BAGHDAD, May 1, 2008
Suicide Attack On Wedding Kills 35 In Iraq
Iraqi Police Say Double Suicide Bombing Wounds 65; Car Bomb Kills At Least 10 In Baghdad
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U.S. Army soldiers secure the area of a car bomb attack in central Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, May 1, 2008. A parked car bomb aimed at a U.S. patrol Thursday in Baghdad killed at least nine Iraqi civilians and wounded 26, police said. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
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In Baghdad, a car bomb aimed at a U.S. patrol in Baghdad on Thursday killed an American soldier and least nine Iraqi civilians and wounded 26, police and military said.
The first attack on the wedding convoy in the town of Balad Ruz was carried out by a female suicide bomber, said Army Maj. Gen. Abdul-Karim al-Rubaie, an official with the Diyala provincial operations center that oversees the town.
About 10 minutes later, a man detonated his explosives as rescue workers were trying to help the victims of the first attack, Al-Rubaie said.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility but the attack bore the hallmarks of al Qaeda in Iraq.
The Baghdad explosion occurred about 9:15 a.m. in a crowded commercial area in the eastern part of the city, police officials said. The U.S. military said a soldier died of wounds sustained in the blast.
Three women and a child were among the nine Iraqis killed in the attack, police said.
The soldier's death raises to at least 4,064 members of the U.S. military who have died since the Iraq war started in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
Health officials also said clashes in Baghdad's Shiite militia stronghold of Sadr City killed eight people, including two women and a child, and wounded 22 others, including women and children.
The Iraqi officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to release the information.
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has accused fighters of the anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army of using residents as human shields during close combat in the teeming slum, which has become the epicenter of fighting since a government crackdown triggered clashes in late March.
The militants have no choice but to lay down their weapons, al-Maliki said Thursday. He called on Shiite clerics and lawmakers to try to prevent the militants from using innocent people as cover.
In fighting Thursday, U.S. forces killed a senior member of what they say Iranian-backed forces in Sadr City in an airstrike, the military said.
In a raid, U.S.-backed Iraqi forces seized a large stockpile of ammunition including 10 roadside bombs at a mosque in Abu Dshir, the military said. Iraqi police said 45 mortar rounds and 42 rockets were also seized in the raid in the Shiite-dominated neighborhood.
In fighting late Wednesday and early Thursday in Sadr City, U.S. soldiers killed 18 militants in a series of clashes. Several of the militants had fired on the military or were preparing to. Other militants were killed while planting a roadside bomb. The fighting was reported in statements issued Thursday by the military.
A roadside bomb struck an Iraqi patrol car on Thursday, killing two Iraqi soldiers in the northern city of Mosul, police said.
Lt. Col. Steve Stover, a military spokesman for American troops in Baghdad, blamed the militants for putting civilians at risk by staging attacks from populated areas.
"We will exercise all precaution when returning fire; however, we will defend ourselves against violent aggression," Stover said.
Stover blamed what he called Iranian-backed groups of launching attacks on U.S. troops, adding that U.S. troops were working hard to specifically target the enemy and avoid civilian casualties.
The Iraqi government, meanwhile, sent a delegation of five Shiite politicians to Iran carrying documents and other material they claim indicates that Tehran is supplying weapons and training fighters who are locked in a violent standoff with U.S. and Iraqi troops, a government official said. The official spoke on condition because he wasn't authorized to release the information.
The visit comes as U.S. military has stepped up its allegations that Iran is continuing to train and arm Shiite militias despite Tehran's insistence that it is not fueling violence in Iraq but trying to promote stability in the neighboring country.
The fighting in Sadr City - a base for the powerful Mahdi Army militia - intensified after al-Sadr last week threatened to unleash an "open war" against U.S.-led forces who try to exert control, with the help of Iraqi forces, over an area containing nearly half of the Baghdad's population.
The U.S. military reported early Thursday that a soldier had been killed by an explosion Wednesday near a patrol in Ninevah province.
Around Iraq, at least 1,080 Iraqi civilians and security forces were killed nationwide last month, or an average of 36 a day, according to an AP tally. That's down from March's total of 1,269, or an average of 41 per day.
Officials reported at least 479 deaths in Sadr City but they could not break down the number of militants, Iraqi Security forces and civilians.
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See all 90 CommentsThis is an old trick...the Soviets used it on the Eastern Front in the Ukraine...they would dress their agents in German uniforms and attack Ukrainian villages and rape, murder and slaughter to help incite them against the Germans.
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Posted by libagenda at 02:58 PM : May 01, 2008
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So tell us swastika breath, what right do we have to be telling these people how to govern themselves...other than the fact that you Nazi''s think you are superior and all??? Sieg Heil Bush
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Posted by notblue at 02:42 PM : May 01, 2008
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So you know these folks are Radical Islam HOW? Has it ever entered that very small and insignificant mind that THESE citizens of Iraq DO NOT want us there? Has it ever crossed your mind that they do NOT agree with us. I know one of the 935 LIES told to us before the invasion was that they''d meet us with open arms... but why should we believe that...or for that matter anything else the Fuhrer has told us... on this the FIFTH Aniversary of the BIGGEST LIE of them all??? You should go pull up that speech sparky... the one on the flight deck of that Ship!! LISTEN to the lies as they roll out! Sieg Heil Bush
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Posted by downsteamjim at 03:22 PM : May 01, 2008
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Well for those of you who PRACTICE the failed Political View of course. It seems that EVERYONE on here who does NOT hold to the view of the Party on this issue is a member of Islam of some other Hate Target... Now just what part of the word FASCIST is it you do NOT understand?? YOU know you can pick up a Political Scientice Course at night don''t you?? Sieg Heil Bush!! ROFLMAO Not really the sharpest knife in the old drawer are you there Mein Bootlicker?? ROFLMAO
Mission accomplished!
Heckuva job!
The surge is working!
We''re turning the corner!
Yeah right!
As Harry Powell said, "A liar is an abomination in the eyes of the Lord."
This president is an abomination in the eyes of the Lord!
Posted by notblue at 04:40 PM : May 01, 2008
My point is this is not a real war, it''s a scheme to enrich the neocons and their cronies.
This is a war based on 935 Lies.
Posted by notblue at 04:40 PM : May 01, 2008
To continue the discussion, if you believe that we''re in Iraq to fight terrorism, you must also believe that Warren Jeffs is a prophet.
The real war on terror is in Afghanistan, in Somalia and everywhere these islamist hoodlums are hiding.
These neocons had been eyeing Iraq for years before 9/11 and it gave them the perfect pretext to go in and we''re still paying the price.
4059 Dead Americans.
$12,000,000,000 a month!
$3,000,000,000,000 the total cost!
Why do we think we are all struggling back here, just putting food on the table and gas in the tank?
Where did all our tax dollars go to?
And all because of 935 lies!
Labor Day is September 1 --- Today is May Day
And stop denying science - Pluto''s not a planet & you are related to monkeys
You still don''t know the 1st thing about terrorism, do you ??
Posted by libagenda at 05:42 PM : May 01, 2008
The guy you are talking about used to live about a thousand years ago and never lived in the United States.
The real problem for the United States are those PSYCHOTIC CHRISTAINS who play THE FATHER, THE SON and THE HOLY SPIRIT in the HOLY CHURCHES (The conservative, god-loving, republican supporter christian man is "THE FATHER", that young innocent little boy whose pant is pulled down in the name of the god is "THE SON" and what is inserted in the BACK HOLE of that innocent boy in the name of JESUS is "THE HOLY SPIRIT").
The real threat against our nation are republicans like congress man "FOLEY" who voted against HOMOSEXUAL''s right of marriage and himself was harrasing a 14 years old boy on the internet.
The real threat for our nation are Republicans like Larry Craig, who voted against Homosexuals'' right of marriage and himself was tapping foot in Minnesota airport bathroom.
The real threat against our nation are hypocrite MORAL CHAMPION like Bill O''rielly who was sexullay harassing a female at work and then gave her $10 million to keep her mouth shut.
You think a man became a God & Jesus gave Moses the big 10 Commandments and that only your believes are right
Who came first; Jesus or Moses?
If you really hate islamic radicals, How do you support bush whose policies only benifited Oil rich islamic radicals and hurt America and American interest?
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Posted by j-whitman at 06:03 PM : May 01, 2008
I really don''t care who follows what religion as long as they impose their religious non-sense on themselves and don''t bring it in politics. It''s very stressful though when people use religion to steal tax dollars like Cheney did on behalf of people like singinrick who were expecting jesus coming out of the rubbles of Baghdad.
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No one is saying that the violence is not real...that is a straw dog...created by people like ''notblue'' who have straw enough between their ears for such an undertaking.
The false flag attack is an age old strategy...It has been used in the Argentina, Algeria, Russia, the United States, Ireland, Israel and the Iraq. The object of the attack is to cause the civilian population to not support one''s opponent.
These senseless attacks on civilians win no support for the freedom fighters...and it has been shown time and again that the ''leaders'' of al Qaeda are tied closer to US intelligence than to any kind of putative ''terrorist'' organization.
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