BAGHDAD SUICIDE CAR BOMBS KILL NEAR 160

CAR BOMBS KILL AT LEAST 155, WOUND HUNDREDS
IN DEADLIEST ATTACKS FOR TWO YEARS IN BAGHDAD

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Two powerful suicide car bombs near high-profile government offices rocked the capital on Sunday in the deadliest attack here in more than two years, killing at least 155 people and raising fresh worry about the capabilities of Iraq's security services ahead of national elections scheduled for January. The Ministry of Interior said that in addition to the dead, more than 600 people were injured. Charred bodies, limbs and the smoldering shells of dozens of cars littered the area. The explosions also shattered windows throughout the nearby Mansour Hotel, which houses the Chinese Embassy. Some ceilings collapsed.

The blasts, which the government said bore the signature of al Qaeda in Iraq, most damaged Baghdad's provincial headquarters and the nearby federal Ministry of Justice. Many of the protective blast walls surrounding those buildings collapsed. President Barack Obama called the attacks an attempt to "derail Iraq's progress." He said the U.S. "will stand with Iraq's people and government as a close friend and partner as Iraqis prepare for elections early next year." "These bombings serve no purpose other than the murder of innocent men, women and children, and they only reveal the hateful and destructive agenda of those who would deny the Iraqi people the future that they deserve," Obama said.

WHAT DO THE VEDIC TEACHINGS TELL US?

By means of my senses, viz., hands, feet, eyes, ears, nose, tongue, skin I am engaged in a variety of work, by reason of doing which there has been appearing this multitude of diverse kinds of dangers that confront me. By attempting to walk with these feet I often stumble and fall, by trying to discuss with this mind I am invoking manifold evil by not being able to understand the real subject of knowledge. In such hour of peril the lotus feet of my Sri Guru, being moved to pity, have manifested themselves in this world in order to impart to me the knowledge 'that you are the servant of the Darling of Nanda', and to dispel the darkness of ignorance due to my loss of sense of duty, which had lead me to embark on the enjoyment of worldly objects and to think such enjoyment to be my duty.

Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakura :
“The Teachings of Lord Caitanya - Vol. II - Testimony of Love"