"Ex-insurgents Want More Money, or Else
The Iraqi officer leading a U.S.-financed anti-jihadist group is in no mood for small talk -- either the military gives him more money or he will pack his bags and rejoin the ranks of al-Qaeda."
Thank you, blogger.
And voila, my MSM bowl of scitte!
"Gunmen in Iraq kill 7 Shiites en route to shrine" by Kim Gamel, Associated Press Writer | July 27, 2008
BAGHDAD --Seven Shiite pilgrims traveling to a shrine in Baghdad were shot to death in an ambush in a Sunni town south of the capital Sunday as authorities tightened security ahead of a major religious festival that is expected to draw tens of thousands of worshippers.
Recent pilgrimages have been relatively peaceful as a U.S. troop buildup, a Sunni revolt against al-Qaida in Iraq and a Shiite militia cease-fire helped drive violence down to its lowest level in more than four years.
Nothing like flogging a conventional myth!
Yup, BUSH is LEAVING on a HIGH NOTE, isn't he?
The area where the attack occurred is a former al-Qaida in Iraq stronghold that has been touted by the U.S. military as a success story with its streets now patrolled by U.S.-allied Sunni groups known as Awakening Councils. Police believe the gunmen were seeking to rekindle sectarian tensions in the area.
The U.S. military, meanwhile, said two new operations will begin early next month in a bid to rout insurgents from rural hideouts in northern Iraq and solidify recent security gains in urban areas.
The main Iraqi military spokesman in Baghdad, Brig. Gen. Qassim al-Moussawi, said 100,000 Iraqi security forces will be deployed along with U.S. reinforcements and air support to protect the ceremonies, which culminate Tuesday.
Vehicles have been banned from the area and most Baghdad bridges will be closed to traffic, al-Moussawi said, adding that pilgrims were banned from carrying weapons or cell phones -- rules that have been widely flouted in the past.
He also said some 200 women also will be deployed to search female pilgrims to prevent would-be suicide bombers from hiding explosives under their all-encompassing black Islamic robes. Al-Moussawi said authorities had received tips that "terrorist groups" planned attacks close to the shrine and in adjacent areas, but he wasn't more specific.
I'm really tired of the bullshit, I really am (see links at bottom of this post).
With overall violence down in Baghdad, the U.S. military announced plans to chase al-Qaida in Iraq and other insurgents into northern safe havens where they have fled crackdowns in urban areas such as Mosul and Baqouba.
Maj. Gen. Mark Hertling, who commands U.S. forces in northern Iraq, said the Iraqi army will lead a new offensive in Diyala province, while his troops will focus on remote areas throughout the north.
The purpose of the offensives -- dubbed "Omens of Prosperity" and "Iron Pursuit," respectively -- is to build on security gains in urban areas of the north, Hertling said.
I'm sick of these disgusting names for operations of mass-murder!
And if we are winning so much, how come nothing ever really changes?
The AmeriKan MSM LIED US INTO WAR to begin with, and they have been LYING EVER SINCE!!!!
"We have secured the key cities of the north. We have seen al-Qaida continue to be pushed into what we call the support zones, the areas of the desert," he said. "We will continue to pursue them as they continue to try and find safe havens in the deserts, in the hills and in the palm groves."
Or GIVE THEM MORE $$$$, right (see top of this post)?!!!!
Hertling said the U.S. and Iraqi military will flood the area with soldiers, and he expressed optimism that much improved Iraqi security forces will succeed where past efforts have failed.... but he acknowledged the threat from al-Qaida in Iraq and insurgents remains strong.
Same old song and same old song and DANCE!!!!!!!!!
In other violence on Sunday, a senior member of a Sunni political party and his son were wounded and two of his bodyguards were killed when a bomb stuck to the bottom of their car exploded in the Anbar province city of Fallujah, police said.
In a separate development Sunday, the U.S. military admitted that American soldiers killed three innocent civilians after opening fire on a car last month on the heavily secured Baghdad airport road.
Yeah, save that for the tail end, yup.
--MORE--"
Shiite pilgrims walk down a street as they make their way to the shrine of Imam Musa al-Kazim, in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, July 27, 2008. Thousands of pilgrims are expected to converge on north Baghdad's Kazimiyah neighborhood by Tuesday, July 29, 2008, to mark the festival of Imam Musa al-Kazim, the seventh Shiite Imam. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
Shi'ite pilgrims made their way to the shrine of Imam Musa al-Kazim yesterday in Baghdad. Thousands of pilgrims are expected to converge on the Kazimiyah neighborhood by tomorrow. (Hadi Mizban/Associated Press)
Gee, it looks like Iraqis have air quality issues of their own.
Notice how the victory-promoting, surge-successing, Bush-won-Iraq, MSM press isn't badgering Iraq like its badgering China?
Yeah, I do get tired of pointing out lies, omissions, and distortions.
Oh, about those murdered civilians:
"US admits soldiers mistakenly killed unarmed civilians; Airport shootings were misreported" by Saif Hameed and Ned Parker, Los Angeles Times | July 28, 2008
BAGHDAD - The US military acknowledged yesterday that its soldiers had killed three unarmed civilians inside the heavily secured Baghdad airport compound, contradicting its original report that the trio were criminals who had opened fire.
"Criminals, terrorists, whatever knee-jerk excuse we can throw out there when we murder people" -- U.S. Army
The Army's investigation discovered no weapon, and the passengers turned out to be a man and two women who worked at the airport bank.
--MORE--"
But moving on.... sigh!
"Bomb Attacks in Baghdad and Kirkuk Leave Dozens Dead
BAGHDAD — Female bombers struck Kurdish political protesters in Kirkuk and Shiite pilgrims in Baghdad on Monday morning, leaving at least 48 people dead and 249 wounded in one of the bloodiest sequences of attacks in Iraq this year.
Honestly, the level of propaganda is beyong belief.
For the record, I don't believe in female suiciders. This Zionist-controlled, agenda-pushing, Muslim-hating, enemy-creating, demonizing propaganda outlet has lied from the beginning about Iraq (and so many other things), that I simply don't believe them. I just refuse to believe the Zionist "news" source on this one, folks, sorry!!!!
The bombing in Kirkuk immediately set the city on edge. Many Kurds believed the city’s ethnic Turkmen were behind the blast and retaliated by attacking Turkmen political parties. At least 24 people were killed and 187 wounded when a female suicide bomber blew herself up amid thousands of Kurdish demonstrators who had gathered near the provincial headquarters building, said Brig. Gen. Burhan Tayyib Taha of the Iraqi police in Kirkuk.
After the blast, the Kurdish demonstrators attacked the headquarters of Turkmen parties near the site of the attack, he said. “They burned Turkmen buildings and they burned many cars,” he said. Security forces instituted a curfew.
Kurds, Turkmen and Arabs are vying for power in Kirkuk — a city long considered a tinderbox because of its volatile ethnic mix — and rival parties traded accusations about the violence that followed the initial blast.
And strange when you consider the "terrorist" events in Turkey today (as well as the MSM sourcing, take a look at my blog post below on Turkey).
And CUI BONO in the END!
WHO has a BASE in KURDISTAN and wishes to BREAK UP the Middle East into little, ethnocentric states?
Please read: The Consequences for Russia and China in an Attack on Iran
A Kurdish member of the provincial council, Mohammed Kamal, accused Turkmen extremists of carrying out the attack and said that after the blast, shots had been fired at panicked Kurdish demonstrators from a nearby building owned by Turkmen. “Many protesters were killed and injured by the shooting,” he said.
Brigadier General Taha denied that Turkmen — or anyone else — had subsequently attacked the Kurdish demonstrators, though he said security forces who arrived to secure the scene and take the wounded to the hospital had shot into the air to clear the route for ambulances and police cars.
Farouk Abdullah, a senior Turkmen politician, said offices belonging to every Turkmen political party in the city had been attacked following the bombing. Mr. Abdullah said the Kurdish rioters had destroyed a number of Turkmen buildings and that many Turkmen political officials inside had been injured.
“We don’t know why they attacked us,” he said. “We did not have anything to do with the explosion.”
In the attacks in Baghdad, three women used suicide vests and a bomb in a bag to kill 24 people, all of them apparently Shiite pilgrims marching in a festival, according to an official at the Interior Ministry. The dead included at least four children, one of them an infant, and there were at least 62 other people wounded, according to police officials and witnesses.
The bombers struck in the Karrada neighborhood of central Baghdad, apparently using their flowing black robes, known as abayas, to carry explosives past checkpoints and the Iraqi policemen who were guarding marchers heading toward the Kadhamiyah shrine in northern Baghdad for a religious festival that culminates Tuesday.
By the way, readers, these are the new Soviet shock troops of the new Cold War?
When you balance both statements (assuming you take them at face-value truth), someone has to be lying, right?
The attacks — just five minutes apart — started shortly before 8 a.m., when a woman, walking amid the crowd close to the National Theater building, blew herself up. The blast killed 10 and wounded 15 others, said an Iraqi army officer who was at the scene, as he lifted a baby into an ambulance. Flip-flops and slippers of the dead were gathered into a pile. The air was bitter from the bomb.
“It was here,” said Atheer Allawi, a police officer, planting his feet firmly on the asphalt, boxes scattered from the blast behind him. “We can’t search women. They are wearing abayas, and God knows what they can hide under them.”
Police officers interviewed at the scene said that the authorities had heard that six women would blow themselves up in the area, and that the leader, Um Ahmed, was wearing sunglasses. All the women were suspected to have been from an area south of Baghdad called Salman Pak, said an Iraqi police lieutenant at one blast site.
The second attack occurred inside a tent that provided shade and rest for female marchers. The female bomber walked into the tent, sat down and, according to a police official, Abu Ali, read the Koran with the women sitting inside. When she exited the tent, she left a bag behind, and moments later, it exploded, killing one and wounding four, he said.
The third Karrada bomb struck between two traffic police checkpoints, killing at least 13 and wounding at least 15. Nails that had been embedded in the attacker’s suicide vest were strewn about the asphalt.
“This was part of her belt,” said the police lieutenant, nudging a bent nail with the toe of his shoe. He said the woman had turned off the main street where the pilgrims were marching, after the earlier blasts caused soldiers and police officers to conduct more frequent searches. He said she was thought to be the leader of the group.
THAT DOES IT!!!
They MAKE ME repost and repost!!!
Please see:
Occupation Iraq: Israelis Killing U.S. Troops
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-Duh
Who Invented "Al-CIA-Duh?"
"Al-CIA-Duhs" Catch-and-Release Program
Asymmetrical Warfare Group
Operation Gladio
Operation Northwoods
Occupation Iraq: British Bombers
Occupation Iraq: America's Roadside Bombs
Salvador Option
Special Police Commandos
Proactive, Preemptive Operations Group
Prop 201 tutorial
FRU
Islam's 9/11
How much more evidence do you need?
Oh, about that sectarianism: Memory Hole: The Dream Vacation
Memory Hole: The Uniters of Islam
Occupation Iraq: Sectarian Saviors
Case closed on AmeriKa's MSM and its PROPAGANDA SHOVELING, folks!
Final fart bleat: New York Times Admits War on Terror is U.S. Creation
