Blasts In Baghdad Kill 15, Wound 29

Bombs At Bus Depot, Market Target Shiite Neighborhoods

(AP)  Bombs exploded at a bus station and a small market in Baghdad, killing 15 people and wounding 29 others Tuesday, police and hospital officials said.

A bomb hidden under a car exploded at a bus depot in the predominantly Shiite neighborhood of Mashtal on the capital's east side, killing 11 people, including two women. Twenty-one others were wounded in the attack, authorities said.

In the northern Shiite-dominated district of Qahira, four people were killed and eight others injured when a roadside bomb exploded near a market place, police said.

Also Tuesday, one person died when a roadside bomb targeted the convoy in central Baghdad of a Shiite government official and former member of the Iraqi Governing Council.

Ahmed Shiyaa al-Barak, who currently serves as the head of a government real estate commission, escaped the attack without injury. Five of his guards and four bystanders were injured in the bombing, police said.

Gunmen also shot dead a policeman in eastern Baghdad.

U.S. officials say attacks in the Iraqi capital are averaging about four a day - down nearly 90 percent from levels of late 2006, when Shiite-Sunni fighting was at its high point and just before the U.S. troop surge that helped bring down violence in the capital.

But Tuesday's blasts - coming a day after a string of bombings killed 10 people - mark an increase in bloodshed in Baghdad and underscore that extremists remain a threat.

In the northern city of Mosul, a suicide bomber rammed his car into a passing police patrol, injuring four officers, police said.

Two other attacks took place Tuesday in Mosul, which has also experienced a spike in violence in recent months. A roadside bomb struck an army patrol, injuring an officer, and a gunman opened fire on a policeman, wounding him.

(Left: A U.S. soldier holds his certificate and a folded U.S. flag during a citizenship ceremony in the al-Faw palace, Baghdad, Nov. 4, 2008. More than 200 service members who are immigrants received their U.S. citizenship.)

Elsewhere, the U.S. military said one civilian died on the scene of a road accident with coalition troops near the city of Tikrit, 80 miles north of the capital.

A second Iraqi died after being rushed to an aid station.

Iraqi police said an American Humvee ran over four Iraqis while they were trying to hang a banner in the middle of a road, killing two and wounding two others.

The Iraqi officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they was not authorized to release information to the media.

Violence has dropped in Iraq since the U.S. military and Iraqi security forces have gained the upper hand against insurgents, but scattered attacks still occur almost daily.

[Robert4229]

I write newspaper commentaries and Op-eds that give credit to the U.S. intelligence community (IC) and always deliver an upbeat message about the 16 agencies comprising the misunderstood and speciously maligned IC. As a member of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers (AFIO), I%u2019ve found the IC uses a disciplined approach that CIA analysts follow to forge their intelligence estimates. Unfortunately, our policy makers often mar intel report deductions by spinning (faking) the findings. I%u2019m sure many CIA analysts presaged what the aftermath of the Iraqi invasion would be like, but the Bush administration preemptively %u201Ccherry picked%u201D (forged) until the analysts'' methodical and reasoned conclusions metamorphosed into a politically-skewed and incompatible intelligence assessment.

The CIA did not offer faulty intelligence to the Bush administration, for the systematic process of gathering intelligence, analyzing the raw data, validating the reliability of the sources, then forming a logical, concluding depiction was tampered with by VP Cheney, et al. The end result%u2026the American public was defrauded, the entire Intelligence Community (IC) was singled out for blame after it was initially subjugated, and we keep reading about incidents like the article describes.

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[Robert4229]

Yes, I believe the systematic process of gathering intelligence, analyzing the raw data, validating the reliability of the sources, then forming a logical, concluding depiction was tampered with by policy makers. The end result%u2026the American public was defrauded and the entire IC was singled out for blame after it was initially subjugated. Thus, approaching 7 years later and here we are. I enjoy discussing the US Intelligence Community at: http://declassifiedsecrets.blogspot.com/
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[armydog2]

This will always be bush''s war and the blood of all of our Military men and women and the thousands of iraqi''s who lost their lives will stain his hands for eternity!!

[guadalcanal3]

grouchyjohn...Believe whatever you want...but "if" 9/11 did not happen...There would be no troops in Iraq....After 9/11...WMD''s became a very harsh reality...aka "paranoia"...(whether Iraq had them or not) The President would be very irresponsible to the American people..if he did nothing...and "assumed" that Saddam would not try to sell WMD''s to another entity that was not a "State"...hence hitting back at America for the 1991 Gulf war losses and then laughing and not claiming responsibility for it...A very real scenario.

[liberalme]

Baghdad needs the Iraqi Army and Sunni/Shia Militias. They quelled Al Qada. American Troops should be sent to Afghanistan. Islamic Clerics must denounce Al Qada for trafficking narcotics and smut. Al Qada fills the streets with tar heroin, methamphetamine, PCP, LSD, and powerful hashish. They promote forcible, sexual rape of small children as portrayed in their pornographic magazines.


Posted by Petro49L

And none ofthem were there until Bush used our troops as bait to bring them there--to his manufactured war!

Iraq was just fine until Bush went there for "weapons of mass destruction" ummm to kill Saddam---or to bring democracy, and in doing all this great work, Bush is responsible for the deaths of over 4000 troops, the maiming and disfigurement of hundreds of thousands of troops, the deaths of over 600,000 civilian Iraqis and the displacement of over 2 million Iraqis.

Bush now contends, the Iraqis are better off than they were---sure they are---now in a never ending perpetual conflict among themselves.

[grouchyjohn]

Bush''''s war???...If Obama wins this election it will become "Obama''''s war" (through inheritance of course)...At least that is what most of you bloggers out there will say...but...the truth is...it is "Osama Bin Laden''''s war"...he started it...We will finish it.

Posted by guadalcanal3 at 02:25 PM : Nov 04, 2008




Make no mistake - Iraq will ALWAYS be "Bush''s war". Irregardless of WHO gets elected president. The next guy will inherit the mess to clean up, but it will ALWAYS be "Bush''s war".

And Bin Laden didn''t start Iraq. He started the global "War of Terror", which Iraq had NO PART of UNTIL Bush made Iraq a safe haven for terrorists by removing Saddam Hussein.

[earache4]

...And the band played on.....

[guadalcanal3]

Bush''s war???...If Obama wins this election it will become "Obama''s war" (through inheritance of course)...At least that is what most of you bloggers out there will say...but...the truth is...it is "Osama Bin Laden''s war"...he started it...We will finish it.

[petro49l]

Baghdad needs the Iraqi Army and Sunni/Shia Militias. They quelled Al Qada. American Troops should be sent to Afghanistan. Islamic Clerics must denounce Al Qada for trafficking narcotics and smut. Al Qada fills the streets with tar heroin, methamphetamine, PCP, LSD, and powerful hashish. They promote forcible, sexual rape of small children as portrayed in their pornographic magazines.

[jerr11]

Why is it Bush''s war?

Because he lied us into the war.

Thanks Bush, Heckuva job!

[jerr11]

The corpses keep on piling up in Bush''s war.

Thanks Bush! Heckuva job!!