At least 42 killed in Iraq (2nd Roundup)

Tell us again, SP4, how great things areJun 26th, 2008 - 23:19:26

Tell us again, you mindless parrot of a propagandist, how this is a sign of progress. Let that prion-infested brain of yours loose, and reveal your dementia.

Explain again how multiple outbreaks of violence mean 'winning'.

Do tell us again why al Qaeda is a greater threat than the Sunni insurgency, which is VASTLY larger in numbers of participants.

ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gkx-3oYeFwuWKCusr2jrojs98w8wD91HOPLG0

BAGHDAD (AP) — Officials say a car bomb has exploded near the government office in the northern city of Mosul and 18 people are dead. The governor of surrounding Nineveh province, Duraid Kashmola, says about 60 others were wounded in the Thursday blast.

-----------

BAGHDAD (AP) — A suicide bomber detonated an explosive belt Thursday inside a municipal government building west of Baghdad, killing at least 12 people attending a meeting of tribal sheiks, police said.

Col. Fawzi Fraih, civil defense director of Anbar province, said the sheiks were members of a group opposed to al-Qaida in Iraq and were meeting with Americans when the attack occurred in Karmah, about 20 miles west of Baghdad.

The U.S. military would not confirm whether Americans were inside the building during the attack, the third against a municipal government meeting in Iraq this week.

Both Sunni and Shiite extremists appear determined to try to undermine efforts to build government institutions at the local level.

Ten people, including four Americans, were killed Tuesday in a bombing in a municipal council office in the Shiite area of Sadr City in Baghdad.

Two Americans were shot dead and four wounded Monday when a disgruntled official opened fire as they left a municipal building in Salman Pak about 15 miles south of the capital.

In the northern city of Mosul, a car bomb blew up Thursday as provincial Gov. Duraid Kashmola was inspecting damage from a rocket attack, police said. The governor escaped injury but eight people were killed — including five of his guards — and 22 people were wounded, police said.

The U.S. military says violence in Iraq has dropped to its lowest level in more than four years, but attacks are continuing as Sunni and Shiite extremists try to regroup and undermine security gains.

===========================

(The first order of business for a new President is to send people over there who can COUNT, and can rebut the bullcrap coming from the Pentagon on orders of the White House. It's time we had a military leadership who listened to the President, rather than the inverse)

Report this comment

SP4:You seeJun 27th, 2008 - 03:41:56

..IK have a weakness:

I believe in people. I believe that, if you confront evil, you can beat it.

Now I can be a half-empty glass like you, but that would mean giving up my spirit. I just am not willing to do that.

We have won every battle. We have secured most of the nation. The Iraqi's are stepping up. Their government is stepping up.

Go down your road? There is nothing at the end.

No thanks.

Report this comment

You are a brainwashed simpletonJun 27th, 2008 - 09:21:16

RE:

Now I can be a half-empty glass like you, but that would mean giving up my spirit. I just am not willing to do that.

We have won every battle. We have secured most of the nation. The Iraqi's are stepping up. Their government is stepping up.

===============================

You have a half-empty head, and likely too much 'spirits'. You are the living embodiment of Bush's own 'mission accomplished' error of years ago.

Again, it's not about BATTLES. U.S. forces have superior training and equipment, and air power. This is like declaring victory in your kitchen against roaches by turning on the light and stomping, but missing the nest in the wall. Perhaps someday someone will offer a brain transplant, and you'll wonder how you could have been so dumb.

The Sunni are not being included in the progress, and are not seeing their share of oil revenues. No one is giving them jobs; and many of the CLC's paid on that same idiotic notion of 'faith' you speak of were never 'bought'. Those are the very same people creating violence now.

The foreign fighters aside, AQI is just another form of Sunni extremism, in reaction to the gains made by the Shia after many years of domination by Saddam, and even earlier governments.

'There are also allegations that the initial vetting process for the Awakening was flawed and that some people who still backed Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia disguised their views and became part of the security forces or the Awakening groups. Sheiks in Anbar, who asked not to be quoted by name, said that they knew the man responsible for the Garma bombing. They said he had been a policeman and previously a member of the Anbar Awakening.'

Stop being such an ass; and go LEARN something, and stop cheerleading. $7 a gallon gas will be your reward.

================================

www.nytimes.com/2008/06/27/world/middleeast/27iraq.html?th&emc=th

The bombings extended a pattern of multiple-casualty attacks in recent days that are clearly intended to kill local Iraqi leaders, in particular those who are believed to have collaborated with American forces against insurgents. Thursday’s attacks were among a string of deadly episodes in the past week that broke the previous several weeks’ lull in violence.

Most of the episodes have occurred in Sunni or mixed Sunni-Shiite areas where there has been mounting frustration over the lack of a political deal giving power to all of Iraq’s factions. Some were in small neighborhoods like Abu Dshir on the southern edge of Baghdad, and Madaen, which lies just to its southeast. There was also an attack on Tuesday on the Sadr City neighborhood council which killed six Iraqis, four Americans and an Iraqi-Italian interpreter.

Both of Thursday’s attacks raised questions about assertions by the United States military that Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia and other Sunni extremist groups had been largely vanquished. Sheiks who survived the Anbar attack, a suicide bombing, accused Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, a homegrown Sunni extremist group, of responsibility. In Mosul, bodyguards for the governor, the bomb’s likely target, said the same thing.

The marines and two interpreters killed in the suicide bombing had been attending the weekly meeting of the Awakening Council in the city of Garma, according to the American military and an Iraqi police officer. The Awakening groups are pro-American tribal alliances.

In Baghdad and in Anbar Province, there have been substantial American and Iraqi military campaigns to root out the insurgency. In those areas and in Diyala Province, where there was a suicide bombing a week ago, the Shiite-led government in Baghdad has frustrated the efforts of Sunni leaders to find government security jobs for Sunni tribal figures and former insurgents.

Although many of these people joined the Awakening movement and were paid by the Americans to help fight Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, few have been put on the government’s payroll.

Report this comment

patriotJun 27th, 2008 - 15:53:33

Gaiacomm International to develop Defeat IED technology


Gaiacomm International will develop Counter (defeat) IED technology for the US Military to be used in Iraq and Afghanistan. This technology is currently classified because of its accurate nature of detection. When deployed it will be able to detect and disable any device in the ground, on person, inside vehicle or building within a determined range, also classified. Soldiers are dying thus, the emphasis on accurate detection. Other technologies currently in the field simply do not operate as planned, thus the need for Gaiacomm's technology.

Report this comment