"assassinations, bombings, and killings remain a daily part of the landscape"
"Anbar’s test also occurs at a time when insurgents appear to be regrouping. Almost no day goes by without an attack or a bombing in Fallujah, the province’s other main city."
Yeah, and if Iraq was any other nation on earth it would "amount to a crisis in most other countries."
That's SURGE SUCCESS, huh? What a LIE!
"Truck bomb kills 20 in northern Iraq village" by Anthony Shadid, Washington Post | September 11, 2009
BAGHDAD - A man driving a truck laden with explosives plowed his vehicle into a Kurdish village in northern Iraq before dawn yesterday, killing 20 people, wounding 27, and wrecking dozens of houses, officials said, in the latest attack aimed at deepening strife among the region’s tapestry of sects and ethnicities.
I said CUT IT OUT!
Oh, about that sectarianism: Memory Hole: The Dream Vacation
Memory Hole: The Uniters of Islam
Occupation Iraq: Sectarian Saviors
Are we CLEAR, readers?
Police said the carnage in the village of Wardek, about 35 miles southeast of Mosul, could have been far greater. A second explosives-laden truck followed the first across a bridge, but security forces managed to kill the driver before he detonated his load.
The blast was the bloodiest in a violent day in Iraq. Although strife has ebbed from its breathtaking levels of 2006 and 2007, assassinations, bombings, and killings remain a daily part of the landscape, particularly around Baghdad and northern Iraq.
In Mahmudiyah, a town south of Baghdad, an improvised mine detonated in a market, killing four people and wounding 30, police said. The town, safer than in past years, is near the site where a US soldier was killed by an improvised mine Tuesday. Two bombs also exploded almost simultaneously in a vegetable market in Hilla, south of Mahmudiyah along the same road from Baghdad, killing two people and wounding 20, said Major Muthanna Ahmed, a spokesman for the provincial police. He said the explosives were hidden in pushcarts that were smuggled into the market....
You know I think it stinks, readers.
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Ever notice it is always Maliki's political opponents taking the brunt?
"Pair of bombs kill 4 in Baghdad; Blasts near shrine targeted Shi’ites" by David Rising, Associated Press | September 13, 2009
Smoke billowed after an explosion in the Bab al-Muazam district, near the former Defense Ministry in central Baghdad. (AFP/ Getty Images)
BAGHDAD - Two bombs exploded back to back near a Shi’ite shrine in central Baghdad where worshipers had gathered in prayer yesterday, killing four people and injuring 24, police and hospital officials said.
I just DO NOT BELIEVE Muslims would do this. We have been LIED TO SO MUCH by the Muslim-hating newspapers, that cui bono (consider timing; centuries of living together until USrael gets there. Even the most pious "Al-CIA-Duh" wouldn't blow up shrines, sorry).
The first bomb went off next to the tomb of a revered ninth-century religious figure, Sheik Othman al-Omari. Then a car bomb exploded in a nearby parking lot as crowds were gathering. The blasts damaged the shrine and blew out the windows of neighboring buildings.
Attacks blamed on Al Qaeda in Iraq and other Sunni extremists are again targeting Shi’ite civilians. Violence between Shi’ites and Sunnis drove the country to the brink of civil war in 2006 and 2007, though it has ebbed since. Iraqi and US officials say the attacks are aimed at rekindling that violence, but Shi’ite groups have reacted with restraint.
Once you start reading through all this, you get whose behind it, cui bono?
The police and hospital officials who gave details of the shrine attack and the casualty toll spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not permitted to speak to journalists. In what appeared to be another attempted sectarian attack, a bomb was found hidden inside a Koran at the Shi’ite Kazimiyah shrine in northern Baghdad, an Interior Ministry official said.
Oh, NO WAY! That is a FALSE FLAG of the HIGHEST ORDER!!!!!!!!!
The book contained about a pound of explosives to be triggered with a cellphone and was brought in by a woman, said Major General Jihad al-Jabiri, speaking on state television. He said the bomb failed to detonate.
Yup, MOSSAD CALLING -- if this is even real.
I smell a fantastic MSM lie, and that is sad, folks!
Shrine guards became suspicious after the person had left and they called police, who discovered the bomb and defused it.
Hmmmm.
Northeast of the capital, a roadside bomb killed four people in Diyala Province, a provincial police officer said. The victims included a local member of a Sunni militia known as the Awakening Councils and three of his relatives, the officer said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk with the press. The militias, which have many former insurgents, allied with American forces in 2006 to fight Al Qaeda in Iraq.
In other attacks yesterday, a bomb attached to a civilian car exploded in the northwest of the capital, killing the driver and wounding two passengers, police said. The motive for the attack was not known.
Sure it is: to raise chaos and instability.
In the northern city of Mosul yesterday, a roadside bomb went off near an Iraqi Army patrol, prompting soldiers to open fire to scare off any attackers. A stray bullet from the shooting killed a traffic policeman, police said.
Oh, so the Iraq "security" forces heard a boom and started blasting away, huh?
Who do they think they are, Blackwater?
The government’s failures to restore security to the capital and northern Iraq are weighing on Iraqis minds in the months before January parliamentary elections.
So we better stay Americans, cui bono?
"US soldier held in contractor’s slaying in Iraq; Reporter who threw shoes at Bush to be freed" by Ned Parker, Los Angeles Times | September 14, 2009
BAGHDAD - Elsewhere in northern Iraq, a Kurdish woman and her three children were found shot to death in their home yesterday morning in Banja, a small community near Kirkuk. It was unclear whether the shootings were linked to criminal activity or to Arab-Kurdish tensions.
Related(?):
A neighbor, Mohammed Qadir, said he had called the police because he was nervous for the family after they had been left alone by the woman’s husband, a policeman, who had to work overnight. The husband sat crying in front of his home yesterday. He said he had returned from work in the morning, shortly before the police arrived, and discovered the bodies.
“I was astonished when I found my family, my wife and three children, were killed while they were in their bed,’’ said Amid Abdul Rahman, who fell silent for a moment. Then he waved his hand and shouted: “Oh my God, may you take revenge on the killers. . . . What is the guilt of my son, Mohammed? And he is an infant! What is the guilt of my small daughters?’’
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