At Christmas time, when everyone has forgotten the wars, right?
"Attacks on Iraqi police, US-backed patrols kill 7; Clashes erupt in villages north of capital" by Lori Hinnant/Associated Press December 16, 2007
BAGHDAD - A series of attacks on Iraqi police and volunteer patrols killed at least seven people in Baghdad and neighboring provinces yesterday, including Diyala, where clashes erupted in villages ringing the provincial capital, officials said.
Early yesterday in eastern Baghdad, a pair of synchronized roadside bombs targeted a passing police patrol, killing two civilians. The second bomb detonated about two minutes after the first, hitting bystanders who had gathered at the site, a police officer said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release details of the attack.
In the northern Baghdad neighborhood of Azamiyah, a member of a US-backed volunteer patrol was killed by an explosives-rigged bag he received from a stranger who claimed to have found it in the street, according to Iraqi Army Colonel Riadh al-Samaraie. The explosion wounded a second security volunteer, Samaraie said.
In southern Baghdad, gunmen attacked a checkpoint manned by another of the anti-Qaeda groups, and three of the volunteers were wounded, police said. At a similar roadblock in Salahuddin Province, about 55 miles north of the capital, gunmen in a passing car opened fire on the volunteers, killing one, police said.
And in neighboring Diyala, which has suffered from repeated Al Qaeda attacks, the provincial deputy police chief resigned on Friday after Al Qaeda abducted his son and threatened to kill him. Brigadier General Ayad Ismael quit in hopes that his son - kidnapped two weeks ago - would be freed, said Diyala police Brigadier General Khudhayer al-Timimi.
Police officials in Ismael's hometown of Kanan, who spoke on condition of anonymity in the town heavily infiltrated by militants from Al Qaeda in Iraq, said the terror group was warning villagers in surrounding areas not to let their sons join Iraqi security forces.
Fighting erupted yesterday in Diyala villages outside Baqubah, beginning when gunmen attacked a police checkpoint nine miles north of the provincial capital, killing three officers, a police official said. The onslaught lasted 90 minutes, until reinforcements arrived, the official said. There were also clashes about 7 miles south of Baqubah between Al Qaeda militants and members of the 1920 Revolution Brigades, former insurgents who joined the Sunni revolt against Al Qaeda, a police officer said. The officer said the fighting lasted about an hour and casualties were unknown.
Iraqi security forces also attacked Qaeda militants west of Baqubah, an army officer said. In central and northern Iraq, the US military said operations Friday targeting Al Qaeda led to the capture of 18 suspects and left four militants dead.
Near Iskandariyah, about 30 miles south of Baghdad, Iraqi and American officials launched a major operation against Al Qaeda and weapons smugglers, destroying two buildings used to store roadside bomb materials, the military said. And 50 miles farther south, in the overwhelmingly Shi'ite city of Diwaniyah, a former police chief and a police colonel were detained and accused of helping terrorists and militias in the region, Diwaniyah police said."
Yup, violence is down in Iraq!
This could have been any story reported in this the last year, when the shit MSM decides to report the government handouts they get!
I tired of the MSM and its STINK-FUCKING LIES!!!!!!
"11 Killed in Attacks on Sunni Patrols and Security Forces in Iraq" by CARA BUCKLEY
BAGHDAD — Bomb blasts, ambushes and gunfights across Iraq left 11 people dead on Saturday, including four members of American-backed security patrols charged with rooting out insurgents.
The security patrols, which are mostly Sunni groups known as Awakening Councils, have been credited with helping to drive down violence here. But their work with the Americans has put them in the cross hairs of Al Qaeda of Mesopotamia, a homegrown extremist group that American intelligence agencies say they believe is led by foreigners.
Yup, somehow after a year of surge success, "Al-CIA-Duh" is still all over the place !
Well, I AM TIRED of this STINK-FUCK LIE and FRAUD of "Al-CIA-Duh terrorists!"
The attacks occurred as Iraqis prepared for the Muslim holiday of Id al-Adha, the Islamic Feast of Sacrifice, which begins this week.
In the north Baghdad neighborhood of Adhamiya, three security patrol members were killed in two separate attacks when roadside bombs blew up near their headquarters after noon. Fifteen people were wounded in the blasts.
Also around midday, insurgents hiding in a house opened fire on a checkpoint run by Awakening Council members in the south Baghdad neighborhood of Dora, wounding three people.
In Salahuddin Province, north of Baghdad, Sunni extremists attacked another security patrol, killing one person and wounding four.
Awakening Council members are paid roughly $300 a month by American forces to act as neighborhood watchdogs in areas where security forces are thin. There are at least 60,000 members of the Awakening Councils nationwide, according to the American military. Many of them are former extremists.
Most of those in the mainly Sunni citizen groups are seeking to join the Shiite-dominated Iraqi police, though there has been criticism that they have been absorbed too slowly.
In other attacks in the capital on Saturday, two roadside bombs detonated in eastern Baghdad, killing two civilians and wounding two policemen. The second bomb exploded moments after the first, hitting those who had gathered to inspect the blast site.
A roadside bomb aimed at an American military convoy went off in a Christian neighborhood by the country’s main tax office, but officials said no one was killed or hurt. A car bomb had exploded in the same neighborhood on Wednesday, killing five people shopping at an outdoor vegetable and fruit market and wounding 13 others.
Around midday in Adhamiya, where the Awakening Council members were attacked, gunmen opened fire on a minibus, wounding two government workers. Shortly before sunset, a car bomb exploded in a neighborhood in south Baghdad, killing one person and wounding three.
Meanwhile, in strife-ridden Diyala Province northeast of Baghdad, a gunfight between insurgents and Iraqi security forces left four people dead, three of them police officers. Afterward, the dead and wounded were laid out in a nearby orchard, a police official said, before ambulance crews arrived."
Good thing the MSM sold Amurka that pile of shit success about the surge!
I mean, readers, at this point, can't you see what lying fuckers they are?
How can you possibly believe ANYTHING these LYING, PIMPING, AGENDA-PUSHING ZIONIST SHIT RAGS SAY?!
You can't, not in the way they say it!
Turn it inside-out, upside-down and backwards, and then you'll get the truth! AMERIKA'S MSM PAPERS LIE to SERVE DICTATORSHIP!!!!!!!!
For the record:
You mean THIS "Al-CIA-Duh?"
Also see: "Al-CIA-Duhs" Catch-and-Release Program
And am I ever tired of the bullshit cover story lies, readers!
Also:
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!
