And do you notice something missing from this Times' report on Iraq, readers?
I did. Can you discover what is missing (answer below)?
"35 Are Killed in Iraq, 5 by U.S. Troops" by DAMIEN CAVE
BAGHDAD, Nov. 27 — American troops in Iraq killed at least five people, including a child, when they fired on vehicles trying to drive through roadblocks in two separate episodes over the past two days, military officials and witnesses said Tuesday.
Yup, checkpoint shootings happen all the time, but the Zionist-controlled AmeriKan War Dailies minimize and hide that carnage!
Doesn't grab you like "suiciders" and "gunmen," does it, reader?!
Beyond that, at least 30 other people were killed or found dead on Tuesday, including three women and three policemen in Baquba, who were killed by a suicide bomber disguised as a shepherd.
Gee, that's back to summer time death tolls -- you know, before the surge was a success!!!!
And the prop just never stops, does it?
For the record:
Asymmetrical Warfare Group
Operation Gladio
Operation Northwoods
Salvador Option
Special Police Commandos
Proactive, Preemptive Operations Group
Prop 201 tutorial
FRU
How much evidence you need, readers?
Oh, did I mention the Pentagon's press offices in Lincoln, the Pentagon and Langley?
One of the shootings involving American soldiers occurred Tuesday morning on a main road in Shaab, a neighborhood of northern Baghdad dominated by the Mahdi Army, the Shiite militia loyal to the cleric Moktada al-Sadr. Lt. Justin Cole, a military spokesman, said the soldiers had fired on a minibus that was traveling on a street where only cars were allowed to pass.
In an e-mail message, Lieutenant Cole said that the driver had failed to heed a warning shot, and that two passengers in the minibus were killed and four were wounded. An Interior Ministry official said that four people were killed. A witness said three of them were women.
Great, U.S. murderers killing Iraqi women!
And just how much better is Iraq since this shit hole invasion?
Witnesses said the minibus had been filled with workers on their way to a local branch of a bank. One witness, who declined to give his full name out of concern for his safety, said the driver might not have realized that buses were not allowed on the street, since it was rush hour, around 8:30 a.m., and several cars could be seen on the street.
Yup, BLOWING AWAY IRAQI CIVILIANS! You PROUD, Amurka?
The other shooting occurred Monday, during a military operation near Baiji, north of Baghdad. In a statement, the American military said two men in a vehicle had approached a blocked road “at a high rate of speed” and did not stop when requested, or when soldiers fired warning shots. “The ground force engaged,” the statement said, “killing both men.”
The soldiers later discovered that they had wounded a passenger who was a child and who died after being transferred to an American military hospital, the statement said.
That's right, Amurka!
Your mass-murdering "heroes" BLEW AWAY a CHILD!!!!!!!!
How can you be proud, America? How can you dare be proud at George W. Bush's tools of mass-murder?!
To SUPPORT the WARS is to SUPPORT BUSH!!!!!
Support the troops?
BUSH DOESN'T, so DON'T BITCH at ME!!!!!!
If it had been up to me, they never would have been there!
They would be DEFENDING OUR COUNTRY as they were MEANT TO DO!!
Not FIGHTING WARS for ISRAEL and PNAC!!!!
The latest shootings came amid a storm of criticism about private security contractors who recently fired on and killed Iraqi civilians in a series of high-profile cases. A common situation involves Iraqis shot in their cars after they approach armed convoys, and similar encounters involving American soldiers are not uncommon.
Yeah, a storm of criticism that has faded from the pages Amerika's War Dilies!
The shootings by soldiers appear to receive less attention from Iraqi officials because, unlike contractors, whose legal situation remains murky, American soldiers are subject to military law. The military also often issues public apologies and pays compensation.
Yeah, I'm sure that soothes someone who just had a WIFE or MOTHER, or a CHILD MURDERED by U.S. TROOPS!
Don't you think it would be worth it, readers?
Like say bin Laden went and compensated the 9/11 victims families.
That would make you love the murderous "terrorist," right, readers?
Then why would the Iraqis feel any different towards us?
Iraq's 9/11 is called 3/20, readers!
That's when the U.S. invaded with "Shock and Awe" in 2003!
Except that Iraq's 9/11 has lasted for five years!
AmeriKa's 9/11 INSIDE JOB was only a one-day event!
Most of the other violence on Tuesday occurred north and west of the capital. In Baquba, the capital of Diyala Province to the north, a suicide bomber killed at least six and wounded 10 near a police command center downtown, security officials said. The bomber was disguised as a shepherd and was herding sheep toward a checkpoint when he blew himself up, Reuters reported.
“There was nothing suspicious about him because it’s an open, agricultural area and it’s normal for shepherds to be around here," Reuters quoted a Diyala police official, Lt. Ali Jassim, as saying.
A second suicide bomber, identified by the police as a woman, blew herself up near an American military patrol, wounding five Iraqis, including two children. Four other attacks — three involving gunfire, the fourth a roadside bomb — killed four people in the province.
I don't believe this report, and I sure as hell won't believe it coming from a Zionist-controlled AmeriKan War Daily!
Farther north, near Tikrit, the police found four bodies. In and around Kirkuk, a policeman was shot and killed, and the authorities found two unidentified bodies. In the same province, two American soldiers died Tuesday from an explosion near their vehicles, while two others were wounded, the American military said.
Gee, Iraq was just a hell hole of violence yesterday, huh?
Whatever happened to that "surge success?"
To the west, in Anbar Province, a rocket hit a crowded market in Haditha, killing at least five people and wounding 30 more.
A rocket hit a crowd? Who fired that off? A stray American strike?
Lt. Mohammad al-Nimrawi, of the Haditha police force, said the rocket appeared to have been aimed at a joint base of Iraqi and American forces nearby.
In Baghdad, the police found three bodies across the city. A grenade killed a woman in the southern neighborhood of Dora, while two roadside bombs and a gun battle in Saydia left at least 10 people wounded.
This is "liberation?"
Oh, yeah, Iraq has really improved since Saddam got tossed!
Pffffftttttt!
Also on Tuesday, Falah Shanshal, a lawmaker with the bloc loyal to Mr. Sadr, said Iraqis victimized by Saddam Hussein must be paid compensation by the government before Parliament approves a proposed law allowing some former Baath Party members to return to government jobs.
He said Iraqis whose relatives were killed by the Hussein government should receive about $40,000 and a small monthly pension. Political prisoners, he said, should receive $24,000.
It remains unclear whether the Sadrists’ demands will be enough to derail the law, which has received support from the leaders of Iraq’s main parties. A similar proposal reached Parliament earlier this year, but was never subjected to a vote because of last-minute opposition from Shiites in southern Iraq.
The Iraqi government, in a separate effort to broaden its support among Sunnis, said Monday that it would start paying the salaries of tens of thousands of unofficial security guards, who act as a neighborhood watch.
Their salaries, $300 a month, are currently paid by American forces."
While the American people get a shit dropped into their hands by Lord Bush!
Answer: No "Al-CIA-Duh!"
Also see: "Al-CIA-Duhs" Catch-and-Release Program
Also for the record:
35 people killed every day, with the number of Iraqis killed by the surge around 300 per day, 10,000 per month -- and 1.2 million Iraqis dead since the invasion (not including the 1,654 killed in September), mainly due to the U.S. military's 75 air raids a day, and the five-fold increase in air bombings.
Also see: Story Iraq: MSM Lied About Death Tolls
Memory Hole: Iraq
Did you see that memory hole?
Violence is STILL WORSE THAN LAST YEAR?
WTF? MSM LYING TO US AGAIN!!!!
And whatever happened to the cholera outbreak?
Cholera remains a threat in Iraq
"Cholera has been an issue in Iraq for months now. It would seem that all of that "progress" in Iraq doesn't include having drinking water that won't kill you. Now, a lot of Third World countries seem to be able to provide potable water, and they haven't had $500 billion poured into them by the U.S.
What does it say when "six governmental hospitals" have water that is "unsafe"? It says that Iraq is a failed state and that the Bush Administration's claims of improvement are selective and misleading, to say the least. According to Bush, these kind of issues are the U.N's problem."
