Bomber Kills 32, Wounds 60 in Abu Ghraib
Juan Cole gives us some useful context for this latest bombing at Abu Ghraib:
The NYT reports that a suicide bomber killed 33 persons and wounded over 60 at Abu Ghraib, striking at a meeting of tribal sheikhs accompanied by military officers. Seven of the dead were officers, including the commanding officer of the newly opened Abu Ghraib prison, according to al-Hayat writing in Arabic.
Also killed was a commander of the Iraqi military at Muthanna, who had been detailed to the Ministry of the Interior. Al-Hayat says that the meeting was called by a section of the Interior Ministry concerned with outreach to the rural clan leaders, and the sheikhs were meeting with some officers in a search for national reconciliation. It was everything that the Sunni Arab radical guerrillas would not have wanted to see.
And the country is still out of our control.
"Someday somebody related to some of these sufferers, these victims, these collaterally damaged souls, may try to kill you. And I have to tell you, I think you’ll have it coming." - Christopher Cooper
of control for a lot longer then six years.
If these meetings are important then why are they so open as to allow unchecked bombers to roam into them?
a lot of times after they blow themselves up within minutes they can give you the name and sex of the suicide bomber,
Don't forget the Disaster Capitalism philosophy and Shock Doctrine style politics when trying to investigate this case. Any respectable journalist has to have that information in their filtering process. Here's an example:
British special forces caught dressed as Arab 'terrorists'
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2005/CAUGHT_RED_...
I don't know what's going on here, but I know from history that the truth isn't always right at the surface all the time.
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[Someone beat me to it, almost verbatim-Another Sitemonitor]
as rosana rosana danna used to say its allways something ! one mans terriorists another mans patriot, when will they ever learn? that would make a great war song!
don't want us pulling out of Iraq.I wonder who
I don't know, how many times must the Zapruder film be viewed before one says; nuffs nuff.
There will be a vacuum for power there. Then a full blown civil war.
great
What is your conceptual, continuity?
I just hate it when that happens.
they ain't been liberated enought yet I presume
spreading 'democracy' can be difficult. Especially when the people don't want it.
Jeebus, it's time for us to leave Iraq and Afghanistan already. Stop creating more terrorists. Please. This endless, vicious cycle of death must stop.
its times like these i start missing john wayne !hed know what to do!but then i think fuck him he never made a korean war movie !
I'm so glad we can leave because the surge is working so well.
Leave???
yeah right.
something else will come up and then priorities will be reevaluated.
Do You Really believe that the military-industrial complex which seems to be controlling our country's policies will leave Iraq...
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