The alledged human beings over at 19th Century Faux News are trying to spin the slow burn meltdown in Iraq as
a good thing. Two onscreen captions during a segment on escalating violence in Iraq read: " '
Upside' To Civil War?" and "
All-Out Civil War in Iraq: Could It Be a Good Thing?".
Would it be "a good thing" if is happened in their neighborhoods and threatened their families. These knuckle draggers need empathy education.
Iraq shrine bombing was specialist jobThe bombing of a revered Shiite shrine which sparked a wave of violence in Iraq was the work of specialists, Construction Minister Jassem Mohammed Jaafar said Friday, adding that the placing of the explosives must have taken at least 12 hours.
"According to initial reports, the bombing was technically well conceived and could only have been carried out by specialists," the minister told Iraqia state television. Jaafar, who toured the devastated thousand-year-old shrine on Thursday a day after the bombing which brought down its golden dome, said "holes were dug into the mausoleum's four main pillars and packed with explosives.Then the charges were connected together and linked to another charge placed just under the dome. The wires were then linked to a detonator which was triggered at a distance," the minister added. To drill into the pillars would have taken at least four hours per pillar, he also estimated.
Think the CIA knows anyone who may have bomb experience? Those British special forces types have anything to avenge or gain by this? Iran? Israel? Who knows, but this one smells.
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Bombs and gunfire killed about 60 people as another daytime curfew Saturday failed to halt violence that has claimed nearly 200 lives since the destruction of a Shiite shrine set off a wave of retribution against Sunnis and pushed Iraq toward civil war" -
YahooNewsReuters:
SECURITY DEVELOPMENTS- BAGHDAD - At least three members of Iraq's security forces were killed in attacks on the funeral procession of an Al Arabiya journalist killed earlier this week, the Arab television station and police said.
- BAGHDAD - Eleven bodies were found in five areas of Baghdad, police said. All were male and all had been shot.
- BAGHDAD - Police and a spokesman for the Shi'ite movement led by fiery cleric Moqtada al-Sadr said three people were killed and six wounded by mortar and rocket fire in Sadr City in eastern Baghdad.
- TIKRIT - The body of a police officer with gunshot wounds was found near his home east of Tikrit, police said.
- KERBALA - A car bomb exploded in a street market in the southern city of Kerbala, killing at least eight people and wounding 31, police said.
- BAQUBA - Gunmen killed 12 members of a Shi'ite family near Baquba, north of Baghdad, Interior Ministry sources said. ]
- BAGHDAD - Gunmen opened fire on the house of the head of Iraq's leading Sunni Muslim religious organisation, Harith al- Dari, in an attack he blamed on government forces. Dari's security personnel opened fire and there appeared to be injuries on both sides, police said.
- BAGHDAD - Fourteen bodies of police commandos were found near one of the mosques attacked in southern Baghdad where clashes occurred overnight, police said. Gunmen attacked the Qubaisy mosque and the Sunnis' revered Abu Hanifa shrine.
- BAQUBA - Clashes erupted overnight between Iraqi troops and Sunni militants in a village near Baquba, north of Baghdad. Army sources said four militants were killed and 17 arrested.
- IRAQ - More than 200 people have died since sectarian violence broke out on Wednesday, according to police. Defence Minister Saadoun al-Dulaimi put the number at half that. Some 40 died around the country on Saturday alone, according to police and military.
POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS- BAGHDAD - Iraq's top political leaders held talks on Saturday to discuss the formation of a new government as they tried to ease sectarian tensions that have raised fears of civil war. Sunni politicians who had suspended their participation in negotiations on the formation of a new government attended the meeting, as did U.S. ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad.
- WASHINGTON D.C. -- U.S. President George W. Bush made a round of phone calls on Saturday to Iraqi leaders of all sects, urging them to work together to calm violence that has raised fears of an all-out civil war.
- BAGHDAD - U.N. envoy to Iraq Ashraf Qazi called on all Iraqis to come together to avert a civil war while offering help in rebuilding and repairing mosques damaged in recent sectarian violence.
- BAGHDAD - Sunni and Shi'ite clerics met at the Sunni Abu Hanifah Mosque in Baghdad to discuss the security situation and the reciprocal attacks on Sunni and Shi'ite mosques.
- BAGHDAD - Iraq's defence minister Saadoun al-Dulaimi warned that a civil war would never end if it erupts. He said Iraq was ready to put armoured vehicles on the streets to end violence and impose security. He also said the number of attacks on Sunni mosques had been exaggerated.
- BAGHDAD - Iraq will extend a security clampdown and ban on cars travelling in the streets of Baghdad until 6 a.m. on Monday morning, Interior Minister Bayan Jabur said
Heir Bush is "pleading" with Iraqi leaders
to die quietly for calm, as if that's going to help. I'm sure he'll profit either way, after all the occupation benefits him and Halliburton, etc. I dream of seeing Bush spend his next vacation in Iraq visiting Iraqi mothers.
See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No EvilThe New York Times declared on its website early Friday in a headline that the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad, had warned to U.S. was on the "precipice of full-scale civil war." Their headline? "U.S. Envoy in Baghdad Says Iraq Is on Brink of Civil War."
Within an hour and without explanation, the Times yanked the headline in favor of "U.S. Envoy Says Sectarian Violence Threatens Iraq's Future."
A
head in the sand approach has gotton us this far. Judy Miller must be so proud!
US conducts subcritical nuclear testThe Energy Department has confirmed the United States has carried out a subcritical nuclear experiment at an underground test site in Nevada on Thursday (local time). The test was aimed at gathering ''scientific data that provides crucial information to maintain the safety and reliability of... nuclear weapons without having to conduct underground nuclear tests,'' the department said. Some anti-nuclear groups are concerned that the Bush administration is trying to accelerate its efforts to develop new nuclear arms through such tests. Anti-nuclear groups have criticised and continue to urge Washington to stop the tests, saying they are undermining the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty on nuclear weapons.
We better disarm our nukes before some dumb shit uses one. We are obviously preparing to use one. Humans have never made a weapon they didn't eventually use and our massive nuclear arsenal is no exception. We are dooming ourselves and children to a nuclear holocaust.
http://www.nuclearpolicy.org/
A Candidate For Immediate Withdrawal From IraqFrom: Bill Scheurer
To: GI Special
Sent: February 23, 2006
Subject: Almost There! Iraq War On 2006 BallotI support, and will work for, and vote for, all of the proposals pending before Congress to withdraw U.S. military forces from Iraq.
This includes those that call for staged withdrawal, and those that call for immediate withdrawal, while working harder to give preference to those calling for immediate withdrawal.
I also require that the U.S. remain committed to the people of Iraq with non-military support, including mediation, reconciliation, peacebuilding, and reconstruction.
Yours,
Bill
Bill Scheurer
The Peace Majority Report
www.PeaceMajority.org
Bill Scheurer for Congress
www.BringOurTroopsHome.com
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