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Octavius Hite
Joined: 28 Jan 2004
Location: Househunting, looking for a new bunker from which to convert the world to homosexuality.
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 Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 2:38 am Post subject: The "More Good News From Iraq" Thread |
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Here's some, more great news!
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2007/03/28/shia-revenge-070328.html
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Shia policemen seeking revenge for mass bombings in a northern Iraqi town roamed the streets and shot at least 45 men in the back of the head Wednesday, police and hospital officials said.
The off-duty officers, apparently enraged by truck bombs that attacked the predominantly Shia city of Tal Afar, embarked on a killing spree, roaming Sunni neighbourhoods on foot Wednesday morning, police officials said.
Hospital officials said at least 45 people died as the police continued the two-hour assault. The dead ranged from 15 years old to 60, and four others were wounded, a senior hospital official in Tal Afar said. The hospital official spoke on condition of anonymity because of security concerns.
There were no precise figures for the number of Sunni victims who died or were wounded, but dozens were hurt or killed.
Army troops later moved into the Sunni areas to end the violence and a curfew was slapped on the entire town, according to Wathiq al-Hamdani, the provincial police chief and his head of operations, Brig. Abdul-Karim al-Jibouri.
Tal Afar, located 418 kilometres northwest of Baghdad, is in the province of Ninevah, of which Mosul is the capital.
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"The situation is under control now," al-Hamdani said. "The local Tal Afar police have been confined to their bases and policemen from Mosul are moving there to replace them."
Al-Jibouri said he was heading to Tal Afar to take charge of the situation.
Two truck bombs hit markets in Tal Afar Tuesday, killing at least 63 and wounding 150. It was the second assault in four days in the mostly Shia Muslim city. |
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ddeubel
Joined: 20 Jul 2005
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| Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 3:12 am Post subject: |
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I'd like to mention here (and please bugger off with the "oh just an anti-American , lefty comment) the fact that the U.S. has rejected thousands of legitimate Iraqi refugees and immigrants. Even many who they promised sanctionary to and then later pulled the rug out from under.....Seems America wants to help but just not too much......or only in one particular fashion.
Yeah, more good news daily to those Iraqis seeking a better life. Stay there and suffer -- for us.
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Octavius Hite
Joined: 28 Jan 2004
Location: Househunting, looking for a new bunker from which to convert the world to homosexuality.
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| Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 3:55 pm Post subject: |
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Let the good times roll!:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17826030/
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FALLUJAH, Iraq - Insurgents with two chlorine truck bombs attacked a local government building in Fallujah in western Iraq on Wednesday, the latest in a string of attacks using the poisonous gas, the U.S. military said.
Fifteen Iraqi and U.S. soldiers were wounded in the blasts and many more suffered chlorine poisoning, the statement said.
�Numerous Iraqi soldiers and policemen are being treated for symptoms such as labored breathing, nausea, skin irritation and vomiting that are synonymous with chlorine inhalation,� a U.S. statement said.
It said no Iraqi or U.S. forces were killed in what it called a �complex attack� using mortars and small arms as well as the truck bombs.
Chlorine gas was widely used in World War I but its use in insurgent attacks in Iraq has particular resonance there. Saddam Hussein attacked Kurdish areas with chemical weapons in the 1980s during the Iran-Iraq war.
Earlier Iraqi police said two car bombs exploded near an Iraqi checkpoint outside a U.S. military base in Fallujah, killing eight Iraqi soldiers.
Revenge killings
Meantime, police and hospital officials said off-duty Shiite policemen enraged by massive bombings in the northern town of Tal Afar went on a revenge spree against Sunni residents there on Wednesday, killing at least 45 men.
The policemen began roaming the town�s Sunni neighborhoods on foot early in the morning, shooting at Sunni residents and homes.
A senior hospital official in Tal Afar said at least 45 men ages 15 to 60 were killed and four others were wounded.
Other tolls were higher. �Between 50 and 55 people were killed. I�ve never seen such a thing in my life,� said a doctor, who refused to be named because he said he feared for his life.
Another source at the hospital put the death toll at 45, while police said 50 were killed. Major-General Khorshid Saleem, the head of the Third Army Division in Tal Afar, said the death toll was 70, with 30 wounded and 40 kidnapped.
�Militias conducted these acts, and if it had not been for the army interference the people killed in the carnage would be in the thousands,� he told Reuters.
Tal Afar, located 260 miles northwest of Baghdad, is in the province of Ninevah, of which Mosul is the capital.
Spike in violence
The attacks follow an upsurge in violence in Baghdad and outside the capital in recent days. U.S. and Iraqi security forces have deployed thousands more soldiers in Baghdad to try to stem a sectarian war threatening to tear the country apart.
In Tuesday�s truck bombings in Tal Afar, one suicide bomber lured victims to buy wheat loaded on his truck in a Shiite neighborhood. A second truck bomb exploded in a used car lot. The attacks killed 63 people and wounded more than 150.
In 2006, President Bush held up Tal Afar as an example of progress being made in Iraq after U.S.-led forces freed it from al-Qaida in an offensive the previous year. |
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Octavius Hite
Joined: 28 Jan 2004
Location: Househunting, looking for a new bunker from which to convert the world to homosexuality.
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| Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 5:52 pm Post subject: |
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A new form of terrorism, bad TV:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/03/28/iraq.star.academy/index.html
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BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Shada Hassoon, a charismatic and talented 26-year-old singer, is doing for Iraq what weary politicians in that strife-torn country have so far failed to do: Unite the fractious nation.
Hassoon is a contestant representing Iraq on LBC's "Star Academy," a televised entertainment competition from Lebanon similar to "American Idol."
She has advanced all the way to the finals and is one of four contestants left.
On Friday, a winner will be announced, and Hassoon stands a solid chance of winning, in part because Iraqis have embraced her and are expected to vote for her in droves.
"You deserve it, you are the star," one fan wrote to Hassoon in a comment on the Al-Arabiya network's Web site.
"I wish upon all Iraqis abroad and inside Iraq to vote for Shada, and I wish that all of them unite, and I would like to say one word to the Arabs and the entire world that Iraqis are brethren no matter what sect or confession they belong to," the writer added.
Hassoon has mixed national heritage. She was born in Morocco to an Iraqi father and a Moroccan mother.
But she is regarded as an Iraqi because nationality is based on her father's country.
She identifies herself as an Iraqi national and says her dream since childhood has been "to represent my country, Iraq, in arts."
"We voted for Shada without asking if she were a Shiite or a Sunni," Hicham Mahmoud Alaazami said on the Al-Arabiya Web site. "We voted for her just because she is an Iraqi."
Hassoon has been the object of attention in Arabic-language media in Iraq and across the Arab world.
'Bring joy to the Iraqis' broken hearts'
"Salma the Sudanese" wrote on Al-Arabiya's Web site that "Shada Hassoon is a great human being and a perfect artist. God willing, she will be the star and bring joy to the Iraqis' broken hearts."
Salma thinks the singer will bring more happiness to the Iraqis than the Arab summit this week, "because the Arab summit is nothing but a show and a photo opportunity, nothing else."
Hassoon's efforts have shared space on Iraqi newspaper front pages with the daily insurgent attacks, and one Iraqi TV channel is urging Iraqis to "vote for the daughter of the Euphrates."
Some fans have launched Web sites to support her quest to win.
One Web message from a college student said "we need to collect donations from the students so we can buy cell phone units cards in order to vote for Shada. I am working on an ad that I can post in the university campus. Before I do, can you please send me the correct way to vote for Shada via text messages?"
In an LBC profile, Hassoon says she joined "Star Academy" because she loves art and the show and "because it will educate me in the artistic domain, not to mention fame."
Many people believe star power has its limits. Mohammed Amer Zakaria wrote Al-Arabiya that he believes "Iraqis can find something else that can unite them besides 'Star Academy.'"
But Zeina, in her Al-Arabiya posting, is more reflective of the Shada-mania throughout Iraq. She begs everyone "despite the sad circumstances in Iraq, please vote for our daughter Shada, the daughter of the two rivers." |
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igotthisguitar
Joined: 08 Apr 2003
Location: South Korea (Permanent Vacation)
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| Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 2:02 am Post subject: |
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Gunmen Slaughter 50 In Iraqi Town
Wed Mar 28, 10:04 AM
MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - Gunmen rampaged through a Sunni district of the northwestern Iraqi town of Tal Afar overnight, killing about 50 people in reprisal for bombings in a Shi'ite area, Iraqi officials said on Wednesday.
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, a Shi'ite, ordered an inquiry into reports the gunmen included policemen from his Shi'ite- dominated security forces, an official in his office said.
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/070328/world/international_iraq_dc
The attack was on the Sunni district of al-Wihda in Tal Afar, where tensions have been rising between Shi'ite and Sunni Muslim residents, mostly Turkish-speaking ethnic Turkmen.
The tit-for-tat violence in a town held up by President Bush only a year ago as an example of progress toward peace in Iraq, graphically illustrates the challenge facing Maliki in bridging an ever-widening sectarian divide.
There has been a sharp upsurge in violence in recent days outside Baghdad, epicenter of the communal bloodshed, where thousands of U.S. and Iraqi security forces are focusing their efforts to halt a slide to full-scale civil war.
"Shi'ite armed groups killed Sunni men inside their homes. More than 50 were killed," said Brigadier Najim al-Jubouri, mayor of Tal Afar, which is close to the Syrian border and the regional capital of Mosul.
He said 18 people had been detained. A security source who declined to be named said many of the suspects were policemen 
A curfew was imposed as the Iraqi army took control of the city.
"I wish you can come and see all the bodies. They are lying in the grounds. We don't have enough space in the hospital. All of the victims were shot in the head," a doctor told Reuters by telephone from the main hospital in Tal Afar.
"Between 50 and 55 people were killed. I've never seen such a thing in my life," said the doctor, who refused to be named because he said he feared for his life.
Another source at the hospital put the death toll at 45, while police said 50 were killed. Major-General Khorshid Saleem, the head of the Third Army Division in Tal Afar, said the death toll was 70, with 30 wounded and 40 kidnapped.
"Militias conducted these acts, and if it had not been for the army interference the people killed in the carnage would be in the thousands," he told Reuters.
Gunmen raided the Tal Afar neighborhood shortly after twin truck bombings on Tuesday that police said killed 55 people and wounded 180. One suicide bomber lured victims to buy wheat loaded on his truck in a Shi'ite neighborhood. A second truck bomb exploded in a used car lot in a religiously mixed area.
An Iraqi army officer in Tal Afar said Iraqi troops had sealed off police stations in the town to try to bring the violence under control and arrested 20 policemen in connection with the shootings.
CHLORINE BOMBS
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stevemcgarrett
Joined: 24 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 2:09 am Post subject: |
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Hey Octavius Maximus Media Ho:
Starting a thread and then posting three times on it in the span of the first webpage is a little desperate and self-serving.
Next I suppose you'll be blaming the Americans for these random acts of brutality.
But here's a NEWSFLASH for ya:
Saddam's regime would have eventually collapsed and this sort of thing would have still been going on, except on a much wider scale. And if you think a pull out now of coalition forces wouldn't result in a major spike in sectarian violence, well then I've got a London bridge in Arizona to sell you.
Not everyone likes to pull out of things as quick as you do, pokey. |
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ddeubel
Joined: 20 Jul 2005
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| Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 2:41 am Post subject: |
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| Saddam's regime would have eventually collapsed and this sort of thing would have still been going on, except on a much wider scale. |
You are no good with conclusions.....no endurance I guess.
Meaning, where would they have got all the munitions from, for this mayhem, if not from the Americans?????? You don't face up to the reality that the American's are the fuel, not, the other way 'round.
Further, how wide is wider?
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igotthisguitar
Joined: 08 Apr 2003
Location: South Korea (Permanent Vacation)
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| Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 3:18 am Post subject: |
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Bush Cites Upbeat Bloggers From Baghdad
By BEN FELLER, Associated Press Writer
Wed Mar 28, 4:33 PM ET
WASHINGTON - To back up his point that pulling out of Iraq would be a disaster, President Bush has quoted opinions from the secretary of defense, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the top U.S. general in Iraq � and now, two bloggers from Baghdad.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/bush_say_what ( ETC ... )
QUOD EST VERITAS? |
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Joo Rip Gwa Rhhee
Joined: 25 May 2003
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| Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 7:28 am Post subject: |
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| A lot more reliable than what is what on Jeff Rense's web site. |
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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 8:00 am Post subject: |
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| I'd like to mention here (and please bugger off with the "oh just an anti-American , lefty comment) the fact that the U.S. has rejected thousands of legitimate Iraqi refugees and immigrants. |
You're not anti-American, DD, you just cannot help being a little snide agianst Americans. OH is anti-American. He wishes America ill actively and openly. |
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ddeubel
Joined: 20 Jul 2005
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| Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 1:57 pm Post subject: |
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| You're not anti-American, DD, you just cannot help being a little snide agianst Americans. OH is anti-American. He wishes America ill actively and openly. |
First, please counter my point. That will earn you some points, nothing else.
As to this allegation. NO, don't wish any ill to America. Actively, covertly whatever -- only wish for it to do the right thing. You don't feign helping a nation and then ALSO make promises to untold thousands that their assistance will earn them green cards and job/travel opportunities abroad and THEN say, "sorry, we've decided we can't have your kind here in the land of the free.".
Which is it? You help and create ties of commerce/education/culture or America acts as a prison guard and overlord? At present all I see is the veneer of "help".......
DD |
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bucheon bum
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 2:04 pm Post subject: |
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| ddeubel wrote: |
I'd like to mention here (and please bugger off with the "oh just an anti-American , lefty comment) the fact that the U.S. has rejected thousands of legitimate Iraqi refugees and immigrants. Even many who they promised sanctionary to and then later pulled the rug out from under.....Seems America wants to help but just not too much......or only in one particular fashion.
Yeah, more good news daily to those Iraqis seeking a better life. Stay there and suffer -- for us.
DD |
60 minutes had a story on this 2-3 weeks ago. It is disgraceful. We helped vietnamese people who assisted us, why aren't we doing the same for iraqis? |
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some waygug-in
Joined: 25 Jan 2003
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