"43 killed in attacks against Iraqi Shi’ites; Hundreds wounded in, near Baghdad" by Sam Dagher, New York Times | August 8, 2009
BAGHDAD - A series of bombing attacks against Shi’ites yesterday near the northern city of Mosul and in Baghdad killed at least 43 people and wounded hundreds, police officials said.
The bombings, apparently intended to inflame sectarian tensions, coincided with the end of an important Shi’ite religious occasion. They came just two days after Iraq said it would lift all blast walls from Baghdad’s main roads - and the chief of Baghdad’s operations command, Major General Abud Qanbar, declared that “security is not an issue anymore’’ - and one week after five Shi’ite mosques in Baghdad were bombed in coordinated attacks, killing at least 29.
Hmmmm. Isn't that interesting? Guess those walls will have to stay up, huh?
The deadliest bombing yesterday took place at a Shi’ite Turkmen mosque on the northern fringes of the seething city of Mosul. A truck packed with explosives detonated while the mosque and an adjacent hall used for funeral services were filled with people, killing at least 37 people and wounding 276, the governor, Atheel al-Nujaifi, told reporters.
Nujaifi and his brother Osama, a member of Parliament, blamed the negligence of Iraqi security forces for the attack and called on the central government to declare the area a disaster zone. Other officials and some witnesses said the truck was driven by a suicide bomber.
Isn't that interesting, consider who is operating in that area: Plan B
Raad al-Zubaie, a volunteer with the Iraqi Red Crescent who helped rescue the victims at the scene, said at least 10 houses were leveled in the bombing, which happened in the village of Shirakhan, four miles north of Mosul. It was the second devastating attack to strike near Shi’ite Turkmen mosques in recent months. In June, a truck bomb exploded as worshipers left Friday prayer in the contested city of Kirkuk, killing 80 people and wounding 300.
So WHO would want to STIR UP MORE S***?
Mosul is among the most violent places in Iraq, home to insurgents linked to Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, a mostly home-grown militant group with some foreign leadership, and to the banned Baath Party, once led by Saddam Hussein....
Yeah, yeah, yeah! I no longer buy this crapola served forth by the Muslim-hating, Zionist war-promoters. They lied about Iraq and never stopped.
Complicating the situation is a power struggle between Sunni Arab and Kurdish political factions in surrounding Nineveh province, which is home to a mosaic of ethnic and religious groups.
Yeah, the BALKANIZATION of IRAQ and the MIDDLE EAST serves WHOSE PURPOSE?
Dildar Zebari, the deputy chairman of the local provincial council, said that while the bombing could have been carried out by an extremist Sunni group, it was conceivable that a political party that he refused to name might have ”commissioned” the attack to make the current government look bad. “Certain political parties could resort to violence and masquerade as terrorist organizations,’’ he said, “to maintain the state of instability in Nineveh province.’’
You mean, like, an INSIDE JOB of some sort?
In Baghdad yesterday, a roadside bomb planted near Hamza Square in the Sadr City district ripped through a minibus carrying pilgrims returning from the holy city of Karbala. Three people were killed and eight wounded, according to an official at the Interior Ministry, who requested anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the news media.
You ever notice SADR'S FOLKS take a lot of hits?
And he's the main political rival of Maliki, huh?
See: Slow Saturday Special: Sadr Knows (and related links within)
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Oh, about that sectarianism: Memory Hole: The Dream Vacation
Memory Hole: The Uniters of Islam
Occupation Iraq: Sectarian Saviors
Are we CLEAR, readers?
Update:
My local added this on Sunday:
"Iraq Asks Iran About 3 Detained Americans
(BAGHDAD) — The death toll climbed to 44 in Friday's suicide truck bomb attack on the northern outskirts of Mosul. The explosion left a 16-foot crater, reducing a Shiite mosque and several nearby houses to rubble.
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After centuries of intermarriage, I don't believe Muslims would bomb their houses of worship. And a lying, Muslim-hating, war-promoting AmeriKan jewsmedia isn't going to convince me. That ship of betrayal has sailed.
