"Sadr blamed the Americans for the explosions, saying they bore “the fingerprints of the occupation’’
Also see: Occupation Iraq: Tortured Logic
"Bombings add to toll in Baghdad; Worry rises ahead of US troops’ exit" by Sam Dagher and Alissa J. Rubin, New York Times | June 27, 2009
BAGHDAD - A bomb placed in a motorbike exploded at an outdoor market in Baghdad yesterday, killing about a dozen people and wounding scores. It marked the third straight day of violence in the capital before the Tuesday deadline for American combat troops to withdraw from Iraqi cities.
CUI BONO?
After another similar bombing outside a billiard hall in Baghdad later yesterday that killed two people and wounded seven, the authorities ordered all motorbikes off the streets indefinitely. Nearly 200 people were killed and hundreds were wounded in attacks over the past week in Baghdad and elsewhere in the country, with the deadliest attacks aimed at Shi’ites.
Yeah, MALIKI'S POLITICAL OPPONENTS!
The violence has raised fears of a new bout of sectarian warfare of the sort that ripped Iraq apart in 2005, and that could lead Iraqis once again to seek the protection of militias and armed groups instead of government forces. The reaction by Shi’ite leaders echoed those concerns.
And just might KEEP the U.S. IN THERE, huh? CUI BONO?
The bombing yesterday ripped through a market for new and secondhand motorbikes held each week under a bridge in the working-class neighborhood of Nahdha in central Baghdad. The bomb was placed in a motorbike, Iraqi Army officers at the scene said, killing 10 people and wounding 12.
The officers spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were prohibited from speaking to reporters. Later in the day, an official at the Interior Ministry said at least 13 were killed and 45 were wounded. Conflicting reports are common after bombings in Iraq.
“Their bodies were torn up to pieces, even their next of kin could not identify them,’’ an enraged Iraqi soldier said. “It is Iraqi blood, but it is cheap,’’ he added, pointing to a pool of blood nearby.
Oh, NO, NO, NO!!!!! It is NOT!!!!
Not in this person's eyes. It is SO PRECIOUS it is PRICELESS!!!!!
The wreckage of motorbikes was piled on the back of a police pickup truck. Many angry onlookers at the scene said that Iraqi forces were to blame because of their lax approach and infiltration in their ranks by insurgents.
Yeah, I have NOTICED that there is ALWAYS a "BREECH" in security!!!
The same Iraqi Army unit, the 11th Division, is responsible for Nahdha and the nearby Shi’ite district of Sadr City, where a bombing killed 76 people at a market on Wednesday night.
Yup, MALIKI'S MOST POPULAR POLITICAL RIVAL gets hit with the car bombs!
In Sadr City, hundreds crowded the street outside the local office of Moqtada al-Sadr, the anti-American cleric, to attend Friday Prayer and to listen to a sermon given by one of al-Sadr’s aides. In a statement read by the preacher Harith Adthari, Sadr blamed the Americans for the explosions, saying they bore “the fingerprints of the occupation,’’ and he urged people to help the loyal Iraqi security forces. He also noted that some infiltrators had penetrated the ranks of the Iraqi forces, and that they must be weeded out.
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BAGHDAD - Iraq’s prime minister [warned] Iraqis to stay away from crowded places favored by bombers. There have been concerns that Iraqi forces will not be able to provide adequate security after US combat troops completely pull out....
Then we will just have to stay, right?
Yesterday, few if any of the 133,000 US troops still in Iraq were visible in its cities, with most already having pulled out of urban centers in recent weeks. They have assembled in large bases outside urban centers and will continue to conduct combat operations....
Permanent bases for permanent operations.
Police said they had bolstered checkpoints and patrols, especially in Shi’ite areas of Baghdad where bombers have targeted markets with deadly effect. Nearly all the bombings that began on June 20 have been in Shi’ite areas....
And CUI BONO?
Maliki attributed the bombings to the remnants of Al Qaeda in Iraq and said they were aimed at restarting violence between Shi’ites and Sunnis....
So Maliki is IN on the LIE, huh?
And get used to seeing this background bullshit:
Iraq nearly slipped into civil war in 2006 and 2007, and tens of thousands of people died in attacks between Sunni extremists such as Al Qaeda and Shi’ite militias and death squads. It was brought back from the brink by an inflow of US troops in 2007 in what was known as the surge.
Yup, George W. Bush and HIS SURGE WON IRAQ, yessir!
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