BAGHDAD, Aug. 14, 2007
Iraq Military: 175 Killed By Suicide Bombs
U.S. Military Puts Death Toll At About 30; Meanwhile, 5 U.S. Troops Killed In Helicopter Crash
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Play CBS Video Video Deadly Day In Iraq Lara Logan talks with Katie Couric about suicide attacks in a remote northern region of Iraq and a helicopter crash that killed five U.S. soldiers.
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Iraqi policemen inspect the wreckage of a car used in a car bomb attack on a road in south Kirkuk, 160 miles north of Baghdad, August 14, 2007. One policeman died and three policemen and five civilians where wounded when the car bomb targeted a police patrol. (MARWAN IBRAHIM/AFP/Getty Images)
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Mohammed Abdullah grieves for his brother, Hussein Abdullah, who was killed along with his 3-year-old daughter, Zahraa, while sleeping on the roof of their Sadr City home in east Baghdad on Aug. 14, 2007. Police said four civilians were killed and five others injured early Tuesday morning as U.S. and Iraqi forces were conducting a house-to-house search. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
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Umm Nadhim is seen through a damaged gate after her son was arrested in their Sadr City home in east Baghdad on Aug. 14, 2007. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
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Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki talks to the media during a press conference in the heavily fortified Green Zone in Baghdad on Aug. 12, 2007. (AP)
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However, the U.S. military says only about 30 people were killed, reports CBS News chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan. The attack happened so far north of Baghdad, in such a remote desert region, that it's very difficult to get exact information.
If the Iraqi count is right, this would be the highest death toll in a concerted attack since Nov. 23, when 215 people were killed by mortar fire and five car bombs in Baghdad's Shiite enclave of Sadr City.
Tuesday's bombs tore through the districts near Qahataniya, 75 miles west of Mosul, Iraq's third-largest city, said Abdul-Rahman al-Shimiri, the top government official in the area, and Iraq army Capt. Mohammed Ahmed.
The Yazidis are part of a tiny minority, with only about 500,000 people left in the world, reports Logan. The ancient, primarily Kurdish, religious sect worships an angel figure some that Christians and Muslims believe to be the devil.
Al-Shimiri and Ahmed said at least 30 homes were destroyed in the bombings.
Dhakil Qassim, mayor of Sinjar, a town near where the attacks occurred, said al Qaeda in Iraq was behind the bombings, citing what he said were Kurdish government intelligence reports.
"This is a terrorist act and the people targeted are poor Yazidis who have nothing to do with the armed conflict," Qassim said. "Al Qaeda fighters are very active in this area near the Syrian border."
U.S. helicopters swooped into the area to evacuate the wounded to hospitals in Dahuk, a Kurdish city near the Turkish border about 60 miles north of Qahataniya.
Civilians cars and ambulances also rushed the wounded to hospitals in Dahuk, police said.
Elsewhere on Tuesday, a U.S. transport helicopter crashed near an air base west of Baghdad, killing five troops, the military said.
The CH-47 Chinook helicopter was conducting a routine post-maintenance test flight when it went down near Taqaddum air base, said 1st Lt. Shawn Mercer, a Marine spokesman.
He said emergency response crews had sealed off the site and the cause was still under investigation. A military statement later said five American service members were killed in the crash.
The deaths raised to at least 3,700 members of the U.S. military who have died since the Iraq war started in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
The air base is about 45 miles west of Baghdad in restive Anbar province, a Sunni insurgent stronghold that has become calmer in recent months as tribal leaders have joined forces against al Qaeda in Iraq.
In Baghdad, Abdel-Jabar al-Wagaa, the senior assistant to Oil Minister Hussain al-Shahristani, was spirited away by more than 50 gunmen wearing security forces uniforms and driving what were believed to be military vehicles, said Assem Jihad, the oil ministry spokesman.
An Interior Minister official, speaking anonymously because he was not authorized to release the information, said a top official in the State Oil Marketing Organization and three directors general in the operation also were kidnapped.
The official said five bodyguards were wounded in the raid on the State Oil Marketing Organization complex in eastern Baghdad.
Five Britons were seized May 29 in a similar raid on Iraq's Finance Ministry, not far from the oil marketing office. They were taken by gunmen wearing police uniforms and have not been found.
Both government organizations are near the lawless Sadr City Shiite enclave, a stronghold of the Mahdi Army militia.
The raid also was reminiscent of an attack by Mahdi Army fighters, dressed as Interior Ministry commandos, who stormed a Higher Education Ministry office Nov. 14 and snatched away as many as 200 people. Dozens of those kidnap victims were never been found.
Jihad said the kidnappers Tuesday were an "armed gang" and took the deputy minister from his home in the compound. He said the gunmen stole a number of cars from the compound, most of them belonging to the marketing organization.
In other developments:
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Best-selling author Mitch Albom on his first nonfiction work since "Tuesdays with Morrie."
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See all 403 CommentsPhew, had to get that off my chest...thanks....:)
Posted by AaaBee at 10:50 PM : Aug 13, 2007
You may as well be preaching to a brick wall. The American people have decided to give the Bush regime free rein in destroying our nation, and it will be up to the next president to pick up the pieces and build it back up again, assuming anything is left worth salvaging.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,28
8392,00.html
Posted by lars008
OK, anyone who uses foxnews as a source is instantly put on the shortbus. I wouldn't believe a word they said if they told me water is wet. Of course they wouldn't tell me it was wet, they would say the left-wing conspiracy had a secret plan to remove the non-dry factor from the liquidy stuff that comes from the sink "nuzzle". And then blame Clinton for it.
Get over it. it has been 8 years. He was a good president, and a flawed (ie: normal) humnan. Let it go.
wow, the president says he has the right to perjury????
President to Senate: Perjury is my right...
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3827/is_199901/ai_n8836610
PARDONS FOR SALE PARDONS FOR SALE
PARDONS GRANTED BY PRESIDENT CLINTON
http://www.usdoj.gov/pardon/clintonpardon_grants.htm
My Reasons for the Pardons
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/18/opinion/18CLIN.html?pagewanted=all&ei=5070&en=66ba82eaf117b24b&ex=1183521600
Do the Clintons Now Support Jail Time for Perjurers?
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,288392,00.html
In a bone-chilling chapter of her new book "The Final Days," late heroine-author Barbara Olson warned that ex-president Bill Clinton's pardons of terrorists who had repeatedly bombed buildings in New York City "send a signal" that the U.S. isn't serious about fighting terrorism.
http://www.papillonsartpalace.com/olson.htm
Bill Clinton pardons controversy
FALN Pardons of 1999
On August 11 1999, Clinton commuted the sentences of 16 members of FALN, a violent Puerto Rican nationalist group that set off 120 bombs in the United States usually in New York City and Chicago, convicted for conspiracies to commit robbery, bomb-making, and sedition, as well as for firearms and explosives violations.
http://www.answers.com/topic/bill-clinton-pardons-controversy
hahahaha
talk is no substitute for action
"We will do whatever it takes, for as long as it takes, to find those who killed our sailors and hold them accountable." --President Clinton, October 14, 2000
After the 1998 bombing of U.S . embassies in Africa, which killed 224 and injured 5,000, Clinton promised that those responsible would be hunted down and punished.
http://usinfo.state.gov/is/international_security/terrorism/embassy_bombings.html
http://usinfo.state.gov/is/Archive_Index/International_Media_Reaction_Special_Report_August_14_1998.html
After the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole, which killed 17 and injured 39 U.S. sailors, Clinton promised that those responsible would be hunted down and punished.
http://usinfo.state.gov/is/international_security/terrorism/uss_cole.html
same tired old speech... same inaction...
hahahaha
talk is no substitute for action
"We will do whatever it takes, for as long as it takes, to find those who killed our sailors and hold them accountable." --President Clinton, October 14, 2000
After the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, President Clinton promised that those responsible would be hunted down and punished.
Iraqi Complicity in the World Trade Center Bombing and Beyond
http://www.meib.org/articles/0106_ir1.htm
After the 1995 bombing in Saudi Arabia, which killed five U.S. military personnel, Clinton promised that those responsible would be hunted down and punished.
http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9511/saudi_blast/pm/
After the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia, which killed 19 and injured 200 U.S. military personnel, Clinton promised that those responsible would be hunted down and punished.
http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9606/25/saudi.explosion/
You should care less about Hillary Clinton and more about the damage that GW Bush has done to this nation.
Hillary and her husband are just bad jokes - but GW Bush is the worst of them all.
"You anti Bush posters are doing what hitler did to exploit his fanaticism,using Propaganda , falsehoods and spewing noxious venom, infecting the masses with your hatred. Cut it out and work together with some positive intelligence to solve the problem, not worsen it. Losers always have lots to say about anything or anybody ,Boasting that if only they ran the show the worlds problems would all be solved.Buy when to actually doing something about it where are they"
What a load of neo-con rubbish/propaganda.
What are *you* doing to help support the troops that you helped send off to war?
Have you joined up or are you just sitting on your a$$ having a great time while others are dying for you and your Presidents war?
You are pathetic.
What do you worship brian? You're posts over time has been revealing
This one will really get the pseudo religionists' panties in a bunch, I can hera them approaching their keyboards now.
Kill 'em all!!!
Right Singinrick, and Lars008?
Leftist Support of Islamist Terror
Most shocking is the outright sympathy of many leftist-liberals for Islamic fascism. They said little about the murder of 500 Russian civilians, many of them children, but screamed week after week because some Arab savage at Abu Ghraib prison wore a bag on his head. They cared nothing about the beheadings committed by the Islamo-savages or the execution of 12 Nepalese. David Horowitz gives an excellent discussion of who this "Left" really is. He calls them neo-communist, I call them Leftist-Liberals. I'm a classical Liberal myself and I feel it's time to remove this irrational element that has been allowed to poison our good name.
http://www.sullivan-county.com/immigration/list.htm
The Chorus of Useful Idiots
http://www.sullivan-county.com/immigration/thornton.htm
Supporters of Muslim Terrorism on the un-Religious Left
http://www.sullivan-county.com/id2/index1.htm
Exposing Leftists' Radical Islam Connection
http://www.sullivan-county.com/immigration/left_islam.htm
Definitions, Lies, and Losing Your Head
http://www.sullivan-county.com/immigration/def_lies.htm
Shocking (Liberal) Silence
http://www.sullivan-county.com/immigration/leftist_silence.htm
See no evil: Why the Left is blind to suffering
http://www.sullivan-county.com/immigration/no_evil.htm
When is violent speech still free speech?
http://www.sullivan-county.com/immigration/speech.htm
Posted by j-whitman
That is going to be some very bitter salt when American soldiers and innocent Iranian civilians are dying because of it...
Clinton's first-lady records locked up
Archivists say the documents at her husband's presidential library won't be released until after the '08 vote.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-clintondocs14aug14,1,1086895.story?track=rss&ctrack=1&cset=true
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