14 Killed in Explosion Near Baghdad Mosque

[leftchick]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20050121/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A car bomb exploded outside a Shiite mosque in Baghdad Friday where worshippers were celebrating a major Muslim holiday, killing at least 14 people and wounding 40, police and hospital officials said, the country's latest violence in the lead-up to this month's elections.



The car blew up outside the al-Taf mosque in the capital's southwest, where Shiites were celebrating one of Islam's most important holidays, Eid al-Adha, or Feast of Sacrifice. The feast coincides with the yearly pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia.


Attacks on Shiites have increased in the run-up to Iraq (news - web sites)'s Jan. 30 parliamentary and provincial elections. Friday's blast was the second outside a Shiite mosque in the capital this week and it came a day after a chief terror leader in Iraq berated Shiites in an Internet audio recording that appeared aimed at sowing division in the country.


Iraq's Shiites — a community that was oppressed for decades — strongly supports the vote, believing it will propel them to a position of influence equal to their standing as the country's majority group. They make up about 60 percent of the Iraq's 26 million people.

[leftchick]

1. 'democracy' and Death brought to Iraq by bush**.. *graphic*

An Iraqis grieves next to the bodies of victims af a car bomb explosion in Yarmouk hospital in Baghdad, Friday, Jan. 21, 2005. The car exploded outside the al-Taf mosque in southwestern Baghdad, where Shiites were celebrating one of Islam's most important holidays, the Eid al-Adha, or Feast of Sacrifice. The feast coincides with the yearly pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

[Supersedeas]

6. 'Mericans would rather see Michael Jackson, Condi's teeth, and *'s hook'em

horns from behind a glass parapet...than to see the truth behind the War started for a pretext.

48 Million others saw the truth and voted with integrity.

[orpupilofnature57]

2. How many times did shrub mention the people ,PAYING for his

Bonfire of freedom, right to vote in action.

[Cooley Hurd]

3. So many times that he appeared to be trying to convince himself...

...as well as his audience.

Morning, neighbor!:hi::donut:

[ananda]

4. morning

Is it morning in America now that Bush has been innoccurated? Or a permanent dark night of the American soul that has been sold for corporate profit and a childish leader's jejeune macho fantasies?

Iraq is a precariously divided country. The Sunni's don't want a vote to take place, while the Shi'ites do because that would make them, the Shi'ites, a powerful majority after years of oppression under Saddam.

No matter what the outcome of the vote, if it takes place, Iraq will be a shattered, still oppressed country, and any government and leader will have to be protected by a strong military force, if that's possible.

It looks as if a long-term American presence will serve as the only way to keep Iraq from descending further into chaos and destruction, for if we leave, a civil war looks to be inevitable.

It's a no-win situation for both countries, the USA and Iraq.

But.. in Bushworld that is not a scene to be contemplated. There fantasy reigns supreme, there the egophreniacs continue trying to sugarcoat their malignant and inhuman policies and actions, while the sheep of Animal Farm bleat in a chorus of groupie baas.

Sue

[Massachusetts]

5. Iraq Tet + Civil War = FUBAR

But we have OUR GREAT diplomat to be, Rice a Condi the Washington D.C. treat, to the rescue.

To the tune of "Rice A Roni" theme for those who aren't familiar.

Impeach the TYRANTS!