Iraq car bombings up 30 percent

[sabra]

Source: Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. general on Friday said suicide attacks and car bombings soared 30 percent since the start of a security crackdown in Iraq last month, and that insurgents had used a child in a second suicide attack last week.

Maj. Gen. Michael Barbero, deputy director for regional operations in the Joint Staff at the Pentagon, also characterised the rising use of chlorine bombs in Iraq as "poison gas attacks."

"Chlorine is a poison gas. It is a poison gas being used on the Iraqi people. Before these attacks, the last time poison gas was used on the Iraqi people was by Saddam Hussein," Barbero told reporters at the Pentagon.

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Violence throughout Iraq surged over the past week, killing 300 people. The past week was the bloodiest since the start of the U.S.-backed security crackdown in Baghdad in mid-February.

Read more: http://africa.reuters.com/world/news/usnN29283550.html

[sutz12]

1. Yeah, how's that surge working there Dubya? nt

[KansDem]

2. Maybe that's why cars are being smuggled into Iraq?

"It was an Indian-flagged vessel. It was suspected of being involved in autmobile smuggling (into Iraq)," said Cmdr. Kevin Aandahl, a spokesman for the U.S. Fifth Fleet, speaking in a telephone interview with The Associated Press from fleet headquarters in Manama, Bahrain.

International Herald Tribune


And what about this statement:
He said U.S. officials knew the GPS coordinates of the ship at the time the incident occurred, but would not release them publicly, and said the matter was being handled by the British government.

We can pinpoint the ship using GPS coordinates but we still can't find OBL?

[bemildred]

3. So, the "security crackdown" is causing more bombings? nt

[rodeodance]

4. Keep well soldiers. Some day enough of us will come to our

sences. We do not have that critical mass yet.

[Roland99]

5. This admin really loves proving it can repeat history, eh?

:(

[The Count]

6. "Now we know what we're doing - promise!"

[underpants]

7. Sounds like there has been a surge of these things

I'm not saying I'm just saying