Promoted by Steven D. Your daily dose of Iraq.
BAGHDAD (ABC/AP) March 26 — Police found 30 corpses, most beheaded, near a village north of the capital Sunday night, in the latest wave of sectarian killings engulfing Iraq. At least 16 people were killed during a clash involving U.S. forces at a Shiite mosque in Baghdad.
BAGHDAD, Iraq Mar 27, 2006 (AP)– A suicide bomber attacked a joint U.S.-Iraqi military base in northern Iraq, killing at least 15 people and wounding as many as 30, the Iraqi military said.
The attack was reported shortly after noon at an Iraqi army recruiting center in front of the base, which is about 18 miles east of Tal Afar, the ancient city that President Bush singled out in a recent speech as a success story for American and Iraqi forces in the drive to quell the insurgency.
At Least 40 Dead in US-Iraq Base Blast
At least 40 people have been killed by a car bomb inside a military base housing US and Iraqi forces near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.
At least 16 people have been killed in a raid on a mosque in Baghdad where militants loyal to Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr were based, reports say. Aides to Mr Sadr say US forces led the raid on a mosque, while the US says Iraqi troops ran it with US support.
“No mosques were entered or damaged during this operation,” the US military said in a statement.
In a second raid, US troops arrested more than 40 Interior Ministry staff said to be guarding a secret prison.
‘Unarmed’
In Baghdad, an aide to Mr Sadr accused the US of killing unarmed people at the mosque.
“The American forces went into Mustafa mosque at prayers and killed more than 20 worshippers,” Hazim al-Araji told Reuters news agency.
But the US military statement denied that any troops had entered the mosque and said the US special forces troops were on hand only as advisers to the Iraqi troops. According to US spokesman Barry Johnstone, it was a joint operation with Iraqi Special Forces. The troops entered a community center with mosque affiliation where terrorists operated with a weapons cache found inside the building.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) March 27 — Baghdad provincial governor Hussein al-Tahan said today he would suspend all cooperation with U.S. forces until an independent investigation is launched into the killing of 20 Shi’ites in a mosque.
“But I will not let myself be reduced to silence.”
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So this is what “last throes” looks like? Kiss my ass Dick Cheney, you scumbag lying piece of crap!
Seems that once the “chains of tyranny” are removed, people pick up where they left off before they were shackled into silence. Artifical political boundaries are shattered by cultures reasserting their right to self-determination. The thing that history teaches.
Not exactly rocket science. Three maps of Iraq, the first tribal, the second ethnic/religion, and the third, political. Nothing like a chain-saw-through-butter approach to “diplomacy”. Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind.
A new week of slaughter. No end in sight. Nice war.
Yep, KingBabyBush..we’re “making progress” all right, but only in your twisted, psychotic world.
The worst part for me is knowing this man could be stopped if enough others with power would band together to stop it, and that they are choosing NOT to.
“The worst part for me is knowing this man could be stopped if enough others with power would band together to stop it, and that they are choosing NOT to.”
What I want to know is WHY? Why won’t they stop it?
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A protester is arrested during a demonstration against a visit to Australia by Britain’s Prime Minister Tony Blair at Parliament House in Canberra. The protest took place as Blair addressed Australian politicians inside Parliament House on Monday.
Blair Terrorist and U.S. LackeyReuters/Stringer Australia
Blair said today that Iraq and Afghanistan were decisive battlegrounds for the values the West believes in and warned of the risk of a U.S. retreat into isolationism.
● Australia a Terror Target, says Blair
● Blair Foreign Policy Speech
“But I will not let myself be reduced to silence.”
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Blair said today that Iraq and Afghanistan were decisive battlegrounds for the values the West believes in
Great, they have put all of our values on the line in unwinnable wars. I’m confused as why anyone still supports Blair and Bush with their horrible track record.
Of course, many in the media seem to have serious difficulty with basic logic. I saw a reporter on CNN yesterday say with no hint of irony that reporters need to report more on the 90% of Iraq that is peaceful but it’s too dangerous to go there.
Thanks for posting this. Lately, even on “the left”, the daily 50-100 murders have become just so much background noise.
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Sat Jan 14th, 2006 at 07:58:36 AM PST
May I do a little diary pimping here today? Oh Please… for I do not think many read this blog …
Since I do not know how to make the link or the box think, please forgive me if I do it straight … from Baghdad Burning:
LONDON (AFP) March 27 — An anonymous Iraqi woman was nominated as a contender for a major literary award for her Internet blog-based account of the Iraq war and its deadly impact on ordinary Iraqi people.
“Baghdad Burning” by the university graduate, who uses the pen name Riverbend, is longlisted for the 30,000-pound (52,000-dollar, 44,000-euro) Samuel Johnson prize — the world’s richest for a piece of non-fiction.
She is up against 18 other books out of 168 entries. Among fellow nominees are established names including Alan Bennett and his offering “Untold Stories“.
● Baghdad Burning Girl Blog from Iraq ◊ by Riverbend
“But I will not let myself be reduced to silence.”
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EMPHASIS ON SECURITY PARTNERSHIPS
With an estimated 25 percent of 400 foreign fighters captured in the insurgency in Iraq coming from Africa, according to the Defense Department’s European Command (EUCOM), security partnerships with African nations are becoming more important.
In Africa, according to the security strategy document, “the struggle against militant Islamic radicalism” is being waged with new security partnerships like the Global Peace Operations Initiative, launched at the 2004 G8 Summit “to train peacekeepers for duty in Africa.”
“But I will not let myself be reduced to silence.”
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