Happy New Year, Iraqis!
Bet if AmeriKa left your country, that would help!
"Iraqi Revelers Embrace the New Year" by SOLOMON MOORE and STEPHEN FARRELL
BAGHDAD — But even as partygoers embraced the New Year, a surge of attacks on Monday served as a potent reminder that 2007 was the bloodiest on record, with at least 18,000 civilians killed, according to the Ministry of Interior. ICasualties.org, an independent Web site that tracks official and nonofficial announcements of fatalities in Iraq, counted 899 Americans killed in 2007, compared with 822 in 2006. The total American death toll in Iraq since 2003 is 3,902, according to the Web site.
Ummmmm, 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: 600,000 DEAD!
Bomb attacks killed at least nine people on Monday, including two Iraqi soldiers, in one of the most violent days in recent weeks.
In the most deadly attack, a suicide truck bomber blew up a vehicle at a checkpoint manned by neighborhood security volunteers in Tarmiya, 30 miles north of Baghdad. The Iraqi police said the blast killed at least nine people, four children and five volunteers, who are members of a Sunni Arab tribe that has turned against the insurgency. Tarmiya was once a stronghold of the Sunni Arab insurgency.
In Iskandariya, about 30 miles south of Baghdad, a suicide car bomber attacked another checkpoint run by Sunni Arab tribesmen who recently pledged loyalty to the United States Army. Two volunteers were killed in the blast, according to the Iraqi police.
Five people were killed in explosions in turbulent Diyala Province, and at least five were wounded when a woman detonated an explosive vest in Baquba, the provincial capital. The two Iraqi soldiers were killed in Mandali, east of Baquba.
The attacks occurred two days after an hourlong audio recording by Osama bin Laden appeared on jihadist Web sites.
Sigh! Here we go with Zio-prop!
In the message, the leader of Al Qaeda spoke disparagingly about the Awakening Council, an American-organized security force of more than 70,000 Sunni Arabs who have renounced Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, a homegrown Sunni insurgent group that American intelligence says is led by foreigners.
Mr. bin Laden, a Sunni, warned his followers and he urged them to resist American overtures, according to a translation posted by the United States government’s Open Source Center:
“Plots that are being hatched by the Zionist-Crusader alliance to steal the fruit of blessed jihad [in Iraq]. Recruiting hypocrite chieftains of tribes is one axis. America, along with its agents in the region, is seeking through the other axis to form a new government. This government will be called a national unity government.”
Ummm, readers, Osama bin Laden is Dead!!!
And about that "Al-CIA-Duh."
"Al-CIA-Duhs" Catch-and-Release Program
American and Iraqi forces staged several sweeps throughout Iraq against suspected Sunni Arab insurgents. Iraqi National Police commandos said they killed seven suspected militants in the northern oil hub of Baiji. In the southern city of Hilla, Staff Brig. Abdul Amer Kamel Abdullah of the Iraqi Army said his soldiers arrested 70 people over the weekend.
Kurdish pesh merga fighters swept into the village of Jawala, north of Baquba, and arrested at least a dozen Sunni Arab men. In the northern city of Kirkuk, American soldiers and Iraqi police detained 17 suspected militants.
And in Mahmoudiya, about 20 miles south of Baghdad, an airborne force of American and Iraqi soldiers detained 18 suspected insurgents.
Monday’s violence highlighted the fragility of a downturn in attacks in Iraq over several weeks. United States and Iraqi military officials have heralded the lull as the fruits of the recent surge of American forces and the recruitment of more than 100,000 Iraqi police officers and the 70,000 Sunni Arab security volunteers.
But last week, Gen. David H. Petraeus, the commander of United States forces in Iraq, characterized those security gains as “reversible.”
Sigh! I'm tired of the lies, readers!
"Suicide bomber kills 12 in Iraq; US-backed Sunni group targeted" by Elena Becatoros, Associated Press | January 1, 2008
BAGHDAD - A suicide bomber attacked a checkpoint manned by a group fighting against Al Qaeda in Iraq, killing 12 people in one of a series of strikes yesterday against the largely Sunni movement singled out by Osama bin Laden as a "disgrace and shame."
The Jew press is sure pushing the bin Laden/Iraq/Israel connections lately, aren't they, readers?
Leaders of the rapidly expanding US-backed movement, credited with helping to slash violence across the country by 60 percent since June, condemned bin Laden's latest message to his followers.
See how they push the lies, readers?
Yup, bin Laden, and the surge worked!
I am tired of AmeriKa's MSM lies, readers!
Sheik Mohammed Saleh al-Dohan, head of one of the groups in southern Ramadi, a city in Anbar Province where the movement was born, blamed Al Qaeda, which espouses a radical version of Sunni Islam, for bringing destruction to Iraq:
"We consider our fighting against Al Qaeda to be a popular revolution against the devil. They made enemies between Sunnis, Shi'ites, and Christians who lived in peace for centuries. [Bin Laden and his fighters] are the traitors who betrayed the Muslim nation and brought shame to Islam in all the world."
Pfffffffttt! As if the U.S. INVASION had nothing to do with it!
Yeah, it's all bin Laden's fault!
Ummmmm, reader, 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 more evidence you need, readers?
Bin Laden, in an audiotape that emerged on Saturday, warned Iraq's Sunni Arabs against joining the groups, known as "awakening councils," or participating in any unity government:
"[Sunni Arabs who join the groups] have betrayed the nation and brought disgrace and shame to their people. They will suffer in life and in the afterlife."
In the northern city of Tikrit, Saddam Hussein's hometown, the local Salahuddin Awakening Council said the movement was founded in response to "the crimes of followers of Osama bin Laden in Iraq."
The statement, and demanded an apology:
"The Awakening Council's fighters are protecting people from criminals for those who have been harmed by the brutal acts of Al Qaeda members."
In the most serious attack against one of the groups yesterday, a suicide bomber drove a minibus rigged with explosives into a checkpoint in Tarmiyah, 30 miles north of Baghdad, police and a member of the local awakening council said.
The explosion killed 12 people, said Adil al-Mishhadani, a council member. The council commander, who gave his name only as Abu Arkan for security reasons, said later that the dead included three children on their way to school and nine council members.
Three people were missing, Abu Arkan said. In a western neighborhood of the capital, a mortar round believed to have been targeting a council headquarters wounded three civilians when it landed on a nearby house, a Baghdad police officer said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release information to the media.
To the south, in Wasit Province, gunmen shot and wounded an awakening council member in al-Hafriyah, a village 100 miles southeast of Baghdad, police said.
And in the town of Khalis, 50 miles north of Baghdad, gunmen traded gunfire with police and awakening council members, killing one member of the group and a policeman, a police officer said.
Earlier, a roadside bomb targeting a border patrol near the Iranian frontier killed two Iraqi guards, a police officer said on condition of anonymity, as he was not authorized to release information to the media.
Mohammed Mulla Karim, mayor of a nearby town, said one border guard was killed in the explosion and four were wounded. The differing death tolls could not immediately be reconciled."
Yeah, Iraq is WAY BETTER since Bush invaded!
And am I ever sick of AmeriKa's MSM and its LIES, readers!
