(Updated: Originally published October 31, 2006)
Bombings in the Sadr City slum of Baghdad.
Hmmmm, who would benefit from that? Who has been wanting to get Sadr?
Dancing all over a western black-op prop job:
"33 Shiite laborers gathered around food stalls in a Sadr City square were killed when a bomb in a bag exploded at 6 a.m., scattering glasses of tea and remains of breakfasts. The workers had been waiting for offers of $10-a-day jobs... The attack in Sadr City came despite the American Army cordon that has been in place or a week in a search for a missing soldier (New York Times October 31, 2006).
The bomber got through a U.S. Army security screen, huh?
"The security cordon has caused major traffic jams and cut off much of the movement in and out of the area, drawing the ire of Iraqis. The district is the center of support for Moktada al-Sadr, a radical cleric who called on his followers to fight American troops twice in 2004. In a statement on Monday, Mr. Sadr threatened action if the American cordon continued.
Sadr, according to the Associated Press: "If this siege continues for long, we will resort to actions that I will have no choice but to take, God willing, and when the time is right."
That's interesting because Muqtada's call via a spokesman was:
Sheik Naser al-Sa'edi: "No violence... The Sadrists are committed to what Sadr told them, and he ordered them to stay quiet, and this is what they do (Boston Globe October 31, 2006)."
Residents in Sadr City charged that US forces, who have virtually surrounded the Shiite Muslim area for four days, must have allowed the attacker into their community as part of an effort to win the release of the kidnapped soldier. US officials rejected the accusation.
Well I'll be: SMART Iraqis!!!
How did that attacker get through the lock-down of US troops, the main "security guarantor" under international law?
Just slipped through the defenses like a hijacked plane did to NORAD on 9/11, huh?
Anger had already been rising in the sprawling Shi'ite district of more than 2 million... Residents have had to wait hours to pass through troop checkpoints to and from the neighborhood... After yesterday's bombing, hundreds of people milled in the streets around the carnage."
Iraqi officials also report that "the cordon actually hindered the authorities' ability to move the victims to hospitals outside."
Adding insult to injury!
"The militants use of government uniforms for deception continued in a particularly grim way on Monday, when a suicide bomber dressed as a police officer passed through two checkpoints in the police headquarters in Kirkuk, north of Baghdad. Three people were killed, including a 5-year-old, the child of a women who works as a cleaner. Thirteen were wounded."
Yeah, not like OUR GUYS would ever dress up under cover like that (Blackwaters?)!
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Meanwhile, NSA head Stephen Hadley is in Baghdad getting the plan together.
"Eliot A. Cohen, the director of the Center for Strategic Studies at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, in a Wall Street Journal which the White House e-mailed to reporters because it concluded that a withdrawal of American troops would be disastrous:
"A junta of military modernizers might be the only hope of a country whose democratic culture is weak, whose politicians are either corrupt and incapable."
Is he talking about AmeriKa or Iraq?
Some American experts have suggested that the Bush administration should abandon the effort to create a Western-style democracy and throw its weight behind a strongman government."
You mean, like Saddam's?
I guess AmeriKa would want Allawi, huh, readers?
Or do they already have their man in Baghdad?
