Tal Afar bomb toll hits 152, deadliest of Iraq war: Tally arrives during week in which more than 500 died in sectarian violence

- We need to get the hell out of there, the surge is not working and we are the brink of a confrontation with Iran. Bush flat out lied to the America people and deserves to be impeached. Clinton lies about a sexual experience and they try to impeach him but Bush lies to invade a country and we do nothing!

MSNBC News Services

Updated: 2 hours, 39 minutes ago

BAGHDAD, Iraq - The Iraqi government raised the death toll on Saturday from a truck bomb in the town of Tal Afar to 152, making it the deadliest single bombing of the four-year-old war.

Meanwhile, a series of bombings and attacks killed at least 17 people around the country, including nine construction workers who died when gunmen opened fire on their bus. The violence capped a week in which more than 500 people have died in sectarian violence.

Interior Ministry spokesman Brigadier Abdul Kareem Khalaf said 347 people were wounded in Tuesday’s attack on a Shiite area. There was another truck bomb in the mixed northwestern town on Tuesday, but it was small. (LINK)