No need to cover it up now, because Amurkns ate the whole bowl of surge success shit!
Yeah, Iraq is so much better since Bush invaded!
Tell it to this woman, readers!
"by Lori Hinnant, Associated Press | December 14, 2007
BAGHDAD - Families in a southern Iraqi city where a triple bombing claimed at least 25 lives buried their dead furtively, afraid of another attack and anxious for the dozens of wounded who remained hospitalized yesterday.
In the northern city of Mosul, gunmen killed a woman who ran a beauty parlor out of her home, apparently angered by what they saw as a violation of Islamic tradition. Elsewhere in Mosul, two police checkpoints came under attack - at one, gunmen opened fire and killed four policemen, and at the other, militants tried to storm the roadblock but were shot to death before they reached it, police said.
Mosul, an ethnically mixed city 225 miles northwest of Baghdad, has seen a rise in violence that many blame in part on sectarian tensions there and an influx of militants who fled the security crackdown in the Iraqi capital.
By contrast, Amarah, an oil-rich city about 200 miles southeast of Baghdad, has largely escaped the sectarian bloodshed that has plagued Iraq.
Now, some officials fear attacks like Wednesday's in Amarah could ignite fighting between powerful Shi'ite factions in the region, which reverted from British to Iraqi control in April.
Hospitals in Amarah were crowded with the more than 100 people wounded when the three car bombs exploded in quick succession at the city's main market. Relatives filled the hallways and tended to victims, young and old, who were missing limbs and suffering from major head wounds.
New police checkpoints went up, the roads leading to the market where the explosion took place were blocked, and the shops there closed.
Around the city, funeral tents were erected for victims, and mosques called out over their loudspeakers for donations of blood for the wounded.
Provincial authorities lowered their death toll yesterday from a high of 41 to at least 25, blaming confusion in the immediate aftermath of the bombing for the conflicting numbers and cautioning that many of the injuries were serious.
A local police officer at the city's operations room, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release the information, said 25 were killed.
Saadoun Sami Hassan, spokesman for the provincial health directorate, said 28 were killed, including one man who died yesterday afternoon.
"We expect the death toll to rise as most of the wounded have serious head injuries from flying shrapnel," Hassan told the Associated Press in a phone interview from Baghdad.
No group claimed responsibility for the Amarah explosions, which occurred minutes apart. Bystanders rushed to help victims of the first blast, only to be caught in the explosions that followed, police and witnesses said."I just put it all up.
You can sift through the lies yourself, readers!
Same with the shit Times:
"Violent Day in Iraq Begins With Liquor Store Bombings"
"BAGHDAD — Homemade bombs hit two Baghdad liquor stores early Thursday, and attacks in several other parts of the city killed two people and wounded at least seven others. Eleven more deaths were reported from attacks outside Baghdad, and 19 bodies were found in Baghdad and elsewhere.
Liquor stores are frequent targets of bombings and other violence by Islamic militants seeking to end the sale of alcohol here. The two bombings occurred within moments of each other, shortly after 6 a.m. The police said they had defused another bomb placed near a third liquor store.
One of those killed on Thursday was an Iraqi contractor working with the American forces, who was killed by gunmen in the relatively upscale Mansour neighborhood, a predominantly Sunni Arab district in western Baghdad. The contractor, whom the police identified as Firas Sadi Hussein al-Bayatti, worked for the Americans in the fortified Green Zone, the officials said.
Another man was killed on Thursday when a car bomb exploded near the Italian Embassy in Baghdad’s Waziriya neighborhood, north of downtown, said an Interior Ministry official.
The car bomb, which was not set right next to the embassy, wounded two Iraqi policemen and three civilians, he said.
Two improvised roadside bombs hit other Baghdad neighborhoods on Thursday but caused no deaths or injuries, the Interior Ministry official said.
The president of a technical college in Baghdad, Dr. Sabah Ahmed al-Hasani, and his daughter suffered serious injuries after gunmen attacked their vehicle at a busy thoroughfare here.
The police in Baghdad also discovered the remains of three men who had gunshot wounds in the head, the ministry official said.
In Diyala Province, a violent region northeast of Baghdad where Sunni Arab militants have tried to gain a foothold, the police in the town of Muqdadiya discovered the bodies of 16 men, several of which had been decapitated.
Also, a roadside bomb near a gas station in the town of Khanaqin killed four people and wounded 10 others late Wednesday evening, and in Baquba, the capital of Diyala Province, gunmen killed a member of a neighborhood committee, a police official there said.
In Hit, a mainly Sunni town near the Euphrates River in Anbar Province, west of Baghdad, a suicide bomber driving a food truck blew himself up in a failed attempt to kill the town’s mayor, Sheik Hikmat Abdul-Jabbar al-Goud, Mr. Goud said in a telephone interview. The explosion killed five people, including two of the mayor’s security guards, and wounded 15 others, he said. The mayor said he was not hurt.
On Thursday morning, many of the families of the 27 people killed in a triple car bombing Wednesday in the southern city of Amara transported the remains to a well-known burial ground in Najaf, the Shiite holy city south of Baghdad.
Most of the 20 vehicles that arrived with coffins lashed to their roofs were draped with Iraqi flags, said Hussein Abu Seiba, a gravedigger in Wadi al-Salam cemetery in Najaf, one of the largest Shiite burial grounds in Iraq.
“The wailing of the women accompanying the procession wafted in the area and lasted for a long time,” Mr. Seiba said.
Reservist Is Found Guilty
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif., (AP) — A Marine reservist was found guilty on Thursday of killing an Iraqi soldier while they stood watch together at a guard post in Falluja.
Lance Cpl. Delano Holmes, 22, of Indianapolis was convicted of negligent homicide, but acquitted of the more serious charge of unpremeditated homicide. He was also convicted of making a false official statement in the death of Pvt. Munther Muhammed Hassin on Dec. 31, 2006.
Lance Corporal Holmes was accused of stabbing Private Hassin to death. The lance corporal’s lawyer said that it was an act of self-defense, contending that Private Hassin had opened his cellphone and then lit a cigarette, against rules that forbid the displaying of illuminated objects for fear of attracting sniper fire. The two then began fighting.
Lance Corporal Holmes’s lawyer has said that during the struggle Lance Corporal Holmes felt Private Hassin reaching for his loaded AK-47, so the lance corporal stabbed the Iraqi.
Prosecutors, however, contended that Lance Corporal Holmes killed the soldier and then set up the scene to support his story."
Had enough like me, readers?
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
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?
Also for the record:
Did I mention the Pentagon's MSM press offices in Lincoln, the Pentagon and Langley?
That's where the NYT gets its stuff!
