If the Times thinks it is good enough for the international audience, why are they feeding Amurkns shit?
International Herald Tribune:
"Car bombs hit Basra, Baghdad as more violence shakes Iraq" by the Associated Press September 25, 2007
BAGHDAD: A suicide driver killed three Iraqi policemen and wounded 20 people when he detonated his car at the entrance of police headquarters Tuesday in Basra, raising more fears over the southern city's deteriorating security situation.
Also Tuesday morning, two parked car bombs went off nearly simultaneously in a shopping street in eastern Baghdad, killing six civilians and wounding 20 people, just meters (yards) away from a line of pensioners outside a local bank, the police said.
[Well, we know what shitstinks are behind this op.
Either Mossad or "Al-CIA-Duh!"]
The blasts followed a deadly night in Baqouba, where a suicide bomber struck a U.S.-promoted reconciliation meeting of Shiite and Sunni tribal sheiks after sunset Monday. The U.S. military said 24 Iraqis were killed and 37 others wounded in the blast at the gathering of some 800 people, both Sunnis and Shiias, and blamed al-Qaida for the "horrendous attack."
Col. David W. Sutherland, the U.S.commander in the Diyala province:
"Once again, al-Qaida demonstrated the hatred they have for the citizens of Iraq by conducting a despicable attack against its people during one of their most revered celebrations, Ramadan."
[You sure it wasn't the Asymmetrical Warfare Group, Colonel?
Or Operation Gladio, or Operation Northwoods, or the Salvador Option, or the Pentagon's "Proactive, Preemptive Operations Group," or all the other Prop 201 false-flagging murder?]
The violence comes amid continued friction between Iraqi and U.S. officials over the Sept. 16 killing of 11 Iraqi civilians allegedly by Blackwater USA security guards in Baghdad, and the U.S. troops' arrest last week of an Iranian officer who the Iraqis claim was here by official invitation.
The U.S. military said the man is suspected of being a member of Iran's paramilitary Quds Force, accused by the United States of arming Shiite militias in Iraq.
The arrest has drawn condemnation from Iraqi leaders. President Jalal Talabani, a Kurd who has been one of America's staunchest allies in Iraq, called it "illegal" and said he met with American leaders to demand the Iranian's release.
He said the Americans did not have the right to arrest somebody inside the autonomous Kurdish area in northern Iraq because the U.S. had handed over security responsibilities to the Kurds:
"Arresting a person inside the Kurdish region is illegal because the security file was handed over to the Kurdish government months ago."
Talabani spoke at a news conference at the Sulaimaniyah airport before departing for New York, where he said he was to attend an international reconciliation conference on the U.N. General Assembly sidelines at the invitation of former U.S. President Bill Clinton.
Two U.S. soldiers were also wounded in the blast at a mosque in Baqouba where Shiite and Sunni tribal leaders were meeting with senior provincial officials to discuss peace measures. The attack in the city, about 60 kilometers (35 miles) northeast of Baghdad, bore the hallmarks of al-Qaida in Iraq and posed a major challenge to U.S. efforts to bring together members of the rival Islamic sects in Diyala province, the scene of some of the most bitter fighting in Iraq.
Witnesses and officials said the bomber struck when most of the victims were gathered in the mosque courtyard after Iftar, the daily meal in which Muslims break their sunrise-to-sunset fast during the holy month of Ramadan.
AP Television News footage showed piles of clothes and other debris in pools of blood and broken white plastic chairs scattered on the floor of the mosque's entrance, with three bowls of grapes left over from the feast still sitting on a counter.
Police Maj. Salah al-Jurani said he believed provincial Gov. Raad Rashid al-Tamimi was the intended target in the explosion. The governor was wounded and his driver was killed. The dead also included Baqouba's police chief, Brig. Gen. Ali Dalyan, and the Diyala provincial operations chief, Brig. Gen. Najib al-Taie, according to security officials. The officials spoke speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not supposed to release the information.
Also wounded was the governor's brother, Sheik Mazin Rashid al-Tamimi, who has spearheaded Sunni-Shiite reconciliation efforts in the province.
The U.S. announced this month that top leaders of 19 of the 25 major tribes in Diyala — 13 Sunni and six Shiite — had agreed to end sectarian violence and support the government in its fight against al-Qaida in Iraq, although the province remains one of the most dangerous in the country with frequent kidnappings and armed clashes.
Basra, Iraq's second largest city, has also been tense amid violence between rival Shiite militias linked to political parties, raising security concerns after the British military last month pulled back its troops out of the city to a nearby airport to allow Iraqi security forces to take over.
Fearing deteriorating security, Baghdad last weekend dispatched Iraq's minister of state for national security, Sherwan al-Waili, to take over Basra's security operations center, following the assassination of a local representative of Iraq's top Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani.
The minister of state said it was a temporarily measure, until a new security plan is implemented in this city, 550 kilometers (340 miles) southeast of Baghdad.
To the north, five major border crossings between Iran and the Kurdish region remained closed for a second day, after Iran shut them down Monday to protest the U.S. arrest of the Iranian official. Crossing points elsewhere along the 900-mile (1,445-kilometer) border were operating normally.
The Iranian, identified by Iran's semiofficial Mehr news agency as Mahmudi Farhadi, was detained by American troops last Thursday at a hotel in the northern Kurdish city of Sulaimaniyah.
In New York, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told The Associated Press on Monday that the border closure was intended to protect religious pilgrims and that "commercial goods and freight transactions continue."
But Kurdish merchants and officials in Sulaimaniyah said hundreds of trucks were backed up on the Iranian side and no goods were being allowed across. This would badly hurt the economy of the region, the most prosperous and stable part of the country.
The Kurds are also the most pro-American community in Iraq, and the U.S. relies heavily on Kurdish politicians as mediators between the Shiite and Sunni Arab communities.
Iran's move appeared aimed in part at driving a wedge between Iraq and the United States at a time of friction between the two countries over the Blackwater incident."
And more from the Web:
"Iraq car bombs kill nine after 28 die in mosque blast"
BAGHDAD (AFP) — A spate of powerful car bombs in Baghdad and Iraq's southern port city of Basra killed at least nine people on Tuesday, a day after a suicide bomber killed 28 people in a Baquba mosque.
In the Iraqi capital, where the number of bomb attacks has dropped since a "surge" of US troops onto its streets six months ago, a double car bombing killed six people and wounded at least 20, security and medical officials said.
The devices exploded almost simultaneously in mid-morning outside Al-Rafidain bank in Zayunah, a mixed inner neighbourhood.
"The blasts occurred 30 seconds apart," a security official said.
In the port city of Basra, a suicide bomber blew himself up at the wheel of a car outside police headquarters, local police chief General Jalil Khalaf told AFP.
Three people -- one a policeman -- were killed and five others were wounded, the general said, while a hospital official confirmed the deaths but said 20 more were wounded, among them six policemen.
The overwhelmingly Shiite city of Basra has been the scene of bloody inter-Shiite rivalry between radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's militia, Abdel Aziz Hakim's Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council, and the Fadhila party.
The security forces, especially the police, have been widely infiltrated by the Shiite militias whose rivalry over control of southern Iraq's largest city has escalated since British forces withdrew in early September.
Police in the restive city of Baquba north of Baghdad, meanwhile, revised the toll from a devastating suicide bombing on Monday evening in a village mosque to 28 killed and 34 wounded.
The attack targeted a reconciliation meeting between two feared militias at Shifta village west of Baquba during the evening meal that breaks the daytime fast observed by Muslims during Ramadan.
Seven policemen, including three high-ranking officers, were killed when the suicide bomber detonated his explosive vest in the crowded mosque.
"We have a total of 28 people killed and 34 wounded," police Brigadier General Khaider al-Timimi told AFP, updating an earlier toll.
His figures were confirmed by the chief of the morgue in Baquba, Ahmed Fouad.
An Iraqi security official said the reconciliation meeting was between the Shiite Mahdi Army militia and the Sunni insurgent group, the Brigades of the 1920 Revolution.
In recent months the Brigades of the 1920 Revolution has joined forces with the US military in securing volatile Sunni Arab regions across Iraq.
A senior US military commander said last week that violence across Iraq has fallen to its lowest level since before the bombing of a Shiite mosque in February 2006 that sparked savage sectarian bloodletting.
Lieutenant General Ray Odierno, the number two commander of US-led forces in Iraq, told a news conference in Baghdad there has also been a 50 percent fall-off in violence in Baghdad since January.
"There are still way too many civilian casualties inside of Baghdad and Iraq," Odierno added, however."
[Yeah, our snipers are SETTING THEM UP like DUCKS in a ROW, from what I hear, General!
Sig Heil, shitter!!]
Odiousno refering to this?
"Suicide bomber hits tribal meeting in Iraq; Shi'ites, Sunnis had gathered in restive city" by Alexandra Zavis/Los Angeles Times September 25, 2007
BAGHDAD - In other violence yesterday, a suicide truck bomber detonated explosives at a checkpoint run by Iraqi security forces on the road between Mosul and Tall Afar, killing six people and injuring 17, police said.
Police in Baghdad recovered the bodies of 12 victims of execution-style slayings."
[Snipers get 'em?
And how about those three "suicider' bombings around Iraq that DIDN'T MAKE IT onto my newstand WAR DAILIES?]
