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IRAQI OFFICIALS say twin car bombings within five minutes of each other have killed 14 people in an upscale Shiite neighbourhood in the nation’s capital.
The first bomb in a shopping area in Karradah, across the Tigris River from the Green Zone, killed six people and injured 18 more. It was not immediately clear what the target was.
Five minutes later, the second car blew up outside an Iraq passport office a few kilometres away. Officials said eight people were killed and 22 wounded.
Police and health officials confirmed the casualties. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release the information.
Presenter shot
Separately, the AFP reports that gunmen shot an Iraqi television presenter Ghazwan Anis dead and injured his wife, baby and mother in the city of Mosul. The Journalistic Freedoms Observatory and police officials confirmed the killing.
In April, news presenter and political talk show host Kamiran Salaheddin was killed when a bomb attached to his car exploded, the Committee to Protect Journalists reported.
The CPJ lists Iraq as the most dangerous country in the world for media personnel to operate – 151 journalists have been killed there since 1992.
- Additional reporting by the AFP
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Somebody being murdered is not “antics”.
I saw Coveney & Vradkar in Boots yesterday
@3monkey: lol old arsenic and lace..
I get some of those symptoms when I eat the wife’s dinners. She’s either a bad cook, or genuinely tryin’ to get rid of me.
@Paul Culligan: So you didn’t read the instructions when you purchased the goods…..
She does the shopping as well Chris, so I’m caught either way.
Joffreys death on Game of Thrones made it cool again!
Wait! Joffrey dies…., ah here… spoiler alert! Although it’s game of thrones so it’s probably more shocking if a character actually doesn’t get killed….
The borgias used to take small quantities of poison over time till the built up resistance to it. Then when they invited victims to a meal they could all eat the same food and only the guests would die
Second most deadly poison in the world is platytoxin from zoanthids, a species related to coral and anemones and which is an hazard to marine aquarium keepers, coming in on coral frags. A single gram is enough to to kill 300,000 mice, or 80 people.
Or even pure nicotine, a favourite of the assassins of the Court of Louis Roi du Soleil, who would coat their dagger blades with it, knowing that their victim need only sustain a slight nick to be killed. The deadly poison, there’s enough in a single cigarette to kill several, if it be extracted and administered direct to the blood, suppresses the respiratory system and kills within minutes.
End of the day it could have been a lot of things. “Tout est poison, rien n’est pas poison. La poison c’est la dose.” Paracelsus.
Btw smoking a cigarette doesn’t kill one (short-term) because the absorption of nicotine through the cheek cells allows the body to metabolise the tiny amounts before it kills. Not so with direct injection or administration via an open wound.
By bottle or by tongue, a joke about malicious gossip lol. But the Romans use to carry arsenic into battle incase they lost the battle as they could retreat and dump the arsenic into the wells they came across and that is where poisoning the well expression came from.
http://www.rferl.org/a/wikileaks_cables_add_to_speculation_over_litvinenko/2254821.html
The juice of gone-off prawns has been used to get rid of the occasional inconvenient husband in Asia too. Mixed in with a curry.
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