"Suicide bomber kills 9 Sunni fighters in Iraq on payday" by Robert H. Reid, Associated Press | April 12, 2009
BAGHDAD - A suicide bomber detonated an explosives belt yesterday among US-allied Sunni paramilitaries collecting their salaries at an army base, killing nine and wounding about 30, Iraqi officials said.
The attack in the town of Jbala, about 35 miles south of Baghdad, follows a bloody week of bombings that killed more than 50 people in the capital. Five US soldiers died Friday in a bombing in Mosul, the deadliest attack against American troops in more than a year.
Those attacks have raised concern about the capability of Iraqi forces to control security after US soldiers withdraw from Baghdad and other Iraqi cities by June 30.
Translation: as I have said, WE AIN'T LEAVING, folks, and NEVER WHERE!! I've been predicting this for months because I KNOW it was a s***-shovel full of fooleys!!!!
About 250 members of Sunni paramilitaries known as Awakening Councils or Sons of Iraq were mingling around the Jbala base about 11 a.m. when the bomber struck. One of the wounded, Riad Hassan al-Janabi, said Iraqi soldiers refused to allow them to wait inside the compound behind protective blast walls. Instead, guards allowed only a few small groups inside at a time, leaving most of them unprotected....
Oh, STINK!!!!!!
So WHO PULLED off that job, folks?
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: "Al-CIA-Duh" Back in Iraq
Where is that violence again?
The NORTHERN AREA where KURDS are?
Hmmmmmmmmm!!!!!
Flashbacks (so whom do you think is responsible for these, huh?):
"Six car bombs kill 32 in coordinated attacks in Baghdad; 120 are injured as violence recalls war at its height" by Anthony Shadid, Washington Post | April 7, 2009
BAGHDAD - A series of six car bombs struck markets, a police convoy, and workers in Shi'ite Muslim neighborhoods yesterday, killing 32 people and wounding more than 120 in one of the most violent days in the capital in months.
The toll rivaled a bombing last month at the police academy in a fortified part of Baghdad, when an assailant plowed into a crowd and killed 28 people. But the breadth and coordination of yesterday's attacks, from one end of the capital to the other, were reminiscent of the violence from Baghdad's bloodiest days in 2006 and 2007.
The strikes called into question statements by Iraqi military officials that insurgents had lost their ability to attack in the heart of the capital with ease and reflected a sense by many in Baghdad and elsewhere that violence might be worsening as the American military begins a withdrawal of combat troops slated to end by August 2010.
Looks like we will JUST HAVE TO STAY THEN, huh, AmeriKa?!!
And CUI BONO?
In each attack, explosives were packed in a car that was parked near its target, then detonated remotely.
HALLMARKS of Israel's false flags!!!!
Interior Ministry officials said none of the attacks appeared to be carried out by suicide bombers, which generally has been a tactic of insurgent groups in the past. Interior ministry officials stopped short of blaming anyone for the series of strikes.
In one of the deadliest bombings, a car bomb exploded near a market in Sadr City, once a stronghold of a militia loyal to Moqtada al-Sadr, a Shi'ite cleric. Residents said the assailant tried to jump the median with his vehicle, then parked the car. Ten minutes later, the explosive detonated, slicing through crowds of women who were shopping for vegetables with their children in tow.
A minibus ignited, killing most of the passengers inside, residents said. The Interior Ministry said 10 people were killed and at least 65 were wounded. Vegetables spilled across the pavement, which was smeared with blood. The air was suffused with the stench of sewage that was pooled in the street, mixing with runoff from the water used to extinguish the fires.
And the MSM keep telling us how much Iraq has improved!!!!
"They're simply poor people. Why would this happen to them?" asked Abu Abbas Raad.
Oh, WE KNOW WHO and WHY, sir!!!! Don't expect the agenda-pushing, war-promoting MSM to tell you, though!!!!
As with a bombing last month in Shaab, another Shi'ite neighborhood, residents expressed anger at Iraqi forces for failing to protect them. Some complained the security forces arrived too late.
Seems like a COMMON THEME, huh?
Others said that when the Iraqi security did arrive, they shot in the air, wounding one of the survivors. Many of the police, they said, simply stood in the street, laughing and smoking. "Where were they when the bomb went off?" asked Abu Hassan Mohammed.
I admit, it could have been GOVERNMENT FORCES at work here!!!!
Those are covered in my links, too!!!!
Some residents called for the return of the Mahdi Army, Sadr's militia, which has been largely subdued by government forces in offensives in Baghdad and the southern city of Basra.
"We need the Mahdi Army to come back and secure the area," insisted Ali Hamid. A crowd gathered around him, nodding in agreement.
"When the Mahdi Army was here, they took care of the traffic, they searched cars, they brought food to families, they delivered aid to houses in the neighborhood, and they did it all for nothing in return. They were our brothers," Mohammed said.
The bombings began about 7 a.m., when a car detonated near a cinema in the Shi'ite neighborhood of Alawi, where day laborers gathered. At least four were killed and 15 were wounded, Interior Ministry officials said. Three more bombings followed: the attack in Sadr City, a bombing in New Baghdad that targeted the convoy of a police general and killed two people, and another attack near a market in Husainiya that killed four people.
Hours later, two more car bombs followed near a market in a Shi'ite neighborhood in southwestern Baghdad, killing at least 12 people and wounding 25, officials said. The bombings shattered a semblance of the ordinary that had returned to Baghdad in past months.
I don't know what is "ordinary" about REEKING PUDDLES of SEWAGE and CONCRETE BLAST WALLS and CHECKPOINTS at every street corner, but if the MSM says so, well.....
By comparison, Interior Ministry officials said, six car bombs had detonated in the capital in January, four in February and just three in March.
Hey, the MSM needed to sell success then, so they called of their "Al-CIA-Duh" operatives.
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Have you ever noticed that the rise and lapses in violence ALWAYS COINCIDE with the NEO-CON AGENDA?
Is that strange or what?
