Major Terror Attack Shakes Baghdad (Hurry! Last Throes)

[Bluebear]

Lawmakers tried to reach compromises with Sunni Arab leaders Thursday in the country's draft constitution, one day after synchronized bombings near at a bus station and nearby hospital killed up to 43 people in the capital.

Government officials said Thursday that the bombings — two believed to have been suicide attacks and the third a stationary car bomb — were an attempt to target Shiites and stoke civil war between religious groups in the country.

"They targeted an area that has a population of people from southern Shiite provinces, and their message was that their government is unable to protect you from us," government spokesman Laith Kubba said. "They want a reaction against Sunnis to therefore deepen the sectarian crisis in the country."


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050818/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq&printer=1

[wli]

1. the whole "terror" label for this is propaganda

It's rebellion against military occupation. They're not "insurgents" or "terrorists," they're rebels. The sort of stances they take on e.g. sharia rule out the whole "one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter" line of argument. But the fact of the matter is, they are Iraqis and they are fighting to get us out.

[Frederik]

2. Depends on the target

If the targets are Shi'ite civilians, it's not so much an anti-colonial struggle, although of course the new government is Shia-dominated, so it can be seen as attacks against the new government.

[Bluebear]

3. aka an unleashed civil war n/t

[orpupilofnature57]

4. aka , and it's 1 2 3 ,what are fighting for? Trickie Dick's bad nephew

And Halliburton.

[Roland99]

5. Is Laith Kubba a member of the Psychic Friends Network?

Or just a mouthpiece for the American puppets?