40 Iraqis killed in day of bombs

BAGHDAD: Bombs exploded across central Iraq on Monday, adding 40 more bloodied corpses to the grim toll of Iraqi dead as rebel groups mounted a vicious challenge to the latest US and Iraqi security plan.

The attacks will in the main be blamed on Sunni insurgents and appear to have been timed to embarrass US and Iraqi commanders as they deploy tens of thousands of troops to try to quell Baghdad's vicious sectarian war.

Five American soldiers were also killed, including two in what the US military dubbed a "coordinated attack on a coalition force combat outpost" in Tarmiyah, around 30 kilometres (20 miles) north of the capital.

Seventeen were also wounded when "insurgents initiated the attack on the outpost with a suicide vehicle-borne improvised explosive device detonation," a US statement said.

The deaths brought to 3,133 the number of US servicemen and women who have died in Iraq since the March 2003 invasion, according to Pentagon figures.

There is no importance of Iraqi lives and if 1 American soldier died, you can listen that in headlines every where. Why? There is so difference in humans. Why? Only because they are Iraqi. This is unfair.