106 Shiite Pilgrims Killed In Iraq Attacks
U.S. Military Also Says 9 GIs Were Killed By Roadside Bombs
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Play CBS Video Video 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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Video 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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Video 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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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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Hours after the attack, boys used long-handled squeegees to push pools of blood off the road. The shoes and sandals of the victims were gathered in haphazard piles.
"The government bears some responsibility for this," complained a Shiite parliament member, Bahaa al-Araji. "It has not provided enough security to protect the pilgrims."
In the past two years, the powerful Mahdi army militia watched over pilgrimages to Karbala. But the group agreed to put down its arms under intense pressure from the government, which wanted to avoid any confrontations with U.S.-led forces during a massive Baghdad security crackdown launched last month.
"This year, things are sadly different," said al-Araji.
But Hillah has seen worse. In February 2005, a suicide car bomber hit mostly Shiite police recruits, killing 125 people.
U.S. forces suffered their deadliest day since Feb. 7, when 11 troops were killed, seven when their helicopter was shot down north of Fallujah and four others in combat operations.
The military said six soldiers of the 82nd Airborne Division were killed in a bombing in Salahuddin Province. It was the single largest loss of life in the past three years of combat for the Fort Bragg, North Carolina-based unit, said division spokesman Maj. Tom Earnhardt.
Another three soldiers died the same day in a roadside bomb attack in Diyala province northeast of Baghdad.
Both provinces are Sunni-dominated and have seen a rise in violence since additional U.S. forces moved into Baghdad as part of security sweeps. The Pentagon has pledged 17,500 additional troops for the Iraqi capital.
In a speech to the American Legion in Washington, President Bush said it was "too early to judge the success" of the Baghdad crackdown.
"But even at this early hour there are some encouraging signs," Mr. Bush said. Still, he added: "There are no shortcuts in Iraq."
In the northern city of Mosul, an estimated 140 inmates broke out of an Iraqi-guarded prison, said Brig. Gen. Mohammad al-Wakaa. He gave no other details, but appealed for U.S. helicopters to join the hunt for the fugitives.
Saddam Hussein's nephew, Ayman Sabaawi, escaped from the same prison in December. He was serving a life sentence for financing insurgents and possessing bombs, and remains at large.
In Baghdad, parliament failed to reconvene as scheduled after only about two dozen of the 275 lawmakers showed up. Political leaders claim that talks between various parties kept the deputies away.
But it was seen as another sign of political stagnation when key issues are facing the parliament, including a proposed law to divide Iraq's oil revenue between its three main groups: Sunnis, Shiites and the northern Kurds.
The nine U.S. deaths brought to 20 the number of Americans killed in Iraq this month. At least 3,184 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes seven military civilians. At least 2,561 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers.
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See all 404 CommentsPosted by cbville72 at 11:40 PM : Mar 06, 2007
Here's a "reality check" the NIE, OCT. 2006:
"the conclusion is that Iraq has made us less safe because it has become a "cause celebre" and a rallying cry for jihad."
Posted by cbville72 at 11:40 PM : Mar 06, 2007
The electoral college is a relic of the past. The movement to dump it is loud and growing. It'll last one, maybe two more presidential elections and then it's gone. It gives far too high of proportional weight to the opinions of the smaller population states and not enough to the higher population states. The concept was fine, but the relationship between population of a state and it's electoral votes has become wildely out of whack. It's time to fix or dump it and I think dump it will be the choice.
Posted by RandalDS at 12:34 AM : Mar 07, 2007
then you are also for getting rid of the senate?
if they change the electoral college at all it should be to have each state with only two votes...... just like the senate.....
Posted by cbville72
If I were you I'd hold that apology for your own ignorance which seems to be quite massive. Speaking of pu$$y's you seem like a good candidate for that title yourself!! Why don't you crawl back under whatever rock you came from NEOCON a$$hole!!
%u201CI can say that President Bush is lying when he says he does not want Iraq to be partitioned. All the facts occurring now on the ground make you swear he is dragging Iraq to partition. And a day will come when he will say, %u2018I cannot do anything, since the Iraqis want the partition of their country and I honor the wishes of the people of Iraq.%u2019 %u201D
seymour hersh - great reporter!
So, is the end game of the Bush Neocon War - a new map of the Middle East ??
- Patrick Fitzgerald
SearingTruth
A Future of the Brave - www.searingtruth.com
The "liberal media" have been very kind to Bush, otherwise he never would have been re-elected. Besides, Bush never accomplished anything on his own, and he never would have become president without his smearing and slandering neocon ***. He even smeared and slandered his fellow repugnicans.
Face it, cbville, you're in a dwindling minority, still backing a "LOSER." Without slimey Rove, crooked Cheney, and the slandering neocons, Bush would be a "LOSER." Bush has always been a "LOSER" and he will go down in history as a "LOSER." The WORST president ever.
That's correct! According to CNN's polls, Bush got 9% of the African American vote in 2000, and a WHOPPING 11% in 2004.
cbville72, you'd be better off spending your idle time picking fly ***** out of the pepper! "ROFLMMFAO!!"
lol! It was. It's like what Tony Snow does, repeat the same lie so many times that they think it becomes true and for the morons it does. Got to go though, the repeat of this weeks episode of Rome is coming on and I missed it Sunday. Great show!
Thanks for the clarification. Smelled like he pulled that one from the same place his head was stuck.
What is your source?
Posted by frankly6 at 12:29 AM : Mar 07, 2007
Bush got less of the African American vote in 2004, but FOX News reported an exit poll survey right after the election that claimed he got more and even though it's been discredited many many times, it's become part of republican folklore.
Posted by cbville72 at 11:40 PM : Mar 06, 2007
The electoral college is a relic of the past. The movement to dump it is loud and growing. It'll last one, maybe two more presidential elections and then it's gone. It gives far too high of proportional weight to the opinions of the smaller population states and not enough to the higher population states. The concept was fine, but the relationship between population of a state and it's electoral votes has become wildely out of whack. It's time to fix or dump it and I think dump it will be the choice.
Really? What percent of the African American vote did Bush get?
What is your source?
Sorry to let minor details like the facts get in the way of your of your fantasyland.
BTW...Who won that election in '04
I apologize for your ignorance
Wow Bush's new plan is going awsomely!
No wonder why he's got so much support.
but bush became a big man in the south.
dixie freaks and creeps...bush country!
they still love bush in the south.
Posted by seven-pesos at 10:45 PM : Mar 06, 2007
Ok...I'll educate you a little. Bush won more than the South. He carried 30 states in '04. Last time I checked Ohio wasn't in the South. That was the "battleground" state that was going to decide the election. Iowa isn't in the South, Oh yeah.....by the way.....neither is the ENTIRE midwest. Bush carried every one of those states. It again proved to the democrats that they can't win elections by winning NY, CAL "and a few otehr states" Thank god we have an electoral college, otherwise a bunch of liberal people who have no idea what reality is would get to speak for the entire country.
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