Many casualties after ambulance drives into wedding party and explodes sou

[egoprofit]

Breaking news on CNN...

" Many casualties after ambulance drives into wedding party and explodes south of Baghdad, Iraqi police say. Details soon. "

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=736&e=1&u=/ap/20050121/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

why attack a wedding party? crazy people.

[Cocoa]

1. attack a wedding party?

what do those people think they are, U.S. bombers?

[Lerkfish]

12. you beat me to it.

[Maple]

2. May not have been

the target. Car could have been out of control, or the bomb exploded prematurely. Nervous driver too no doubt.

Either that or the wedding involved a 'collaborator'

[daleo]

3. Usually the U.S. Air Force attacks weddings in Iraq.

This doesn't sound right.

[TheDebbieDee]

6. You're right, the last time it was the Air Force!

[Journeyman]

13. Maybe we've outsourced that task. . .

bad publicity and all.

[DireStrike]

15. LOL -nt-

[proudbluestater]

28. Yup, since it wasn't OUR air force this time,it qualifies as NEWS.

[Javaman]

4. That's how terrorism works. Anywhere, anytime, anyone

[tinonedown]

5. If this indeed was us again

I think I will just lock myself inside and come out in four years.

[TheDebbieDee]

7. I'm more distressed by the fact that, if it was a suicide bombing,

they were able to get a hold of an ambulance!

[nadinbrzezinski]

14. Easier than yuo think

welcome to what a civil war looks like by the way

[maddezmom]

8. egoprofit - AP link here, please edit to add to original post

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=736&e=1&u=/ap/20050121/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

[jmcgowanjm]

11. U.S. soldiers in Baghdad seized mortar rounds-BS

U.S. soldiers in Baghdad seized mortar rounds, TNT
and weapons in a raid on a dangerous street (hayfa-
ongoing)that was meant
in part as a display of American dominance over the
troubled sector, the military said. Four explosions were
heard
in the area Friday morning, but the military had no
immediate information on the cause. (I do-
Resistance attacking USTroops)

How infuriated would the avg american be if
our occupier attacked us on Christmas Day.

If a mosque has been attacked then you can
blame DoD/Mossad/SAS cause that's who the Iraqis
are blameing. There will be no CivilWar in Iraq.

[jmcgowanjm]

18. HayfaSt Battle Update 012205

Fighting rages in al-Karakh Friday morning.

Iraqi Resistance fighters battled US troops and puppet
“national guards” starting at about 9:30am Friday on Hayfa
Street and in al-Fahhamah and al-Mushahadah in
Baghdad’s al-Karakh District. Six US troops and nine
puppet guards were killed. US snipers shot four Iraqi
civilians dead as well. One US Bradley armored vehicle
was destroyed when a Resistance rocket hit it, killing about
four American soldiers inside and seven US troops on
foot outside the vehicle. Eight puppet “national guards”
were killed when Resistance fighters hurled hand grenades
at them and opened fire with BKC machine
guns.

[jmcgowanjm]

9. Lie -what really happened

Thursday, 20 January 2005. Eid al-Adha

New American crime: helicopters open fire on civilian
mourners in cemetery, killing 12, wounding 23.

Two American helicopters – an Apache and a Black
Hawk – opened fire indiscriminately at mourners in
the ash-Shaykh Ma‘ruf Cemetery in Baghdad’s al-Karakh
District at 6:30am Thursday. Witnesses who were nearby
said that the American attack left 12 Iraqi civilians dead and
23 more seriously wounded.

Or, if this was a different incident, the US has lost
control and is attacking any group of people
in the open.

Water has been cutoff to large parts of Baghdad

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1170143

[Ripley]

10. No water, no electricity, no medicine.

Gee, it almost sounds like Genocide.

[jmcgowanjm]

16. IRR012105 SCIRI/BadrBrigadeMosque was target

Resistance martyrdom bomber blows up Shi‘i place of
worship belonging to the Badr Brigades Friday
morning.

An Iraqi Resistance martyrdom fighter drove an explosives
laden Opel car into a Shi‘i Husayniyah place of
worship belonging to the collaborationist Shi‘i chauvinist
Badr
Brigades in the Abu Ma‘alif area south of as-Sayyidiyah at
about 9:40am Friday morning, local time. The explosion in
the Husayniyat Shuhada’ al-Lutf left eight persons dead and
15 others seriously wounded. Four women were
wounded outside the Husayniyah, Mafkarat al-Islam
reported.

The Badr Brigades, the armed wing of the so-called
Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq
(SCIRI), joined the US military in the invasion of Iraq in 2003
and since then have served as auxiliary forces working with
the occupation troops.

Collaborator’s son survives assassination attempt.

‘Ammar, the son of ‘Abd al-‘Aziz al-Hakim, the head of
the collaborationist Shi‘i chauvinist Supreme Council for
the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI) survived an
assassination attempt when an Iraqi Resistance car
bomb exploded in Baghdad’s al-Karakh District near thegate
to the Baratha Mosque. The bast killed 10 puppet so-called
“Iraqi national guards” who were in the mosque area as well
as seven body guards working for ‘Ammar al-Hakim.
Three pickup trucks belonging to the Badr Brigades and
four civilian cars were also destroyed in the
blast.

[ckramer]

17. Sunni has been killing Shia for decades

Why would today be any different?

In Iraq, democracy means being killed more.

[jmcgowanjm]

19. Amazing the power to unite frequented by occupying crusaders

The US/Israel/UK are doing their best to
split the two.

[ckramer]

20. Yeah. Crusaders are stupid.

[jmcgowanjm]

21. Kurds,Wahhabis

Shi'ites have identified their enemy as the foreign
Wahhabis (Lawrence of Arabia's buds).

At the funeral procession following the mosque bombing
in Baghdad, thousands of Shi'ite mourners did not call
for vengeance against the Sunni. Instead they chanted
slogans accusing the United States of being complicit in
the bombing.

Reliance on the Kurds as auxiliaries to the U.S. occupation is
a dangerous strategy. Neither Sunnis nor Shi'ites have
forgotten that the Kurds supported Iran in the war between
Iraq and Iran in the early 1980s. Arab animosity toward the
Kurds has been deepened by Kurdish demands for
autonomy and control over the oil wealth of northern
Iraq.

http://www.antiwar.com/orig/porter.php?articleid=4507

Enter Turkey. Turkey will not allow
this to occur. It has stated it will invade
after the "elections" and has stated repeatedly
that Kirkuk can become a Sarajevo.

Who knows what will happen in Mosul.

[quaoar]

22. Turkey will not invade

Not unless they want to ignite a 30-year insurrection in western Turkey and kiss goodbye any chance they have to join the EU.

[jmcgowanjm]

23. New alignment of powers

Turkey is siding with Iran, Syria, to stop the dissolution of Iraq.

This dovetails with the Russian, China, India,
Brazil, Venezuela, Cuba alliance.

Cuba just signed an agreement with Iran.

FoxNews just said that Zarqawi is in Mosul.
Meaning FalloujahII is coming to a city
of 2.1 million.

Turkey has been making staement after statement
telling the US to rein in the Kurds.
US response-no time no troops.

98% of Turks are against US occupation.
More importantly, so is the TurkMil Command.
The UK underestimated Turkey in August 1914.
The US is doing the same today.

No later than April 1, 40000 Turkish forces
will be in Northern Iraq.

[jmcgowanjm]

24. Oh, &this-Turkey has been getting "0" oil from Iraq n/t

[bemildred]

25. I don't expect the Turks are happy with the course of events.

And what happens with the Kurds is pivotal in everything else.
But I would think the Iran-Turkey-Syria axis and their friends
would be happy to let the bleeding go on as long as possible.
We'll see what happens with the Potemkin Elections. It's notable
that we seem to be trying to drag Pakistan into the Iran brouhaha,
a bone-headed idea if I ever heard one.

[jmcgowanjm]

26. Yes. And connect everyone to a fuse. If one, then all

Kinda like the origins of WWI

[AngryAmish]

27. Sunni killing Shiite

Trying to provoke a civil war. The terrorist Sunnis are bigots that way.

[alcuno]

29. This Week on ABC had some amazing statistics.

In one week, there were about 150 IED's and over 20 car bombings. I can't recall the number of kidnappings and assassinations. The stats are truly amazing.