War of mosques and street corpses returns

[sabra]

Source: Azzaman

Sectarian clashes have intensified once again despite the surge in U.S. troops.

Sectarian factions have resumed attacking mosques of the opposite sects and dumping bodies of rivals on streets.

A mortar shell was fired on a mosque in the town of Iskandariya in the Province of Babel, south of Baghdad, killing one person and injuring five others.

...

Security in Babel Province, though predominantly Shiite, has worsened recently as U.S. and Iraqi troops are striving to tighten their grip on Baghdad where 17 corpses dumped on streets were collectd by police yesterday.



Read more: http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?fname=news/2007-03-27/kurd.htm

[maddezmom]

1. a link of just today's news here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2782688

The press relays the news, but in snips and no one gets the total picture. I don't think things are going as well as everyone is being led to believe. (and that is an understatemnet)

[sabra]

2. IMO, Bush is praying that Petraeus will do some kind of mini bandaide job in Iraq

and then proclaim things are on the right track as he retires to Crawford

[maddezmom]

4. he's going to need more than a bandaide: Iraqi bomb attacks kill 75 - police

Iraqi bomb attacks kill 75 - police
27 Mar 2007 17:27:05 GMT
Source: Reuters
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Background
Iraq in turmoil
More (Updates Tal Afar death toll, changes dateline)

By Claudia Parsons and Mussab Al-Khairalla

BAGHDAD, March 27 (Reuters) - Bomb attacks killed 75 people in Iraq on Tuesday, including 48 who died in twin truck bombings in the northwestern town of Tal Afar, police said.

Among other attacks, suspected al Qaeda militants killed 21 people in bombings targeting police and Sunni Arab tribes who have formed an alliance against the militants, officials said.

The attacks follow an upsurge in violence in recent days. U.S. and Iraqi security forces have deployed thousands more soldiers in Baghdad to try to stem a sectarian war that threatens to tear the country apart.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/YAT759523.htm

[sabra]

5. 75 killed!

:cry:

[maddezmom]

6. that not including the bodies found in and around Baghdad

which I think was over 20 last time I looked. Can you imagine living in any city any where in the USofA...hearing these numbers. I don't understand why no one is outraged? Maybe it's fatique...but I'm going to keep posting....people are dying. Out fathers and mothers, their fathers and mothers...aunts, uncles, brothers, sisters. neices, nephews, etc. :cry:

[rodeodance]

3. CNN: U.S. commander: No civil war in Iraq

these articles were posted next to each other in LBN:


Forum Name Latest Breaking News
Topic subject U.S. commander: No civil war in Iraq
Topic URL http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2783177#2783177
2783177, U.S. commander: No civil war in Iraq
Posted by sabra on Tue Mar-27-07 11:28 AM

Source: CNN

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Iraq isn't engulfed in a civil war, and there are signs of hope outside strife-torn Baghdad, the new leader of U.S. Central Command says.

...

He says there are places in Iraq that aren't besieged by violence and are, in contrast to Baghdad, booming and prosperous -- such as Irbil in the Kurdish region in northern Iraq -- and there are other areas that are relatively quiet.

He says that reconstruction strides are successful in Anbar province, west of Baghdad, and places such as Falluja, where he says 200,000 people have returned after fighting subsided during the past few years.

He characterizes the Iraqi conflict as being driven by "small factions fighting each other."


Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/03/27/iraq.centcom/index.html

[saigon68]

8. Patreus about to give the Chimp a "Big Sloppy Kiss"

What an AssClown ------ if this Idiot were in Nam we'd still be there fighting today

He will probably get a seven figure salary at his mentor Halliburton soon.

[Javaman]

7. It's pretty obvious what happened...

The brass in the army were screaming how "successful" the surge was, when in reality, the insurgents where waiting to see what happened.

The insurgents are small and it's no mystery they can't fight the U.S.army on the U.S. army's terms, they must fight it on their own terms.

So they waited. did recon, gathered intel, figured out the army's plan, then exploited it to their own benefit. That's what we are seeing now.

When you have a small force being attacked by a large force, you have to use your small force very wisely.

So once again, we have played into their hands.

Military Intelligence; the ultimate oxymoron.