BAGHDAD, May 7, 2007
Suicide Bombers Kill 13 In Iraq
Car Bomber Kills Five In Ramadi As Al Qaeda Warns Iraqis Not To Join Police Or Army
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In all, at least 68 people were killed or found dead nationwide Monday, police said. They included the bullet-riddled bodies of 30 men found in Baghdad — the apparent victims of sectarian death squads.
All but two of them were found in west Baghdad, including 17 in the Amil neighborhood where Sunni politicians have complained of renewed attacks by Shiite militiamen, according to a police official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not supposed to release those details.
The first of the Ramadi area attacks occurred about noon in a public market on the northwest outskirts of the city, killing eight people and wounding 13, said police Col. Tariq Youssef.
About 15 minutes later, police at a nearby checkpoint spotted a second car bomb and opened fire, but the driver was able to detonate the vehicle, Youssef said. Five people, including two policemen, were killed and 12 others were wounded, Youssef said.
The attacks occurred in areas controlled by the Anbar Salvation Council, an alliance of Sunni tribes formed last year to drive al Qaeda from their territory. Council officials blamed the attacks on al Qaeda.
"They committed this crime because we have identified their hideouts and we are chasing them," said Sheik Jabbar Naif al-Dulaimi.
In a Web statement Monday, an al Qaeda front organization, the Islamic State of Iraq, warned Sunnis against joining the government security forces — a move supported by the Salvation Council.
"We tell every father, mother, wife or brother who does not want to lose a relative to advise them not to approach the apostates, and we swear to God that we will use every possible means to strike at the infidels and the renegades," the group said.
The Islamic State also claimed responsibility Monday for a series of attacks that killed 34 people — including six U.S. soldiers and a Russian embedded photojournalist who died in a massive roadside bombing in Baqouba.
The 34 also included the police chief of Samarra, Col. Jalil Nahi Hassoun, who was killed Sunday in an attack on police headquarters. He was buried Monday following a tearful procession by police in blue uniform who escorted the flag draped coffin as it was driven through the Sunni city in the bed of a white pickup truck.
At least five al Qaeda fighters were killed in the fighting in Samarra, a U.S. military official told The Associated Press, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release details of the attack.
Also Monday, the military announced a U.S. soldier had been killed by small-arms fire in western Baghdad the day before, bringing to nine the number of troops who died Sunday.
The security situation in the capital figured high in talks between Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and U.S. President George W. Bush, who conferred Monday in a video conference, the prime minister's office said in a statement.
Al-Maliki told Bush of the need to maintain cooperation between U.S. and Iraqi forces as they continue their crackdown, which is intended to end the chaos and violence in Baghdad, the statement said.
The White House confirmed that Bush spoke with al-Maliki.
In other violence, a mortar attack killed five people in Baghdad's mixed Baiyaa neighborhood, where more than 30 people were slain in a car bombing the day before.
In northern Iraq, gunmen attacked an Iraqi military checkpoint at the town of Baaj, killing two soldiers, two police officers and a civilian, police said.
Hundreds of thousands of other Iraqis have fled to Jordan and Syria.
Jordan said Monday that the more than 750,000 displaced Iraqis residing in the country has cost the government $1 billion a year and increasing Jordan's population by 14 percent.
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Here are Senators from Military states that got into office from the military vote!
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Gee, Rick, we're taking the fight to the enemy now ?
What were we doing in the last 4 years ?
You're an idiot. Rick.
Did you hear that ?
You're an idiot.
Rick Lynch is a very good example of why "leaving the decisions in the Iraq war up to our military commanders" would be a colossal mistake.
Rick Lynch is an idiot.
Whats the matter ?
Can't you get those Christian soldiers onward any more ?
Please focus on the point of the article. I understand your opinion of the war in general, even though I disagree with it. But please leave your 9/11 lunatic the government and Bush blew up the buildings theory out of the comments about the surge in Iraq. You just simply loose all creditability when you go to that old and worn out story and use it as facts to base your view of this terrible situation that our military finds themselves in at this point in time.
With the cross of Jesus going on before.
Christ, the royal Master, leads against the foe;
Forward into battle see His banners go!"
As didntinhale shakes his ponpoms in the background....
- Posted by pussyinhale at 07:51 AM : May 07, 2007
Congress is in charge.
Go read the Constitution.
CONGRESS IS IN CHARGE.
"Onward, Christian soldiers, marching as to war,
With the cross of Jesus going on before.
Christ, the royal Master, leads against the foe;
Forward into battle see His banners go!"
As didntinhale shakes his ponpoms in the background....
She reaffirmed her stance that only thru total surrender of the west can peace be achieved."
- Posted by pussyinhale at 07:58 AM : May 07, 2007
"Onward, Christian soldiers, marching as to war,
With the cross of Jesus going on before.
Christ, the royal Master, leads against the foe;
Forward into battle see His banners go!"
As pussyinhale leads cheers in the background....
Whose flag are we trying to capture over there? Please enlighten us.
That's the problem with WINNING. You have to have an opponent that you can make say uncle. I'd really like to know who that is. You got 100% of my support if we know that.
PUSSYINHALE wants to be in charge.
He's the ROOM TROLL par excellence. He lives here 24/7.
PUSSYINHALE WANTS TO BE IN CHARGE.
Then I'd bring the war at home against the racists, bigots and fascists like PUSSYINHALE.
I'd round them up and waterboard them until they p*issed red molasses.
That's what I'd do.
Posted by missmyhubby at 06:30 AM : May 07, 2007
Maybe Iraqis don't like the idea of foreigners using their country to "fight them there, so we don't have to fight them here"
FAce it, that one remark is so transparently craven and cowardly as to be embarassing. it says we don't mind destroying another country and their people, as long as we can keep our own lands clean. That is tantamount to grabbing someone's baby to use as a shield when a gunman attacks. Sick, Twisted and pathetically a sign of Americans in these times.
Posted by meboard at 06:36 AM : May 07, 2007
LOL. Indeed. It has also been understood by the West that Iraq could not be invaded and conquered by outsiders. (Saddam was able to fuse the country together under his dictatorship--but he was one of them, so they endured his regime) Several have tried it and failed in this century and before--most notably the British. But that also is history--why take that as a lesson either? lmao
When a President and VP have everything to gain from starting a war, but state in the PNAC that short of Pearl Harbor like attack, they will never have the excuses needed to attack Iraq--then somehow, miraculously they get just what they hoped for--it is a bit fishy. Add to that, the fact that both men refused to testify under oath about 9/11 years ago and it gets even more suspicious and reminscent of the movie "long kiss goodnight"
Two thing about conspiracy theories---
1.Those who want to do truly horrific acts, can count on the natural skepticism of the public to aid them in getting away with it (because people shy away from believing their leaders are capable of such a thing*)
2. sometimes, despite skepticism--some conspiracy theories actually turn out to be true--that is what is so scary. That is the Rovian beauty of this potential conspiracy...even if true, most Americans could never bring themselves to believe it--and the killers may be counting on that mindset, anything is possible and anyone who can torture--is capable of anything else.
some out of fear -
most because they've lost a part of their family -
or they've been ruined financially -
they go to neighboring countries, mostly Jordan and Syria where they have no support -
yourg iraqi girls aged 14 and over must offer themselves to prostitition to help the family survive.
many commit suicide -
The Bush War has created this new helll on earth and probably a new generation of terrorists ready to take vengence against those who did this.
Are we so senseless to allow this to continue ?
FAce it, that one remark is so transparently craven and cowardly as to be embarassing. it says we don't mind destroying another country and their people, as long as we can keep our own lands clean. That is tantamount to grabbing someone's baby to use as a shield when a gunman attacks. Sick, Twisted and pathetically a sign of Americans in these times.
Posted by toldyouso21
Well said toldyouso21! It's kind of like pre-emptive war! I doubt the local sheriff's department would like it or look the other way if I took my neighbor out (killed him) because he might someday be a threat to me! That is called murder in any man's book! I can remember the day when the Soviet Union looked like a looming threat we were going to have to fight! Guess what! Nothing ever came of it!
Posted by didntinhale at 08:11 AM : May 07, 2007
It is strategist....please...I am tired of your uneducated ranting...could you please make a point? Just one....ok....then just a grammatically correct sentence--we will start with that...don't strain yourself now--no copying and pasting allowed!
FAce it, that one remark is so transparently craven and cowardly as to be embarassing. it says we don't mind destroying another country and their people, as long as we can keep our own lands clean. That is tantamount to grabbing someone's baby to use as a shield when a gunman attacks. Sick, Twisted and pathetically a sign of Americans in these times.
Posted by toldyouso21 at 08:36 AM : May 07, 2007
I don't disagree...the president (no capital p on purpose) has clairvoyant powers--he thinks he knows that we will be attacked--by who?? Maybe the Al Quaeda Navy or maybe their Airforce. The sad reality is that many of our soldiers don't want to be there. The problem is....they are there, so what do we do now? We want the home, but the "decider" says no. So what do you suggest?? Our soldiers are sitting ducks--
That is how democracy in Iraq works!
FAce it, that one remark is so transparently craven and cowardly as to be embarassing. it says we don't mind destroying another country and their people, as long as we can keep our own lands clean. That is tantamount to grabbing someone's baby to use as a shield when a gunman attacks. Sick, Twisted and pathetically a sign of Americans in these times.
Posted by toldyouso21
This bears repeating! This is absolutely correct. This analysis is how we are now viewed by the world. Perhaps we'd have a different attitude here if our country was being destroyed by a foreign gov't!!
BUSH is simply going to keep doing what he has always done in Iraq until he leaves office, when someone else can clean up this mess, then he can blame the next administration for this failure.
BUSH started this war to simply gain the fame of being a gun slinging hero in the history books, and now that this is totally impossible, he will stop at nothing to avoid being labeled as a colossal failure, including taking hundreds or thousands of American casulaties between not and the end of his term. The blood of these Americans and innocent Iraqis is on all our hands, those who support this war monger with thier votes and funding, and those of us who are not taking to the streets demanding an immediate withdrawal or impeachment.
September is a mere four months away. In September we expect Genwral Petraeus to deliver his "verdict" on the surge in Iraq (whether it is succeeding or failing). It is indeed a big ask to expect that in four months the type of progress that legislators and the public will need to see, would have taken place. Yet that is the challenge facing the the surge proponents.
General Petraeus is a clever soldier. We have already seen than he understands the powerof data. In my judgement Petraeus does not need to say that the surge has been a success or that it is working well. All he needs if on or two well placed statistics such "a slight reduction in sectarian attacks," "fewer civilian casualties," or "a reduction in the number of curfews." Essentially, anything that remotely suggests progress will be good enough.
Why? Because it will form the basis of the administrations "Schindler defense." In simple terms look for the administration to state that without a continuation of the surge more Iraqi's would die and any progress made would be lost. Even with spiralling US troop casualties, look for the administration to say that the casualties are high because we are "on the offensive" and therefore a necessary consequence of success.
The surge is here to stay. Get used to it.
Every Iraqi must realize American troops will be going home not long after that.
Those wealthy old white men at that last Republican debate couldn't possibly be more out of touch with the American people. Even the Conservatives of the McLaughlin Group were laughing at them.
If no deadline precedes it, January 2009 is the deadline, and no impotent veto will make it go away.
His reply will be: "We're staying in Iraq until the job is done. You have my word on it. And I'm a man of my word. Just ask my three wives. By the way, did I mention I was the mayor on New York on 9/11 ?"
Bush has done a great job in Iraq. His record speaks for itself.
Of course you won't hear that here on the liberal MSM wolfpack.
3,365 plus American kids dead.......
25,000 American Kids wounded.......
hundreds of thousands Iraqi's dead, wounded or fleeing their country.
Civil War in Iraq
Puppet Democracy Government,just like here full of crooks, theives and murderers.
YEP, JOB WELL DONE
Those of you who don't agree, you are missing your Hamas Mickey Mouse show.
Posted by dogband at 11:25 AM : May 07, 2007
Excellent posts web! Well stated and true from start to finish! Bravo and more! Same with you too dogband! Great posts! Pour it on!
Prior to this year, President George W. Bush is a failed oilman. Three times, friends and investors have bailed him out to keep his business from going bankrupt. However, in 1988, the same year his father becomes president, some Saudis buy a portion of his small company, Harken, which has never performed work outside of Texas. Later in the year, Harken wins a contract in the Persian Gulf and starts doing well financially. These transactions seem so suspicious that the Wall Street Journal in 1991 states it %u201Craises the question of%u2026 an effort to cozy up to a presidential son.%u201D Two major investors in Bush%u2019s company during this time are Salem bin Laden and Khalid bin Mahfouz. [Intelligence Newsletter, 3/2/2000; Salon, 11/19/2001] Salem bin Laden is Osama%u2019s oldest brother; Khalid bin Mahfouz is a Saudi banker with a 20 percent stake in BCCI. The bank will be shut down a few years later and bin Mahfouz will have to pay a $225 million fine (while admitting no wrongdoing) (see October 2001)). [Forbes, 3/18/2002]
Where is the up roar of Islamic nations over this injustice? Iran, do you have something to add, besides bombs and murder? UAE, how about you and your proxy war against shia's; what can you do to help stop the violence?
Posted by Perception69 at 02:48 PM : May 07, 2007
Another fine example of the Bush administration motto: "It's not a lie if _you_ believe it."
If they were, they'd have completely stood down across the country six months ago and waited to see if GWB was telling the truth about his motivation for having troops in Iraq.
GWB would either have been shown to be a liar by keeping all of those troops there for no 'apparent' reason, or gotten the heck out so he could "I told you so" the Democrats and the non-neocon Republicans.
Then, of course, they could have returned to their merry killing ways.
Which, by the way, is likely to happen regardless unless we keep a quarter of a million personnel stationed in Iraq ad infinitum.
You have to be dense not to understand by now the huge difference that many, if not most, in Southwest Asia perceive between "a government that America wants for us" and "a government that we want for us".
In fact, it's working so well that American deaths are up.
Good on ya, GW Bush!!!
Nice job.
You moron.
"Good 'ol al Qaeda is responsible for more murders of innocent muslims than any other country or organization. If al Qaeda was a country they would qualify as performing genocide.
Where is the up roar of Islamic nations over this injustice? Iran, do you have something to add, besides bombs and murder? UAE, how about you and your proxy war against shia's; what can you do to help stop the violence?"
Didn't we have a "civil" war?
Hmmmmm, around 620,000 dead from memory.
And the reasons? Because a number of Southern States wanted to secede as well as wanting to continue keeping blacks as slaves.
So, what does that make us?
"AL-Qaeda accounts for a little less than 10% of the mahem there-"
Where did you get this figure?
Sevenveils,
"Where is the uproar of Islamic nations over this injustist?"
I have been saying that for a long time. The USA can't *** without someone having something bad to say about us; it doesn't seem to matter what Al-Qaeda says or does; everything is just fine with the rest of the world.
Even when al-Qaeda tells the world that they are operating inside Iraq, killing innocent civilians, and now MAKE THREATS AGAINST IRAQ'S CITIZENS, the moonbats still chant their terrorism-denying mantra:
"Bush and Cheney bad. Waaaaa! Waaaaa!"
Posted by didntinhale at 08:11 AM : May 07, 2007
It is strategist....please...I am tired of your uneducated ranting...could you please make a point? Just one....ok....then just a grammatically correct sentence--we will start with that...don't strain yourself now--no copying and pasting allowed!
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-Nice one missmyhubby, way to go... this jumpy monkey has forgotten to inhale when he was born, depriving his brain from some oxygen. Dead cells resulted in a lower intellctual capacity. All my regards to you and wish your hubby be back home asap.
"For 70 years we have robbed Arab natural resources,"
I thought we were paying $65 a barrel for their oil? If we hadn't provided the tech to drill and bring to the surface all that oil, the Middle East would not have so many rich arabs walking around. Have you seen Dubia (SP) lately?
"with little repect for fairness, equity or there way of life."
I seem to remember Nancy getting dressed up for the part when she went to Syria, outa respect, but at the meeting in Egypt, the Iraian leader walked out because he didn't like a red dress, I don't think he would show any more repect for our way of life if he came here.
Very gutsy of the Queen to go out on a limb like that.
She was anti-terror before it was popular.
Bush should have knighted her on the spot.
The Iraqi armed forces that Bush is expecting to "stand up, so we can stand down" are infiltrated with these death squads.
Iraqis fear the police now, more than they did when Saddam was in power.
Bush's war makes less and less sense with each passing day.
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