Suicide Bomb in Iraq: 37 killed
By John Amato Sunday Jan 04, 2009 6:00pmA woman wearing an explosive belt blew herself up near the entrance of a revered Shiite shrine Sunday morning in Baghdad, killing at least 37 people, many of them Shiite pilgrims, according to the Ministry of the Interior. As many as 53 others were wounded in the attack, which occurred during a Shiite holy month.
The suicide bombing outside the Imam Moussa Al-kadhim shrine in the Kadhimiyah neighborhood came nine days after a Dec. 26 car bomb killed 24 people and wounded 46 others after it had exploded on a busy road near the same shrine.The timing and location of each bombing appeared to be intended to reignite sectarian violence, from which Iraq had shown signs of emerging in recent months.
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...the streets were littered with candy and flowers.
At this point, I am not optimistic.
This just makes everything else seem a lot less significant now. Just another Bush side-effect. He should have come packaged with these side-effects very well in view.
more women will be used to carry out more attacks. Very sad.
Thanks much, bushco.
I would probably feel the same way as those women bombers. Most of them are destitute widows with kids to feed and zero possibility of an end to their daily misery in sight ... what's to lose?
Go out with a bang, as it were, and make a statement at the same time.
(or at least a promise made to do so) and they do it for the betterment of their families, at least in their minds.
I doubt they'd want 72 male virgins...
I'll go for that!
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Have we won in Iraq? Or how about, "Did the surge work?"
I'm becoming immune to the crap that's going on in the Middle East. We're going down the sh*tter ourselves, I can't spare anymore compassion for them, sorry. I feel horribly for the children who didn't ask to be born into this mess, but as far as I'm concerned, the entire ME can just bomb themselves into oblivion and be done with it. The sooner, the better. Them and their f*cking holy wars. I'M DONE WITH IT. Just kill eachother already.
I'm usually not this insensitive and angry, but there's only so much BS I can take in a week.
Suicide bombing is all George Bush's fault! Grrrrr!
I'm no fan of Bush, believe me, but it's funny how he eventually gets blamed for EVERYTHING bad that happens. For a man who is supposed to be so stupid, we sure do give him a lot of credit, don't we? Just like on Michelle Malkin or other conservative blogs, everything over there is alllll Obama's fault. Guess what? Not everything can be simplified down to democrat vs. republican, conservative vs. liberal, right vs. left. There are more dimensions to life than that, folks.
Bush is stupid or at least does stupid things. And bad things are happening and have happened as a direct result of his stupid actions. Thus he gets all the credit. Very logical.
Scratching the bottom of the barrel I see...
Bush is the one who started this bullshit war and hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi civilians have been killed or maimed as a direct result. Saddam kept a lid on sectarian violence and suicide bombings were extremely rare.
If we pulled the troops out of Iraq tomorrow this would not be OUR problem.
The rest of the world does not operate under the same denial-driven dementia as the American public.
If you believe that Bush thought he was doing something good by taking over Iraq and handing it over to different people, and if you believe that he never considered the possibility of religious fanatics tearing their country apart and murdering their fellow citizens - then Bush is not to be blamed.
But if he was aware of all of this chaos as a possibility and still decided to do this - this ENTIRE mess falls squarely on his shoulders.
Bush didn't KNOW anything about the internal politics of Iraq... and he DIDN'T GIVE A DAMN. All he wanted was to UN-DO Saddam... no matter how. Bush and Cheney were on the same WAR PATH... I think, each individually, for different reasons. They BOTH carry 100% responsibility for the chaos and bedlam which is now OUR OCCUPATION of Iraq.
Very well stated.
your logical dissonance is deafening. LOL.
Does anyone know the problems these sectarian groups have with one another?
Iraq was a British-made protectorate, in which follow their classic MO: divide and conquer. They put together 3 different factions: Kurds, Sunnis and Shias.
Each group hates the other, the sunnis consider the shia an abomination and viceversa. Akin to the Catholic vs. Protestant shenanigans in the Ulster. Which is surprise, surprise, another British-made cluster fuck.
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