106 Shiite Pilgrims Killed In Iraq Attacks
U.S. Military Also Says 9 GIs Were Killed By Roadside Bombs
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Over 100 Killed In Iraq Blasts
Over 100 Shiite pilgrims were killed while on a religious trek south of Baghdad, one day after the deadliest day for U.S. troops in over a month. Aleen Sirgany reports.
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New Phase In Iraq Crackdown
In Iraq, the security crackdown has entered a new phase: U.S. and Iraqi forces are moving into another part of Baghdad, a Shiite stronghold, where few American troops are seen. Allen Pizzey reports.
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Lull Shattered In Iraq
A suicide bomber struck a crowded business area in Baghdad, killing at least 24, while U.S. forces were engaged in a major security operation elsewhere in the city. Tracy Strahan reports.
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Soldiers from the 2nd Brigade of the 82nd Airborne Division and Iraqi National policemen patrol the Shiite enclave of Sadr City in Baghdad on March 6, 2007. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
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A relative of a victim grieves a day after bomb blast at book market, central Baghdad, March 6, 2007. (AP Photo)
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A U.S. soldier of the 69th squadron, 3rd brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, stands guard by a bullet-riddled wall of an abandoned Shiite family's home just outside Muqdadiyah, Iraq, March 5, 2007. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)
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People gather near the scene of a suicide car bomb attack in Baghdad on March 5, 2007. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
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An Iraqi Army commando guards Muslim Shiite pilgrims marching towards the shrine city of Karbala, about 65 miles south of Baghdad, on March 6, 2007. (Getty Images/Mohammad Sawaf)
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The pilgrimage is one of the most important events on the Shiite calendar, reports CBS News correspondent Allen Pizzey. But conspicuous by its absence was security.
After a temporary fall in body counts and bombings brought a statement from the government that the new security operation was "a shining success," the past two days are a horrific reminder that full-scale sectarian war is as close as security is a distant hope.
U.S. forces, too, continue to tally losses at the hands of extremists despite signs of more successful raids against bases and weapon stockpiles.
The military said nine soldiers were killed Monday in two separate roadside bombings north of Baghdad, making it the deadliest day for U.S. troops in Iraq in nearly a month.
In Baghdad, U.S. forces continued their push into Sadr City, home to 2.5 million of the city's poorest residents as well as fighters loyal to anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. Some 600 American soldiers searched the neighborhood's northwest quadrant, knocking on doors and searching homes, according to an Associated Press reporter traveling with them.
As the mission, called Operation Imposing Law, has progressed, Iraqi troops have outnumbered Americans 2-to-1, the exact opposite of previous missions, adds Pizzey from Baghdad.
The U.S. forces are seeking a "reconciliatory approach" to avoid sparking a backlash on the streets, said Col. Richard Kim. One small gesture seemed to offer appreciation: a child offering soldiers ice cream bars.
"A brutal massacre against people who are only practicing their faith" was how Shiite lawmaker Sami al-Askari described the Hillah attacks, which injured at least 157 people.
Dr. Mohammed al-Temimi, at Hillah's main hospital, said some of injuries were critical and the death toll could rise.
The Hillah strike came after gunmen and bombers hit group after group of Shiite pilgrims elsewhere — some in buses and other making the traditional trek on foot to the shrine city of Karbala, about 50 miles south of Baghdad. At least 24 were killed in those attacks, including four relatives of a prominent Shiite lawmaker, Mohammed Mahdi al-Bayati.
This weekend, huge crowds of Shiite worshippers will gather for rites marking the end of a 40-day mourning period for the death of Imam Hussein, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, who died near Karbala in a famed seventh-century battle.
In Hillah, southeast of Karbala, a long line of pilgrims marched toward a bridge checkpoint on the edge of the city. Food and cool drinks were distributed at nearby tents.
The first suicide bomber killed dozens and touched off a mad dash of people away from the bridge, said witness Salim Mohammed Ali Abbas. As the fleeing crowd grew thicker, another suicide bomber among them blew himself apart.
A police commander, Brig. Gen. Othman al-Ghanemi, said the attackers joined the procession outside Hillah and waiting until it reached the checkpoint bottleneck to try to maximize the damage.
"In an instant, bodies were set ablaze, people were running and the ground was mixed with teapots, kettles and other supplies for pilgrims," said Mahdi Kadim, one of the survivors.
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See all 404 CommentsThe Bush administration is funding Iran Contra style, al Qaeda in Lebanon! Everyone knows that the Saudi Royal Family is funding al Qaeda, and is a family friend of Bushs and that puts him at odds with American national interest! Israeli Neocons are pushing the Bush administration to attack Iran. The Blind support of Israel is ruining Americas credibility as a negotiator in the Middle East. Afghanistan is falling apart because this administration has pulled assets from that theater of war. The longer we interject American military and money in the Middle East the longer the problems will exists. If America pulls out of the Middle East then the countries will have to work out their differences between themselves and true peace will be achieved. Israeli lobbying groups are selling access to American elected officials as you can see in their lobbying group advertisement below. Israeli Neocons are causing our Elected officials to fight their wars in Proxy! Follow the money do not take my word for it see how many Congressmen are influenced by AIPAC money and how they are voting on Iraq!
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The newly started "surge" is showing great success with car bombings up, more death and destruction -
The Bush War, or How to Ruin the USA in 6 Years !
Since Bush is such an avid reader, maybe we can send him one these blood splattered books to read. If he can't see the results of The Bush War, perhaps he can read about it.
The newly started "surge" is showing great success with car bombings up, more death and destruction -
The Bush War, or How to Ruin the USA in 6 Years !
Posted by karlimhof at 09:38 AM : Mar 05, 2007
More LIB propaganda. Actually, figures show that violence is down daramaticly since the troop buil-up has started. Even in it's earliest stages, the number of bombings and deaths have dropped.
Posted by karlimhof
THAT'S NOT A BAD IDEA, HE MIGHT EVEN OPEN IT IF WE SEND HIM A 'COLORING BOOK", PROBABLY SOME OF THEM IN THE CLUTER.
I can't tell if this is your ignorance or hatred of this President that is speaking. Truth? You don't want truth. Just Bush bashing.
Posted by mbcsmith
Oh I don't know Grumpy's not the only one who hates this president. I'm not sure exactly what I'll do with my time in 2 years.. but I'm looking forward to 2 yrs in the future! BTW I hate Bush!!
Posted by bm6005
I HATE BUSH!!
(Anyone else?)
(Anyone else?)
Posted by dallison7 at 02:46 PM : Mar 05, 2007
The LIB platform for '08!
B: Bashing our troops
If anything else is reported (which is rare on here!) they libs right it off as Bush propoganda or lies.
The truth is only what suits them and supports their Bush bashing.
Posted by singinrick at 11:07 AM : Mar 05, 2007
This is a lie and you know it. Liberals do not bash the troops. We strongly support our soldiers, but we oppose the insane mission they've been ordered to go on. There is a huge difference.
Posted by mbcsmith
Not really because luckily for us that MORON can no longer run for M-I-C!
Posted by mbcsmith at 09:44 AM : Mar 05, 2007
No, they've just moved to the outlying areas and into the smaller Iraqi towns. Violence is down in Baghdad, but up everywhere else. This war is like a nightmarish version of whack-a-mole. Hit them in one place and they just pop up somewhere else. An occupying army can not win a war of insurgency by the people of the country they're occupying, esp considering both sides fighting against each other are united only in their desire for us to leave. This war was (and still is) unwinnable unless we're willing to slaughter them all, civilians esp, into submission and we should never reach that point. Ever!
Posted by RandalDS at 03:07 PM : Mar 05, 2007
The LIB montra of we support the troops but not the mission is the most HYPOCRITICAL garbage in today's politics.
Posted by mbcsmith at 04:18 PM : Mar 05, 2007
Can't be. Bush has the market cornered on hypocritical bullsh*it. It's the only thing he's actually good at. Besides it's not up to you to say if I do or do not support the troops. I'm a vet (Vietnam) and I'll keep my own counsel on who I support, not you.
Posted by RandalDS at 04:29 PM : Mar 05, 2007
hypocrite!
Posted by mbcsmith at 04:31 PM : Mar 05, 2007
Ummm...OK. Good comeback. Really proved your point there. I change my mind. You've won me over. Your wisdom in that reply proves you're right. How can I oppose such a wordsmith as you? I give. Uncle even.
Scheeessh...where do the republicans get these guys?
Posted by obiquital at 04:36 PM : Mar 05, 2007
It won't make it better there. It's too late for that. However it will get our troops out of the middle of the civil war that is going on there right now. True if we leave now there'll be much more bloodshed, but that's that same as it will be if we leave a year from now or two or three. Bush tore the scar off from an old wound in that country and only they can fight it out to the end. He re-started something that we can not stop no matter what we do or how many of our troops die. The only thing we can do is what's best for us now and that's to get out of the way.
Your shortsightedness is surpassed only by your ignorance. If the U.S. pulled out of Iraq, Al-Quaida would have another safe haven from which to plan, train, and execute attacks against US. Lesson learned from Afghanistan.
Your shortsightedness is surpassed only by your ignorance. If the U.S. pulled out of Iraq, Al-Quaida would have another safe haven from which to plan, train, and execute attacks against US. Lesson learned from Afghanistan.
Posted by mbcsmith at 04:51 PM : Mar 05, 2007
Don't look now, but we're losing in Afghanistan too. Face it we're not fighting al Qaeda in Iraq and never were. They're a tiny tiny percentage of the people who're trying to kill us there. Most of them are Iraqi's who want to kill each other and us. If we leave they fight it out and neither side is likely to tolerate al Qaeda in their backyard anymore then Saddam did. Iraqi's aren't even a little interested in attacking Americans, except for the ones IN their country. Iraqi is not a terrorists nation (and no it wasn't under Saddam either, though Bush lies otherwise) and want only for us to get out and let them settle their own problems and go about dividing the country up the way they want. That IS going to happen no matter how many of our people die until Bush and his blind followers comes to that realization.
Violence Roars Back To Baghdad
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When did it ever leave, lol!!!
I see Bush's new "stay the course part 4" plan is going splendidly as expected.
Posted by gunnerv1
Or if your name is gunnerv1
SearingTruth
A Future of the Brave - www.searingtruth.com
jefferson is like the gop and wants to kick the fascist nazi islamic muslims arses....
What Thomas Jefferson learned from the Muslim book of jihad
Thomas Jefferson knew about fascist nazi islam..... he killed plenty of them....
In 1786 Jefferson and John Adams went to negotiate with Tripoli's envoy to London, Ambassador Sidi Haji Abdrahaman or (Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja). They asked him by what right he extorted money and took slaves. Jefferson reported to Secretary of State John Jay, and to the Congress:
The ambassador answered us that [the right] was founded on the Laws of the Prophet (Mohammed), that it was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have answered their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as prisoners, and that every Mussulman who should be slain in battle was sure to go to heaven.[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Barbary_War
http://www.usvetdsp.com/jan07/jeff_quran.htm
http://www.khouse.org/articles/2007/691/
http://www.earlyamerica.com/review/2002_winter_spring/terrorism.htm
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=+Thomas Jefferson barbary
http://http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q= Thomas Jefferson islam
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q= Thomas Jefferson muslim
Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering, the Nuremberg Diary
"I love my fuehrer. If he wants to break the law, that%u2019s OK. He is the law."
1942, Warsaw Ghetto, Unknown German Citizen, Observing a decomposing mass
A Future of the Brave - www.searingtruth.com
The "surge" is not working so well, it seemed like a idiot's idea, we were told it was in fact quite smart, then it turned out to be an idiot's idea.
Doesn't that sound an awful lot like our economic strategy, which is offshoring and deficit spending and loose credit? They seem like idiot ideas, but the Treasury secretary and all the other clowns tell us they are great ideas. If Iraq is any measure, we are in for some bad economic times paying back this enormous debt and trying to rebuild our industries and businesses. So don't laugh at the Iraqis, they have the same leaders we do.
SearingTruth
A Future of the Brave - www.searingtruth.com
singinrick
Radical Christianity strikes again. What's new.
ST
A Future of the Brave - www.searingtruth.com
You live in a nation that is predominantly Christian....."
singinrick
And the Iraqi's live in a nation that is predominately Muslim, and the Indian's in a nation that is predominately Hindu, etc., so what.
Are you readily acknowledging that you believe in theocracy? Are you simply saying that the most powerful religion of the moment should be able to legally force its views upon all?
Hmmm ...
You seem to desire a beloved Republican Christian theocracy for all.
Whether they like it or not.
Yikes!!!.
"I did not like them. I did not like what they said. I did not like the way they said it.
But I let them speak anyway, and offered protection against those who would have them silenced."
SearingTruth
A Future of the Brave - www.searingtruth.com
No one in his right mind would have come up woth such a cockameny plan as to INVADE another country in the 21st century and think they would succeed!
Only a bunch of neocons drunk with power and greed would have ever dreamed up such a scheme.
But they don't care. They're not paying the price.
It's the American taxpayers who's paying the price. We're flushing down 2 billion a week into the ******** they call Iraq!
And it's the families who lost loved ones who's paying the price.
And it's the disabled veterans who have to deal with this "mistake" their whole lives.
In the meantime, the Bush twins are living it up, while Dad and Mom enjoy the good life in Crawford and DC, and uncle ******** and his Halliburton buddies are laughing all the way to the bank.
SearingTruth
A Future of the Brave - www.searingtruth.com
singinrick
Mirror
My friends, sometimes the most difficult thing about fighting evil is realizing that it actually exists, and then unambiguously and forcefully calling it what it is.
History shows time and time again that one of evils greatest strengths is its ability to disguise itself as good, or at least a temporary necessity, until that last fatal moment when its revelation becomes clear, indisputable, and inescapable.
So today let us take a clear and unadulterated look into the mirror at ourselves.
Just six years ago we were one of the most respected and admired defenders of democracy and human rights in history. Respected not only by our friends, but even begrudgingly by most of our enemies. In fact, even the fantastic power of our military paled in comparison to the overwhelming might of our moral authority.
Today we are a nation that operates secret prisons occupied by anonymous inmates, illegally abducted and held indefinitely without charge or representation. We are guilty of torture. We are guilty of murder. We are guilty of preemptive war of conquest. We are guilty of the wholesale surveillance of our population, suppressing all hope of privacy and free dissent. And we are guilty of disgracing our nation through the abandonment of even our most basic precepts of morality.
If this is not evil, then nothing we have ever fought against is evil, and nothing we have ever fought for is good.
Posted by singinrick at 11:25 PM : Mar 05, 2007
It used to be, when we allowed a bunch of neocons to lead us into war.
Now we know better, all 67% of the US population that's against the war.
SearingTruth
A Future of the Brave - www.searingtruth.com
How many more YEARS can we kill Iraqis?
How many must die for Bu$h oil?
How many American troops will be sacrificed?
Posted by usadvisor101 at 11:49 PM : Mar 05, 2007
To say nothing of the massive kickbacks and payoffs that must be going to the highest parts of this administration, including Bush and Cheney. I say "must be" because if they're leading this country in such a godawful stupid fu*cking (and murderous) manner and not doing it for money, then they must just hate us for our freedoms or are really fu*cking ignorant!
Posted by usadvisor101 at 12:26 AM : Mar 06, 2007
CIA or NSA or whoever's chains Cheney is pulling lately. lol! Either that or it's singinSlick and his god machine.
SearingTruth
"Tyranny is always preceded by the loss of just a 'little' liberty".
SearingTruth
"It is an old tale. Catastrophe assaults the senses of a free nation. Fear, a tyrant%u2019s only ally, is seized. Democracy, a despot%u2019s greatest foe, is assaulted. The people, liberties only defense, are subdued. All in accomplice of those sworn, upon death, to protect them."
SearingTruth
A Future of the Brave - www.searingtruth.com
George Orwell
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing."
Edmund Burke
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get rid of those idiot southern slave states...
let the mexicans have them... free of charge!
land of bush, *** conservatives, phony christians, crooked republicans, falwell, robertson, reed, swaggart, foley, ignorance, poverty, hate, war makers, intolerance, fat *****, diseased, smelly slave state white trash, redneck, pieces of dixie *****.
bush's kind of people...
ha,ha,ha.
nothing good comes out of the south!
usadvisor101
Indeed.
ST
"The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it; moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard. There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live - did live, from habit that became instinct - in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and except in darkness, every movement scrutinised."
George Orwell
A Future of the Brave - www.searingtruth.com
"We Christians won't blow you up in a suicide bombing if you don't convert. We'll simply pray for you.
Man this country is blind!"
Singinrick do a little research.
First I'll let the whole Crusades slide.
Second Christians have attacked their "enemies" since day one. Example Cristian Fundamentalists started bombing abortion clinics in the 1970s. In 1998 Christians bombed an abortion clinic and threatened to bomb a gay bar.
Third Five people have been shot to death at abortion clinics, four in 1994 and one in 1993. Christians threatened to kill anybody connected with the selling of the RU-486 pill.
In the future it won't take more than a minute to do some research.
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