WASHINGTON, Sept. 8, 2007
Suicide Car Bomber Kills 15 In Sadr City
In A Week Of Unrelenting Violence, Iraqi Parliament Votes To Delay Deadline For New Constitution
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An Iraqi policeman stands at the site where a suicide car bomber detonated his explosives-packed Mercedes near a row of stores in the Shiite militia stronghold of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq on Saturday, Sept. 8, 2007. The blast killed at least 15 people, police and hospital officials said. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
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Men suspected of manufacturing roadside bombs are seen blindfolded after their arrest in Khalis, 50 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq, on Sept. 8, 2007. Iraqi soldiers arrested 20 and seized rocket launchers and materials which could be used on roadside bombs. (AP)
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An injured man arrives at a hospital following a suicide car bomb detonated near a row of stores in Sadr City, Baghdad, on Saturday, Sept. 8, 2007. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
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An Army honor guard prepares for the funeral service of Cpl. Tracy C. Willis at Sunset Northwest Funeral Home in San Antonio, Tex., Sept. 7, 2007. Willis, 21, was killed in action in Iraq last month. (AP/Bob Owen, S.A. Express-News)
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The attack in the eastern Baghdad enclave came as at least 36 other people were killed or found dead in Iraq, including four who died in a bombing of an outdoor market in the Shiite holy city of Kufa.
A bombing also killed at least 13 people in the nearby Shiite neighborhood of Baladiyat on Wednesday.
Violence has been unrelenting in Iraq and the suicide bombing in Baghdad was among a series of attacks tempering U.S. claims of success in taming the capital just days before a pivotal progress report is due to be delivered to the U.S. Congress by the top commander in Iraq Gen. David Petraeus and U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker.
Petraeus acknowledged the difficulties in a letter to U.S. forces on Friday summarizing the results of the troop increase U.S. President George W. Bush ordered last winter.
"It has not worked out as we had hoped," he wrote, offering a preview of what he planned to tell U.S. legislators in hearings that begin Monday amid a fierce debate over whether President Bush should begin withdrawing troops from Iraq.
The British military, meanwhile, said 500 troops would be withdrawn from Iraq in coming months as part of its planned reduction in forces as Iraqis assume control of their own security in southern Iraq. The withdrawals will reduce the British force in Iraq to 5,000, based around Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, 340 miles southeast of Baghdad.
Basra, a predominantly Shiite city, has been largely calm since the British soldiers pulled back from the city center to the airport last Sunday, ceding responsibility to Iraqi security forces.
U.S. commanders have warned that Sunni insurgents would step up attacks ahead of the Petraeus-Crocker report to try to influence the debate. They also appeared to be determined to try to provoke Shiite militia violence even as radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr ordered his fighters to stand down for up to six months.
The attacker in Sadr City was believed to be aiming for a busy market but was forced to detonate his explosives early after Iraqi police fired at his car, devastating a barber shop and other nearby stores.
Two barbers and six clients were among the 12 people killed, a police official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to release the information.
Associated Press Television News footage showed the charred wreckage of several cars that were destroyed in the blast, with pools of blood left on the pavement. A man with a cast on his leg lay on a hospital bed in an overwhelmed emergency room as people fanned patients with pieces of paper to offer relief from the searing summer heat amid electricity shortages.
The overall number of civilians killed in Iraq has declined since Mr. Bush ordered some 30,000 American troops to Baghdad and surrounding areas earlier this year, but suspected Sunni insurgents have managed to stage several spectacular bombings despite the stepped up security measures.
A prominent Sunni politician warned the drop was a "temporary improvement" that would be reversed by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's failure to achieve national reconciliation.
"We need a liberal government, we need a secular government, without such a government the violence will continue," Saleh al-Mutlaq told Al-Jazeera in an interview from Amman, Jordan, on Al-Jazeera.
"The violence will grow again, as people will lose hope if nothing changes on the political side," he said. "There was a big failure on the political side ... without reconciliation the violence will not stop."
Al-Mutlaq's comments came as his Sunni party, the Iraqi National Dialogue Front, announced it was ending its parliamentary boycott so it can participate in the debate over stalled benchmark legislation demanded by Washington, including a draft law on sharing Iraq's oil riches. The party has only 11 of the 275 seats and its return has only limited effect.
A law aimed at returning thousands of members of Saddam Hussein's ousted Baath Party to government appeared to be the closest to being ready, with deputy parliament speaker Khaled al-Attiyah saying Saturday that discussion on the measure should begin in parliament soon.
"We will receive it today or tomorrow and then it will be put forward in parliament for discussion this week," al-Attiyah told The Associated Press by telephone.
In Other Developments:
By Associated Press Writer Kim Gamel; the AP's Bassem Mroue and David Rising contributed to this report.
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- what do you call an ideology that:
kills you if you don''t join it...
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kills you if you leave it...
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kills you if you don''t do what they tell you to do..
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kills you if you speak against it%u2026.
http://islamqa.com/index.php?QR=22809&ln=eng
kills anybody that is not a member of it...
http://www.hauns.com/~DCQu4E5g/koran5.html
still practices slavery
http://islamqa.com/index.php?ref=12562&ln=eng&txt=slavery
still practices pagan rituals...
http://answering-islam.org/Silas/pagansources.htm
allows the r a p e of babies and animals...
http://www.homa.org/default.asp?TOCID=2083225445
a. satanic cult???
b. fascist nazi terrorislam???
c. all the above???
Our Prophet commanded us to fight the kaafirs when we are able and to attack them in their homelands and to give them three choices before we enter their lands: either they become Muslim and be like us, sharing our rights and duties; or they pay the jizyah (poll tax) and feel themselves subdued; or they fight, in which case their wealth, women, children and homes become permissible as booty for the Muslims.
http://islamqa.com/index.php?ref=13759&ln=eng&txt=before%20islam%20arabia%20pagan - Reply to this comment
Re: "The overall number of civilians killed in Iraq has declined since Mr. Bush ordered some 30,000 American troops to Baghdad and surrounding areas earlier this year,"
Not true, and our puppet-Fuhrer (heil) is now responsible for the mass-murder of around 1 million Iraqis.
Re: "Amending the constitution is one of the key demands, such as a new oil law, by the United States."
The Iraqi "Constitution" was written by American corporations, for American corporations. The only way of effectively "ammending" it, is to wipe with it, and flush.
The oil (stealing) law is an obvious plunder attempt by petro-terrorist organizations like Exxon-Mobil and BP, and effectively loots the majority of Iraq''s oil wealth away from the people of Iraq.
If the Iraqi "government were either legitimate or Svereign, the U.S. woul be in no place to make "demands" of it. Obviously, they are neither.- Reply to this comment
- Posted by Smirk5 at 08:33 PM : Sep 08, 2007
Man have you really compiled a list, and these are all things he has said along with, "mission accomplished"''''''" Bring it on" "I don''t care where Osama bin laden is" "we will get him dead or alive" it is unreal isn''t it. and he still has loyal fervent believers. I just don''t get it. - Reply to this comment
- yellowcake
aluminum tubes
mushroom clouds
cakewalk
oil will pay for the construction
maybe 6 days, maybe 6 weeks, I doubt 6 months
just a few deadenders
Uday and Qusay killed; implication is that we''ve turned a corner
Saddam captured; implication is that we''ve turned a corner
Making progress, working hard
stay the course
Fallujah recaptured; we''ve broken the back of the insurgency
Making progress, working hard, stay the course
Last Throes
Zarqawi killed; implication is that we''ve turned a corner
We''ve got Al-Qaeda on the run
The surge is working.
Stay the course.
We''re making progress and working hard. - Reply to this comment
- "OBAMA, OOPS I MEAN OSAMA BIN FORGOTTEN GIVES HIS DEMONIC-RAT CHORUS OF USEFUL IDIOTS A PEP TALK... LOL"
- Posted by lars008 at 05:31 PM : Sep 08, 2007
Don''t ever talk like this in the audience of the Oprah Winfrey show.
''Cuz she''ll call security and have you ejected, just before she starts handing out new free cars to all her guests.
A word to the wise. - Reply to this comment
- Piece is hard to achieve in this sinful world.
Make that...
"A small PIECE of good news from Iraq has come Bush''s way..." - Reply to this comment
- A small pice of good news from Iraq has come Bush''s way:
"Sunni Arab bloc rejoins Iraqi parliament
September 8, 2007
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- A small Sunni Arab bloc ended its boycott of Iraq''s parliament Saturday, boosting the appearance of national unity just days before key reports are due in Washington on Iraq''s progress.
Saleh al-Mutlaq [sic], who leads the National Dialogue Front, told CNN that the Sunni Arab group''s 11 members of parliament returned to the 275-seat legislature after their demands were met.
"The government has agreed to allocate funds to displaced families... and it has agreed to delay negotiations on the oil law until after Ramadan," he said in a telephone interview from Amman, Jordan.
"We are therefore today heeding the call of the speaker to end our boycott."
Source:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/09/08/iraq.main/index.html - Reply to this comment
- LOOK WHO IS TARGETING CIVILIANS!!!
Qaeda warns of attacks ''worse than 9/11''
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=070530102648.wuwa6k96&show_article=1
Hizbullah Deputy Sec-Gen Sheikh Naim Qassem: We Have Jurisprudent Permission to Carry Out ''Martyrdom'' Operations, Fire Missiles on Israeli Civilians From Ayatollah Khomeini
http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD154907
Switching Sides: Inside The Enemy Camp
But then in 2000, well before his arrest, something happened which would make Abas question everything he believed in: a fatwa, a religious edict, was issued by Osama bin Laden.
"It should be understood that killing Americans and Jews anywhere found are the highest act of worship and the highest form of good deeds in the eyes of Allah," Simon quotes bin Laden.
Abas and his fellow commanders were ordered to read the fatwa to their men and make sure they carried it out. The others obeyed, but Abas refused. It was his moment of truth. He firmly believed that jihad was to be fought only on the battlefield in defense of Islam; he had always been taught that the killing of civilians had nothing to do with holy war and that it was forbidden.
The fatwa justified killing non-Muslim civilians everywhere.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/05/04/60minutes/main2761108.shtml?source=RSSattr=60Minutes_2761108
American Al Qaeda Member Threatens Attack
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/05/29/terror/main2865282.shtml - Reply to this comment
- Lars,,,, Go back inside your closet,,,, Evil has surrounded your house,, Booooo
- Reply to this comment
- OBAMA, OOPS I MEAN OSAMA BIN FORGOTTEN GIVES HIS DEMONIC-RAT
CHORUS OF USEFUL IDIOTS A PEP TALK... LOL
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 - Reply to this comment
- it is fascist nazi terrorislam stupid%u2026.
non muslims of the world unite... fight against the tyranny of the fascist nazi terrorslam imperialist empire of the darkside...
I was a fanatic...I know their thinking, says former radical Islamist
By blaming the Government for our actions, those who pushed this "Blair''s bombs" line did our propaganda work for us.
More important, they also helped to draw away any critical examination from the real engine of our violence: Islamic theology.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=465570&in_page_id=1770
Bless the Beasts and Children
Fascist nazi terrorslam kills every man woman and child in the village again%u2026 typical mo for terrorslam%u2026
http://www.michaelyon-online.com/wp/bless-the-beasts-and-children.htm
Our Prophet commanded us to fight the kaafirs when we are able and to attack them in their homelands and to give them three choices before we enter their lands: either they become Muslim and be like us, sharing our rights and duties; or they pay the jizyah (poll tax) and feel themselves subdued; or they fight, in which case their wealth, women, children and homes become permissible as booty for the Muslims.
http://islamqa.com/index.php?ref=13759&ln=eng&txt=before%20islam%20arabia%20pagan
the truth about fascist nazi terrorislam...
http://www.terrorismawareness.org/what-really-happened/ - Reply to this comment
- Just like a big but hitting the windshield -- He won''t have the guts to do that again.
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- Posted by ibsteve2u at 03:42 PM : Sep 08, 2007
Boy you got that right, he is asking for 145 plus 50 billion more this month is there a chance we could offer it up at least part to get the H*e&ll out and just disappear never to be heard of again. - Reply to this comment
- You know what this story says to me?
We should have put a $1 billion price each on Saddam''s, Uday''s, and Qusay''s heads, and paid Bush and his fellow thieves and supporters $1 or $2 trillion in cold hard cash to stay out of American politics.
We''d be ahead 3700 and counting dead Americans, ahead 27000 and counting wounded Americans, who knows how many dead and wounded Iraqis, Al Qaeda wouldn''t have so many new recruits who are combat trained and experts at IEDs and EFPs, and we would probably break even or come out ahead on the cash end, to boot. - Reply to this comment
- A law aimed at returning thousands of members of Saddam Hussein''s ousted Baath Party to government appeared to be the closest to being ready, "
If the democratically elected parliament in Iraq returns the Baath Party to the government ~ doesn''t that tell us something about what the Iraqis want. They want some stability and they think that the Baath Party is the only entity that can accomplish it. Maybe they will be welcomed with dancing in the streets and flowers. - Reply to this comment
