On the days of their festivals, too!
How BLASPHEMOUS by our Anti-Christ fuck ruler (that's George W. Bush for those who don't know who the Anti-Christ REALLY IS!
That is why I am here. HE is to be STOPPED because WE LOVE LIFE OUT HERE!
WE LOVE OUR FAMILIES, WE LOVE OUR CHILDREN, and WE LOVE OUR WORLD!!!
Just like the Iraqis do! I mean, look at them all!
"U.S. Attack Kills 32 in Sadr City" by DAMIEN CAVE
BAGHDAD, Aug. 8 — An American raid and airstrike killed 32 people in the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City on Wednesday, in what American military officials described as an assault on a militant network bringing in money and bombs from Iran.
Hospital officials in the Sadr City district of Baghdad said that the American airstrike had killed or wounded several civilians, including a child, though the military disputed that account.
Lt. Col. Christopher Garver, an American military spokesman here, said the airstrike was called in against suspected gunmen who were surrounding a vehicle and who were moving toward American troops who had been taking fire. He said 30 people around the vehicle were killed, and 2 more died during the raid, all of them combatants.
“They called in an airstrike on a tactical formation of individuals, on people who were operating as a tactical unit,” Colonel Garver said. “Those are the ones who were hit.”
[Whatever, murderer!]
American military raids causing Iraqi deaths, particularly in Sadr City, frequently lead to conflicting stories. Residents describe some or all of the victims as innocent, while American military statements typically describe those killed by American weapons as militants.
[Yeah, see the end of this article by Cave to see why it's always "militants" we kill!
They are ALL INNOCENT since we should have NEVER BEEN THERE!
What LIARS!]
Colonel Garver said intelligence indicated that at least one of the intended targets of the raid — in which 12 people were detained — acted as a liaison between the elite Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and the Shiite Iraqi militias responsible for killing American troops with lethal roadside bombs known as explosively formed penetrators, or E.F.P.’s. He declined to provide evidence about any link between the groups or to say whether troops found bomb-making materials in the buildings that they raided.
“As we exploit information and we’re ready to release information, we will,” he said.
[Yup, NO EVIDENCE PRESENTED, as USUAL!
And any that is, you can be sure, reader, that it is FABRICATED GARBAGE!
So sick of the STINK FUCKING LIES!!!!!]
The American attack coincided with an expanded curfew across Baghdad for a Shiite religious festival welcoming tens of thousands to the capital... Iraqi authorities, meanwhile, imposed a ban on driving in the capital as thousands of Shiite pilgrims began moving toward a shrine to mark the anniversary of the death of a revered figure, Imam Musa al-Kadhim.
Lt. Col. Steven M. Miska, deputy commander of the brigade responsible for the area around the shrine, said American troops were working carefully to protect pilgrims and reduce tensions with Iraqi security forces.
Colonel Miska described cooperation with Iraqi troops as “a complex relationship” after a clash that erupted in April between some of his units and men in Iraqi Army uniforms. Iraqi officials accused the Americans of attacking a mosque serving as the headquarters of the Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr, a charge the Americans denied. Colonel Miska and his men said the battle confirmed that some of the Iraqi security forces they aimed to help were in fact filled with militiamen who were their enemies.
[See the EVIDENCE of what happens when AmeriKa takes over the security at Iraq's Shiite mosques here and here.]
In Basra, one British soldier was killed during fighting overnight, military officials said.
[See above piece]
In Diyala Province, fighting broke out in a Shiite area on the outskirts of Khalis. The clashes began Tuesday; at least 10 people were killed, the authorities said.
In Samarra, a Sunni area and the site of a revered Shiite mosque known as the Golden Dome that has twice been bombed, witnesses said that mortar attacks killed at least three women and two children.
[The Sunnis loved that mosque as much as the Shi'ites!
That is why they WOULD NEVER BLOW IT UP, not even the most pious extremist.
The sectarian divide is a LIE!!!
Religions have co-existed for CENTURIES in the Middle East.
It was not until the CREATION of ISRAEL and the arrival of AMERICAN TROOPS that this current shitstorm started.
But what about the Iran-Iraq war, you say?
Well, AMERICA STARTED THAT ONE, too, by ENCOURAGING Saddam to INVADE!
And Iran had OUR HOSTAGES then, remember, reader?]
Two other children were wounded. In the northern, ethnically and religiously mixed city of Kirkuk, a roadside bomb killed at least one policeman and wounded nine others, the police said.
Early Release for 2 Marines
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif., Aug. 8 (AP) — Two marines who pleaded guilty in the case of a slain Iraqi civilian have been released from military prison four months early.... The Iraqi civilian was pulled from his Hamdaniya home and shot in April 2006. An AK-47 and shovel were placed nearby to make him look like an insurgent planting a bomb."
[That's why EVERY KILL is a "militant," huh?
How many cases like this are NOT REPORTED, huh?
Was that one of the missing AK47s we GAVE to the SUNNI INSURGENCY?]
"US mounts attack against Shi'ite militia; At least 17 dead in crackdown on holiday eve" by Megan Greenwell/Washington Post August 9, 2007
BAGHDAD -- US forces staged a major two-pronged attack on a neighborhood controlled by Shi'ite militia groups yesterday, killing at least 17 people, according to the military and Iraqi police.
The raid on Sadr City, an area dominated by loyalists to Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, was one of the largest in a series of US attacks.
A US military spokesman said that 32 suspected insurgents had been killed and an additional 12 arrested in the operation, which targeted members of a Mahdi Army splinter group suspected of being part of a network that smuggles weapons from Iran.
Iraqi police said that 17 people had been killed, including several women and children.
[Yup, DEAD WOMEN and CHILDREN! Winning "hearts and minds," huh?]
The timing of the operation, less than 24 hours before the start of a major Shi'ite holiday, angered many of Baghdad's Shi'ites. A few hundred people staged a march last night to protest the military action.
[I guess not]
Meanwhile, security forces spent the day preparing for the Shi'ite march to the shrine of Imam Moussa al-Kadhim, one of 12 major Shi'ite saints. Iraqi police estimated that as many as 4 million pilgrims, some flogging and cutting themselves, will mark the holiday of grief, which was banned under Saddam Hussein.
[This is were my heart simply pours out for the Shia.
Their rituals fascinate me, and I wish I knew more about it. I am concerned about them hurting themselves; almost feel like Saddam did them a favor.
Here is a part of their belief system:
"Note on the Shiite belief system: The key difference between Shiism and Sunni Islam is that the Shiites (who are divided into a number of schools) believe that a terrible historic injustice occurred in the early history of the Muslim community. After the Prophet Muhammad's death in 632, they believe, leadership of the emergent community ought to have passed to his son-in-law Ali. (This is the Ali entombed in the Imam Ali Mosque.) It didn't. Ali's son, the Imam Hussein, and 90 of his followers then perished in the battle of Karbala, fought against forces of the sixth caliph, in 680. Annual commemorations of this death, accompanied by dramatic mourning rituals, are believed to generate merit; Fatima, the Prophet's daughter, will at the end of time gather the tears of the Karbala mourners' into her apron, rewarding those who have shed them. Shiites believe that the Twelfth Imam, successor to Hussein, was hidden by God in a cave below a mosque in Samarra in 874.
He was only seven years old at the time; he remains there until God reveals him and he, the Hidden Imam or Mahdi, comes to guide humankind. In the interim, various figures have claimed to be representatives of the Hidden Imam or even the Mahdi himself. Most of the key religious figures revered by the Shiites died as martyrs; Baqr al-Hakim will be counted as another. Thus deep grief and sense of victimhood, a will to martyrdom, millenarian expectations, and the occasional appearance of charismatic leaders that build upon these feelings, characterize the Shiite faith.
The Anglo-American troops in the field, meanwhile (some of whom still really believe Iraq caused 9-11) can't be expected to grasp the religious context, or the geopolitics of Shiism... For their sake, their families' sake, the Iraqis' and the world's sake, they should... be brought home now."
[And I have shed PLENTY of TEARS the past year, and BEGGED Fatima to collect them!
So do your rituals, Shiites. Over the past year, there have been several reports on your celebratory festivals. I find them to be beautiful, artistic, and fascinating.
Why are they our "enemy?"
Oh well, back to Iraq yesterday:]
At least six people were killed and 11 others injured in mortar attacks in Baghdad yesterday, police said. At least four people were killed in violence around the northern area of Kirkuk."
