40 Shiites Kidnapped In Iraq
Wedding Party Death Toll Up To 23, New Attacks Kill At Least 8
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Play CBS Video Video Tension Between Iraq and U.S. The growing tension between the Iraqi and U.S. governments seems to be coming from a radical cleric's demands. Lara Logan reports.
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Video U.S. Troops May Stay Longer Donald Rumsfeld said he is comfortable with U.S. forces having to stay longer in Iraq to make sure Iraqis can handle their own security. David Martin reports.
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Video Deaths Continue In Iraq It was another deadly day for Iraqis - more than 80 were killed across the country. U.S. soldiers inevitably get caught in the war between the two ethnic groups. Lara Logan reports.
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A woman looks at the carnage at the spot where a suicide car bomber slammed into a wedding party in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday Nov. 1, 2006. A suicide car bomber struck a wedding party in Baghdad on Tuesday afternoon, killing 23 people, including nine children, and wounding 19 others, police reported. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
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Relative carries a dead child's body, in al-Sadr hospital in Shiite enclave of Sadr City, Iraq, Wednesday Nov. 1, 2006. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
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A man walks by the spot where suicide car bomber slammed into wedding party in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday Nov. 1, 2006. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
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Iraqi boy cries as he passes by the spot where a suicide car bomber slammed into wedding party in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday Nov. 1, 2006. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
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Interactive Battle For Iraq The government, the insurgency, key players, background and photos.
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At least eight other people were found dead or killed in new attacks Wednesday, including one person killed in a car bomb attack on Baghdad's central market of Shurja that also wounded five, police Lt. Ali Hassan said. He said the death toll in the market attack was likely to rise.
The abductions Tuesday near the town of Tarmiyah marked a further outbreak of sectarian violence in a region where scores were killed last month in bloody attacks and reprisal killings among formerly friendly Shiite and Sunni neighbors in the city of Balad.
Unarmed men checked identification cards and seemed to be looking for familiar faces among travelers stopped in heavy traffic, said an eyewitness, who asked to be identified only by the pseudonym Abu Omar for fear of reprisals.
Armed gunmen stood nearby during the abductions, just out of sight of U.S. soldiers who were disarming a roadside bomb further down the road, Abu Omar said. He and other Sunni travelers were allowed to travel onward after showing their ID cards, he said.
At least 40 travelers were missing and feared abducted, said an officer at the Joint Cooperation Center in the city of Tikrit, 80 miles north of Baghdad, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
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Whet typi of greeds did U git IN kolege, STUPID ?? - Reply to this comment
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- The "Great Ignoramous" still doesn't get it! I didn't think he is smart enough to ever get it! He still thinks all he has to do is stay there and the insurgent's will give in to his demands (note the first one in other developments)! He was inverviewed on Rush Limbaugh and it's the same old BS he always spouts! He lives off somewhere in "LA-LA-Land"! Whatever made the American people think this man was intelligent to lead a nation armed with nuclear weapons. Only leaves me to wonder about half of this counties mentality and where their loyalities truly rest! It certainly isn't with the military and the American people! We all know that military personal get killed in a time of war! But, to ask a military man to put his life on the line for lies a President has willfully told because he has some *** and bull idea stuck in his head! Is not only criminal it is treasonous! He should be called to account for the mess he has made in Iraq!
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- STAY THE COURSE THE DECIDER HAS A BENCHMARK. WHERE SHOOTER CHAIN GUN CHENEY TELLS HIM TO SIT.
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- Whet typi of greeds did U git IN kolege, STUPID ??
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- ha ha you are so funny
Pls say some thing stupid again - Reply to this comment
- "Bush is stumbling badly in Iraq, and he is projecting helplessness"
I feel this way too.
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Mr. Bush staunchly defended his Iraq policy, saying that he had adjusted tactics to reflect changing conditions on the ground.
"HE" didn't adjust anything, I'm sure of it.
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It is "tough on the American psyche," he said, repeating a phrase he had used before.
It's more than tough, it's killing us.
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"loud voices" in the Democratic Party are calling for him to withdraw troops.
There are loud voices all over America, Republicans and Democrat alike, and not many are saying, "Withdraw troops" or "cut and run". We do get to hear from Republicans all the time that Democrats would "cut and run". It's just not true and they sound like a broken record.
I think the problems we face in Iraq are far more complex for a dumb president and ignorant Republican leadership to understand.
My family is in the Marines. He is in danger. Bush and the neo-cons put him there. I don't trust Republicans to do anything else with him.
If it was legal, I'd slap these fools, but I'll vote instead and put some smarter people leadership positions. - Reply to this comment
- Bush and Maliki need to go to the shower with Mark Foley and his "Soap on a Rope". GET OUT just leave America Alone.
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- The NY Times report by al-Saiedi and al-Neami this morning notes that the US military wanted 72 hours to decommission the checkpoints but the troops were out by 5PM. Maliki essentially took control of US forces, a move unsupported by UN resolutions but greeted with approval from the US embassy (perhaps just spin).
In any event, in this little arm-wrestling match, Maliki sent Bush to the showers.
This latest Keystone Cops screw-up looks like a Chinese fire drill. Bush is stumbling badly in Iraq, and he is projecting helplessness.
With Maliki (and al-Sadr) now in virtual command of our troops, the future looks even bleaker for our soldiers. - Reply to this comment
- President Schizophrenia gets done with kissing al-Sadra's behind yesterday morning only to arrest five al-Sadr operatives in Ahrar last evening, an inexplicable provocation that our troops will pay the price for.
Meanwhile our troops stand in the middle, under attack by Sunni insurgents one day and the Mahdi Army the next. - Reply to this comment
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