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2 de Abril, 2007
Freedom Surges On
Categorized under Iraq the Casbah , When the Right is SO wrong | Tags: Iraq, War Crimes
I'M SURE GLAD we didn't kick up a civil war in Iraq.
In another brutal attack, suspected Sunni militants massacred a group of 21 Shiite workers overnight after laying an ambush north of Baghdad.Travelling in three minibuses, the workers were abducted on the main road out of Baghdad to neighbouring Diyala, now the second most dangerous province in Iraq after the capital itself.
The 21 Shiites, together with six Kurdish colleagues still missing, worked in Baghdad's popular Shorja market where 60 people were killed in a double suicide bombing targeting Shiites last Thursday.
Looks like civil war. It's actually Freedom, marching. And it's marching right into the schools, too, whaddya know.
Fifth-former Naz Omar, who sustained shrapnel wounds to her head and legs, described the horrific scene after the blast.
"We were at the last lesson and we heard the explosion. I saw two of my classmates sitting near the window. They fell on the floor, drenched in blood," Omar told AFP.
"They could not speak. I was terrified. I said 'God is Great. I need my mother. I need my father,'" she said.
George sez "Enjoy the surge, comma!"
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Comentarios (3)
RickB dijo:
Worth a read, I think he downplays sectarianism but Negroponte did implement the 'Salvador option'. In chaos you can steal... http://uruknet.info/?p=m31346&s1=h1
--An Iraqi Kurd, Majid said he had not visited Iraq for decades - first because he was bitterly opposed to deposed ruler Saddam Hussein and now because he feared death at the hands of Americans and "these people" - a reference to Deputy Prime Minister Salih and minister Rashid. "I hate them," he added.
Majid squarely blamed the Americans for the Shia-Sunni sectarian conflict in Iraq that has claimed hundreds of lives and threatens to rip apart the country as never before.
"There was no such conflict before the Americans came," he said. "My own uncle, a Sunni, had nine children, six of whom married Shias.
"What happened is that the Americans trained death squads (of Iraqis) in Hungary before the invasion to take on members of one another community. My own cousin, a Shia, was trained in Turkey. But when he was asked to kill Sunnis, he just ran away.
"It was the Americans who spoke about Shia majority areas and Sunni triangles. Iraqis never used such expressions earlier. Despite American propaganda (that only Sunnis are against them), three Shia groups are fighting the Americans.--
Palabras por RickB spat forth on el 2 de Abril, 2007 at 11:23 AM
nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez dijo:
Makes perfect sense.
Palabras por nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez spat forth on el 2 de Abril, 2007 at 11:30 AM
Ill Do Chay dijo:
I consider Iraq much like Yugoslavia used to be (remember that? Tito and all?). Once the strongman was removed, all the various tribal leaders/warlords/powermad henchmen started fighting among themselves. How ungrateful. And look at the fiasco that Iraq has become. Thanks, shrubco. If you ever want to help, STAY AWAY FROM ME!
And my heart goes out to all those innocent Iraqis of all ages. Too bad they were born atop Jezuz' oil.
Palabras por Ill Do Chay spat forth on el 2 de Abril, 2007 at 12:21 PM