Car bomb kills scores and wounds hundreds in Baghdad

This was breaking news for The Washington Post.

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08:47 AM EDT Sunday, October 25, 2009

Scores killed in powerful blasts in Baghdad

Car bombs exploded in downtown Baghdad Sunday, killing at least 91 people.

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The story about the blast is Washington Post October 25, 2009. The Post interpretation on the morning of the 26th is that it was Iraqi electoral politics; a tad bloody.

I struggled with the phrase to use in the search. Here are the results from TweetVolume.

I used "bomb baghdad" because it seemed to lose the fewest messages about this bomb blast when I looked at the messages found by Archivist. However, there have been lots of bomb blasts in Baghdad. On the 24th a UN representative had visited a bomb blast site from a bomb that exploded on the 17th or 18th. the initial search found 230 messages, and just over half were related to the earlier bomb blast rather than to this one. This figure shows the connection between messages on the 24th and 25th [early in the morning] and the messages for the earlier blast.

So, the stream will have to be 'cleaned.'

I stopped the search November 1, 2009. At that point 821 messages had been found.

The .txt file that can be read by Excel to acquire the data is: bomb baghdad.txt