(Updated: Originally posted December 14, 2006)
Posted the whole piece because it is filled with violence.
Was this last year or last week, readers?
Why MSM just a recycling machine of propaganda, readers?
"Car Bombs Kill at Least 15 in Shiite Areas of Baghdad" by KIRK SEMPLE
BAGHDAD, Dec. 13 — Car bombs exploded in crowded street markets in two predominantly Shiite neighborhoods of eastern Baghdad today, killing at least 15 people and wounding at least 35, Iraqi and American officials said.
The deadliest attack, in the working-class district of Kamaliya, killed at least 10 people and wounded 25, scattering victims’ bodies and turning several cars and a row of market stalls to charred, smoldering husks, officials said.
Several hours later, two car bombs exploded almost simultaneously on a busy street in the nearby neighborhood of Baghdad Al Jedida, killing at least 5 people and wounding at least 10, said an official at the Interior Ministry, who requested anonymity because he was not authorized to divulge details of the attacks.
Car bombs are a hallmark of the Sunni Arab-led insurgency and are frequently detonated where Shiites congregate, including marketplaces and mosques in predominantly Shiite neighborhoods, in an effort to inflict the most casualties possible, foment sectarian violence and further destabilize the Shiite-dominated government.
Attacks on mosques, market places, timed car bombs, etc.
CUI BONO, readers?
After a year, it is even more obvious!
Scroll down my Iraq posts for more.
Other violence today killed dozens of people around Iraq, according to police and military reports given to reporters.
Two suicide car bombers detonated their vehicles at the gate of an Iraqi Army regiment responsible for protecting the nation’s oil pipelines, according to Col. Abdul Sattar al-Jibouri, a police commander in Kirkuk. Seven Iraqi soldiers were killed and 14 others were wounded, he said.
A group of gunmen killed nine Shiites, all from the same family, in the town of Hasna according to a police official in the nearby city of Kut. An advisor at the Transportation Ministry was kidnapped by gunmen near the ministry’s headquarters in Baghdad, the Interior Ministry official said, and at least 21 corpses, all with gunshots to the head and torture marks, were recovered around Baghdad.
Four mortar shells hit an apartment block popular with Palestinians in the eastern neighborhood of Baladiat, killing one Palestinian and wounding six, the Interior Ministry official said.
Palestinians in Iraq, a population now concentrated in Baghdad, have been frequently targeted by Shiite militias this year, both because they are Sunni Arabs and because they enjoyed privileges under Saddam Hussein, who, as part of his campaign to fashion himself into a pan-Arab leader, sought their support. The housing complex that was attacked was created by the Baath Party for Palestinians who fled to Iraq following the creation of Israel in 1948."
That last part a surprising revelation in print!
I already knew about Saddam taking in Palestinian refugees, and just another reason that Iraq was invaded per the wishes of Israel!
