Bomb At Blast Site Kills Iraq Police Chief

(CBS/AP)  A suicide bomber struck officials fleeing an ambush in Mosul, northern Iraq on Thursday, killing the provincial police chief and two other officers and wounding U.S. and one Iraqi soldier, the military said.

The attack occurred at the site of a blast that killed at least 34 people and wounded 224 the day before. The toll was raised Thursday from a previous total of 18 killed.

The Thursday attacker was wearing an explosives vest under an Iraqi police uniform when he struck, killing Brig. Gen. Saleh Mohammed Hassan, the director of police for Ninevah province, of which Mosul is the capital, according to the statement.

The Iraqi army was securing the area, and a curfew was put in place across Mosul in the wake of the suicide attack.

An Iraqi police spokesman said Hassan was attacked after gunmen ambushed the blast site, sparking clashes that lasted for about 15 minutes. The bomber moved toward Hassan's car as it was preparing to flee the area, said Brig. Gen. Saeed al-Jubouri, a police spokesman.

Hassan was wounded and taken to an Iraqi army hospital, where he was pronounced dead, al-Jubouri said.

The ambush came first, as attackers opened fire on the police chief at about 9:30 a.m., as he walked through the wreckage with his entourage.

The brazen attack happened a day after a huge blast tore through a vacant apartment building and adjacent houses in the volatile northern Iraqi city just minutes after the Iraqi army arrived to investigate tips about a weapons cache.

American and Iraqi forces have been on the offensive against militants in and around Baghdad, but Mosul - Iraq's third-largest city some 225 miles northwest of the capital - continues to be a center of gravity for al Qaeda in Iraq and other insurgents, according to the U.S. military.

Duraid Kashmola, the governor of Ninevah province, of which Mosul is the capital, imposed an indefinite curfew in the city's downtown area following the clashes.

The blast in Mosul was the latest in a series of bombings across Iraq, including in some areas that have seen a relative calm recently with the security gains from U.S.-Iraqi operations and a Sunni revolt against al Qaeda in Iraq.

A roadside bomb also struck a police patrol Thursday in central Baghdad, killing two officers and wounding two others, along with three civilians, police said. The explosion occurred about 8 a.m. in the predominantly Shiite neighborhood of Karradah.

The huge blast in Mosul went off Wednesday just after the troops arrived to investigate, and no soldier was reported killed.

Instead, the explosion ravaged dozens of old homes and collapsed a three-story building in a mostly Sunni neighborhood in Mosul, about 225 miles northwest of Baghdad.

Mosul, a major transportation hub with highways leading west to Syria and south to Baghdad, is considered a crucial conduit in the flow of money and foreign fighters to support the insurgency. The military said earlier this week that it was the last urban center with a strong presence of al Qaeda in Iraq.

Wednesday's explosion came shortly after the army received calls that insurgents were using the vacant building as a shelter and a bomb-making factory, according to al-Jubouri, the police spokesman.

Police raised the casualty toll on Thursday to at least 18 civilians killed and 146 injured as more victims were pulled from the rubble.

[terrorislam6]

looking for a young wife???
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5541006

[terrorislam6]

Dutch Braced For ''Koran Insult'' Backlash

If I insult you, am I responsible for your violence?

It''s a question being debated in the Netherlands this week as Dutch embassies around the world beef up their security ahead of the release of a film on the internet which allegedly insults the Koran. It''s reported to show the Koran being torn up and otherwise desecrated.
http://martinstanford.typepad.com/foreign_matters/2008/01/dutch-braced-fo.html

[terrorislam6]

IS ISLAM RETARDED??? I TOLD YOU THEY WERE FASCIST NAZIS

Dutch Politician: Islamic Culture Is ''''Retarded''''

Dutch Politician Plans to Air Film Criticizing the Koran

A Dutch politician known for his views against Islam plans to air a film he produced that is critical of the Koran, which he likens to Adolf Hitler''''s hateful writings.

Parliamentarian Geert Wilders spoke to FOX News about the documentary, insisting the Muslim holy book is dangerous and should be banned.

"I believe the Koran is, indeed, ''''Mein Kampf.'''' They are the same package," Wilders said. "I believe that our culture is far better than the retarded Islamic culture."
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,325305,00.html

[ontheleft]

The Associated Press forgot to bury the 2 recent U.S. soldier''s deaths in the last paragraph of this Iraq story.

[j-whitman]

What happened to the olden days when all they gave you was an exploding cigar ???

[mcvet]

Just because you refuse to look at this bigger picture and need to spew your nonsensical crapp to justify your hatred for the president doesn''''t make everyone a "Nazi" or a "bootlicker. So get over yourself and try seeing the "bigger picture".




Posted by notblue at 05:59 PM : Jan 24, 2008
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Man I gotta say you are ONE dancing nazi that''s for sure. Look at the facts and TELL me where we are winning swastika breath!! We aren''t winning in Iraq and we most certainly aren''t winning in the fight against the man who attacked us. What kind of message are we sending to would be Terrorist.. we do not bring the guy who attacked us to justice but instead LIE over and over and over and over to our OWN people to start a war against a country that was NO threat to us in any way? That isn''t just stupid it''s LOSING. You can deny it and follow your party as long as you want but the results are the same. As for you people being fascist... I defy you to find me ONE just ONE independent Policical Scientist who finds your "blame the lib''s" trash anything else. Just one will do!! Sieg Heil Bush!!

[feelfree1]

MCVet,

"notblue" appears unable to grasp the difference between nationalists that are struggling to rid their country of illegal invaders, and religious extremists with a completely different objective.

Not surprising though, as this poster does not seem to have a good grasp of any topic, other than fascism, goose-stepping, and boot/arse-licking.

[notblue]

Mcvet, you know nothing of me or my previous experience, whether or not I was in the military etc. People like you always bring that up when you have nothing else of value to bring to the discussion. As far as Iraq and Bin Laden go you people obviously have no grasp of the enemy we are fighting or purposely refuse the truth due to blinded politics. It''s moronic to think these radical militants have allegiance to any specific or flag flag. These militants are fighting for an ideology not a specific country. If you were actually to admit this fact then your Iraq mantra would be idiotic and nonsensical. You claim to be a veteran yet you are unable to grasp and understand the strategic significance of Iraq. Get out a map and take a look at Iraq from a geograghic and strategic view point. Osama Bin Laden is said to be hiding out between Pakistan and Afghanistan so according to your logic we should be fighting those countries, he originally came from Sadui Arabia so we should be fighting that country. Listen, When Japan attacked pearl harbor we recognized they were part of a larger picture and a larger enemy that presided in multiple countries. The war on terror and the greater middle east is a similar situation. Just because you refuse to look at this bigger picture and need to spew your nonsensical crapp to justify your hatred for the president doesn''t make everyone a "Nazi" or a "bootlicker. So get over yourself and try seeing the "bigger picture".

[mcvet]

People like McVet that frequent these posts are traitors to America and supporters of the enemies he is unable to understand.



Posted by notblue at 12:14 PM : Jan 24, 2008

Really? How many times have YOU picked up a rifle, put on the Uniform of the United States and walked into combat. Just because I don''t march to your Party and your fuhrer''s beliefs DOES NOT mean anything OTHER than YOU are a NAZI!! Is there something you do NOT understand about that? If you think I''m the ONLY one calling you freaks that you are sadly mistaken too. Helll the citizens of Germany think Bush and the present day Republican Party are fascist... who would know you better than they? Now come on freak... get out that hood and sheet, I and everyone else knows you got it under your bed. Ready??? SIEG HEIL BUSH! SIEG HEIL to the LIAR!!

[mcvet]

Trolls like McVet are unable to comprehend the enemy and war America is currently engaged in. He just hates and calls all others who do not agree with his hate induced, inccorect, psychotic, stance Nazi''''s! This further exemplifies his inability to grasp reality as those Nazi comparisons of fellow American citizens are factually and historically false, foolish, and idiotic. People like McVet that frequent these posts are traitors to America and supporters of the enemies he is unable to understand.




Posted by notblue at 12:14 PM : Jan 24, 2008
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Typical Fascist. Now folks I raised several points in my post.. the most significant of which was the the guy who PLANNED and ORDERED the attack on this nation, Bin Laden, was IN Pakistan laughing his butt off at Sir LIES-A-LOT. The Above is the response to that POINT. It''s hard to figure out... do these Bootlickers actually BELIEVE he''s in Iraq? Do they deny he''s in Pakistan? Do they doubt our Intel that says he''s completely rebuilt? Who know''s because they focus, as Fascist always do, on ME the person who raised the fact. Now I have ACTUALLY been in Combat folks and when your enemy is sitting back, rebuilding his organization and YOU are bogged down fighting OTHER people, you are getting a Butt Whoopin. Calling me names may help them THINK they are superior is some sick way but does it change the facts? Nope! Sieg Heil Bush!!