A Mossad operative pulls up a fuel tanker, offers discount gas, hundreds
of mothers and children arrive, the operative walks away and blows the
tanker. At least fifty died, and one hundred maimed. Elsewhere there was
a massive car bomb in front of a popular children's ice cream parlor,
that killed another 15. In Dora another car bomb killed three people and
wounded five others.
Other developments
• A mass grave containing the remains of 17 people was found in Diyala
province.
• Eighteen men were kidnapped near Balad, north of Baghdad.
• Four U.S. soldiers were killed Tuesday, bringing the July death
toll for U.S. troops to 77. The total number of U.S. troop deaths in the
Iraq war is 3,649.
