Bombings Blast Baghdad, Basra

Explosions Kill At Least Nine Day After Deadly Attack On U.S.-Backed Reconciliation Meeting

(CBS/AP)  Witnesses and officials said the bomber struck when most of the victims were gathered in the mosque courtyard after Iftar, the daily meal in which Muslims break their sunrise-to-sunset fast during the holy month of Ramadan.

Police Maj. Salah al-Jurani said he believed provincial Gov. Raad Rashid al-Tamimi was the intended target in the explosion. The governor was wounded and his driver was killed. The dead also included Baqouba's police chief, Brig. Gen. Ali Dalyan, and the Diyala provincial operations chief, Brig. Gen. Najib al-Taie, according to security officials. The officials spoke speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not supposed to release the information.

Also wounded was the governor's brother, Sheik Mazin Rashid al-Tamimi, who has spearheaded Sunni-Shiite reconciliation efforts in the province.

The U.S. announced this month that top leaders of 19 of the 25 major tribes in Diyala - 13 Sunni and six Shiite - had agreed to end sectarian violence and support the government in its fight against al Qaeda in Iraq, although the province remains one of the most dangerous in the country with frequent kidnappings and armed clashes.

To the north, five major border crossings between Iran and the Kurdish region remained closed for a second day, after Iran shut them down Monday to protest the U.S. arrest of the Iranian official. Crossing points elsewhere along the 900-mile border were operating normally.

The Iranian, identified by Iran's semiofficial Mehr news agency as Mahmudi Farhadi, was detained by American troops last Thursday at a hotel in the northern Kurdish city of Sulaimaniyah.

In New York, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told The Associated Press on Monday that the border closure was intended to protect religious pilgrims and that "commercial goods and freight transactions continue."

But Kurdish merchants and officials in Sulaimaniyah said hundreds of trucks were backed up on the Iranian side and no goods were being allowed across. This would badly hurt the economy of the region, the most prosperous and stable part of the country.

The Kurds are also the most pro-American community in Iraq, and the U.S. relies heavily on Kurdish politicians as mediators between the Shiite and Sunni Arab communities.

Iran's move appeared aimed in part at driving a wedge between Iraq and the United States at a time of friction between the two countries over the Blackwater incident.

[rhs648]

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.

Posted by FeelFree1

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?

[getloud1]

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He has NEVER voted:
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* for an unbalanced budget
* to raise congressional pay
* for a federal restriction on gun ownership
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He HAS voted:
* against the Iraq war
* against the inappropriately named USA PATRIOT act
* against regulating the internet
* against the Military Commissions Act

He will eliminate the IRS, Wasteful Government Spending & Stop The Iraq War Immediately!

Most importantly, he voted NO on anything in Congress that is not allowed by the Constitution.

He is the only candidate not a member of the CFR!

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[feelfree1]

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.

[feelfree1]

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.

[lastdance2]

Alan Greenspan : "Iraq War - was Really for Oil"
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

[ikez78]

War on terror a fraud?

Nice job CBS. Your site attracts the most rabid of the rabid left.

Why do you think that is CBS? Any guess?

[twylacrat]

What a mess. We are sending our brightest and best to Iraq to fulfill the wishes of an evil, ignorant fool. Why? What does success look like? Decent people of substance and bravery are coming home in body bags while Bush smirks.....yes I said SMIRKS!

[micma-2009]

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.

[toldyouso21]

http://www.rr.com/flash/index.cfm?rev=10268, (american snipers planting stuff and then killing anyone that picks it up, Lord help anyone trying to find stuff to sell or use in rubble where our snipers are secretly posted.) WE will reap what we have sown. Hope God is selective in who has to reap what. I and mine were never for this horrible war.

[toldyouso21]

Now it is coming out that our military has a program where soldiers are told to plant evidence on the ground, in rubble etc. then to shoot and kill whoever picks it up. Also, that some (supposedly Army Rangers) are told to ''plant'' weapons on civilians who they kill in order to justify the kill. This probably gets to be a bit dubious if say an electrical cord is put on the ground and the victim who picks it up is a 5 year old child. The story concerning a case where a ranger planted evidence is the 3rd of such cases coming to light and the 3rd time a secret program used to "bait" Iraqi targets has been admitted to--though how,or to what level it is done is classified. NO doubt CBS will have the story either later today or sometime this week.

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.

[clestes-2009]

Oh boy, more progress!!

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.

[prinzowhales]

Nancy_Naive-If the Chimp and Barney''s protege, General Betrayus, are able to double the stats of their ''success'' in Iraq they will have trained close to 700,000 Iraqis-- and will have had around 300,000 disappear with their weapons...even as the Washington Regime reduces the number of US troops in Iraq...There will also be 2 million dead and 8 million refugees.

[antoniof123]

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.