Wow, that's tortured logic if you are an "insurgent."
"Bombs’ onslaught triggers fury, fear; Village is leveled; dozens die in Iraq" by Sam Dagher, New York Times | August 11, 2009
Only craters and rubble remain of the Khazna village near Mosul after truck bombs exploded yesterday as residents slept. (Khalid Al-Mousuly/ Reuters)
BAGHDAD - The entire village was gone. Local television broadcast scenes of homes reduced to heaps of rubble mixed with bed frames, mattresses, furniture, and bloodstained pillows.
A villager cried into the camera, “Look, Mr. Prime Minister and Mr. Interior Minister, where is the security that you speak about?’’
The latest wave of sectarian bombings struck northern Iraq and Baghdad yesterday, killing at least 50 people, wounding hundreds more, and leveling the village of Khazna, near Mosul.
Ahem: Occupation Iraq; Mixed Marriages
Yeah, I quit believing that lie a long time ago.
Nearly 100 people in Baghdad and the northern city of Mosul have been killed in attacks since Friday, raising serious concerns about the Iraqi government’s ability to maintain security.
You are not coming home, American.
You aren't even being transferred to Afghanistan.
See: Occupation Iraq: 2012 and Beyond
The attacks, the most serious since June 30, when Iraqis officially took the lead on national security and US troops largely withdrew to their bases, also highlighted the underlying conflicts that continue to fuel violence.
Get ready for your Zionist disinformation and cover story.
These include the rift between Arab and Kurdish leaders in northern Iraq and the continued disenfranchisement felt by many Sunni Arabs who remain unreconciled with the Shi’ite-led central government.
In the most devastating attack yesterday, a pair of large flatbed trucks packed with bombs exploded simultaneously shortly after dawn, destroying the village of Khazna, about 10 miles east of Mosul, according to Munthir Saba, an official in Bartella, an adjacent town.
Saddam allegedly wiped out villages, too. Some liberation.
Most villagers were asleep at the time, many of them on their rooftops in the summer heat.
Hospital officials in Mosul said at least 28 people had been killed and 155 wounded, but Saba said the casualty figures could increase because rescue efforts were continuing. Qusay Abbas, a provincial council member, put the toll at 43 dead and 220 wounded.
The village is inhabited mainly by Shi’ite Shabaks, members of a small Kurdish-speaking minority. Most are farmers and laborers. “We do not want a sectarian war,’’ said the villager who bemoaned the lack of security in an interview on Mosuliya television.
And we all know WHO DOES want a SECTARIAN WAR, 'eh?
In Baghdad, two early morning explosions struck lines of workers who had gathered to look for jobs as day laborers, one in the Amil district, the other in Shurta al Rabiaa, both of them mainly Shi’ite areas.
Always, CUI BONO?
The Amil blast went off about 5:30 a.m., killing seven people and wounding 46. About 45 minutes later, the explosion in Shurta killed nine and wounded 35, according to an official at the Interior Ministry who requested anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the news media.
Always after prayers, notice that?
Both explosions were attributed to bombs in cars that had been parked in the areas for a long period of time.
Well, that SURE DOES STINK to high heaven!
“I saw three or four bodies piled up over each other,’’ said Abu Sabah, 43, a teahouse owner in Shurta. “Body parts were scattered all over. It was awful.’’
Later, in neighborhoods across Baghdad, six roadside bombs were detonated, as well as a bomb placed in a minibus. At least three people were killed and 23 wounded, according to the Interior Ministry official. One attack was on a popular ice cream shop in the Karada district. In the evening, another car bomb in Shurta struck a kabob restaurant, killing at least three and wounding 18, and a roadside bomb in Adel, another Baghdad neighborhood, wounded three, the official said.
Readers, I SIMPLY NO LONGER believe my j**smedia, and DO NOT BELIEVE this is the work of Muslims -- NOT AFTER CENTURIES of TOLERANCE!! This crap ONLY STARTS after WE GET THERE, ever notice that, shit-slurping 'murkn?
In Khazna, the explosions left two large craters in different sections of the village. One was filled with water mixed with blood. Witnesses said the explosions burst the village’s water main. The chassis and big wheel of what appeared to have been one of the trucks used in the attack lay atop leveled houses. In what looked like the village’s main road, storefronts were ripped up, and destroyed vehicles were tossed about.
Those are POWERFUL BOMBS, and symptomatic of something MUCH LARGER and STATE-ORGANIZED than "insurgents," folks!!!!
Saba said the explosions happened in quick succession about 5 a.m. and shattered windows at his home in Bartella, a few miles away.
Right after prayers again.
A bulldozer shoveled debris while a crane lifted slabs of concrete to rescue people trapped underneath. Women wailed and slapped their faces in grief. Men held up photographs of loved ones and sobbed. “Twelve members of my family are all gone,’’ one said.
Sigh. Lord, when will this end?
PLEASE MAKE IT STOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Shortly after the attack, the government of Nineveh province issued a statement calling on Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to send military forces to the area and evict Kurdish forces from the Nineveh Plain and other parts of the province. It said the attack happened because the provincial and central governments were not fully in control of the province, a mosaic of ethnic and sectarian groups.
Even though these people LIVED TOGETHER for CENTURIES and it was NEVER LIKE THIS!!!!!
Yup, something absolutely REEKS in the state of Iraq right now!!!!
The area has been particularly tense since provincial elections in January.
Pffft! Yeah, it's all because of "politics!"
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"Iraqis arrest Briton after 2 are shot dead" by Associated Press | August 10, 2009
BAGHDAD - Iraqi authorities arrested a British contractor yesterday over the shooting deaths of two co-workers in Baghdad’s protected Green Zone. The suspected gunman could be the first Westerner to face an Iraqi trial on murder charges since a security pact lifted the immunity that had been enjoyed by foreign contractors for most of the war.
The gunman shot his colleagues - one British and one Australian - during a quarrel, then he wounded an Iraqi while trying to flee their compound inside the vast area that is sealed off from the rest of the capital, Iraqi officials said....
The Green Zone houses the US and British embassies as well as the Iraqi government headquarters. The US military turned over security of the area to Iraqi forces when the security pact took effect on Jan. 1 but many foreign organizations maintain separate guarded compounds within the zone. The British Embassy said two Britons were in Iraqi custody in connection with the shooting. But Interior Ministry spokesman Major General Abdul-Karim Khalaf maintained that only one suspect was being held, identifying him as Daniel Fitzsimons.
--more--""Bombings batter Baghdad, Mosul" by Reuters | August 10, 2009
BAGHDAD - A wave of bombings struck the capital and the restive city of Mosul this morning, killing at least 41 people and wounding more than 200, Iraqi officials said.
Officials in Mosul blamed two truck bombs for the deaths of 25 people in a Shi'ite community. In the southwest part of Baghdad, two car bombs targeting construction workers killed 16 people. No other details were available.
The insurgency in Iraq has waned in the last 18 months, but spasms of violence have continued in Mosul and a few other areas.--more--"
