Nine killed as Qaeda fighters plant flag in Baghdad

[sabra]

Source: AFP

BAGHDAD — Al-Qaeda fighters killed five policemen at a Baghdad checkpoint on Tuesday and planted the black flag of the terror network's front group in Iraq, an interior ministry official said.

A traffic policeman and three soldiers were also killed in the capital, raising concerns that Iraq's security may be deteriorating after the government said more people died in violence in July than in any month since May 2008.

The flag-planting incident was the second such act in less than a week.

"Around 5:30 am (0230 GMT), men with silenced pistols shot dead five policemen at a checkpoint in Mansur neighbourhood before planting the flag of the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI)," the ministry official said.

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[Wilms]

1. .

[Soylent Brice]

2. thread over.

spot on.

[Roland99]

3. So...this "ISI" is the same as "al Qaeda"? Wonder how many other acronyms they use?

:eyes:

[tiny elvis]

5. emfush

every muslim fighting us hegemony
this is the flag of isi

al q even had an online magazine once, Voice of Jihad, which curiously lifted its name from the precedent and extant taliban website

[Axle_techie]

4. U.S. drawdown in Iraq proceeding as planned, Obama says

http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/08/02/obama.iraq.drawdown/index.html

I hope they start arming the diplomats... We're going to have to arrange prisoner exchanges otherwise...

I say pull out completely, fix the U.S. defenses, be alert, and try fixing our own country.

[Hydra]

8. Oh, no

"We can't leave now!!! That will give 'Al-Queda' a foothold!"

This was awfully well timed, wasn't it?

[bbgrunt]

6. I wonder what all those private contractors are really up to. nt

[Froward69]

7. ...

<--- FUCK YOU BUSH!!! YOU created this GODDAMN MESS... YOU FUCKING EGOTIST IGNORAMUS!.

[Wilms]

9. The "MESS" is exactly what they intended. n/t

[Arrowhead2k1]

10. Iraq. You're on your own!

Good luck and stuff...

[Nihil]

11. Wonder if they re-did it a little later for a photo-op?

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