The Globe gives you this:
"Militants raid Shi'ite village, killing 13 Iraqis; Risks from Al Qaeda are high in north" by Lori Hinnant/Associated Press December 2, 2007
BAGHDAD - Dozens of suspected Al Qaeda militants showered a Shi'ite village with mortar rounds early yesterday, then stormed the streets, killing at least 13 Iraqis, torching homes, and forcing hundreds of families to flee, police said.
Some villagers fought back, leaving three gunmen dead in the heart of one of Iraq's most violent regions.
Even with nationwide violence ebbing to the lowest levels since January 2006, American commanders have warned that security is precarious in northern Iraqi regions such as Diyala - where yesterday's attack took place - as Al Qaeda and other militants have moved there to avoid coalition operations.
The militant attack on Dwelah, about 45 miles north of Baghdad in Diyala, began about 6:30 a.m. with the mortar rounds, then 50 to 60 suspected Al Qaeda fighters streamed in and opened fire, a police officer said.
Among the 13 dead were three children and two women, the officer said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release information about the raid. Villagers trying to fight back killed three gunmen, but the militants torched more than two dozen homes and around 500 families took shelter in neighboring towns, police said.
Elsewhere in Diyala, Iraqi officials said US and Iraqi troops, police, and members of a local tribe freed four villages from Al Qaeda control, killing 10 militants and arresting 15 in a two-day operation that ended yesterday.
Among the weapons and ammunition seized were 100 barrels of TNT, according to the provincial army and police headquarters. The US military said it could not immediately confirm the report.
The number of attacks nationwide has declined overall - 718 Iraqi civilians were killed in November, according to an Associated Press tally. That was the lowest monthly civilian death toll since just before the 2006 bombing of a Shi'ite shrine that spawned vicious sectarian bloodshed.
As the influx of US troops gained momentum earlier this year, American officials have courted Sunni and Shi'ite tribal leaders in Diyala and elsewhere, hoping they will help lead local drives against Al Qaeda. A similar effort saw some success in Iraq's westernmost province, Anbar, where Sunni tribes rose against the organization's brutality and austere version of Islam.
The groups now include some 60,000 Iraqis nationwide, most of them Sunni Arabs, according to the US military, and members have come under increasing attack from Al Qaeda, which is trying to offset recent security gains. At least six members of the local groups were killed on Friday and yesterday outside Baghdad and five were abducted, police and group members said.
At least 35 Iraqis were killed or found dead across the country, according to an Associated Press count.
US commanders have welcomed the relative lull in violence, but warn that Sunni and Shi'ite extremists still pose a serious threat. The US administration has pushed the Shi'ite-led government to capitalize on the security gains and make tangible progress toward national reconciliation.
That effort has foundered, and yesterday lawmakers from Parliament's largest Sunni Arab bloc walked out of a session to protest what they called the house arrest of their leader, Adnan al-Dulaimi, after the discovery of a car bomb near his compound.
US and Iraqi officials said the keys to the explosives-laden vehicle were found on one of his bodyguards. Dulaimi's son and about 30 other people also were arrested Friday.
Lawmakers said Dulaimi, a harsh critic of Shi'ite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, told them yesterday that security forces prevented him from leaving his Baghdad home to come to Parliament, located in the US-protected Green Zone. Also stopped from leaving was his daughter, legislator Asmaa al-Dulaimi.
Chief government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh denied in an interview with state television that Dulaimi was under house arrest, but added that any proceedings against him would be carried out under the law.
"Everyone is subject to the law whether he is a lawmaker or not and the government is adamant to be objective and neutral in dealing with this issue," he said.
In southern Iraq, police captured a suspect believed responsible for supplying and coordinating roadside bomb attacks against American and Iraqi troops, the US military said yesterday.
The American statement said the suspect, detained Friday in Nasiriyah, about 200 miles southeast of Baghdad, had traveled repeatedly to Iran and was found with Iranian weapons and munitions, including three new Iranian-made rockets and boosters, a launcher, and AK-47 assault rifles and ammunition.
Also in Iraq's south, gunmen abducted the dean of a technical institute in Amarah, according to his aide, Ahmed Ajeel."
I really have had it with the damn military's lies, readers!
WAR-MONGERING MSM PROPAGANDA!!!!!!
The Times boils it down to two paragraphs at the end of an article on Turkey's attack on the Kurds yesterday!
"Turkey Says It Attacked Kurdish Fighters in Iraq" by SABRINA TAVERNISE and STEPHEN FARRELL
In Diyala, dozens of gunmen belonging to Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia attacked the village of Dwelah, burning down houses and killing 13 people, including four children and three women, Iraqi Army officers said.
It was the second such attack on the Shiite village after its Tamimi tribe refused demands earlier this year to swear loyalty, pay tribute and supply fighters for Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, an Iraqi militant group that American intelligence sources say is foreign led."
You mean, THIS "Al-CIA-Duh?"
Also see: "Al-CIA-Duhs" Catch-and-Release Program
Oh, and 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?
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
I've had it with the stink NYT, readers!
