Oh. sh*t. Al Qaeda has taken over Iraqi blogger's neighborhood plus U.S. base possibly attacked.

"The surge is working" (McCain, Bush)

http://nabilsblog.blogspot.com/
Nabil -- Zeyad's brother (I think but am not 100% sure, he lives in the neighborhood where the Americans started building a wall, but were told to stop)

Alqaida is in Power

Lately in my neighbourhood, violence is progressed and turned into a new orientation, where the target now is the innocent people living within the same neighbourhood (meaning: sunni people).

Yesterday, I was in a shop infront of my house owned by a friend of mine,its a mini-market which sells food, drinks and ciggarettes.. Recently me and some friends started to meet in that shop, and have some drinks, play dominos and chat exchange news. We were sitting there playing domino and laughing on each other, then a friend of ours came into the shop and said "Come on stop playing", and told me to go to my house because I was wearing a short. We asked why??He said "Don't you know whats happening??" as he was hesitative and afraid to speak, we asked him again to tell us whats wrong and he started to explain to us.

He said,Alqaida is now in control of the neighbourhood, and they're doing horrible things to the innocent people of the neighbourhood, he said that a few minutes before he came to the shop, they killed a guy in front of him because he was smoking in the street, and that he heard that Al qaida shot a car of a bride and a groom because they were celebrating in the street and playing music.

I asked him why are you telling me to go to my house, he said because you're wearing a short, I said "so f.... what??", he said its prohibited to wear such clothes and that if they see you they would kill you, I said why is it prohibited, he said Islam says so..my natural response was "OH REALLY???", he said who do you think you are to argue with them, they would kill you without mercy, I said "ok" and went to my house.

Then I heard from my friends some ridiculous stuff, like Alqaida is now controling vegetable markets, and that its prohibited to put cucumbers along with tomato in the same sack, because cucumber is a male vegetable and tomato is a female vegetable, I chocked as I laughed about that story, they told me some extra ridiculous stuff of Alqaida and what they're doing in the streets and how they are killig people for no reasons.now I think that,ITS TIME TO LEAVE THIS SHIT HOLE COUNTRY, fuck Alqaida, fuck extremists, fuck Islam along with anyone who would kill innocent people just because they don't follow their fucked up rules.

And of course thanks to George Bush and his rat Almaliki for bringing us to this situation.
World War against terrorism, what a joke.


This one is more sketchy, but it appears that the 9 soldiers just killed, were killed right at the patrol base or right outside the patrol base from a suicide car. So this is something new, if accurate, and very disturbing (I was under the impression that bases were relatively safe):

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/4/23/195652/520

Nine Task Force Lightning Soldiers died as a result of injuries sustained from an explosion near a patrol base in Diyala Province, Monday.

Twenty Soldiers and one Iraqi civilian were wounded when a suicide vehicle born
IED attacked the patrol base. Twelve Soldiers were returned to duty after initial medical care, and eight Soldiers and the Iraqi civilian were evacuated to a Coalition Forces’ medical treatment facility for further care. Three of those Soldiers were later returned to duty.

environment. Jeeze. And I know just who to blame, but that doesn't make it better.