BAGHDAD, Sept. 25, 2007
Bombings Blast Baghdad, Basra
Explosions Kill At Least Nine Day After Deadly Attack On U.S.-Backed Reconciliation Meeting
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An Iraqi soldier stands guard after a suicide car bomber killed three Iraqi policemen when he blew up his vehicle outside the police headquarters in the southern city of Basra, 340 miles southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, on Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2007. (AP Photo/Nabil Al-Jurani)
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Iraqis examine a vehicle destroyed in an overnight raid by U.S. troops in the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City in Baghdad on Sept. 24, 2007. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
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A family crosses from Iran into Iraq at the Zarbatiya border crossing, 100 miles southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, on Sept. 12, 2007. Iran reportedly closed several key border crossings Monday, Sept. 24, 2007, to protest the U.S. detention of an Iranian official in northern Iraq. (AP Photo/Kim Gamel)
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A man crosses from Iran into Iraq at the Zarbatiya border crossing Sept. 12, 2007. U.S. soldiers are training border guards in this remote area, a suspected entry point for weapons and foreign fighters. (AP Photo/Kim Gamel)
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Also Tuesday morning, two parked car bombs went off nearly simultaneously in a shopping street in eastern Baghdad, killing six civilians and wounding 20 people, just yards away from a line of pensioners outside a local bank, the police said.
The blasts followed a deadly night in Baqouba, where a suicide bomber struck a U.S.-promoted reconciliation meeting of Shiite and Sunni tribal sheiks after sunset Monday. The U.S. military said 24 Iraqis were killed and 37 others wounded in the blast at the gathering of some 800 people, both Sunnis and Shiites, and blamed al Qaeda for the "horrendous attack."
"Once again, al Qaeda demonstrated the hatred they have for the citizens of Iraq by conducting a despicable attack against its people during one of their most revered celebrations, Ramadan," said Col. David W. Sutherland, the U.S. commander in the Diyala province.
The violence comes amid continued friction between Iraqi and U.S. officials over the Sept. 16 killing of 11 Iraqi civilians allegedly by Blackwater USA security guards in Baghdad, and the U.S. troops' arrest last week of an Iranian officer who the Iraqis claim was here by official invitation.
The U.S. military said the man is suspected of being a member of Iran's paramilitary Quds Force, accused by the United States of arming Shiite militias in Iraq.
The arrest has drawn condemnation from Iraqi leaders. President Jalal Talabani, a Kurd who has been one of America's staunchest allies in Iraq, called it "illegal" and said he met with American leaders to demand the Iranian's release.
He said the Americans did not have the right to arrest somebody inside the autonomous Kurdish area in northern Iraq because the U.S. had handed over security responsibilities to the Kurds.
"Arresting a person inside the Kurdish region is illegal because the security file was handed over to the Kurdish government months ago," he said.
Talabani spoke at a news conference at the Sulaimaniyah airport before departing for New York, where he said he was to attend an international reconciliation conference on the U.N. General Assembly sidelines at the invitation of former President Bill Clinton.
In other developments:
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He''''s hoping that someone will buy that. About the only thing left for these commanders to do, is to try to conflate the fables of the notorious and imaginary "al-Qaeda-in-Iraq", in an effort to conn the Iraqis into going after someone other than themselves, and to try to further divide/exterminate the Iraqi people.
This looks like a tactical deafeat, to go along with our defeats on the strategic, economic, and moral fronts.
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You seem to get pleasure from Iraqi civilian deaths and the death of American soldiers. It seems like you want America to lose the war on terrorism. Are you foreign or foreign born from one of America''s enemies?
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Re: "Once again, al Qaeda demonstrated the hatred they have for the citizens of Iraq by conducting a despicable attack against its people during one of their most revered celebrations, Ramadan," said Col. David W. Sutherland, the U.S. commander in the Diyala province."
He''s hoping that someone will buy that. About the only thing left for these commanders to do, is to try to conflate the fables of the notorious and imaginary "al-Qaeda-in-Iraq", in an effort to conn the Iraqis into going after someone other than themselves, and to try to further divide/exterminate the Iraqi people.
This looks like a tactical deafeat, to go along with our defeats on the strategic, economic, and moral fronts.
Re: "A suicide driver killed three Iraqi policemen and wounded 20 people when he detonated his car at the entrance of police headquarters Tuesday in Basra"
Basra, eh? We may remember the British SAS soldiers, caught in Basra with Arab clothing, wigs, scarves, and bomb-making materials, just a couple of years ago. My guess is that the "suicide" bombing was most likely done by SAS or Blackwater goons.
Bush has always insisted the War had nothing to do with Oil.
Bush said the war to disarm Iraq of - Weapons of Mass Destruction.
There were - No - Weapons of Mass Destruction
There is plenty of - Oil
Halliburton proved that - So has Blackwater USA
Prior to the War
The Initial Reports given by - Bush - The FBI and The CIA
Were Purposely and Intentionally - Fabricated and were Fraudulent ! !
Fabricated Reports - Intentionally Delivered to the American People
In order to Falsely and Fraudulently - Advocate a War ! !
Republcan House Minority Leader - John Boehner (R-OH)
The lives being lost in Iraq is - A small price to pay ! !
Small change - Throw away money - Throw away lives
The FBI and the Justice Department have Always worked on Behalf of
The Political Objectives and The Financial Objectives of :
The Republican (Nazi) party and Criminal Corporate (Nazi ) America
The Federal Drug Smuggling - Drug Manufacturing Operations
The Federal Drug Money Laundering Operations
Criminal Wiretaps - Criminal Surveillance Techniques
The Child - S*E*X - Slave Operations
The Political - Intimidation and Blackmail Operations
The Russians and The Chinese have Demonstrated they are not so
Dumb and Stupid as to believe anything - Bush describes as
Democracy - Human Rights and Freedom
The Entire United States should take the - Same Attitude towards Bush
There was a time - Treason - was a Criminal Act
Lastdance
Nice job CBS. Your site attracts the most rabid of the rabid left.
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The surge is just "stay the course part 5". Bu$h didn''t send enough troops to win the peace in the beginning and he still hasn''t. He knows that if he sent the needed number of troops that he''d lose what little support he has left because he''d have to draft them from the general population.
Bu$h is punting his mess to the next administration because he knows that it will be a Democrat and that the neocons will immediately begin blaming all of his failures on them.
so where does the ''baiting'' or planting draw the line? Is planting ''Iranian weaponry'' part of the bait plan? When does a ranger NOT kill the Iraqi who may just be ''junking'' and tryint to find and sell anything useful in the rubble? Do Iraqis know they will be killed if they pick up any debris or anything from the ground?
before this is over, if all of this stuff keeps coming out--war crime will be the nicest charged leveled against this war of choice.
Only, guess what, these people will not be counted as dead due to civilian war or dead due to US invasion. Oh no.
You see, all the people killed by bombings, including those 500 that were killed 2 months ago, ARE NOT COUNTED.
Yes, that''s right. That is why US military stooges, including Gen BetrayUs can claim that Iraqi deaths have decreased. They don''t count car bombings and they don''t count all people killed from shots to the back of the body.
They only count those people killed by a shot to the front of the body. I have no idea what all others are counted as. Probably nothing. They are just "casualities" but NOT casualities of war.
So the great lies can be perpetuated on and on. The lie of progress, the lie of decreasing violence.
It is all a sham.
- by antoniof123 September 25, 2007 11:28 AM EDT
- I am amazed this administration keeps saying al-Qaeda yet before the invasion there was no al-Qaeda in Iraq. Keep up the good work keeping our country safe from al-Qaeda. One thing you should remember when they get tired of fighting over there they will come here. So I say thank you to all of you who started this war but in the end I hope that you get what you deserve.
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