Iraq plans to control whole nation by end 2007: Maliki

Source: Reuters

Iraq plans to control whole nation by end 2007: Maliki
Wed Apr 18, 2007 7:27am ET

AMARA, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraq plans to take security control of the whole country from foreign forces by the end of the year, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Wednesday after British forces handed over control of a southern province.

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In a speech delivered on his behalf by National Security Adviser Mowaffaq al-Rubaie at a ceremony marking the handover of Maysan province from British forces to Iraqi control, Maliki said three provinces in the autonomous Kurdistan region would follow next.

These would be followed by Kerbala and Wasit provinces, he said.

"Then it will be province by province until we achieve (this transfer) before the end of the year," Maliki said.

In a reminder of Iraq's security woes, a car bomb killed 10 people and wounded up to 15 in central Baghdad, police said. They said the attack took place in the Karrada district, a mostly Shi'ite neighborhood.



Read more: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews&storyid=2007-04-18T120013Z_01_PAR340730_RTRUKOC_0_US-IRAQ.xml

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FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, April 18
Following are security developments in Iraq as of 1000 GMT on Wednesday:

* denotes new or updated item.

* BAGHDAD - A car bomb killed 10 people and wounded 15 in the predominantly Shi'ite district of Karrada in central Baghdad, police said.

* BAGDHAD - A bomb inside a minibus killed two people and wounded five near al-Shurja in central Baghdad, police said.

* BAGHDAD - A suicide car bomb targeting a police patrol killed two policemen and wounded four, including two civilians, near Baghdad, police said.

* TAJI - One insurgent was killed and eight others were detained during two raids near Taji, 20 km north of Baghdad, the U.S. military said.

* BAGHDAD - U.S. soldiers discovered a cache of nitric acid during a raid on a warehouse in eastern Baghdad on April 12, the U.S. military said. The nitric acid, which can used in manufacturing explosives, was stored in 600 five-gallon containers. Three people were detained in the raid.

more:http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L18184964.htm

LOL

straight from the White House. With all the dying being done every day do these clowns really think anyone believes this shit?

And I don't even buy tickets. I think I have a better chance of succeeding than he does.

Which would greatly increase your chances; I have no idea what might increase Mr. Maliki's chances of delivering on his plan.

I'm sure Bushco will find some excuse to keep our targets over there longer and in great numbers.

Car bombs kill 170 in Baghdad after PM's pledge
18 Apr 2007 14:32:15 GMT
Source: Reuters
By Dean Yates and Paul Tait

BAGHDAD, April 18 (Reuters) - Car bombs killed nearly 170 people in Baghdad on Wednesday in the deadliest attacks in the city since U.S. and Iraqi forces launched a security crackdown aimed at halting the country's slide into civil war.

One car bomb alone in the mainly Shi'ite Sadriya neighbourhood killed 118 people and wounded 139, police said.

The apparently coordinated attacks -- there were five within a short space of time -- occurred hours after Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said Iraq would take security control of the whole country from foreign forces by the end of the year.

More than 200 people were wounded in total.

more: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L18255866.htm

... That is the only way 'controlling' the entirety of Iraq will ever happen.

This guy's quite the kidder.

So now all they have to do is extend their control to the part where all the people live.

Will they really take over the 14 "permanent" American military bases? Will they control their own oil?