Naw, couldn't be, not after all the lies the shit MSM has fed me. Could it?
"Iraq pushes for quicker removal of Blackwater; Maliki said to seek withdrawal before 6-month deadline" by Steven R. Hurst/Associated Press October 18, 2007
Yesterday, a roadside bomb exploded near a police patrol and killed at least seven officers near Diwaniyah, in a Shi'ite area south of Baghdad that has seen fierce clashes between Shi'ite factions in recent months.
Violence in the area around Diwaniyah, 80 miles south of Baghdad, also has targeted the US-led coalition. Suspected Shi'ite militiamen fired mortars at two military bases and shot at a Polish helicopter Monday, prompting a battle that killed five civilians and wounded dozens.
In the north, a suicide bomber driving an explosives-laden truck struck a checkpoint manned by Kurdish troops in Diyala province, where US commanders have decided to begin the drawdown of American forces.
[Well, I guess we'll have to stay now, huh? Sniff, sni... STINK!!!!]
The attack killed at least one Kurdish soldier and wounded more than 10, said Jabbar Yawir, a spokesman for Kurdish forces."
As for the Times, you will need the memory hole if you are to read the first part of the article (the part I cut).
However, I would like you to see the Iraqi women mourning over their dead, reader.
Please.
"Mastermind of ’80s Gas Attacks on Kurds Is Taken to a Gallows Site in Baghdad" by ANDREW E. KRAMER
BAGHDAD, Oct. 17 — Elsewhere in Iraq, a roadside bomb killed seven Iraqi policemen in a Shiite area south of Baghdad in the worst of a number of violent episodes. Other attacks took aim at civilians, a government lawyer, Sunni tribal fighters allied with the United States and foreign security contractors.
The policemen were attacked in Diwaniya as they drove to an outpost in a neighboring town to reinforce fellow officers, a police official said.
Another roadside bomb in Diwaniya detonated near a private security convoy run by Hart, a Cyprus-registered company with headquarters in London. The explosion disabled a sport utility vehicle, but nobody was hurt, said a spokesman for Polish soldiers who secured the area after the attack.
In the Sunni city of Samarra, north of Baghdad, four former insurgents who had allied themselves with American and Iraqi government forces died in fighting with an extremist Sunni group, a police official there said.
The fighting broke out between members of the Islamic Army and the Islamic State of Iraq, which is affiliated with Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, the homegrown militant group that United States intelligence officials say is foreign-led.
Members of the Islamic Army have joined the so-called Sunni awakening, a tribal council coalition that has tried to draw young fighters away from extremist groups and into the police force.
The movement has markedly reduced attacks on American forces in Sunni areas north and west of Baghdad, but it has prompted new violence between fighters who are allied with the councils and those who are not, with the fractures typically running along tribal lines.
In Diyala, a mixed Shiite and Sunni region northeast of Baghdad, insurgents kidnapped eight civilians and two Iraqi Army soldiers at fake checkpoints set up Tuesday and Wednesday on a road near the regional capital, Baquba, the police said.
Also in Diyala, a suicide car bomber killed two Kurdish soldiers at a checkpoint. Kurdish forces have been reinforcing American and regular Iraqi Army units in the area.
In the town of Balad Ruz in Diyala, a bomb destroyed a bakery, though nobody was harmed. Attacks on bakeries are a trademark of Sunni extremist groups because Iraqi bakers are traditionally Shiites.
Farther north, in Qaim, a city near the Syrian border, a bomb exploded in a market, killing 5 people and wounding 10, a hospital employee said.
To the east, in the ethnically mixed city of Kirkuk, militants kidnapped and beheaded a lawyer working for an anticorruption commission in the Iraqi government. The police retrieved the man’s body but not his head.
Two men, apparently insurgents, died near Kirkuk when an improvised explosive device they were assembling in a house detonated prematurely, the police said."
[Iraq is REALLY GETTING BETTER, huh, reader?
And that is just the "reported' violence from a Zionist-controlled War Daily!
Never mind that GUNMEN = BLACKWATER and all the "Al-CIA-Duh" bombs!
Never mind the 35 people killed every day -- on the rise over the summer -- and the number of Iraqis killed by the surge is around 300 per day, 10,000 per month by U.S. operations in that country, with over 1.2 million Iraqis dead since the invasion.
Not including the 1,654 killed in September -- a so-called reduction in violence.
Nor does it include any reports from the U.S. military's 75 air raids a day.
Furthermore, the U.S has the Asymmetrical Warfare Group operating in country.
Or such programs such as Operation Gladio, Operation Northwoods, the Salvador Option, and the Pentagon's "Proactive, Preemptive Operations Group."
And what about the British agents who are the stars of the Prop 201 tutorial?
Did I also mention the FRU?
Oh, O.K.]
