The enemy's latest war crime in Iraq

BBC:

At least 157 people have been killed in a string of attacks in Iraq's capital, Baghdad - the worst day of violence since a US security operation began.

In the deadliest incident, some 115 people were killed in a car bombing in a food market in Sadriya district.

Another 42 died in an attack on police in Sadr City and several other blasts.

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The bomb in Shia-dominated Sadriya was reportedly left in a parked car and exploded at about 1600 (1200 GMT) in the middle of a crowd of workers and shoppers.

The market was being rebuilt after it was destroyed by a bombing in February which killed more than 130 people.

The powerful bomb started a fire which swept over cars and minibuses parked nearby, burning many people and sending a large plume of smoke over Baghdad.

Television pictures showed a blasted scene littered with blackened and twisted wreckage.

One witness told the Reuters news agency that many of the victims were women and children.

"I saw dozens of dead bodies," the man said. "Some people were burned alive inside minibuses. Nobody could reach them after the explosion.

"There were pieces of flesh all over the place."

Ahmed Hameed, a shopkeeper in the area said: "The street was transformed into a swimming pool of blood."

About an hour earlier, a suicide car bomb attack on a police checkpoint in Sadr City killed 30 people.

Another parked car bomb killed at least 10 people near a hospital in the Karrada district of Baghdad, while in al-Shurja district at least two people were killed by a bomb left on a minibus.

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No where in the BBC report does it mention that the attack was a war crime by deliberately targeting non combatants. The car bomb was able to get into this market because it was under reconstruction and vehicle traffic was evidently permitted for workers and people bringing in supplies. Other markets now prohibit vehicle traffic during hours of operation which substantially limits non combatant targets for the war criminals. This just goes to show that there should be no exception to this policy even when areas are under reconstruction.