BAGHDAD, Feb. 25, 2007
More Than 40 Killed Near Baghdad College
Suicide Bombing Part Of New Wave Of Violence In Iraqi Capital
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The wave of attacks came a day after Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki lauded the progress of an ongoing U.S.-Iraqi security operation seeking to cripple militant factions and sectarian killings in the capital.
The suicide attacker detonated a bomb-rigged belt near the main entrance to the college, where students were resuming mid-term exams after the two-day weekend in Iraq. Police said that guards confronted the bomber as he tried to enter the college grounds.
Authorities say most of the victims were students at the college.
A 22-year-old student, Muhanad Nasir, said he saw a commotion at the gate. "Then there was an explosion. I did not feel anything for 15 minutes and when I returned to consciousness, I found myself in the hospital," said Nasir, who suffered wounds to his head and chest.
The school is located in a mostly Shiite district, but does not limit its enrollment to that group. It's part of Mustansiriyah University, which is located in another area of the city, and was the target of twin car bombs and a suicide blast last month that killed 70 people.
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U.S. military envoys and pro-government leaders have worked hard to sway clan chiefs and other influential Anbar figures to turn against the militants, who include foreign jihadists fighting under the banner of al Qaeda in Iraq. The extremists have fought back with targeted killings and bombings against fellow Sunnis.
The imam of the mosque attacked Saturday had spoken out against extremists — most recently in this Friday's sermon, residents said. Many people in the neighborhood work for the Iraqi military and police forces, who frequently come under militant attack.
"There is no safe shelter for all outlaws," said al-Maliki, who reported that 426 militants have been captured since the Baghdad security campaign began Feb. 14.
But the crackdown also has sent Sunni insurgents fleeing the city to the nearby province of Diyala, which has emerged as a new and busy front for U.S. troops.
It has become so volatile that the Pentagon may delay plans to turn over control of Diyala to the Iraqi military by the end of the year, Maj. Gen. Benjamin Mixon told The Associated Press.
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See all 136 CommentsBut I would never kill you, no matter how much I dissagree with you. And I would ESPECIALLY never strap a bomb on myself and walk in to your house and blow myself up to kill you. And I would never load my car with bombs to kill you.
It's really insane.
How utterly absurd.
Posted by HawkSprings at 01:40 PM : Feb 24, 2007
In that phrase alone you have captured the fool-hardiness of our adventure in Iraq. It is based purely on presumption - not knowledge. We presumed (correctly) that Iraqi's want to be free of tyranny. We also presumed (correctly) that they would have an appetite for democracy. However, we lacked real knowledge of the underlying tensions in Iraqi society, nor the cultural underpinnings and belief system. Everyday we are reminded of our lack of knowledge and as a consequence, rather than being able to develop a long term strategy, we are simply responding to events.
You are correct in all your points but I feel you neglect to mention the principal problem, which is, that they US is trying to use a completely useless military strategy in Iraq.
A standing army will never defeat a competent guerilla force that has the support of the local populace.
And it won't make any difference how many years we continue to employ it, the results will always be the same.
Posted by ainttaken at 04:47 PM : Feb 24, 2007
The Iranians don't think so. They're tickled pink the neocons, in their stupidity, gave Iran SE Iraq to infiltrate by taking out the gatekeeper Hussein.
Please CBS,bring the real news(I know you can't because of Censor on war news).
The right heading would be;
"American deaths mount,many Americans Unaware".
According to Pentagon,there are One thousand attacks per week against US troops in Iraq.After looking at the sophistication of those attacks by an UNSEEN ENEMY who doesn't wear Military uniform,doesn't follow Geneva convention,and is ready to blow himself or herself up in order to kill his or her enemy,only a person living in fantasy world can believe that only one soldier dies in one of these attacks.Check out
www.memri.org
Click on
Islamist website monitor project
Click on Islmist website monitor #17
Click on the video link under the heading of
Islmist video shows Bombings in Iraq.
One thousand attacks per week means more then One hundred and fourty attack per day.
Even if we assume that only one soldier dies in those attacks,the number of US death tolls become One Thousand per week and Four thousands per months.
If anybody thinks that govt and news media are not hiding the truth,check out that how many of those One Hundred and fourty attacks today have been reported in the news today.
Posted by patriotic9 at 04:56 PM : Feb 24, 2007
The neocons complain that the few that are reported get air time. They want NONE reported. (That would make the Kool-Aid easier to sell....)
You know what I am talking about since you've served in the Military yourself.
Bush's war strategy has only benifited our enemies and only hurt us and our allies.
Does anybody know what happened to OSAMA BEEN-FORGOTTEN.Didn't we start this war to capture him DEAD OR ALIVE.How come we got stucked in Iraq which had nothing to do with 9/11 and the ruler there was fighting our war against Islamic Radicals of his country and Iran.
Does anybody believe that we can capture OSAMA BEEN-FORGOTTEN from IRAQ?
Let's celebrate the good life here and let our good ole neocons take care of matters in Iraq!
Posted by patriotic9 at 05:16 PM : Feb 24, 2007
This is what's commonly known as "bait and switch". Notice that Bush hasn't even uttered bin Laden's name for months now?
You are absolutely right.They love to be in the "STATE OF DENIAL".
We need to wake up before the next terrorist attack(which is not a matter of IF but a matter of WHEN).
I've discussed before and I am gonna repeat myself.We need to understand the culture of the people we are fighting against in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Religion Islam came just thirteen or fourteen hundreds years ago but the Tribal Mindset is there for hundred of thousands of years.If one person of their tribe gets killed by some body,their hundreds of generations grow up to take revange of their Tribal memebr killed thousands of years ago.Islam has changed their affiliation from Tribal to Religious but their way of conducting war business is same.If we have not been attacked yet,it's not Bush's success.They are very patient people when it comes to animosity.The way this war is going,it seems like they are waiting for us to be Militarily and Finanacially bankrupt before they attack us again.
Our National Debt has reached close to $9 trillions,our National Guard is serving as an International Guard and Katrina has shown that how good we are in dealing with domestic disaster.
Posted by bildooreilly at 06:08 PM : Feb 24, 2007
Exactly why I go to international sites that are beyond deomstic manipulation.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article1434540.ece
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article1434540.ece
Overtly aligning with al Qaeda was impossible for the Perverts for a New American Century (PNAC) and bush-cheney, but they've advanced al Qaeda's goals while claiming they opposed them. If traitors secretly loyal to bin Laden, had infiltrated the American political process, they could NOT have helped him and al Qaeda more than bush-cheney have. Their delusions probably led to the irrational policies that benefited al Qaeda, but strictly in terms of results, they might as well have been shills for bin Laden.
But it has been said, on the averge, 100 Iraqi's
are killed every day. Multiply that times 365 and you get 36,500 people killed a year X 4 years and you get 146,000 people. I happen to think its a lot more than this. I think it is 3 or 4 times more than what is reported. I believe, the number is more like 1/2 million + Iraqi's. Think about how many Rose Bowl Stadiums of people this is! It's a number so big it is impossible to imagine unless you see a 1/2 million person protest on TV...even then, it is inconceivable...
Your an Idiot. Your liberal god Roosevelt deliberately killed two million Japanese and german Civilians to break their will. I dont see any payback from them? On a single conventional raid, we deliberately killed 100,000 Japanese civilians. Where is your public outrage about that?
How many more million innocent people need to get killed for the 2nd coming of Christ?Why Iraq invasion has not resulted in the 2nd coming of Christ but ended up making Islamic Radicalism so powerful,succesful and strong like it was never before?What do PET ROBERTSON and JOHN HAGEE say about the current Iraqi situation?
The most unfortunate and frustrating thing is that I can't do anything to stop Bush from gving my TAX PAYED MONEY to an ISLAMIC RADICAL "MALIKI",on the name of REBUILDING IRAQ for the killing of our finest men and women in uniform.
How could we the WORLD's GREATEST SUPER POWER loose war against an enemy who doesn't have ARMY,NAVY,AIR FORCE and MARINE?
BUSH has done what nobody else could ever do.
You are an idiot.How can you compare Germans and Japanese with Islamic Radicals.Don't you know their cultural differences?
We are not fighting against a country or a Geo-political region but fighting against the most dangerous,richest(oil money)and determined enemy with a Tribal mindset unlike Japanese and Germans.
Those enemies of United States have screwed up the entire nation who had decided to take OIL in cheaper prices from ARABs and in return support their those enemies who were brought into Palestine after WWII to occupy the land of those PALESTINIANS by force who had nothing to do with the actions of HITLER.
Nobody has hurt United States more then those enemies of UNITED STATES who want to support the illegitimate and unjustified existance of Israel on the world map on the cost of American money,American lives and USA herself since Americans are GOD-NEGLECTED and NON-AMERICAN EUROPEAN INVADERS IN PALESTINE are GOD-CHOSEN,because AMERICA which is the best place in the world is an UNHOLY LAND whereas the occupied places in Palestine like TEL AVIV is a HOLY LAND,our constitution which separates CHURCH from STATE is UNHOLY whereas that BIBLE which discriminates against Americans by not promising them a single penny while promising NON-AMERICANS a land in the MIDDLE EAST is HOLY.
However, most civilian deaths during this war have been caused by terrorists, not coalition soldiers.
The Iraqi people have shown their enthusiasm for the democratic process during elections. Many risking death to cast their vote.
We must not allow Islamic extremists the opportunity to destroy what so many brave soldiers have fought for.
Hillaryin08
Surely it is you that is the idiot.
Both Germany and Japan invaded other countries, and also attacked as in Japans case American territory, They killed countless millions of innocent citizens in the countries they attacked.
In the case of Iraq, they have been invaded by America, and its ridicuously named coalition of the willing, Iraq attacked no outside country in this war.
Yes they did attack Kuwait at another time, nor can you or anybody claim that Iraq fostered terrorism against America or any othe nation, this claim has been shown to be nothing but lies given by Bush and his money grubbing cronies.
Precise and succinct.."How many more Mohammed Atta's will WE spawn?"
If I am an Iraqi child watching my family (collateral damage) get blown to bits by the "liberating" Americans who will I gravitate to?
The unintended consequenes from this disaster will be huge. WE ARE BREEDING HAMAS & AL QUIEDA!
Polls show Americans drastically underestimate the deaths of Iraqi civillians.
Gee, just like how half the Americans Believed the BIG LIE, that Saddam was involved in 9-11. This is the LIE that Cheney and Condi were relentlessly telling, and Cheney still clings to Sdadam had "some relationship with Al Quaeda". (Yeah, a relationship of mutual hate and distrust!)
Just like how Americans never heard the anti-war voices pre-Inavasion that knew Bush was LYING.
This latest poll simply is another example of CBS and corporate media BIAS in not reporting the whole story, sucking up to the political powerful and their corporate owners pro-war agenda.
http://www.onenewsnow.com/2007/02/more_americans_killed_by_illeg.php
Posted by jdweymouth at 04:15 AM : Feb 25, 2007
More Americans are killed driving drunk too, but they dont go out to close down Budweiser, Coors or Jack.
Matter of fact, ever since 9-11, 6 years, more people have died every year from smoking cigarettes that have died from the start to the end of these middle eastern wars, and thier aftermath.
Yet, alchohol and cigarettes are sold in every store out there, every gas station, even Walgreens and CVS push the additive killers, and they are both pharmacies.
"We urge the Muslims living in United States to leave US because according to our information, next attack against United States has already been planned in which according to our estimate 3.5 to 4 million Americans will be killed".
pwrslm and jdweymouth
Ignorant people like you are the ones who'd let United States burnt into flames one day.
First of all your comparision of American casualties in Iraq to the number of people dying in United States due to Alcohal is not right.
According to Pentagon,there are Four thousand attacks against our troops per week in Iraq which means atleast more then One hundred and fourty attacks per day.After looking at the sophistication of those attacks by an UNSEEN ENEMY,it's impossible that only one soldier dies in one of those attacks.Even if we assume that we are loosing only one soldier per attack,the total number of soldiers dying in Iraq per week is one thousand and per month is four thousands.
If anybody thinks that our govt and media are not hiding the truth,then check out that how many of those more then One hundred and fourty attacks today were reported in the news today.
Check out
www.memri.org
Click on
Islamist website monitor project
Click on
Islamist website Monitor #17
Click on the Video link under the Heading
Islamist Video shows Bombings in Iraq
After looking at the above mentioned link,anybody who had ever served in the military can appreciate that how difficult it is to fight agianst an UNSEEN ENEMY who doesn't wear Military Uniform,doesn't follow Geneva Convention and is ready to blow Him or her self upfor killing his enemies,who has made plans to trap Americans in Iraq and to fight against them decades ago,unlike Bush administration who have no plan except trust in GOD.
Answering to those people who are comparing the deaths of US soldiers in Iraq to drunk driving related deaths in United States,I would say;
Those people we are loosing in Iraq are not normal Americans.they are our finest men and women in uniform.Their BASIC COMBAT TRAINING,ADVANCE INDIVIDUAL TRAINING,OFFICER CANDIDATE SCHOOL TRAINING,etc make them different from rest of the Americans as they are our defenders and protectors.Atleast four thousands of them are dying in Iraq every month in an ill planned war,our National Guard troops are serving as International Guard,Katrina has exposed that how good we are in dealing with domestic disasters.OSAMA BEEN-FORGOTTEN is still at large,North Korea has built Nukes for Business reason.Does anybody realize,what direction our country is heading by Bush and Co.
make it
According to Pentagon there are ONE THOUSAND ATTACKS against our troops per week in Iraq
not Four thousand attacks per week.It's four thousands attacks per month.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=LQ5NYX0DE1FWJQFIQMFSFFOAVCBQ0IV0?xml=/news/2007/02/25/wiran25.xml
The generals are threating to resign and the CIA is sponsoring terrorist in Iran?????
Israel seeks all clear for Iran air strike
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/02/24/wiran124.xml
Lots of "news" that is not being reported here. Or is it misinformation?Why is all of this being reported in the British Press but not the US's. Misinformation to befuddle Iran on who is going to attack them or pressure?
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