Suicide Car Bombing Kills 25 In Iraq

U.S. Military Blames Al Qaeda In Iraq For Attack

(AP)  The U.S. military blamed al Qaeda in Iraq Saturday for a suicide car bombing in the northern Iraqi town of Tal Afar, while an Iraqi official said the death toll in the attack had risen to 25.

An Iraqi security official, meanwhile, said the attacker was a Sunni Turkoman who had been detained by the U.S. military but was released four months ago under an Iraqi amnesty law.

The bomber may have avoided detection at a checkpoint leading to the busy market by having a man ride with him in the passenger seat, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media. The passenger got off soon after the car passed the checkpoint, he added, citing witness reports and forensic tests.

Suicide car bombers are known to ride alone in most cases, so having a passenger next to them could help them avoid detection. Tal Afar, a frequent target of suicide bombings over the past five years, bans males from driving alone.

An indefinite curfew was imposed on the predominantly ethnic Turkoman town, the official said, adding the death toll had risen to 25 after four people died from their wounds.

Initial reports said the blast was caused by an explosives-laden car parked near a fruit and vegetable market. But Capt. Charles Calio, a U.S. military spokesman, said it was a suicide attack.

"One al Qaeda in Iraq terrorist died when he detonated a vehicle-borne bomb," Calio said in an e-mailed statement.

The blast occurred amid heightened tensions among ethnic groups throughout northern Iraq because of a dispute over control of the oil-rich city of Kirkuk. The city is claimed by the Kurds, who want to annex it to their self-ruled region, but its Arab and Turkomen residents want to remain under central government control.

The top U.S. diplomat and military commander in Iraq condemned the attack in Tal Afar, 260 miles northwest of Baghdad.

Ambassador Ryan Crocker and Gen. David Petraeus said in a joint statement Saturday that the "senseless" attack will further unite the Iraqi people to reject al Qaeda in Iraq and the "indiscriminate" violence it inflicts on civilians.

Northern Iraq has been suffering most from insurgent attacks while the rest of the country has seen the lowest levels of violence in four years. That improvement has been attributed to the dispatch of additional U.S. troops last year, a cease-fire by a Shiite militia and a revolt by Sunni tribesmen and insurgents against the al Qaeda in Iraq.

The deadly Tal Afar bombing was a grim reminder that al Qaeda in Iraq and other militant groups remain capable of executing major attacks in Iraq despite the presence of about 145,000 troops and what is widely perceived as improving Iraqi security forces.

Meanwhile, Georgia - the third largest contributor to the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq - said it is pulling out its entire 2,000-strong contingent from Iraq to join the fighting in the breakaway province of South Ossetia as soon as transport can be arranged.

A U.S. military spokesman said the departure of the Georgians will have "some impact" in the near term but no significant long-term effect on Iraq's security.

Col. Bondo Maisuradze, commander of the Georgia brigade, told The Associated Press Saturday that all his troops would be leaving, but he couldn't say when because transportation arrangements had not been finalized. "All the Georgian guys will be leaving for the homeland," he said.

The Georgians have asked the United States to provide transportation, and U.S. spokesman Capt. Charles G. Calio said all options are being considered.

In scattered violence Saturday, a bodyguard who works for Youth and Sports Minister Jassim Mohammed Ja'afar was gunned down outside his home near the city of Kirkuk, according to a police source who did not want to be named because he is not authorized to disclose the information.

Also in northern Iraq, gunmen shot dead a 50-year-old woman outside her home in the al-Maamoun district in Mosul, 225 miles northwest of Baghdad.

In the capital, an American soldier was killed and two others were wounded in a roadside bombing Friday night, the U.S. military said.

[hotpaulie]

This is a nightmare...not just for Bush but for all of America. All the resources we stuck into this mess may be for nothing.

[timdgrim]

But the ''Surge'' is working, don''t these Al-Queada people know this. Listen to John McCain, he says it 9000 times a day!

[stn_sage]

Well this blows holes in the repeated claims that Iraq has been pacified!

Apparently, there are those who don''t respond to or take orders from al-Sadr, huh?! Probably, more than just this guy, too?! Huh?

al-quaeda? A Sunni Turkomen?! Maybe. Or, just another guy with a sectarian or regionist point-of-view! Huh?

We''ll see.

[caliguy55]

Here''s the latest lies and deceits from John McBush and his media lap dogs:


Just last week, McCain and his party attacked Barack Obama and ridiculed the idea that keeping your car tires inflated is an effective way to improve fuel efficiency and keep down the cost of gasoline. The thing is, everyone from AAA to NASCAR agreed with Barack. McCain finally had to face reality this week and reverse his position. But the media had a good laugh about McCain''s petty, misguided stunt and ignored his effort to distort the truth to win a few cheap political points.


Earlier this week, the McCain campaign put out an ad saying that Washington is broken. It''s gotten a lot of press so far, but it didn''t mention that John McCain spent the last 26 years in Washington -- failing to fix this broken system. He portrays himself as a so-called "maverick" but doesn''t want people to know that he has voted 95% of the time in support of George Bush''s policies.


Another ad uses scare tactics to claim Barack''s tax policy will hurt middle class Americans. Press coverage of the ad repeated McCain''s smears, but omitted the fact that Barack''s economic plan will cut taxes for 95% of American families. Not to mention that McCain''s upper class tax cut plan leaves out more than 100 million middle class families.

[babooph]

Some one should tell them Gen Westm --oops Petraus "surge" will win & all is calm now.I know the same propaganda system assured me of this more than once.

[downtowner97]

It''s time to accept this type of thing as normal behavior for these people, and pull out our forces there. Having a dictator like Saddam in Iraq was the ONLY way to keep peace there. That was why we created Saddam in the first place.

Nothing that is happening or has happened in Iraq since we invaded is or has been worth the money or lives we''ve lost there. Our own country''s problems have gone ignored.

[terrorislamw]

FASCIST NAZI TERRORISLAM IS THE PROBLEM,,,

DEMONIC-RAT HUSSEIN IS NOT THE SOLUTION,,,

EXPOSE HUSSEIN
http://www.exposeobama.com/obamaislam.html

www.obamatruth.org

www.stop-obama.org

A Video Portrait Of Barack Hussein Obama
http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/video.aspx?RsrcID=2036

The Barack Obama Test
http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/02/the_barack_obama_test.html

Obama-Odinga-Rezko-Ayers-Auchi-Saddam Hussein
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIe4d9Nmg9k

Raila Odinga was also financially backed by Muammar al-Gaddafi. Raila Odinga is Obama''s cousin:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/717...

Why does Raila Odinga use Obama''s exact same campaign slogan: CHANGE....Vote for CHANGE: Look at his website:
http://www.raila07.com/

IMPEACH HUSSEIN NOW,,,

SIGN THE PETITION

Impeach, expel Barack Obama
http://obamaimpeachment.org

HUSSEIN IS NO COMMANDER IN CHIEF,,, lol

McCain Tops Obama in Commander-in-Chief Test; Stays Competitive on Iraq

Poll Finds 72 Percent of Americans Say McCain Would be Good Commander-in-Chief
http://abcnews.go.com/PollingUnit/Politics/Story?id=5370538&page=1

Obama: Commander-in-(mis)chief?
http://english.aljazeera.net/focus/imperium/2008/07/200872011345855233.html

[downtowner97]

Bush now has a 25% approval rating. McCain has voted the same as Bush 95% of the time while in the senate. There''s no way he can win on a platform that we''ve won in Iraq when stories like this come out every couple of days.

[downtowner97]

Newt Gingrich attacked Obama after his world tour for saying he is a citizen of the world. Gingrich claims that saying you are a citizen of the world is subversive somehow. The hilarious thing is that Obama was quoting GOP saint Ronald Reagan. The GOP has decided that even caring what other countries think of us is subversive some way, all while Bush names off the long list of countries that are helping us fight the War on Terror.

[foxmulder33]

Again, how is the SURGE working? How are we winning this war? When are oil prices going to drop to twenty dollars a barrel? Where is our Commander-in-Chief?

[lambor59]

Who knows, this may not be a suicide but a cruise missle from the US war ships, I belived nothing from Bush media outlets, CNN, CBS, NBC and the best is Fox news, nothing form these propaganda machines is belivable.
Arabs or persians are not really my favorite people but Bush and his death squads are killing those poor people in hundred of thousands like they did to the japanese in ww2, this is total holocaus.

[terrorislamw]

Posted by lambor59 at 03:16 AM : Aug 10, 2008

dont you just hate these stupid silly little fascist nazi terrorislamic muslims pretending to be liberal Americana,,, and begging for the usa to leave iraq,,, lol,,, they must be really getting their arses kicked,,, hahahahahaha,,,

and these fascist nazi terrorislamic muslim collaborators,,,

THEY ARE LOSING

Attacks in Baghdad fall 80 percent: Iraq military
http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSL1880448320080216?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews

Qaeda defeated in Baghdad: Iraqi PM
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080215182516.1kw853y4&show_article=1

Al-Qaeda leaders admit: ''We are in crisis. There is panic and fear''
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article3346386.ece

Last letter from doomed Al Qaida chief: "We are so desperate for your help"
http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2007/ss_iraq_09_30.asp

Iraq insurgency: People rise against al-Qa''eda

Damien McElroy spent a week in the heart of the insurgency in Anbar province in Iraq. In the second of seven exclusive reports he describes how peace and prosperity have returned to a town formerly riven by sectarian killings.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/10/08/wanbar308.xml

[latrocinor-2009]

Again, how is the SURGE working? How are we winning this war? When are oil prices going to drop to twenty dollars a barrel? Where is our Commander-in-Chief?

Posted by foxmulder33
.......................

Of course no answer will satisfy you so why bother trying?

[stn_sage]

Again, how is the SURGE working? How are we winning this war? When are oil prices going to drop to twenty dollars a barrel? Where is our Commander-in-Chief?

Posted by foxmulder33
.......................
Of course no answer will satisfy you so why bother trying?

Posted by Latrocinor at 03:24 AM : Aug 10, 2008
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The point is: you have no valid, reasonable answers to these questions to give, so obcourse you have no responses! So, pretend the other guy just doesn''t get it! Right!

[terrorislamw]

Again, how is the SURGE working? How are we winning this war? When are oil prices going to drop to twenty dollars a barrel? Where is our Commander-in-Chief?

Posted by foxmulder33
.......................
Of course no answer will satisfy you so why bother trying?

Posted by Latrocinor at 03:24 AM : Aug 10, 2008
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The point is: you have no valid, reasonable answers to these questions to give, so obcourse you have no responses! So, pretend the other guy just doesn''''t get it! Right!
Posted by stn_sage at 05:18 AM : Aug 10, 2008

it is intuitively obvious to the most casual observer,,,

BTW,,, it has nothing to do with oil prices nancy,,,

[stn_sage]

Of course no answer will satisfy you so why bother trying?
Posted by Latrocinor at 03:24 AM : Aug 10, 2008
-----------------------
The point is: you have no valid, reasonable answers to these questions to give, so obcourse you have no responses! So, pretend the other guy just doesn''''''''t get it! Right!
Posted by stn_sage at 05:18 AM : Aug 10, 2008
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it is intuitively obvious to the most casual observer,,,
BTW,,, it has nothing to do with oil prices nancy,,,
Posted by terrorislamw at 05:23 AM : Aug 10, 2008
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So, it''s intuitively obvious, huh?! So, when you''re not posting columns of gibberish or ranting incoherently, you also believe you''re a mind-reader?!
My, my---aren''t ''we'' special, Mr. Terroristamw?!
I think you''re a flaming fruitcake, nancy!

[nextgenman]

Posted by terrorislamw at 05:56 AM : Aug 10, 2008
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How''s that Surge going? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

[beboldin09]

Finally, some more news for liberals to salivate over. They''ve been itching for another Al Queda attack in Iraq.

[beboldin09]

How''''s that Surge going? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!


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Posted by nextGenMan

The surge has been a tremendous success.

How many people have been murdered in Detroit, LA, Compton, New York City, and Chicago this past year? What about the USA as a whole? How many innocent people have been murdered in our country this past year?

You sir are a desperate liberal defeatest idiot who has invested in the defeat of America at all cost. News like this only fuels your hatred of America and our allies.

Thank GOD you are a tiny minority and don''t represent the majority of the American people. Even most of your liberal pals and politicians have admitted that the surge has been a success.

But you''re so far out in left field that if the USA is not defeated by Islamic fundamentalism you will cry a river so long for not getting your way that there won''t be delta big enuogh for it to flow into.

So the conclusion we can make here is this:

You are a cry baby whiner, who has no purpose and meaning in life, other than to patrol internet message forums trying to draw attention to yourself to boost that incredibly childish thick ego of yours.

GROW UP

[beboldin09]

Arabs or persians are not really my favorite people but Bush and his death squads are killing those poor people in hundred of thousands like they did to the japanese in ww2, this is total holocaus.


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Posted by lambor59 at 03:16 AM : Aug 10, 2008


You are a freaking liar. The only ones who are DEATH TROOPS are these WICKED EVIL ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALIST JIHADISTS who will BUTCHER THEIR OWN PEOPLE (MUSLIMS) FOR NOT PARTICIPATING IN MILITANT JIHAD!

OUR TROOPS ARE THE ONES PROTECTING THE INNOCENT FROM THIS EVIL YOU SICK LIAR.

YOU''RE MOST LIKELY A JIHADI PROPAGANDIST PUSHING YOUR WICKED, EVIL, EVIL, EVIL DECEPTIONS ON AN AMERICAN MESSAGE FORUM.

HERE''S SOME SIMPLE MATH FOR YOU:

US TROOPS = THE GOOD GUYS

ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALIST JIHAD: THE BAD GUYS, THE EVIL

Go get your 72 virgins, freak!

[nextgenman]

Posted by BeBoldin09 at 06:39 AM : Aug 10, 2008
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You sound like the crybaby whiner.

[nextgenman]

Posted by BeBoldin09 at 06:39 AM : Aug 10, 2008
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I tell those 25 dead from the suicide bombing how your lovely surge is working....HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

[terrorislamw]

Posted by nextGenMan at 06:17 AM : Aug 10, 2008

dont you just hate these stupid silly little fascist nazi terrorislamic muslims pretending to be liberal Americana,,, and begging for the usa to leave iraq,,, lol,,, they must be really getting their arses kicked,,, hahahahahaha,,,

and these fascist nazi terrorislamic muslim collaborators,,,

THEY ARE LOSING

Attacks in Baghdad fall 80 percent: Iraq military
http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSL1880448320080216?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews

Qaeda defeated in Baghdad: Iraqi PM
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080215182516.1kw853y4&show_article=1

Al-Qaeda leaders admit: ''We are in crisis. There is panic and fear''
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article3346386.ece

Last letter from doomed Al Qaida chief: "We are so desperate for your help"
http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2007/ss_iraq_09_30.asp

Iraq insurgency: People rise against al-Qa''eda

Damien McElroy spent a week in the heart of the insurgency in Anbar province in Iraq. In the second of seven exclusive reports he describes how peace and prosperity have returned to a town formerly riven by sectarian killings.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/10/08/wanbar308.xml

Al-Qaeda In Iraq Reported Crippled
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/14/AR2007101401245_pf.html

[imprisonkarl]

terrorislamv --

Getting your morning cookies? How sad to be you -- never knowing what normal *** is like . . . oh, well, just the nature of the repressed Rethuglican beast, n''est pas?

Speaking of ***, where''s Fake War Hero Johnny''s latest little ho, Vicki Iseman? She kinda disappeared overnight once her affair w/McSame was revealed by his aides -- what did you guys do with her body?

The voters deserve an explanation about ALL of McSame''s mistresses -- not just the one he''s married to -- in order to reach an informed decision about who would be the better Commander-in-Chief.

The Rethuglicans came up with the Marital Fidelity Matrix for Prez Candidates, afterall. Shouldn''t it be applied to their own candidate as well?

[nextgenman]

Posted by terrorislamw at 08:02 AM : Aug 10, 2008
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Spam.
You lost Iraq the second you went in for no reason.

[imprisonkarl]

Wouldn''t surprise me one bit if these so-called al-Qaeda attacks were really perpetrated by Darth Cheney thugs to help push the official regime storyline about the urgency to invade Iran.

Cheney needs an excuse to initiate his coup d''etat here at home, and an invasion of Iran is the perfect opportunity to pull it off. Plus, he''s got all the Blackwater troops he needs to put down any domestic insurrection.

Yeah, this definitely smells like another Doug Feith/David Addington Neocon-Fascist Smoke & Mirrors Number.

[hungry1968]

The surge has been a tremendous success.

How many people have been murdered in Detroit, LA, Compton, New York City, and Chicago this past year? What about the USA as a whole? How many innocent people have been murdered in our country this past year?

Posted by BeBoldin09 at 06:39 AM : Aug 10, 2008





Yes Rick - you are correct.

We SHOULD be focusing on solving our own problems, BEFORE we try to solve everyone else''s problems. Like OUR crime problems, OUR health care crisis, OUR national security......

[hungry1968]

Wouldn''''t surprise me one bit if these so-called al-Qaeda attacks were really perpetrated by Darth Cheney thugs to help push the official regime storyline about the urgency to invade Iran.

Cheney needs an excuse to initiate his coup d''''etat here at home, and an invasion of Iran is the perfect opportunity to pull it off. Plus, he''''s got all the Blackwater troops he needs to put down any domestic insurrection.

Yeah, this definitely smells like another Doug Feith/David Addington Neocon-Fascist Smoke & Mirrors Number.

Posted by imprisonkarl at 08:34 AM : Aug 10, 2008





They don''t need an excuse. They''ll just do it - they don''t answer to the people, they don''t answer to congress, they don''t answer to the senate, they don''t follow the rule of law......

[nextgenman]

Posted by terrorislamw at 08:56 AM : Aug 10, 2008
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Spam. Yawn. Surge Failed. Iraq Failed.

Now the Iraqis are kicking Bush out. That''s Bush''s legacy: Failure.

[petro49l]

25 innocent Iraqis were murdered by Osama Bin Laden. His clique, Al Qada pushes tar heroin throughout the region. Coalition Forces should capture Bin Laden, order a medical frontal lobotomy, then give Osama a fair trial. Afterward, he will be executed for felonies against humanity.