But everything is better and the surge worked!
Sigh of oooooh!
"Bomber attacks Iraq police station" by Sameer N. Yacoub/Associated Press December 9, 2007
BAGHDAD - A suicide bomber driving an explosives-laden truck filled with sand struck a police station north of Baghdad yesterday, the latest in a week of bombings that have killed nearly 80 people.
The truck was allowed through the main gate of the complex in Beiji, the site of Iraq's largest refinery, after the driver told the guards he was delivering the sand to a construction site inside. The driver detonated his payload when two police officers approached him as he tried to enter a parking lot, police said.
The blast, which damaged nearby homes and sent shards of glass flying through the air, killed eight people and wounded 16, police said. It occurred in a neighborhood that is home to many refinery workers and engineers, but apparently targeted the station.
Violence has been unrelenting in northern Iraq as insurgents fight back against a US-Iraqi security crackdown and a groundswell of public opinion that has turned Sunni tribal leaders against the terror network.
US troops killed 12 suspected Al Qaeda in Iraq militants and detained 13 in a series of raids in central and northern Iraq, including one that ended with an air strike on a palm grove where gunmen had taken up position outside Youssifiyah, 12 miles south of Baghdad, the US military said.
The raids came days after an Al Qaeda front group, the Islamic State of Iraq, posted a message on an extremist website announcing a new campaign against members of so-called awakening groups. Those groups have turned against the extremists and been credited by the United States with helping reduce violence nationwide.
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!
TIRED of IT!
Yesterday's attack in Beiji capped a deadly week in which nearly 80 people were killed and dozens wounded in roadside bombings, car bombings, and suicide attacks, most targeting Iraqi security forces or anti-Qaeda groups north of Baghdad.
Colonel Hazim Jamil of the Beiji police force: "This attack will not deter us and the bombings will not frighten us because we are serving our country and protecting our citizens."
Police and witnesses said the bomber made it through the main gate by hiding his explosives under sand. He was stopped when he tried to drive his truck into a parking lot behind the police station. Guards became suspicious because he was trying to enter an area that was not under construction.
Qadouri Mohammed, who was collecting trash near the site of the blast:
"The truck exploded when the two policemen approached to try to ask the driver questions. After the explosion, we rushed to hide behind trees in order to avoid flying pieces of debris."
A police official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to release the information, said the seven killed included five police officers and two civilians.
Beiji, 155 miles north of Baghdad, houses northern Iraq's largest oil refinery, and serves as a key transfer point for crude oil being exported out of Iraq.
Violence is generally down throughout Iraq, largely due to a US troop buildup, the rise of the anti-Qaeda groups, and a freeze on activities by the Mahdi Army ordered by the militia's leader, cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.
Ad nauseum lies!
But with the loss of many former sanctuaries, Al Qaeda groups are believed to be moving to more remote regions. In the southeastern city of Kut, 100 miles from Baghdad, a rocket landed on the home of a member of the local Sadrist bloc of Shi'ite politicians, killing him, his wife, and their two children, police said.
That type of passive terminology makes me believe it was a U.S. ROCKET!!!!!!
Just LANDED on them, huh?
The US military yesterday raised the death toll of a suicide car bombing the day before at a checkpoint about 10 miles outside of Muqdadiyah, saying those killed included six Iraqi soldiers and five members of a local anti-Qaeda group.
Also Friday, a woman detonated explosives in front of the building housing the Muqdadiyah office of the 1920 Revolution Brigade, a Sunni insurgent group whose members in the area switched sides this year and joined the fight against Al Qaeda. At least 12 people were killed in that attack, the US military said, although Iraqi police put the death toll at 15.
The deadliest attack last week was a parked car bombing in the predominantly Shi'ite neighborhood of Karradah in Baghdad, which killed at least 18 people Wednesday.
Also struck was Ramadi, with at least three police officers killed by a suicide car bomber. Ramadi, 70 miles west of Baghdad, is the birthplace of the awakening movement that has seen mainly Sunnis join forces against Al Qaeda."
Then we get a run-down of Zionist propaganda!
Wanna know who is really doing the "suicide bombings" and "sectarian killings" in Iraq, readers??
Look here:
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?
