For what it is worth

This article in Sunday's Telegraph suggests that the bombing earlier in the week in the parliament building complex has had a presumably unintended consequence. 

Suicide Attacks: The Car Bombings Continue

The car bombings continue:"At least 24 people have been killed in a series of bomb attacks in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, police said. At least two car bombs and a mortar in quick succession killed 18 people and injured dozens more at a busy market in a southern mainly Shia...

US accuses Iran over Iraq Bombs

Pardon me for saying so, but the US Government has a bit of a history of crying wolf. Pardon me further for not believing a word they say until confirmed by an outside source.Considering that the US-led forces cannot control Iraq, which was nearly defenseless pre-invasion and...

Top Iraqi official held in raid

"US and Iraqi forces in Baghdad have arrested the deputy health minister during a raid at his offices. The minister, Hakim al-Zamili, is a key member of the political group led by radical Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr. He is accused of aiding Shia militiamen and using ambulances...

Surge In Iraq

"The real surge in Iraq is not Bush's it is the in the civil war being conducted by the Iraqi Government and its allies, the Shia establishment, against fellow Shia and the Sunni's in their battle to take control of Baghdad. It is ethnic cleansing of areas where both...

Dozens die in Iraq suicide blasts

"At least 45 people have been killed and 150 injured in a double suicide bombing near a busy market in the Iraqi town of Hilla, local police say. A police source told the BBC an officer tried to stop and search the first attacker, but as he did so both men detonated their...

Roggio: Press briefing put on hold

Bill Roggio reports that a scheduled press briefing which was to lay out details of Iran's involvement in the Iraqi insurgency has been put on hold."The United States had planned to detail Iran's involvement in supporting the Shia death squads, as well as the Sunni...

Shia pilgrims killed in Iraq attacks

"Bombers today killed at least 25 people in attacks on Shia worshippers who were marking the climax of the Ashura religious festival in towns near Baghdad. Gunmen also killed four pilgrims and wounded six in the capital's south-west district of Bayaa, the Reuters news agency...

Iraqi Ghost Dance

" Maliki's Shiite Iraqi Government orchestrated a deliberate slaughter of Muslim heretics this weekend in Iraq."

O'Reilly: Sunni and Shiite Iraqis "have fun" when they "kill each other"

"Discussing Iraq during the January 24 edition of his nationally syndicated radio show, Bill O'Reilly claimed that "the Sunni and Shia want to kill each other. ... They have fun. This is -- they like this. This is what Allah tells them to do, and that's what they do."...

Hezbollah Driven By Iran and Syria, Lebanese Premier Claims

"The Lebanese Prime Minister has blamed Iran and Syria for organising a general strike in Beirut that led to rioting and the deaths of at least three people Fouad Siniora, the pro-Western Lebanese premier whose...

Over 70 killed in Baghdad blasts

"Two nearly simultaneous bombings in a mostly Shia commercial area in central Baghdad killed at least 72 people and wounded at least 134, Iraqi officials said today. The first blast occurred shortly after midday when a bomb left in a bag among market stalls of DVDs and second...

feel the love: 'prepare to die',

"Palestinians living in Iraq have been warned that they will be killed by Shia militias unless they leave the country immediately.... Now the Shia militias are stepping up their campaign to drive out Iraq's 20,000 remaining Palestinians – half the estimated 40,000 living...
 

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