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three suicide bomb blast occurred in the city of Baqouba, Iraq, Wednesday, March 3, 2010, causing at least 30 people dead and injuring 48 people. The explosion took the most casualties in recent weeks in Iraq this occurs an election (the election) to be held on Sunday, March 7, 2010. Elections were held to determine who will control the forces the United States (U.S.) out of Iraq, and help determine Iraq’s ability to overcome sectarian conflict since the U.S. invasion last seven years. U.S. and Iraqi authorities have repeatedly warned that the rebel group were expected to conduct such attacks is to disrupt the election. Police spokesman Diyala provincial capital of these, Captain Ghalib al-Karkhi, say, three explosions occurred and very quick succession in the town located 60 kilometers northeast of Baghdad.

First, a car bomb exploded targeting a local government office, close to the Iraqi military facility. Within minutes, another suicide bomber drove the vehicle and crashed into the headquarters of the provincial councils. While the third bomber, wearing a vest containing explosives, ride in an ambulance with wounded to hospitals as rescuers and the victims of two previous explosions burst into the hospital. The third explosion in the hospital more casualties than the first two explosions. The police later managed to tame the fourth car bomb which is about 200 meters from the hospital. Baqouba is a city inhabited by groups of Sunni and Shia Muslims. Both the city and the province of Diyala Baqouba is the headquarters of rebel attacks though since the peak in 2006 and 2007, rebel groups in the region to stop an attack today.

JERUSALEM, Israeli archaeological Agency Wednesday (10/2/2010) to find a street in the Old city street Davidof Jerusalem, which became the central veins of the economy and trade about 1,500 years ago. The old road was discovered when workers from the city infrastructure to conduct excavations on the side of the Jaffa Gate, west of town. Here was found a large rock, whose position was under way currently known by the street name of David, reports the Israel Antiquities Authority Board (Israel Antiquities Authority / IAA). “Today we have released a number of archaeological artifacts at a depth of 4.5 meters below the surface of the road. Many of our findings. We found a large floor slabs, which kemukinan a road in the past,” said Ofer Sion, Director of the Israel Antiquities Authority Excavations . According to the IAA, a number of ancient artifacts were also found at the dig site.

street David“The possibility of a road from a busy period. The main artery road, when Jerusalem became a Christian city. It is widely used, it turns out the way David held so many stories, so many human lives the journey interesting, always passing through the road which was built about 1,500 years before this, “says Zion. This ancient artifacts unearthed ancient mosaic map match, which was found in a church Jordan, which is currently known as the Madaba map, which describes the holy land in the Byzantine period. According to the IAA, in the old map is described, “To enter into the holy city of Jerusalem from the West side has to go through a very large door, which leads to a downtown street that is very busy.” Among the ancient artifacts found in excavations are coins, pottery vessels and five small bronze square, weights are likely used by traders to consider the ancient noble metals.