How long can you juggle, America, before you drop the balls?
Draft help?
Oh, and I don't think any Muslim would bomb these women, sorry.
"by Alexandra Zavis, Los Angeles Times | February 25, 2008
BAGHDAD - A suicide bomber blew himself up among Shi'ite Muslim pilgrims at a crowded rest stop yesterday, part of an eruption of sectarian violence that killed at least 43 people, injured 148, and tarnished one of Shi'ite Islam's holiest holidays....
The bombing was one of at least three attacks yesterday on the throngs of Shi'ites who were walking to the southern shrine city of Karbala to commemorate the religious holiday of Arbaeen.... Millions are expected to converge in the holy city this year, many of them walking more than 100 miles to get there.
Residents along the route set up tents offering the pilgrims food, water, and a place to rest. It was at one of these so-called comfort stations, erected along a highway between the towns of Iskandariyah and Musayyib south of Baghdad, that the suicide attacker struck yesterday.
See links below for what I think of "suiciders," readers.
Iraqi security officials and witnesses said a man with explosives hidden under a black leather jacket mingled among the pilgrims and blew himself up. At least 40 people were killed and 105 wounded, said Dr. Ahmed Ajrish, an official at the Babil Province health directorate.
New York Times told me it was a woman!
Fadil Talib, a civil servant, was in the crowd when the explosion happened.
"All I remember is a loud roar of, `God is great,' followed by a loud blast," Talib said from a hospital bed in nearby Hillah. "The pressure was so intense that all the sounds were muted. I saw flesh fluttering like feathers in the air. . . . I fainted and didn't come to until here in the hospital."
Hours after the blast, ambulances continued to arrive at three regional hospitals with the dead and wounded. Staff battled to cope with the flood of casualties.
Talib lay on his side, squeezing a nurse's hand as a doctor stitched a gash in the back of his head. The hospital was running out of anesthetic and other supplies, the doctor said.
Earlier yesterday, police said a roadside bomb exploded near pilgrims walking along a highway through the southern Baghdad district of Dora, where fighting erupted between the mostly Sunni Arab residents and Shi'ite militiamen accompanying the procession.
Now why has this been removed from the web version?
Half an hour later, suspected Sunni assailants tossed grenades at the pilgrims from a bridge spanning the highway, police said.
The violence in Dora left at least three civilians dead and 43 injured, most of them pilgrims, according to the Iraqi security and hospital officials.
Why would they cut that?
To protect pilgrims from further violence, the US military said Iraqi security forces were increasing the number of checkpoints and joint patrols with the Americans along the route to Karbala. Vehicle traffic is also being restricted in some areas and observation posts have been set up, the statement said."
And CUI BONO from "sectarian strife," readers?
America has to stay, right?
And here is what they replaced the civilian dead paragraphs with:
In another development, an Iraqi militant group posted a video on the Internet today showing the killings of 12 Nepalese men who worked for a Nepalese company with a US contract, according to Reuters news service. A militant beheaded one of the men with a knife. The rest were shot in the back while laying face down in a sandy lot, the video, posted by an Islamist group called the Army of Ansar al-Sunna, showed."
Where did they get the video?
Here?
Meanwhile, the front that could spin this thing out of control:
"Toll mounts in Turkish attack"
CUKURCA, Turkey - A Turkish helicopter crashed in Iraq, and eight soldiers were killed during a cross-border ground operation against Kurdish rebels, who planted booby traps on the bodies of their slain comrades, Turkey's military said yesterday.
Those dastardly Kurds (according to the Zionist media)!
The guerrillas said they shot down a Turkish military helicopter near the Iraqi border. Turkey's military said technicians were inspecting the wreck to determine why it crashed. It was not clear whether any of the reported troop casualties were from the crash. Since the start of the incursion Thursday, 15 Turkish soldiers have died, the military said on its website.
Thirty-three rebels were killed in the fighting yesterday, bringing the rebel death toll since Thursday to 112, according to the armed forces....
That's a lot of dead in just 5 days!
US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said yesterday while visiting Australia that it would take a broader approach to erode PKK support in northern Iraq:
"After a certain point people become inured to military attacks, and if you don't blend them with these kinds of nonmilitary initiatives, then at a certain point the military efforts become less and less effective."
Pfffffffttt!
Then let's get the hell OUT of Iraq and Afghanistan, 'kay?
Been there too long already!
.... The office of Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr said Turkish forces should leave Iraq.
"We demand that the Turkish government withdraw its forces immediately from the Iraqi territory and rely on negotiations to solve this conflict," the cleric's political committee said in a statement.
I agree!
Iran, which is fighting an Iraq-based group of Kurdish militants with PKK links, said it would maintain security measures on its border with northern Iraq.
Wow, the Zionist-controlled MSM actually mentioned P.J.A.K..
The Turkish military said clashes with the rebels were taking place in four areas of northern Iraq but did not specify any of them.
"Terrorist hide-outs have been effectively destroyed by warplanes, helicopter gunships, and artillery," the military said.
It said advancing troops were destroying rebel shelters, logistic centers, and ammunition. Retreating rebels were trying to gain time by setting up booby traps under the corpses of dead comrades or planting mines on escape routes, the military said.
The bodies of five of the 33 rebels killed yesterday had booby traps under them, the statement said.
Late yesterday, several military helicopters took off from a base in the hilltop town of Cukurca, flying with their lights off. Earlier, Turkish F-16 jets flew into northern Iraq. Armored personnel carriers transported troops, and four long-range guns were positioned at the Cukurca base."Ummmm, for the record, readers:
Occupation Iraq: Israeli-Trained Death Squads
Prop 101: Al-CIA-Duh and the OSI
Prop 101: Al-CIA-Duh's Greatest Hits
Prop 101: The "Terrorism" Business
Prop 102: Iraq and Government Lies
"Al-CIA-Duhs" Catch-and-Release Program
Proactive, Preemptive Operations Group
How much more evidence you need, readers?
And did I mention the DOD's MSM press offices in Lincoln, the Pentagon, or Langley?
That's where the AmeriKan press gets their "reports."
By the way, the number of Iraqis killed by the surge has been around 300 per day, 10,000 per month -- with 1.2 million Iraqis dead since the invasion, 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!
Occupation Iraq: One Million Dead Iraqis
Looks like the toll is about to go higher, too.
MUCH HIGHER!!!!
