130 dead since Thursday in Iraq

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130 dead since Thursday in Iraq


In latest attack, 6 killed in car bombing in Baghdad

The Associated Press
Updated: 1:56 p.m. ET May 2, 2005

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A car bomb exploded in an upscale shopping district of Baghdad on Monday, killing at least six Iraqis and setting fire to an apartment building, in a surge of violence that has left at least 130 people dead since a new government was formed last week.

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Striking back at the insurgency, U.S. and Iraqi forces have detained 84 suspects in the Baghdad area since Sunday, the U.S. military said. An additional 52 suspects were detained Monday in a joint operation in the Diyarah area, south of the capital.

The skyrocketing attacks are blamed on an insurgency believed largely made up of members of the disaffected Sunni Arab minority, who dominated Iraq for decades under Saddam Hussein but were mainly shut out of a partial new Cabinet announced Thursday.

"Let freedom reign!"

"disaffected Sunni Arab minority" I liked "dead enders" better, kind of reminded me of Huntz Hall and Leo Gorsey.

<disgust on> Do you not know that civilians and soldiers died by the bushel in WWII? So there are 130 dead people. What's the big deal? Hey, mission accomplished, you know.</disgust off>

There have been over a hundred American military deaths since the splendid elections too. Cons either can't count or won't count.

Now what's the latest on the "run-away Bride"?... damn you liberals

on the news he took her back and put the ring on her finger.:banghead:

“I think has been fairly significant success in terms of putting Iraq back together again…and certainly wouldn't lead me to suggest or think that the strategy is flawed or needs to be changed.” – Vice President Cheney, < 9/14/03 >

Some groups in the resistance should be condemned for targeting civilians. Of course, the US government is hardly the one to deliver the message as well.

They are the biggest MURDERERS in this Cluster-Fuck.

They're both wrong. Anyone who intentionally targets civilians or conducts themselves with reckless disregard for innocent men, women, and children should and ought to be condemned for what they've done. This applies to all involved on all sides here. I wasn't condemning just those fighting the US.

Except the concept of "Deliberately Targeting" has taken on a new phase, where a little "COLLATERAL DAMAGE" is ACCEPTABLE

LOL at the murderers on the US "Christan" side. (suffer the little children to come onto me) etc etc etc.

On either point. I would be interested, however, in who is being targeted and killed among the civilians. If it really is "disaffected" minority Sunnis doing the bombing, then we should reasonably expect that it's Shiites and Kurds taking the brunt of the casualties, no? If it's Sunnis being killed indiscriminately along with Shiites and Kurds, then aybe it's not the Sunnis.

I marvel that as muddled as this situation is, reports out of Iraq (and you just know they're being written by reporters who haven't ventured for far or for long outside the Green Zone) all have this authoritative, confident tone about who's doing what.

Rambo RumsFailed try to make secret "deals" with the insurgents. He'll promise them big kickbacks on the oil revenue. Or he'll promise them half-ownership in the local Muslim McDonald's franchise, which is about to come to Baghdad.

Why, I read recently that he's been pimping Saddam Hussein to make a deal to get the insurgents to settle down.

With that fool in charge, anything can happen.

I love the line on MSN news on the recent article on China. China is now the Emerging Superpower of the world. The aarticle said that "Russia dug its own grave when it went into Afghanistan". =sound familiar, Don?

It has nothing to do with the continued invasion of Iraq.

But that's ok, as long as it's not in Rumsfeld's backyard.

them here! No matter we didn't have to fight them anywhere, but hell, then we couldn't have gotten the flowers, candy and oil!

Who is funding this insurgency? Apparently someone with money and
a damned good reason to keep Iraqi oil off the market.