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Muntada al-Zaidi never to do something so impressive that the beginning of their shoes in the U.S. president during a press conference. But it's worth bearing in mind, what then?
Al-Zaidi is 28 years old, a journalist for Al-Baghdadi, and the TV Iraq. So, what exactly is the trouble, a shoe to throw Dubya?
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At least 28 people were killed and dozens wounded, including women and children, in a recent bombing in a Baghdad market on Monday, it was the deadliest attack to rock the Iraqi capital to date, security officials said.The attackers detonated a car bomb in the Sunni district of Adhamiyah, then minutes later a suicide bomber ran into the resulting melee and blew up, according to defence and interio
According to reports from the BBC, three bombs exploded in quick succession in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, killing 28 people.The first two of the blasts are reportedly to have come from car bombs, with the final explosion coming from a suicide bomber who detonated his charges in the crowd that had gathered to help the injured at the car bomb scene.68 people have been reported as being injured from
A roadside bomb attack targeting a minibus killed three people and wounded five others in Baghdad on Monday, security officials said.Read the rest of this entry »
Mohammed Moulessehoul, who writes as Yasmina Khadra, is a former officer of the Algerian army, an army that for the better part of the last two decades has primarily involved itself with fighting several well organized terrorist organizations within Algeria’s borders. Some critics, including many Algerians, have accused the army of being as bad as the terrorists it professes to fight, labeling
Horrifying US Secret Weaponry Unleashed in Baghdad Bill Dash – Far Shores August 24, 2003 A nightmarish US super weapon reportedly was employed by American ground forces during chaotic street fighting in Baghdad. The secret tank-mounted weapon was witnessed in all its frightening power by Majid al-Ghazali, a seasoned Iraqi infantryman who described the device and its gruesome effects
London, August 28 (ANI): Iraqi authorities are inviting companies to submit designs to make a giant Ferris wheel in Baghdad, as part of a strategy to make the capital a leisure friendly city.
The Baghdad Eye, as the Ferris wheel in the city will be called, will soar more than 650 feet over the city [...]
This is a great documentary by a Iraqi, about what life is really like in Baghdad 5 years later. Then we ask why they hate us and wish to bomb us?
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BAGHDAD: A car bomb at a bus stop in north Baghdad killed at least 51 people and wounded 75 others on Tuesday, security officials said.A car bomb struck a busy market in a mainly Shiite area in Baghdad on Tuesday, killing at least 51 people, officials said, the deadliest such attack in three months.The attack [...]
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Our boy Bill Roggio got his hands on some intel that filled in the blanks on that truck explosion in Sadr City this week. "...the explosions were caused by the premature detonation of a Special Groups improvised rocket launching system. The system, which has been described as a flying improvised explosive device, or airborne IED, had received little attention until yesterday’s explosions in
BAGHDAD (AP) — A suicide car bomb and another car packed with explosives targeted Iraqi police patrols Saturday on opposite sides of Baghdad, killing at least six people, police said.
The suicide attacker rammed into a police patrol mid-afternoon in Nisoor Square on the capital’s west side, killing a civilian and a policeman, police said. Another [...]
After the 5th Anniversary of U.S.-led invasion of “Iraq” the Baghdad museum dating back of ‘5000′ years heritage & culture which still struggling to renovate its significant collections after which was looted in the year 2003. The latest round of renovations is complete in a few months- reported by “Associated Press” - the officials say [...]
Brian K. Vaughan not only has the best first name a person can have, he's also one of my favorite comic authors. As readers of my blog could know, I love his Y: The Last Man series. I also picked up the first collection of another Vaughan series, Ex Machina, which was almost as amazing as Y: The Last Man. Today, when I was saddened to find Barnes & Nobles did not have the second volume of E
BAGHDAD: US troops shot dead 11 suspected militants in a Shiite district of the Iraqi capital on Wednesday, the American military said. The men were “Special Group criminals,” a term used for Shiite militants backed by Iranian groups, and one of them was about to target US troops with a roadside mine when [...]
Reuters - Baghdad's crumbling roads, burst sewage
pipes and chronic water shortages are casualties of war that
get little attention amid the daily litany of gunfights, bombs
and bloodletting in Iraq.
From battered streets of Baghdad to the bountiful sweeping fields of poppy in southern Afghansitan, the United States Marines continue fighting battles of their nation. Airstrikes and artillery barrages echoed th rough the morning air as Marines launched their first major military operation in Afghanistan since arriving from Iraq. The Marines have been taking sporadic [...]
Baghdad at night. I hope those aren't bombs falling at the top of this Disneyland-esque illustration.If I didn't know any better I'd think the idea of an amusement park built over 50 acres in Baghdad is a film treatment from David Lynch. But no. Alas, this lunacy is the brainchild of Llewellyn Werner who appears to possess the same self-awareness as, well, as George Bush. Werner secured a 50-year lease on prime real estate in Baghdad near the Green Zone to build an amusement and skateboard park. Perhaps by near the end of the lease contract Iraq will be ready for an amusement park, but it seems a bit premature to consider an entertainment park when the Green Zone remains under siege. Yesterday two US soldiers and 37 civilians were killed in attacks in and around the Green Zone. But, hey, w
Next time you’re passing through Iraq you’ll have alot more to do thanks to Llewellyn Werner, chairman of C3, a Los Angeles company for private equity firms, who is spending $500 million...
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Llewellyn Werner admits he is facing obstacles most amusement park developers never have to deal with – insurgent attacks and looting.
When you are building an amusement park in downtown Baghdad, those risks come with the territory.
Mr Werner, chairman of C3, a Los Angeles-based holding company for private equity firms, is pouring millions of dollars into [...]
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American troops kill 15 militants in overnight clashes in Shia areas of Baghdad, the US military says.
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In his opening statement to today’s Senate Hearing, General Petraeus used a series of interesting charts to illustrate his view of the current status of Iraq in terms of violence and stability. I highly recommend that people read Petreaus’ full statement (as well as that of Carl Levin) and examine the charts. You can see them here(Note: pdf file). Slide #3 Is especially interesting as it illustrates the decline in ethno-sectarian violence in Baghdad From December 2006, April 2007, to September 2007 up to March 2008 as you can see.
As the yellow-to-red spots indicate where attacks have taken place and the intensity, it is clear that violence has dropped dramatically in Baghdad in the year-and-a-quarter that this series covers. But what it also tells us is that part of the r
I have a Google Alert set up for the word "walking" that fetches all sorts of disasters. Many of the walking items in the news deal with terrible things that happen to individuals who are just out for a stroll and minding their own business. Bad things happen to good people walking home, going to work, and also to nice people trying to find meaning in life by sauntering near the railroad tracks. It's a disgrace.I feel like our civil rights and liberties as walkers is constantly under attack. Maybe, one day, I will take up this issue in a public forum, and eventually, someone will notice my hard-working efforts on behalf on walkers. Maybe this advocacy will set a course toward the governor's office in Texas, my ultimate career goal.On the other hand, walking news is sometimes full of hope.
Iraq’s capital, Baghdad has been locked down for the third straight day on Sunday after a weekend curfew was extended for an indefinite period to contain brutal clashes between Shiite gunmen and security forces.
While the size of the Mahdi Army is a constant source of debate, media accounts often put the Mahdi Army at anywhere from 40,000 to 60,000 fighters. With an estimated 1,000 Mahdi fighters killed, captured, wounded and surrendered, the Mahdi Army has taken an attrition rate of 1.5 to 2.5 percent over the past five days. More...Photo: About 200 demonstrators held a rally to support the military operations in Basra and Maliki's government, in Diwaniya.
Why am I not surprised that this happened. These Looney Left Wing CONgress Critters are just useful idiots to people like Saddam and Hugo Chavez. You see they went to Baghdad because of the CHILDREN. And I am surethey had...
Apparently a string of multiple attacks have upset the peace in the 'Green Zone' in downtown Baghdad. A great start for Easter in Iraq.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, which houses the Iraqi parliament and U.S. embassy, was hit by a sustained barrage of rocket or mortar bomb fire early on Sunday, witnesses and officials said.
In most cities of the world, people may share an incident in their lives where they confronted a serious situation that could have resulted in injury or death, but to the inhabitants of Baghdad, death is the daily reality. Ghaith Abdul-Ahad recently met Ali, a painter, who is a student at the academy of art [...]
Pride of BaghdadEnglish | CBR | 55.8MB | RS.com | Brian K. VaughanInspired by an unbelievable true story of four lions who escaped the Baghdad Zoo during Operation Iraqi Freedom, PRIDE OF BAGHDAD is equal parts anthropomorphic adventure and Animal Farm-like parable about the ongoing conflict. Written by Y: THE LAST MAN and EX MACHINA co-creator Brian K. Vaughan and lavishly illustrated by artist Niko Henrichon, this 136-page original graphic novel will be released on September 13, 2006 by Vertigo Comics.Download rapidmega.info
Five years after the US invasion, no one misses Saddam, but some Baghdadis are nostalgic for the relative freedom and stability they had before the Americans came.Saddam's 24-year reign of terror ended in spring 2003. What followed, say Iraqis, was a brief period of freedom and prosperity before their nation fell apart.The situation in Iraq on the eve of the anniversary of "Operation Iraqi Freedom" has both opponents and supporters of the American military campaign puzzled. The body of a Catholic archbishop is found near the northern city of Mosul, and yet the US embassy in Baghdad is holding a flea market as if it were peacetime.The United States has been in Iraq longer than it fought in World War II. Only a quarter of the US citizens knows 4,000 American soldiers were killed in Iraq. Acc
John McCain stopped in Baghdad this morning as part of an overseas trip that will include meetings with British PM Gordon Brown, French President Nicholas Sarkozy, and Israeli PM Ehud Olmert. While in Iraq, McCain will meet with top Iraqi government officials as part of a Senate delegation that includes Joe Lieberman and Lindsay Graham. McCain is on a fact-finding mission to Iraq aimed at
It has been another deadly day in Baghdad as a bomb has exploded killing many innocent civilians near the Green Zone.
A parked car bomb exploded in a commercial district of central Baghdad Thursday, killing 18 people and wounding dozens more.
The bombing took place off a bridge in Tahrir Square, a district of clothing shops just outside the heavily fortified Green Zone, which houses the U.S. Embassy and much of the Iraqi government, a police official said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release the information. The policeman and a hospital official said 18 people died. The hospital official said 57 others were injured.
The attack is the latest in a string of violence to grip Iraq's capital after several months of relative calm that followed
Making a Home for Charlie, Away From Baghdad’s Slums
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Two children have died and five other people are seriously ill after eating a cake poisoned with thallium delivered to a soccer club in Baghdad. The cake was delivered to the Air Force soccer club on February 2 by a coach who had left on bad terms and then recently returned, said the club president, Samir Kadham. The club's general secretary, Mohammed Rasool, and its chief administrator, Sattar Ibrahim, took some of the cake home and their families ate it, Mr Kadham said. By the next day, seven members of the two families were ill. Two of Mr Ibrahim's sons died, a 14-year-old and an 18-month-old. The other five were taken to hospital in Amman, where they were diagnosed as suffering thallium poisoning and are gravely ill. Police said the coach who delivered the cake to the club h
The Democrats are imploding before our very eyes, and I say we let them do it. Just recently on the floor of Congress, Democrat Jim Moran proclaimed that, "We've Ethnically Cleansed Most of Baghdad.†I am sure FDR and JFK would be proud.
Consequently, I think the Democrats and the MSM are going to be extremely surprised when the Republicans take back several seats of Congress in 2008. In...
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After many months of denial and stonewalling The New Republic has finally admitted that Scott Thomas Beauchamp is a lier. The so called “Baghdad Diarist” spun terrific tales of cruelty by U.S. troops in Iraq, which he has sense admitted to the Army were false.
“We cannot be confident that the events in his pieces occurred in exactly the manner that he described them,” Editor Franklin Foer wrote of the dispatches by Scott Thomas Beauchamp. “Without that essential confidence, we cannot stand by these stories.”
In the New Republic case, Foer acknowledged a key “mistake” in checking on whether Beauchamp lied or exaggerated in writing that U.S. soldiers had made fun of a disfigured woman, run over dogs for sport and played with an Iraqi child’s skeletal remains. Foer said Beauchamp’s wife, Elspeth Reeve, then a researcher at the magazine, was assigned “a large role” in checking the story. While Reeve acted in good faith
I know this is another non-Flyball related post but this seems like a worthy cause to help our US soldiers and an animal in need. The SPCA International is working to bring companion animals of US soldiers serving in the Middle East to safe, happy, forever homes in the United States.
Charlie
One night, while on guard duty with the US Armed Forces in Iraq, Sgt. Watson’s squadron returned from patrol with a new buddy. Weak, malnourished, and at death’s door, a black and white puppy had decided to adopt the soldiers of the unit known as Charlie Company. Sgt. Watson wrapped the shivering puppy in a blanket, gave it some clean water, a portion of his own rations, and provided what refuge and comfort he could for a poor life he expected would sadly end in a few days – another innocent life cut short in a harsh and unforgiving environment.
But the puppy rallied back, thriving on the care, attention and affection of Sgt. Watson and the members of his platoon. A real survivor, th
First the NY Times and now Newsweek gets into the act:For the first time in years, the Iraqi capital is showing signs of life.For the first time, however, returning to Baghdad after an absence of four months, I can actually say that things do seem to have gotten better, and in ways that may even be durable. "It's hard to believe," says a friend named Fareed, who has also gone and come back over the years to find the situation always worse, "but this time it's really not." Such words are uttered only grudgingly by those such as me, who have been disappointed again and again by Iraq, where a pessimist is merely someone who has had to endure too many optimists. It doesn't help that no sooner have I written these words than my cup of coffee spills as a massive explosion shakes our building-the first blast near our place in weeks, and the more shocking for that. We grab body armor and helmets and await the all-clear. It is "only" an IED near the entrance to the Green Zone, targeting a U.
The following excerpt is from an article published in the New York Times in which they report that security has improved, progress has been made and Iraqis are optimistic about their future, thanks to the surge. Oh how it must have pained the editors to have to publish this story. Not that they don't try to dampen it mind you, you'll see what I mean when you read it in it's entirety. The security improvements in most neighborhoods are real. Days now pass without a car bomb, after a high of 44 in the city in February. The number of bodies appearing on Baghdad's streets has plummeted to about 5 a day, from as many as 35 eight months ago, and suicide bombings across Iraq fell to 16 in October, half the number of last summer and down sharply from a recent peak of 59 in March, the American military says. As a result, for the first time in nearly two years, people are moving with freedom around much of this city. In more than 50 interviews across Baghdad, it became clear that while the
A local militia calling itself the “revolutionaries of Adhamiyah” took over the Sunni district on the east bank of the Tigris on November 10 in a swift and audacious raid that sent Al-Qaeda fleeing from its last stronghold in Baghdad.On Friday, members of the “revolutionaries of Adhamiyah” controlled main roads into the neighbourhood as well the square housing the famous Abu Hanifa mosque where Saddam Hussein made his last public appearance before fleeing Baghdad in 2003 as US-led forces invaded the country…“Our men seized 11 car bombs and discovered several clandestine bomb-making workshops,” said the chief of the “revolutionaries of Adhamiyah”, surrounded by armed bodyguards.More...
Iraqi women enjoying a party while the men watch football (I guess).
BAGHDAD - Taking advantage of a dramatic drop in car bombings and sectarian murders, Baghdad residents are once again venturing out to local markets and restaurants after dark in many parts of the city. They're celebrating weddings and birthdays in public places and eating grilled carp on the Tigris River late into the night. A local television station has begun a feature called "Baghdad Nights," showing the capital's residents shopping, eating and socializing after the sun has set -- a sight...
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Iraqi leader says Baghdad violence down
A woman walks through a room of a house that caught fire after a roadside bomb blast in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Nov. 11, 2007. A roadside bomb missed a passing U.S. military convoy in eastern Baghdad’s Baladiyat district on Sunday but killed a 12-year-old girl and wounded four other Iraqis, police said. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
By BUSHRA JUHI, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 53 minutes ago
BAGHDAD - The number of bombings and suicide attacks has dropped dramatically in the Iraqi capital, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Sunday, claiming sectarian violence “is closed now.”
Meanwhile, a roadside bomb missed a U.S. convoy in eastern Baghdad, killing a 12-year-old girl and wounding four other Iraqis, police said.
Al-Maliki, a Shiite Muslim, told reporters that “terrorist acts” including car bombings and suicide attacks have dropped by 77 percent from last year’s high, a sign that Sunni-Shiite violence “is cl
From the AP:Thousands Return to Safer Iraqi Capital BAGHDAD (AP) - In a dramatic turnaround, more than 3,000 Iraqi families driven out of their Baghdad neighborhoods have returned to their homes in the past three months as sectarian violence has dropped, the government said Saturday....things began changing, becoming more peaceful, in August when radical anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr ordered his Mahdi Army fighters to stand down nationwide. About the same time, the Khadra neighborhood Awakening Council rose up against brutal al-Qaida control—the imposition of its austere interpretation of Islam, along with the murder and torture of those who would not comply. The uprising originated in Iraq's west and flowed into the capital. Earlier this year, the Sunni tribes and clans in the vast Anbar province began their own revolt and have successfully rid the largely desert region of al-Qaida control. At one point the terrorist group virtually controlled Anbar,
Between April 2003 and June 2004, $12 billion in U.S. currency—much of it belonging to the Iraqi people—was shipped from the Federal Reserve to Baghdad, where it was dispensed by the Coalition Provisional Authority. Some of the cash went to pay for projects and keep ministries afloat, but, incredibly, at least $9 billion has gone missing, unaccounted for, in a frenzy of mismanagement and greed. Following a trail that leads from a safe in one of Saddam’s palaces to a house near San Diego, to a P.O. box in the Bahamas, the authors discover just how little anyone cared about how the money was handled.
This is a positively surreal Vanity Fair story Billions over Baghdad: Politics & Power about where the money went in Iraq (or where it didn’t go). For instance,
That transfer of cash (forty pallets of it, weighing 30 tons) to Iraq was the largest one-day shipment of currency in the history of the New York Fed. It was not, however, the first such shipment of cash t
They have given their fans the chance to vote for where they would play next on their world tour. And now a massive internet campaign could mean the Spice Girls end up performing… in war-torn Iraq.
They’ll never play Baghdad. But it would be smart of their publicist to say its possible just to get the media to talk about them and the “massive internet campaign” that is actually a joke. but it could be twisted in their favor.
Apparently a plane carrying three senators and a House member had to take evasive measures to avoid being shot down by RPG's, apparently they had been over there to see what great progress we are now making. One of senators a Mel Martinez of Florida said he quickly put back on his body armor, well Mel, you are getting shot at with an RPG from the ground I don't think that will help you that much, but it is a good gesture.Senator and House member's plane takes fireTechnorati Tags: senators, Baghdad, plane, RPGPowered by ScribeFire.
Sono quattro i soldati americani rimasti uccisi in un’esplosione a sud di Baghdad. Lo rendono noto oggi fonti americane, non sono stati resi noti particolari sull’attacco. (more…)
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"Welcome to Texas, Kurdistan," said Karim Ali, as his taxi bounced to the gates of the Taq Taq oilfields, on the undulating plains of Koi Sanjaq, some 80 miles south-east of Irbil. "
The struggle for Iraq's oil flares up as Kurds open doors to foreign investors.At the end of a rough dirt track, on a sun-baked hillock once the domain of scorpions and snakes, squats an odd settlement of caravans, generators and drilling rigs that is at the heart of the battle for Iraq's oil."Welcome to Texas, Kurdistan," said Karim Ali, as his taxi bounced to the gates of the Taq Taq oilfields, on the undulating plains of Koi Sanjaq, some 80 miles south-east of Irbil. "Soon we'll all have big hats and cigars like them," he said, nodding at a group of oil workers passing by on a pickup truck.Like many Iraqis, Karim appeared convinced that the country's vast reserves of crude, the bedrock of its economy, were about to be siphoned off by major US oil corporations. The presence of "foreigners" here at Taq Taq merely cemented his certainty.With the Bush administration pressing the Iraqi government to pass a new hydrocarbons law, there are widely voiced assumptions that it will bulldoz
The Spice Girls are set to play in Baghdad on their forthcoming reunion tour after fans voted in their droves for them to play the war-torn city.The group asked fans to vote online to decide which city would become 'Spice City' for the evening, and promised the place with the most votes would win.The Mirror reported: "Baghdad's already generated thousands of votes and it'll definitely be a contender when the voting ends."A spokesperson for the band confirmed: "The girls will go anywhere in the world that gets the most votes - be it Baghdad or Antartica."
STATEMENT FROM MULTI-NATIONAL FORCE-IRAQ CONDEMNING BAGHDAD CAR-BOMB ATTACKS
Release Date: 8/2/2007
Release Number: 07-01-03P
Description: BAGHDAD, Iraq – Multi-National Force - Iraq condemns the multiple car-bomb attacks in Iraq yesterday that killed more than 80 and wounded over 100 innocent people. Our thoughts and prayers are with these victims and their families.
These indiscriminate attacks threaten all Iraqis because they not only destroy lives, but also stand in the way of a better future. Coalition and Iraqi Forces will continue to hunt down and capture or kill the extremists who fight against a peaceful and prosperous Iraq.
The Spice Girls will be making a special stop in Toronto!!! They beat Baghdad, among other contenders, in an online poll for a Special stop on there world tour."We are delighted to be going to Toronto. We have such incredible fans there and we are amazed at such a positive reaction"- SG Get ready Toronto for Emma, Geri, Mel B, Melanie C and Victoria!!!... what about the mid-west fans???Related PostsSpice Girls are Coming to Canada! Spice Girls Will Not Stop in Canada Spice Girls Reunite! "Girl Power" is back in Business!
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When the Spice Girls allowed fans to vote on the location of one of their shows, they probably didn't count on a bunch of people on the Internet trying to totally screw them over.
Nell’attacco subito oggi dai soldati americani a Baghdad, il bilancio è di 14 feriti e 4 morti. Arriva cosi’ a 3.660 il numero dei soldati americani uccisi in Iraq dall’invasione del paese nel marzo del 2003. (more…)
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This is by Bill Roggio at The Fourth Rail. A more concise, accurate and up to date source of news on the war in Iraq you will not find. ~RJHFourth Rail article link Half of Baghdad SecuredUnderstanding the numbers behind the Baghdad Security OperationOn June 4, The New York Times released partial data from a classified memo which stated only 29 percent of Baghdad was secured, and provided little context to the status of the remaining 71 percent of Baghdad. The article was widely interpreted as heralding the failure of the Baghdad Security Plan, as four months into the operation, less than one third of Baghdad was secured. The New York Times also claimed that senior U.S. generals leaders stated Baghdad was expected to be secured by July, while General David Petraeus told this was never a realistic goal. As we noted at the time, the status of contest neighborhoods was important to understanding the state of Baghdad and the progress of the Baghdad Security Operation.On June 29, Major Gene
Thursday morning in southwestern Baghdad, a car bomb blast in a bus station wounding 35 and killing at least 20 people.
Almost 40 cars were damaged 40 cars and damaged a half-dozen shops in the predominately Shiite Bayaa neighborhood on 8:15 a.m. attack.
14 others were wounded when two mortar rounds landed in the busy Shurja market in central Baghdad.
A British military spokesman reported
Sectarian murders and executions in Baghdad are declining, the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq said today on the "Fox News Sunday" television program. Army Gen. David H. Petraeus told host Chris Wallace via satellite link from Baghdad that the U.S. troop surge has helped reduce sectarian murders and executions in Baghdad by one-third between January and April. And despite an uptick in violence in May, the levels of violence are again going down. "The fact is, as we go on the offensive, the enemy is going to respond," Petraeus said. Last week Petraeus received his full compliment of additional troops. He said surge operations are now truly just beginning, and he characterized what has been done thus far as "shaping operations." The general said the additional troops give him the combat power to launch operations in al Qaeda sanctuaries where there has been little permanent coalition force presence in the past. Petraeus said about 30 percent of Baghdad is a major concern, because these
Photo - Lt. Col. Joeseph Birchmeier (standing) commander 4-1 Brigade Special Troops Battalion, gives a briefing on the ongoing service projects in the Rashid District of Baghdad.
One of the key aspects of fighting an insurgency is winning "hearts and minds." It works, if you study the history of such things. The alternative, brutal repression, Soviet or Saddam Hussein style is not the style of Americans despite what Michael Moore insists. I'll give references later.
Reconstruction Advisory Team working with Iraqis in Baghdad
Thursday, 14 June 2007
By Sgt. 1st Class Robert Timmons
4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division Public Affairs
BAGHDAD — When President George W. Bush ordered troops to “surge” into Baghdad he was not just sending Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines, he was also sending little-known teams of reconstruction experts as well.
One of those teams operates out of Forward Operating Base Falcon with the 4th “Dragon” Brigade
:: Fr. HANI ABDEL AHAD and four young men from his church were kidnapped on June 6 while travelling from his Divine Wisdom parish to the city´s minor seminary, both in northeastern Baghdad´s Suleikh neighbourhood. Fr. Ahad, the seventh Chaldean priest known to have been kidnapped within the past year, was working in a northeastern, majority-Sunni neighbourhood that has seen relatively little direct targeting of Christians. Iraqi church leaders continue to hope for the release of Fr. Ahad kidnapped exactly one week ago, even as the number of threats against Christian families in the Iraqi capital tops 1,000, church sources said. PRAYER Continue to remember the persecuted church in Baghdad and Iraq. READ MORE about the Persecution of Christians in Iraq during the serious situation of war and crisis on Persecution.blog and VOM Voice of the Martyrs.Technorati Tags: Hani Abdel Ahad Persecution Christians Iraq ::
Baghdad, June 6 (DPA) Two car bombs simultaneously went off Wednesday in the Kadhimiyah neighbourhood in northern Baghdad, killing seven people and injuring 25, independent Voices of Iraq news agency reported citing a police source.
The first bomb went off at Al-Zahraa Square in Kadhimiyah district, while the second exploded near a women’s prison in the same area, the source added.
The blasts caused severe damage to the nearby buildings and vehicles.
Kadhimiyah is a holy Shia city that hosts the shrines of two Shia Imams, the seventh Shia Imam Mousa al-Kadhem and his grandson Mohammed al-Jawad. It is located in northern Baghdad.
Three unidentified gunmen shot dead Sheikh Raheem al-Hesnawi, a representative of top Shia cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, in front of his house Wednesday in Najaf, Voices of Iraq reported, citing a security source in Najaf city.
Al-Hesnawi is one of the prominent Shia clerics in al-Mekhshab region in southern Najaf, the report added. He moved to
Iraqi soldiers have killed a senior Al-Qaeda leader in a clash inside one of Baghdad's historic Sunni quarters, military spokesman Brigadier General Qassim Atta said Monday. "He was from Al-Qaeda, they called him the 'Governor of Adhamiyah'," Atta told AFP. "He was killed during clashes with the 11th Division's first brigade this morning, and 11 of his aides were arrested." Adhamiyah is a Sunni enclave in north Baghdad, a cluster of streets around an historic mosque surrounded by a US-built concrete security barriers and hostile Shiite districts roamed by militia fighters. Atta said the alleged Al-Qaeda chieftain was an Iraqi citizen known as Abu Abdullah al-Adhab -- "Abu Abdullah with the crippled arm." Abdullah's death is the second reported killing of an Al-Qaeda street captain since last week, when nationalist insurgents in the Sunni suburb of Amiriyah violently turned against Al-Qaeda's Islamists.Talk Show America 6/5/2007
So at this point the insurgents have 3 main targets:American soldiers. Iraqi citizensIraqi infrastructureThey try and kill as many of our troops as they can thinking we will pack up and leave. They are hoping for the Democrats to take control to see that happen.They kill Iraqi citizens at random but make it look like Sunni on Shia violence or vice versa. They bomb and generally destroy as much infrastructure as they can to make life miserable for Iraqis who will of course blame America. Whats really unfortunate is we are allowing them to make the rules by which we fight. We wont attack their mosques so they use them as weapons caches. Every mud hole town with a mosque is one of their holy cities and we wont fight there either. The Iraqi government hands over parts of the government machine to factions in order to build a coalition. As an example Muqtada al Sadr was given control of the countries hospital system so he used hospitals to house his fighters and ambulances to deli
Baghdad, May 8 (Xinhua) At least 10 people were killed and more than 25 wounded when a car bomb went off at a busy market in Kufa town south of Baghdad Tuesday, police said.
The attack took place at about 10.15 a.m. at a crowded popular market, 10 km northeast from the holy city of Najaf, the source said.
Women and children were among the killed and wounded victims, he said, adding the blast damaged several nearby shops and civilian cars.
Reports from Bill Roggio on Iraq. His blog Fourth Rail is a must read folks. It's one of my never miss daily reads. Back in 2003 as I watched our troops doing almost a blitzkrieg striking into the heart of Baghdad I wondered about all the cities bypassed. Even back then it seemed to me that if you wanted to hold an area it would take troops left in thsoe areas, not just a fast strike into Baghdad. But of course that has turned out to be Donald Rumsfeld's plan and theres really no sense in beating that dead horse. ~RJH Fourth Rail article link The Baghdad Security Operation Order of Battle: May 7, 2007By Bill Roggio, DJ Elliott and CJ RadinThe month of April was particularly hard on both U.S. and Iraqi security forces. As both forces push outward from larger, more secure bases, the casualties have increased. Iraqi security forces--both police and army--had over 300 KIA, while over 100 U.S. servicemen were killed in Iraq this past month. The numbers are likely to increase as the surg
In an effort to try to bring unity and democracy to Iraq, the US is building a wall seperating Sunnis and Shiites in Baghdad.Cause, you know, it worked so well in Berlin.
Baghdad, April 22 (Xinhua) Six people were killed and ten wounded when a car bomb followed by a roadside bomb detonated near a school in southern Baghdad Sunday, an interior ministry source said.
“A car bomb parking near the al-Shumoos school in the Saidiyah district detonated at about 4:30 p.m., killing five people and wounding 25 others wounded,” the source said.
“The first attack followed by a roadside bomb detonated near a police patrol which arrived at the scene to secure the area, killing a policeman and wounding five others,” the source added.
US and Iraqi security forces cordoned off the scene after the bombings, the source said.
Earlier, two suicide car bombers struck a police station in Baghdad’s southern district of Eilam, killing 12 people, including two policemen, and wounding 95, including 40 policemen, a police source said.
The double attack also heavily damaged the police station building and destroyed dozens of police vehicles and civilia
JR,As I'm sure you've heard Senator Reid has come down with Iraqnophobia,the fear of victory in Iraq. I was pretty upset about Reid's words, I saw it on Michelle Malkin, she asked soldiers to reply. I calmed down andsent him a fairly rational email on his website and sent it to Michelle,she put it on her site with a bunch of others. Here is my letter to Senator Reid. I'm no poet, so it's prettystraightforward. If it will help you on your show feel free to quote it, if not no worries. Unfortunately there seems to be a surplus ofstupid things being said about the war, I imagine you run out of timebefore you do things to say.JasonSenator Reid: When you say we've lost in Iraq, I don't think you understand the effectof your words. The Iraqis I speak with are the good guys here, fightingto build a stable government. They hear what you say, but they don'tunderstand it. They don't know about the political game, they don't knowabout a Presidential veto, and they don't know about pa
I fear that everyday we lose more and more of our humanity.Residents and rescue workers gather at the scene of a car bomb attack in Baghdad April 18, 2007. - Reuters
ACID-LADEN TRUCK BOMBING FOILED NORTH OF BAGHDAD
Release Date: 4/17/2007
Release Number: 07-01-03P
Description: BAGHDAD - A dump truck overturned attempting to deliver its payload of explosives and nitric acid during a foiled attack in Mushada, Iraq April 16.
A coalition patrol approached to assist the driver of an overturned dump truck and found the vehicle loaded with nitric acid containers and explosives.
The driver was taken into custody and confessed that he was paid to attack the Joint Security Station in Mushada, which also houses the town's Iraqi police station.
An explosive ordnance team was called in to assess the contents of the truck and dispose of the material. The team discovered eight containers of nitric acid, eight directional fragmentation explosives devices, and two large rounds of ordnance.
The explosives and munitions discovered will be disposed of by EOD once they are carefully removed from the site.
The driver is being held for further questio
In the Arab world, according to the eminent Bernard Lewis, the nation-state is faced with pressures from above and below. From below tribal, sectarian, and ethnic loyalties frequently trump national allegiances. From above, grand causes, pan-Arabism for much of the 20th century, now Islamism trump nationalism.
The pair of bombings in Iraq yesterday, targeting [...]
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Coalition Forces captured a senior al-Qaeda leader and two others during raid Sunday morning in Baghdad.Coalition Forces identified the man as the gatekeeper to the al-Qaeda emir of Baghdad. He has alleged ties to several senior al-Qaeda members and is reportedly linked to a number of mass casualty vehicle-borne improvised explosive device attacks in the Baghdad area.He was detained along with another known al-Qaeda VBIED cell leader and one other suspect."This is a significant step in our efforts to disrupt the VBIED network and their devastating attacks against the Iraqi people," said Lt. Col. Christopher Garver, MNF-I spokesperson.
The majority of Americans have come to believe that the war in Iraq was a mistake and that the United States should withdraw from Iraq by September, 2008. However, perennial "maverick" John McCain has again defied the conventional political wisdom.Protected by body armor, armored vehicles, U.S. troops, and attack helicopters, Senator McCain gave his evaluation of the situation in Iraq:REPORTER: Senator, you went to a market today, and I'm sure you were under heavy guard. And the violence is down a bit in Baghdad, and there is a lot of troops here, but violence meanwhile is on the rise in other parts of Iraq. Do you have confidence that the security plan can work? A lot of commanders have talked about, you know, putting down the violence in one spot, only to see it prop up in another. What gives you that confidence?SEN. MCCAIN: General Petraeus is very pleased with the progress that is being made. He realized that it's long and hard and difficult. I realize that it's long and hard an
While I most definitely appreciate Senator McCains service to our country as far as politics go I think he's a self important fool. Anyone can walk freely in a Baghdad market? Sure, anyone with a 100 soldier escort, 3 Blackhawks and 2 Apache gunships. Go back to playing pattycake with Ted Kennedy and quit embarassing yourself Senator. ~RJH Think Progress article link McCain Strolls Through Baghdad Market, Accompanied By 100 Soldiers, 3 Blackhawks, 2 Apache GunshipsSen. John McCain strolled briefly through an open-air market in Baghdad today in an effort to prove that Americans are “not getting the full picture” of what’s going on in Iraq. NBC’s Nightly News provided further details about McCain’s one-hour guided tour. He was accompanied by “100 American soldiers, with three Blackhawk helicopters, and two Apache gunships overhead.” Still photographs provided by the military to NBC News seemed to show McCain wearing a bulletproof vest during his visit. Watch it:McCain recently
This is an excellent first hand account direct from another blogger in Baghdad of dealing with our troops. It is from Omar Fadhil a blogger for "Iraq The Model" that I have had linked to from almost day one of this blog. He makes some very good points about dealing with people in general and American soldiers in particular. It is a good read. Major hat tip to Omar. ~RJH Iraq the Model article link Pajamas media article link Baghdad Dispatch: Midnight Company“I often find myself in arguments with people about the behavior of American soldiers when they search homes. Many of the people I talk to base their argument and negative impression on the footage of some raids we see on TV or on experiences of presumed relatives or friends. When I try to counter the idea that ‘they knock down doors unnecessarily, steal jewelry and treat people bad’ by saying that there must be a good reason why the troops sometimes act rough and that ‘for every reaction there must have been an acti
John Roberts Debunks McCain’s Rosy Baghdad ScenarioExcerpt:"On The Situation Room yesterday, John McCain told Wolf that the surge is so encouraging that General Patraeus now travels around in unarmored Humvees and American soldiers can walk around the streets of Bahdad safely. When confronted today by John Roberts, McCain backpeddled faster than he did on gay marriage in Iowa."http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/03/28/john-roberts-debunks-mccains-rosy-baghdad-scenario/Alex
Bush Cites Upbeat Bloggers From BaghdadExcerpt:"To back up his point that pulling out of Iraq would be a disaster, President Bush has quoted opinions from the secretary of defense, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the top U.S. general in Iraq—and now, two bloggers from Baghdad.Bush made a surprising reference to the blogosphere during a spirited defense of his war strategy on Wednesday. The mention seemed even more unusual because the president didn't identify whom he was quoting, so he seemed to be leaning on anonymous commentary."http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8O5D1KG2&show_article=1Alex
BAGHDAD EAGLES AND COMMANDOS FIND NINE CACHES NEAR AL QAQAA WEAPONS FACILITY
Release Date: 3/25/2007
Release Number: 07-01-03P
Description: MAHMUDIYAH, Iraq — Iraqi and coalition forces detained 62 suspected terrorists, discovered four improvised explosive devices and found a massive weapons cache in the Mahmudiyah, Iraq area near the Al QaQaa Weapons Facility March 23.
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