Memory Hole: The Dream Vacation
Memory Hole: The Uniters of Islam
Occupation Iraq: Sectarian Saviors
Are we CLEAR, readers?
Also see: Occupation Iraq: Tortured Logic
Yeah, CUI BONO, readers?
"Blast belt in Iraq kills six at funeral; Key cleric hints at boycott over ballot" by Sameer N. Yacoub, Associated Press | October 6, 2009
BAGHDAD - A suicide bomber killed at least six mourners at a funeral yesterday for a member of a prominent tribe with ties to both security forces and insurgents in western Iraq, a police official said.
The bomber detonated an explosive belt inside a funeral tent in the mostly Sunni area of Haditha, about 140 miles northwest of Baghdad. At least 15 people were injured, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media....
In northern Iraq, recent violence and abductions prompted Kirkuk’s archbishop yesterday to demand government protection against what he has called religious-driven “terrorism.’’
Related: Occupation Iraq: Hell on Earth
A least 10 Christian families have left Kirkuk in recent weeks, fearing kidnap-for-ransom gangs that have turned their sights on Christians in one of Iraq’s most ethnically diverse cities....
Related: Occupation Iraq; Mixed Marriages
Occupation Iraq: The New Mandaeans
Yup, they lived together and intermingled for centuries -- until we got there.
Coincidence?
In southern Iraq, meanwhile, the country’s most senior Shi’ite cleric threatened to call for a boycott of January’s parliamentary elections if the voting system includes only the parties and not the names of the candidates....
He knows what is up, readers.
Such a call by Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani would probably bring massive no-shows at the polls and raise questions about the election’s legitimacy....
There ARE NO LEGITIMATE ELECTIONS -- save for those in Palestine and Iran!
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