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Joo Rip Gwa Rhhee
Joined: 25 May 2003
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Afghanistan was a failed state.
Failed states do not keep their problems to themselves. |
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fiveeagles
Joined: 19 May 2005
Location: Vancouver
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On the other hand
Joined: 19 Apr 2003
Location: I walk along the avenue
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MOSUL, Iraq � Iraqi Christians in the northern city of Mosul say this year has been the worst in living memory. After a wave of killings and attacks in October, more than 2,000 families fled to nearby villages.
Mosul remains one of the most dangerous places in Iraq and a stubborn holdout of the insurgency, but security has improved enough that at least half of those families have returned. On Thursday, they braved the violence and biting cold and rain to attend Christmas Masses and pray for their safety.
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Attacks on Chaldeans are just one element in Mosul�s stew of simmering ethnic, political and sectarian tensions.
Mosul is home to a mix of Sunni insurgents once linked to Saddam Hussein and to the home-grown group Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia. Nineveh Province is also the contested buffer zone between the central government and the semiautonomous Kurdistan region. About 5,000 American soldiers are stationed in the province.
There is ample evidence to suggest that many of the kidnappings and killings of Christians were carried out by Sunni militant groups and that ransom money has gone to finance the insurgency. But there is increased talk among Christians and the central government in Baghdad that the violence may be the work of Kurds who want to push Christians in Nineveh to ask to have their historic lands absorbed into the relative safety of Kurdistan.
Kurdish leaders strongly deny those charges.
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Also on Christmas, a roadside bombing in western Mosul killed two civilians and wounded five, Iraqi security officials said.
A car bomb left at a crowded riverside park was dismantled by American forces before blowing up, according to several witnesses. And an American soldier was killed in an �indirect fire attack� near the city, the military said.
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sharkey
Joined: 12 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 10:06 pm Post subject: |
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| investing ? dont you mean robbing blind ? |
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On the other hand
Joined: 19 Apr 2003
Location: I walk along the avenue
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| Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2009 11:31 am Post subject: |
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BAGHDAD - A female suicide bomber blew herself up on Sunday among a crowd of pilgrims worshipping at a revered Shiite shrine in northern Baghdad, killing at least 38 people and wounding about 72, the Iraqi army and police said.
The attack during one of the holiest periods for Shiite Muslims came just as Iraqi forces took the lead on security under an agreement with the United States that went into effect on New Year's Day. Under that agreement, U.S. forces take a back seat on security issues in much of the country following the Dec. 31 expiration of a U.N. mandate for foreign troops.
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fiveeagles
Joined: 19 May 2005
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| Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2009 9:53 pm Post subject: |
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BAGHDAD - A female suicide bomber blew herself up on Sunday among a crowd of pilgrims worshipping at a revered Shiite shrine in northern Baghdad, killing at least 38 people and wounding about 72, the Iraqi army and police said.
The attack during one of the holiest periods for Shiite Muslims came just as Iraqi forces took the lead on security under an agreement with the United States that went into effect on New Year's Day. Under that agreement, U.S. forces take a back seat on security issues in much of the country following the Dec. 31 expiration of a U.N. mandate for foreign troops.
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I think violence for the year is down 60 percent. Even msn and other far left sites are giving in to the fact that Iraq is becoming a democratic state. |
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