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Four killed, 12 injured in Iraq violence (Roundup)
Jun 21, 2008, 13:45 GMT
Baghdad - At least four people were killed and 12 wounded in separate incidents across Iraq, police and media reports said Saturday.
Police told the Voices of Iraq (VOI) news agency that three people were killed and 10 wounded when an explosive device was detonated in Baghdad's Harithiya district in the late hours of Friday.
Sources said that the vehicle was parked on the side of a road leading to Baghdad's Green Zone.
The Green Zone is located in central Baghdad where the British and the US embassies are located as well as several governmental offices and ministries.
In another incident, militants shot dead an Iraqi taxi driver who worked in Baghdad's Baiaa area, security sources told VOI.
Meanwhile police discovered three bodies of members of the same family in the Tahrir area of the city of Baquba, some 60 kilometres north of the capital, sources told VOI.
Sources said the three, who had been shot, were abducted by militants after refusing to follow their orders.
In other developments, police officer Adnan Mahmoud told Deutsche Presse- Agentur dpa that two potential suicide bombers were driving a vehicle which exploded in the Korneesh area of central Kirkuk.
The explosion injured the two, but police detained them for investigation, Mahmoud said.
A bomb went off on Saturday targeting a US patrol in Bashir village, southern Kirkuk, police sources told dpa. Losses were not immediately known.
Iraqi police sources told dpa that forces detained Saturday four suspected terrorists, including an Egyptian, who have been accused of killing the chief of former President Saddam Hussein's tribe.
Sheikh Ali Nada, the tribal chief, was killed two weeks ago in the city of Tikrit, the homeland of Saddam.
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The Colonial forces and their allies Al Qaidah [behind the scenes supported by US money and arms and ammo] Sunnie extremists[officially supported by US forces monitarily and with arms and ammo] are killing the Shiites left and right.
Shiites populations ESTIMATES
1975 67% Shiites
1980 65% Shiites
1991 62%
2001 57%
2008 52%
WHERE DID THE 15% OF ITS POPULATION GO?
Some killed by Saddam, brought to power and supported by USA!! Others killed by American regular forces and their allies. Many others have been forced out of the country!!
IT IS SYSTEMATIC GENOCIDE
'IT IS SYSTEMATIC GENOCIDE'
So, what else is new? christians and muslims have been killing each other and pagans for 100s of years.
Shiites have been treated very favorably compared to native americans, and other pagans from South America who were really subject to definitive genocide (by christians, namely catholics).
'WHERE DID THE 15% OF ITS POPULATION GO?'
Maybe they were 'saved' and are now converted and will have eternal life. Who knows. These things keep going, and going, and going ...
The way we have been introduced to Shiites, they have a very different thoughts about Almighty God.
He has two types of attributes
[1] The ones that are in Him.
His omnipresence, absolute knowledge, existence before any thing else and after every thing else, His being different than the rest, Him being the Creator and rest every thing that we know being the creation. He is the only witness to Himself. Nothing equals nor resembles Him etc.,etc
[1] The ones that cannot exist in Him.
He cannot lie, be ignorant, be restricted in place / person / time. He cannot be absent, sleeping, nor going to bath room as Jesus s/o Mary {may God bless both} He won't eat or be dependant on any thing etc., etc.
SO CONVERSION TO ANOTHER RELIGEON IS IMPOSSIBLE. NON SHIITE MUSLIMS LOCK HIM UP IN 7TH HEAVEN, AND IF YOU CAN LOCK HIM UP IN A PLACE THEN THERE GOD TO BE SOMEONE ELSE WHO WON'T. CHRISTIANS AND JEWS THINK OF HIM AS IGNORANT FOR REF SEE THE FIRST CHAPTER OF GENESIS.
www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%201:1-21;&version=31;31;49 ;45;
In their thought, He does not know that Adam cannot produce his progeny, He does not know what light means, or light is the source of life. He is ignorant about the creation and existence of rest of the universe.
So no matter what a shiite cannot convert to another religeon. We have tried hard but they just do not.
2 clowns yapping about the tooth fairy and blaming their savagery on others.
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lanceJun 21st, 2008 - 14:05:57
NEWS FLASH: 50 people murdered in the United States every single day. (and that is just the reported homocides!) So what.
So, Iraq has the same problems the U.S. has. Big deal!
It is hardly worth invading and mass killing their civilian population.
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