But NOT Iraq, huh? Pffft!
""A report issued recently by the Iraqi planning ministry, meanwhile, painted a grim picture of life in the country, saying shortages of clean water and food were growing worse. The report found that life expectancy had fallen to 58 years in 2008.... Rates of poverty, tuberculosis, hunger, unemployment, and infant mortality have all increased substantially. “Iraqis are not living in a condition fit for the 21st century,’’ said the planning minister, Ali Ghalib Baban."
And yet the AmeriKan MSM called it Bush's surge success!
Please see Tortured Logic and follow the links for who is REALLY RESPONSIBLE for VIOLENCE in IRAQ!
"4 killed as insurgents target Iraqi Christians; US ambassador is near site of separate blast" by Christopher Torchia, Associated Press | July 13, 2009
People prayed at a church that was the target of a bomb attack in Baghdad yesterday. (Kahtan Al-Mesiary/Reuters)
BAGHDAD - A car bomb exploded yesterday near a church as worshippers left Mass, killing at least four civilians and injuring 18 in one of several attacks on Iraq’s beleaguered Christian minority. The coordinated assault came as the Iraqi military predicted that insurgent attacks, though declining, could continue for a few years.
CUI BONO, readers?
WHO BENEFITS when CHRISTIANS and MUSLIMS are at war?
The churches and Christians lived in peace until we got there?
Three Christians and one Muslim died in the bombing at around 7 p.m. near a church on Palestine Street in eastern Baghdad, said a police officer who was at the scene. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media. An official at Al-Kindi hospital confirmed the death toll and said at least 18 people were injured.
Oh, here is another kick to the head:
"Under Saddam Hussein, Iraq's million or so Christians for the most part coexisted peacefully with Muslims, both the dominant Sunnis and majority Shiites (New York Times October 17, 2007).... Sunnis, Shi'ites, and Christians lived side by side; many intermarried"
But now they are killing each other?
Also yesterday, a bomb exploded near a convoy of American personnel that included US Ambassador Christopher Hill, though no one was injured. Joanne Moore, a State Department spokeswoman, said the bomb exploded as the convoy was traveling through Dhi Qar Province in southern Iraq.
I thought the violence was in the north?
Violence is sharply down in the war that began with the US-led invasion in 2003, but militants still carry out lethal attacks on a regular basis, some seemingly aimed at fomenting sectarian tension....
Whatever, MSM.
Although violence has diminished since 2007, insurgents exact a steady toll with bombs and targeted killings that would amount to a crisis in most other countries. In the northern city of Kirkuk, gunmen with silencers in a car waited outside the house of Aziz Rizqo Nisan, head of the provincial audit department, and shot him as he drove to work yesterday morning. His death was confirmed by local police and the national government’s media office in Baghdad. The motive for the killing of Nisan, a Christian, was unclear.
Not to me.
Iraq’s Christians have often been attacked by Islamic extremists, and many have fled the country. Two bombs that were planted in a church in western Baghdad exploded at midnight Saturday, causing some damage but no injuries. Then three bombs exploded near other Baghdad churches at around 4:30 p.m., injuring eight civilians, police said. The fatal bombing followed two and a half hours later.
Also yesterday evening, a roadside bomb blew up near a police patrol in Baghdad, killing one civilian and injuring four others, police officials said.
But violence is down.
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And the PHOTO says it all:
Iraqi women walked past walls scarred by a detonated roadside bomb that targeted a police patrol in the Karada district of Baghdad yesterday. One person died in the blast. (Ali Al-Saadi/ AFP/ Getty Images)
"7 soldiers, linguist injured in N. Iraq; Bomb explodes near US troops" by Timothy Williams, New York Times | July 14, 2009
BAGHDAD - Seven American soldiers and a linguist traveling with them were wounded in a bomb blast as they walked out of a meeting with local government officials in northern Iraq, a US military spokesman said yesterday.
The incident occurred Sunday afternoon in Al Sharqat, a town about 200 miles north of Baghdad, but was not reported by the US military until yesterday. The soldiers had traveled to the town, in generally peaceful Salahuddin province, to discuss possible US military participation in several projects, including renovating schools and medical facilities, said Lieutenant Sean P. Riordan, a military spokesman in Baghdad....
Wouldn't it be nice if the government did that for YOU, too, Americans?
Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, arrived in the northern city of Kirkuk yesterday to meet Iraqi and American political and security officials. Kirkuk, contested by Arabs, Kurds, and Turkmen, sits atop billions of barrels of oil and is among the most violent places in Iraq. Despite a sharp drop in violence across Iraq in the past 18 months, bombings and other insurgent attacks continue.
Sigh. I'm tired of the double talk, I really am.
Yesterday, a roadside bomb in Baghdad wounded seven people, including three policemen. In the restive northern city of Mosul, two bombings killed three Iraqi soldiers, and a sniper shot and killed an Iraqi police officer.
See: Asymmetrical Warfare Group
Vehicles in Mosul were banned from entering predominately Christian neighborhoods yesterday after officials received reports that insurgents had prepared car bombs to be detonated near churches, Iraqi security officials said.
The warning came a day after bombs aimed at five Christian churches in Baghdad exploded, killing at least four people. Authorities in Mosul searched cars but found no explosives, officials said. A report issued recently by the Iraqi planning ministry, meanwhile, painted a grim picture of life in the country, saying shortages of clean water and food were growing worse.
The report found that life expectancy had fallen to 58 years in 2008 - seven years less than during the height of the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s. Rates of poverty, tuberculosis, hunger, unemployment, and infant mortality have all increased substantially.
“Iraqis are not living in a condition fit for the 21st century,’’ said the planning minister, Ali Ghalib Baban. He estimated that Iraq needs $400 billion in funds to rebuild water-treatment plants, bridges, and other infrastructure.--more--"
O' Iraqis!! I am SO SORRY for what HELL my nation has brought you!!!
"Bombings kill Iraq officer, 10 others" by Associated Press | July 16, 2009
But violence is down.
Btw, WTF are American troops doing? Sitting on their thumbs?
BAGHDAD - A suicide bomber killed six people yesterday, including an Iraqi policeman, in an attack on security forces in a former insurgent stronghold in Iraq’s western Anbar Province, police said. A Baghdad bombing killed five other people.
The attack in the western city of Ramadi was carried out by a suicide bomber driving a minibus who struck a checkpoint of Iraqi soldiers and police, killing a policeman and five civilians, said a police officer. Earlier reports said six policemen were among the dead.
The attack injured 19 others, including five officers, said the officer in Ramadi, some 70 miles west of Baghdad. The officer spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media. Anbar used to be a stronghold of the Sunni insurgency but has been relatively quiet in recent months....
Last evening, a bomb in Baghdad’s Sadr City district killed five people and injured another 23, all of them men, a police officer and a hospital official said on condition of anonymity. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.
I smell Maliki!
The bomb was hidden in a plastic bag and exploded close to a tent being used for the funeral service of a Shi’ite tribal leader’s wife, the officials said. Only men were in the tent, while female mourners were in a house.
Well, THANK Allah for the gender seperation in this reeking false flag!
In Baghdad, dozens of mourners attended the funeral of the two traffic policemen who were killed in eastern Baghdad. Separately, one person was killed and nine were wounded when a bomb exploded near an Internet cafe late Tuesday in south Baghdad.
Why would "Al-CIA-Duh" want to bomb their websites, 'eh?
The explosion in a Shi’ite enclave in the mainly Sunni neighborhood of Dora damaged the cafe and a shop.
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