{"article":{"id":130424,"heading":"Five US Marines Killed In Suicide Car Bombing In Fallujah","author":"Todd Davis","created":"2005-06-25 11:54:19","modified":"2013-11-11 00:34:13","last_modified":"Mon, 11 Nov 2013 07:34:13","article":"<p>&#65279;A terrorist suicide car bomber crashed into a US transport vehicle, and killed at least 3 female US Marines, and 2 men in Fallujah, and wounded another <br>  <br> 10 more. The female team was being transported to checkpoints to perform routine searches on June 23, 2005, when the bomber attacked. <br><br> Another four car bombs in Baghdad on Thursday killed about 17, and injured about 60 others. A suicide bomber in the Karada area also killed another 12 civilians, three police officers, and wounded another <br>  <br> 50 citizens. <br><br> On Wednesday there were five coordinated car bombings in Baghdad that killed 18 people, and wounded 46 others. One of the bombings <br>  <br> occurred outside the offices of Muqtada al-Sadr, the Shiite religious leader who controls the Madhi army. The terrorist attacks appear to be an effort by Sunni terrorist groups to create a civil war in Iraq, between <br>  <br> Shiite Iraqi groups, and Sunni groups in favor of either al Qaeda, or the old Hussein regime. <br><br> President Bush is meeting with Shiite Iraqi Prime Minister al Jafari in Washington today to discuss the insurgent attacks, and the Iraqi constitution. Jafari has <br>  <br> called for more training of Iraqi troops. <br><br> As a result of the Iraq War, and opposition to Bush&rsquo;s social security plan President  Bush&rsquo;s popularity has fallen to an all time low in the US, and <br>  <br> California. The San Francisco Chronicle June 24, 2005 reported that only 28 percent of Californian&rsquo;s support Bush&rsquo;s handling of the war.  In an <br>  <br> Associated Press-Ipsos Poll on June 10, 2005 indicated that national support for Bush&rsquo;s handling of the Iraq War has fallen to 41 percent. <br><br> Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld rejected US Senate requests for some kind of time frame for the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq during Senate <br>  <br> Hearings on Thursday. Senator Kennedy said that the Iraq war has become a \"seeming intractable quagmire,\" during Senate hearings, and renewed <br>  <br> debate about the withdrawal of US troops. <br><br> <\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/8202434\/","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"A short article about recent car bombings in\r\nIraq.","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2005\/06\/130424.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}