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Iraq Market Bombing Takes High Toll

By Rebecca Roberts, Jamie Tarabay

Published February 4, 2007 at 5:00 AM PST

This story was published more than 17 years ago.

In Baghdad, Iraqis are still counting the casualties from a massive truck bomb Saturday evening. At least 135 people were killed and more than 205 were wounded when a truck packed with explosives was driven into a crowded market in a predominantly Shiite neighborhood.

It was the single deadliest toll from a bombing since the fall of Saddam Hussein. It was also the latest in a series of massive attacks ahead of a major military offensive that is expected to begin Monday.

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Rebecca Roberts

Award-winning public radio reporter and host Rebecca Roberts is currently a substitute host for NPR News programs including Morning Edition, Talk of the Nation, and Weekend Edition Sunday. Roberts returned to her hometown of Washington, DC, in 2006 to host WETA-FM's The Intersection, a news talk show which had her leading discussions on social, political, economic and cultural trends affecting the Greater Washington area. (The Intersection ended when WETA returned to a classical music format in early 2007.) Before returning to Washington, Roberts hosted Your Call on KALW-FM in San Francisco, a local call-in show covering politics and culture.

Jamie Tarabay

After reporting from Iraq for two years as NPR's Baghdad Bureau Chief, Jamie Tarabay is now embarking on a two year project reporting on America's Muslims. The coverage will take in the country's approx 6 million Muslims, of different ethnic, socio-economic and cultural backgrounds, and the issues facing their daily lives as Americans.