"Bomber targets US soldiers, kills 3 Iraqis; Attacker wore army uniform, officials say" by Brian Murphy, Associated Press | April 21, 2009
BAGHDAD - A suicide bomber wearing an Iraqi army uniform struck a US military delegation visiting the mayor of violence-wracked Baqubah yesterday, killing three Iraqi civilians and injuring at least eight American soldiers.
Yup, we better stay no matter what.
Police officials said the attacker was disguised as a soldier - a tactic used before to pass through checkpoints - but US forces have also faced attacks from members of the security forces.
The attack occurred as a group of Iraqi officials, led by Mayor Abdullah al-Hiyali, waited at the main gate of the municipal building to greet the US soldiers, said Raad al-Dahalaki, the deputy mayor. "When the US soldiers left their vehicles and started to walk toward the building, a man wearing a military uniform mingled with the crowd of US soldiers and Iraqi policemen and set off the explosion," Dahalaki said.
The US military said eight soldiers were wounded in the blast, and three Iraqi civilians were killed. Nineteen people were injured, including two members of an American-funded provincial reconstruction team and three Iraqi police officers, it said. The mayor was not hurt.
Moments after the blast, shots were fired at the US team, the military statement said. Soldiers returned fire, but there were no reports of the gunman being wounded or captured. Iraqi police officials said there was no immediate evidence that the attacker - who wore a vest packed with explosives - was a member of the military. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not allowed to release information to media.
Baqubah, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, is the capital of Diyala Province - which remains one of the centers for the Sunni insurgency despite an overall drop in violence around the country. US and Iraqi security forces have intensified offensives in Baqubah and the northern city of Mosul in attempts to break the last insurgent strongholds.
Strange how we NEVER HEAR ABOUT the RESULTS of THOSE and are filled with SUICIDERS and INSURGENTS, 'eh?
In Baghdad, more than 60 mourners attended the funerals of three jewelry store owners killed Sunday in daylight robberies. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki ordered a special task force to investigate the slayings.
I smell a cover up stink, don't you?
Iraqi authorities are under pressure to decisively respond to security threats as US forces pull back from frontline roles. Although violence is sharply down compared with past years, high-profile attacks have some worried that the relative calm might not last.
How many times I have to type CUI BONO and we ain't leaving, huh?
An insurgent network linked to Al Qaeda, the Islamic State of Iraq, claimed responsibility for one of the largest attacks this month in a statement posted on jihadist websites Sunday, according to the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors militant activities.
And which is a CRAP OUTLET of PROPAGANDA!
Related: SITE First on the Scene -- Again!
SITE First on "Al-CIA-Duh" Sighting Again
Enough said.
The group said it carried out Thursday's suicide attack on a military base in Habbaniyah, about 50 miles west of Baghdad. Iraqi officials said the blast injured at least 38 Iraqi soldiers.
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See: Occupation Iraq: Israel's IEDs
Occupation Iraq: Israelis Killing U.S. Troops
Occupation Iraq: Israeli-Trained Death Squads
Prop 101: Al-CIA-Duh and the OSI
Prop 101: Al-CIA-Duh's Greatest Hits
Prop 101: The "Terrorism" Business
Prop 102: Iraq and Government Lies
Al-CIA-Duh
Who Invented "Al-CIA-Duh?"
"Al-CIA-Duhs" Catch-and-Release Program
Asymmetrical Warfare Group
Operation Gladio
Operation Northwoods
Occupation Iraq: British Bombers
Occupation Iraq: America's Roadside Bombs
Salvador Option
Special Police Commandos
Proactive, Preemptive Operations Group
Prop 201 tutorial
FRU
Islam's 9/11
How much more evidence do you need?
Final fart bleat: New York Times Admits War on Terror is U.S. Creation
With poot: Operation Mockingbird
Oh, about that sectarianism: Memory Hole: The Dream Vacation
Memory Hole: The Uniters of Islam
Occupation Iraq: Sectarian Saviors
Are we CLEAR, readers?
Slow Saturday Special: Iraqi Surge of Violence
Occupation Iraq: 15 Attacks a Day
Occupation Iraq: MSM Censoring Conflict Again
Slow Saturday Special: "Al-CIA-Duh" Back in Iraq
Are we CLEAR, readers?
After the idiot flak statements (CUI BONO?):
"Attacks in Iraq kill 78 in year's worst violence; Baghdad and Diyala rocked by bomb blasts" by Brian Murphy, Associated Press | April 24, 2009
BAGHDAD - Suicide bomb blasts tore through crowds waiting for food aid in central Baghdad and inside a roadside restaurant filled with Iranian pilgrims yesterday, killing at least 78 people in Iraq's deadliest day in more than a year.
Gee, who would want to sow instability and kill Iranians, huh?
The toll - at least 31 dead in Baghdad and 47 to the north in Diyala province - follows a series of high-profile attacks this month blamed on Sunni insurgents. The violence highlights potential security gaps as Iraqi forces increasingly take the lead role from US forces in protecting Baghdad and key areas around the capital. The insurgent push is still nowhere near the scale of violence in past years, but it has undermined confidence that Iraq's security gains were on solid footing at a time when the US military is shifting its focus and resources to Afghanistan.
Well, we'll just have to do both after the next false-flag attack, right?
Yesterday's attacks happened as American soldiers who specialize in clearing bombs from roads boarded a plane from Iraq to the Taliban heartland in southern Afghanistan, part of the largest movement of personnel and equipment between the two war fronts.
Related: AmeriKan MSM Kept Quiet For Military
Iraqi authorities, meanwhile, say they have struck back at the heart of the insurgency: claiming they arrested one of the most wanted leaders of a militant network linked to Al Qaeda. The reported capture of Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, the head of the Islamic State of Iraq, could mark a setback to insurgents as they try to intensify attacks after a relative lull.
In the past, however, Iraqi officials have reported Baghdadi's arrest or killing, only to acknowledge later that they were wrong. The US military has even said Baghdadi could be a fictitious character used to give an Iraqi face to an organization dominated by foreign Al Qaeda fighters....
Oh, a LITTLE PIECE of FART POOT TRUTH, MSM, because THEY ARE ALL FICTITOUS BOOGEYMEN CREATED, FUNDED and DIRECTED by GOVERNMENTS!!!!
And the FOREIGNERS in "Al-CIA-Duh?"
In 2007, Iraq's government reported that Baghdadi had been killed and released photos of what it said was his body. Later, security officials said they had arrested Baghdadi. In both cases, the US military said at the time it could not be confirmed - and the reports turned out not to be true.
Reports that appeared prominently at the time.
The two attacks - along with a suicide blast that killed three Sunnis who joined the anti-insurgent fight north of Baghdad - made it the deadliest day in Iraq since March 8, 2008, when at least 110 people were killed. The two main blasts yesterday carried separate messages.
They know what the "insurgents" intended in their minds, huh? How could the MSM know that?
The carnage in Baghdad showed insurgents were still capable of hitting the center of the capital. The devastated restaurant, to the north in Diyala province, was a reminder that the area remains an insurgent stronghold despite sustained offensives by US-led forces.
Which we rarely hear about.... until today.
Diyala - with its good roads and proximity to Baghdad - is considered a crucial gateway to the capital and a key to its security.
Oh, NOW IT MAKES SENSE!!! False flags will KEEP US at this VITAL JUNCTURE for CONTROL and OCCUPATION of Iraq!!!!
US commanders, facing a planned end of combat operations in August 2010, have dedicated increasing firepower to the region to try to cripple insurgent networks.
But somehow they never go away. Imagine that. CUI BONO?
The Baghdad attacker hit about noon as police were distributing Iraqi Red Crescent food parcels in the central neighborhood of Karradah - an area where many shops, restaurants and nightclubs have reopened in recent months as violence ebbed....
BAGHDAD --Back-to-back suicide bombings killed 60 people Friday outside the most important Shiite shrine in Baghdad, a day after the country was rocked by its most deadly violence in more than a year, police officials said.
Funny how those things stood for hundreds of years and were never bombed until USRAEL OCCUPIES a PLACE, huh?
The latest bombings come amid an increase in high-profile attacks that have raised concerns about the abilities of Iraq's security forces. Such concern led Iraq's prime minister to order a military task force to investigate the attacks as well as security shortcomings that allowed the assailants to slip through. Nobody immediately claimed responsibility for the bombings, but these types of attacks are the trademark of Sunni insurgents backed by al-Qaida in Iraq.
The bombers Friday detonated explosives belts within minutes of each other near separate gates of the tomb of prominent Shiite saint Imam Mousa al-Kazim, located in the northern neighborhood of Kazimiyah, said a police official. Another police official said the bombers struck shortly before the start of Friday prayers as worshippers streamed into the mosque -- an important site for Shiite pilgrims.
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki ordered a military task force to investigate the bombings and ordered the battalion and company commanders responsible for security in the area to be relieved of duty during the investigation, said military spokesman Maj. Gen. Qassim al-Moussawi.
Al-Moussawi said the men were being suspended for failing to provide adequate security around the shrine. Among the dead were 25 Iranian pilgrims, said a police and a hospital official. Both said at least 125 people, including 80 Iranian pilgrims, were injured in the blast.
The U.S. military could not provide further details, saying the area around the shrine was patrolled by Iraqi security forces. All the officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release the information.
Witnesses at the shrine described a bloody, chaotic scene.
"It is just like a massacre took place," said Laith Ali, 35, who owns a shop near the shrine. The attack left the bodies of the dead -- some of them burned -- scattered on the ground near the entrance of the shrine, he said. "Where are the security precautions that the security officials are talking about?" he said.
Many of the wounded were taken to nearby Kazimiyah Teaching Hospital, overwhelming the staff. AP Television News footage showed many of the injured were forced to wait outside, including women and children, before they could be seen by medical officials. The shrine has been a favored target of insurgents, most recently in early April when a bomb left in a plastic bag near the shrine killed seven people and wounded 23.
Have you had enough propaganda yet, readers? I have.
Let them top themselves yet again....
In January, a man dressed as a woman blew himself up near the shrine, killing more than three dozen people and wounding more than 70. Imam Mousa al-Kazim is an eighth century saint and one of 12 Shiite saints. Hundreds of thousands of Shiites march to the shrine in Kazimiyah every year to commemorate his death in A.D. 799. Shiites believe al-Kazim is buried in the Baghdad golden-domed shrine....
Good time for a Mossad hit squad, 'eh?
Violence in Iraq is at its lowest levels since the months following the 2003 U.S.-led invasion. But the recent attacks in Baghdad and elsewhere have exposed gaps in security as Iraq takes over from U.S. forces in protecting the country.
Repeating the SAME OLD SHIT DAY AFTER DAY!!!!
Also Friday, the U.S. military said an American soldier died as a result of a noncombat related incident in the northern Salahuddin province. At least 4,277 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
At this point, I don't give a fuck about American dead. I do, but AmeriKans seem quite content to let their loved ones die for a lie, so fuck 'em!!!!
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BAGHDAD - Two female suicide bombers hiding explosives in their purses struck worshipers streaming into Baghdad's most important Shi'ite shrine for Friday prayers, killing at least 66 people a day after Iraq's most deadly violence in more than a year.
You remember what Hitler said: the bigger the lies....
Dozens of Iranian pilgrims were again said to be among the dead.
Gee, and who wants Iranians dead?
Who is pushing for war with those innocent folk?
The two days of attacks - both against civilian targets - marked a troubling twist to what had already been a recent rise in suicide blasts, many of them against security forces. The bombings, typical of Sunni extremists linked with Al Qaeda in Iraq, are raising fresh concerns about the ability of Iraqis to take the lead role in protecting the capital and nearby areas as the US focus and resources shift to Afghanistan.
Do I even have to type it, folks. Same old shit, day-after-day!!!
"It is just like a massacre took place," said Laith Ali, 35, who owns a shop near the tomb of Shi'ite saint Imam Mousa al- Kazim. The golden-domed shrine, a popular destination for pilgrims, is located in the northern neighborhood of Kazimiyah. "Where are the security precautions that the security officials are talking about?" Ali asked.
The female bombers, believed to be in their 30s, detonated explosives that were stuffed inside their leather bags and linked to a grenade, according to Major General Jihad al-Jabiri, the head of the Interior Ministry's explosives department. The women detonated the explosives by pulling the ring of the grenade, Jabiri told Iraqi state television late yesterday.
The number of bombings carried out by women has spiked this year, even as overall violence has declined, because of their ability to often avoid detection at checkpoints.
Seriously, readers, have you had enough Muslim-hating, Zionist jewshit? This is the great "Al-CIA-Duh" threat, huh? Women bombers?
Prime Minister Nouri al- Maliki ordered a military task force to investigate the bombings, said Major General Qassim al-Moussawi. Maliki also suspended commanders for failing to provide adequate security around the shrine.
The blasts took place within minutes of each other near separate gates of the tomb, said a police official. Another police official said the bombers struck shortly before the start of Friday prayers.
Among the dead were 25 Iranian pilgrims, said police and hospital officials. Also yesterday, the new US ambassador to Iraq, Christopher Hill, arrived in Baghdad to take up his post three days after being confirmed by the Senate.
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Pffftttt!
Who gives a shit about some occupier?!
There are DEAD BODIES on the streets!!!!!
