿的;居住的;住宅的 | |
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n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财 | |
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n.起义,暴动,造反( insurgent的名词复数 ) | |
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adj.[医]浸润的v.(使)渗透,(指思想)渗入人的心中( infiltrate的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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n.民兵,民兵组织 | |
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n.经商方法,待人态度 | |
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10 militias | |
n.民兵组织,民兵( militia的名词复数 ) | |
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n.渗透;下渗;渗滤;入渗 | |
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