I'm sorry, but NO ONE DOES THAT to a FAMILY MEMBER because they DISAGREE with them.
Never mind the fact that it is being blamed on the "terrorists."
This is all Zionist propaganda to make Muslims look like savages.
"Iraqi Sunni informer and family are killed" by Yasmine Mousa, New York Times | June 18, 2010
BAGHDAD — Gunmen with automatic weapons stormed a house outside Fallujah yesterday, killing an Awakening Council member, his wife, and three of his children who had all been sleeping in the backyard to escape the summer heat, the authorities said.
The Awakening Council member, Khudair Hamad al-Issawi, was apparently a target because he gave security officials information about a planned car bomb attack this month, said Sheik Aifan Sadoon Aifan, a member of the Anbar provincial council.
The police defused the bomb.
“Two weeks ago, he gave me information about a car rigged with explosives,’’ Aifan said.
Issawi had also turned in two of his older sons to the Iraqi authorities for being members of Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, an insurgent group, said Major General Baha al-Karkh, the police chief of Anbar Province.
“He was very much cooperative with us,’’ Karkh said. “This killing was revenge from Al Qaeda.’’
See: Occupation Iraq: Up and Down "Al-CIA-Duh"
The killings occurred about 10 days after responsibility for security in the village had been transferred from the Iraqi police to the Iraqi Army. Members of the Iraqi police complained about the transfer, arguing that they knew the area better and that they were former Awakening Council members.
Uh-huh.
Also yesterday, an insurgent group affiliated with Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia claimed responsibility for a raid on Iraq’s central bank on Sunday in which 15 people died and 50 were wounded.
Related: Occupation Iraq: MSM's Bonnie and Clod
So which government intel website was that posted on, 'eh?
The group, the Islamic State of Iraq, said that it had sent five men wearing military uniforms into the bank equipped with weapons and suicide belts.
Then why did they JUST BURN DOCUMENTS and take NO MONEY?
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"Al Qaeda group says it bombed Iraqi bank" by Associated Press | June 24, 2010
BAGHDAD — An Al Qaeda front group claimed responsibility yesterday for bombing a state-run investment bank, gloating over its ease in penetrating security in an attack that killed at least 18 people.
But they took no money and only burned documents?
The attack Sunday on the Trade Bank of Iraq was meant to expose the weakness of the country’s stalled government, according to a statement posted on the website of the Islamic State of Iraq.
Well, which government sponsored site would that be?
Prop 101: Al-CIA-Duh and the OSI
Prop 101: Al-CIA-Duh's Greatest Hits
Prop 101: The "Terrorism" Business
New York Times Admits War on Terror is U.S. Creation
Oh, AmeriKa's MSM KNOWS ALL ABOUT and yet STILL PUSHES the CHARADE, huh?The statement called the bank a “stronghold of evil’’ because it was established to attract foreign investment.
Oh, heck, I'm convinced now.
It's not like the AmeriKan MSM ever lied to you about Iraq, readers.
BAGHDAD — An insurgent linked to Al Qaeda shot and killed his father as he slept in his bed yesterday for refusing to quit his job as an Iraqi interpreter for the US military, police said, a rare deadly attack on a close family member over allegations of collaborating with the enemy.
You just quit talking and associating with them, folks. You don't kill them.
And when you consider who is behind "Al-CIA-Duh" this appears to be some government hit job to eliminate the competition and keep US troops there.
The attack happened on a particularly bloody day in Iraq, with at least 27 people killed nationwide in bombings and ambushes largely targeting the houses of government officials, Iraqi security forces, and those seen as allied with them.
Hameed al-Daraji, 50, worked as a contractor and translator for the US military for seven years since shortly after the US-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003.
After SEVEN YEARS the boy finally decides he needs to execute dad while he is sleeping? After SEVEN YEARS?!!!
He was shot in the chest about 3 a.m. while sleeping in his house in Samarra, a former insurgent stronghold 60 miles north of Baghdad, police Lieutenant Emad Muhsin said.
Authorities arrested the son and his cousin, saying the young men apparently were trying to prove their loyalty after rejoining the insurgency. Police were also looking for another son who allegedly took part in the attack.
Wasn't it part of the initiation? Only did it after "rejoining," huh?
The saddest part is AmeriKa's Zionist MSM actually expects us to buy this load of bulls***.
Citing confessions, police said the son whom they arrested, Abdul-Halim Hameed, 30, was a former member of Al Qaeda in Iraq who quit the terrorist network in mid-2007 under pressure from US-Iraqi security operations that have led to a sharp drop in violence in the area....
Yeah, I am starting to smell something.
With US troops withdrawing from the country, Ansar al-Sunnah, an insurgent group with ties to Al Qaeda, recently lured the men into their ranks with offers of hard cash, Ali said.
Then HOW COME they left the money in the BANK?
The US military said it was looking into the report.
Translation: Which intel hit squad did this?
The Samarra assault brought into focus the fears of Iraqis who have worked with the Americans and are worried they will face renewed violence as their employers prepare to leave the country by the end of next year.
Which will just make us stay, right?
Already, many have been targeted by extremist groups who view them as traitors. But Iraqis could not think of another case in which a family member killed an immediate relative because of his or her employment with the Americans in this country.
Sort of blows up the whole pile of MSM BS, doesn't it?
Samarra, in the Sunni heartland north of Baghdad, has been one of the hardest areas to control since the US-led invasion. It was the site of the February 2006 bombing that destroyed a revered golden-domed Shi’ite mosque, sparking a wave of retaliatory sectarian violence that pushed the country to the brink of civil war.
See: Islam's 9/11
Yeah, who would want to do that and why did it take them so long when they are at each others' throats?
The area has been relatively peaceful since local tribal leaders revolted against Al Qaeda in Iraq, but Ali said sleeper cells were waiting for the chance to regroup.
Pfffft!
In other violence yesterday, gunmen ambushed a checkpoint near the Anbar Province town of Qaim, a former insurgent stronghold near the Syrian border, killing seven Iraqi soldiers, according to police, hospital, and provincial officials.
They said the gunmen shot an eighth soldier several times but left him alive “to convey a message to the Iraqi Army.’’
Yeah, we get it, MSM!
Provincial council member Sheik Efan Saadoun blamed the attack on a decision to replace police with Iraqi soldiers who are less familiar with the local surroundings.
Meanwhile, car bombs targeting a police captain and a provincial council member tore through two restive cities north of Baghdad.
One blew up in the city of Tuz Khormato about 50 yards from the house of Niazi Mohammed, an ethnic Turkomen member of the Salahuddin provincial council, according to police.
City police chief Colonel Hussein Ali blamed Al Qaeda for the attack, which killed at least eight people and wounded 69.
Another blast targeted the house of police Captain Mustafa Mohammed in the city of Baqubah, killing two neighbors and wounding 27 other people, including some of the officer’s relatives, police said.--more--"
Yeah, Iraq is doing just great.
BAGHDAD — Suicide bombers in a crowded Baghdad commercial district and Saddam Hussein’s hometown of Tikrit killed as many as 33 people yesterday as insurgents tried to turn a months-long deadlock over forming a new Iraqi government to their advantage.
The attacks added weight to warnings that insurgents would try to foment unrest as politicians squabble over forming a new government more than three months after inconclusive national elections.
The latest violence began when bombers drove two cars packed with nearly 180 pounds of ammonium nitrate toward the gates of the Trade Bank of Iraq building in Baghdad and detonated the explosives after striking the surrounding blast walls, said Iraqi military spokesman Major General Qassim al-Moussawi.
Al-Moussawi said at least 18 people were killed and 42 wounded. But three Iraqi police officials and a doctor at the Yarmouk hospital where many victims were taken put the toll at 28 killed and 57 wounded.
Conflicting casualty tolls are common in the chaotic aftermath of bombings in Iraq.
Hours later, a man wearing an explosives vest blew himself up as police and onlookers responded to a roadside bomb apparently set as a trap in the northern city of Tikrit. At least five people were killed and 12 wounded in the late night attack, according to police and hospital officials.
The explosions capped a week in which about 100 people were killed in bombings and shootings nationwide, including at least 26 who died in a commando-style assault against the central bank in Baghdad last Sunday.
An Al Qaeda in Iraq front group, the Islamic State of Iraq, claimed responsibility for that attack, saying it targeted the institution responsible for funneling “oil money and the stolen wealth of Muslims’’ to the West....
Then why didn't they take any money?
Many are venting their anger at politicians for failing to choose a prime minister and form a government, even though the new parliament was seated last week....
As if people cared about politics when they are hungry and suffering.
The ability of insurgents to penetrate areas with tight security has raised questions about the readiness of Iraqi forces to take over their own security....
Well, it LOOKS LIKE you will JUST HAVE TO STAY, America.
In other violence, police and morgue officials said the decomposed bodies of six women and a man were found buried in the backyard of a deserted house in the religiously mixed Zayouna neighborhood in eastern Baghdad. The seven victims apparently were killed two to three months ago, the officials said.
Two people were killed in a roadside bombing targeting the convoy of the police chief in Duluiyah, a former insurgent stronghold north of Baghdad, although the police chief was not harmed.
Hospital officials also said a man wounded after police opened fire at a protest over power cuts in the southern oil hub of Basra had died, raising the number of demonstrators killed to two.
The violence Saturday highlighted growing public anger over a lack of basic services in Iraq.After SEVEN YEARS they STILL have NO SERVICES?
After ALL the BILLIONS SPENT and after the SURGE WORKED?
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Yup, then the lights went out:
"Electricity shortage protest turns deadly
BAGHDAD — A protest over electricity shortages in southern Iraq turned deadly when police opened fire to disperse the crowd yesterday, killing one protester in a melee that warned of growing anger over the government’s failure to provide basic services. More than 3,000 protesters marched through Basra, where power cuts persist despite billions of dollars in reconstruction money.
So WHO STOLE the $$$?
The demonstration turned violent when protesters started throwing stones and advanced on the Basra provincial council building, setting fire to a guard’s cabin. Government security forces fired into the air to disperse the crowd.
And somehow the bullet came back down and killed someone.
Yeah, it was all the protesters fault, MSM.
Pffffffttt!!
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Odd.
My printed paper carried this brief instead:
"Warplanes target Kurdish rebels
ANKARA -- Turkish warplanes launched air raids at suspected Kurdish rebel positions in northern Iraq yesterday after a rebel attack on a military outpost in Turkey touched off clashes in which nine soldiers and 12 rebel fighters died, Turkey's military and reports said.
Rebel fighters? Not insurgents or militants?
Israel must be mad at Turkey if they are being treated this way in the AmeriKan mouthpiece of a paper.
Two other soldiers were killed in a land mine explosion while chasing the rebels, the state-run Anatolia news agency reported, raising the overall death toll in yesterday's violence to 23 (AP)."
BAGHDAD — A spate of attacks targeting Iraqi security forces and their allies killed at least 10 people yesterday, half in suicide bombings in the northern city of Mosul, officials said.
The ability of insurgents to strike against Iraqi police and soldiers has raised worries about the competence of authorities as Iraq takes over its own security ahead of the planned US withdrawal of combat troops by the end of August.
We will still have 50,000 on the ground, but who is quibbling?
Some people fear that militants will take advantage of public anger over the political deadlock following inconclusive March 7 parliamentary elections to stage more attacks and foment more instability.
Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki will meet his main rival, Ayad Allawi, for a second time in coming days to discuss the political situation.
Maysoun al-Damlouji, a spokeswoman for Allawi’s bloc, declined to confirm the report but said both men had talked by phone on Wednesday.
The two men, who disagree over who should form the new government, last met on June 12.
Allawi’s Sunni-backed Iraqiya list won two more seats than the prime minister’s State of Law bloc, but Maliki has formed an alliance with another mainly Shi’ite group.
Their alliance is only four seats shy of a simple majority in the 325-seat legislature.
Meanwhile, Iraq’s representative to the Arab League said his country has begun preparations to host next year’s summit of the 22-member organization.
It would be the first high-profile international event to be held in Iraq since the 2003 US invasion.
Qais al-Azzawi said $100 million has been allocated to restore palaces that can be used for the event.
Think of that the NEXT TIME the LIGHTS GO OUT after your "liberation," Iraqis!
Some Arab officials have expressed concern about holding the meeting in Baghdad, citing security conditions and the continuing presence of US troops.
Wouldn't that make it safer?
Hesham Youssef, the Arab League spokesman, confirmed that the summit would be held in Iraq.
Hosting the summit would show that Iraq can “stand on its feet,’’ Azzawi said.
Translation: It is a good piece of propaganda the papers can toss at the public.
Overall violence has dropped sharply in Iraq, but government security forces are frequently targeted as the American military prepares to end its combat mission in Iraq this summer, with the deadline for a full withdrawal by the end of next year.
Yeah, whatever.
I'm so tired of reading the same re-fried, regurgitated garbage day after day.
The worst of yesterday’s violence came at a police checkpoint in the western al-Shefah neighborhood in Mosul, a city long considered Al Qaeda’s last stronghold in Iraq.
Where Mossad has set up shop. How strange.
Police said a suicide bomber with explosives strapped around his body blew himself up near a checkpoint, killing four policemen and wounding four others. The casualties were confirmed by Saad Abdul-Moneim, a Mosul morgue official.
A half-hour earlier, two men detonated their explosives belts outside the main gate of an Iraqi army camp in eastern Mosul’s Kokjali neighborhood.
The police official and Abdul-Moneim said one soldier was killed and five more wounded in the blast.
A third suicide attack west of the city was thwarted when police said they killed a man speeding in an explosives-packed vehicle toward a cattle market in the nearby town of Tal Afar.--more--"
Insurgents and Al-CIA-Duh must have gotten tired because I have seen nothing in the paper or on the website since.
