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[Apophenia] A coordinated series of car bombings and mortar attacks by Sunni insurgents - the deadliest yet since the American invasion in 2003 - has killed at least 161 Iraqis and wounded up to 260 at the Shi’ite district of Sadr City, northeast of Baghdad. They targeted several checkpoints and marketplaces at three busy streets leading into Sadr City from across the Army Canal, which separates it from the rest of Baghdad.

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Healingiraq.blogspot.comhttp://healingiraq.blogspot.com [Healingiraq.blogspot.com] Healing Iraq: Lets send an army of the faithful to liberate Samarra and cleanse it from the rotten Nawasib (a derogatory term used by fundamental Shia to describe Sunnis, very much like the Rafidha or ”˜rejectionist’ stigma used by some Sunnis when they refer to Shia. Nawasib literally means “those who set themselves against the household of the prophet.”) On second thought, lets cleanse all of Iraq from those infidel scum.

[Ap.washingtontimes.com] Associated Press - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper: BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- Bombs exploded on a soccer field Wednesday killing 11 young people, and at least 42 other people - two of them Americans - died elsewhere in sectarian or political violence. Still, the president said plans are on track for Iraqis to take over security.

http://www.juancole.com [Juancole.com] Informed Comment: Since the US Coalition Provisional Authority essentially stole $9 billion from Iraq to run itself and the country the first year, basically the $9 billion actually spent on reconstruction by the US was little more than a repayment of the money taken (quite illegally under the law of Occupation), and the actual US investment in Iraq is zero. While the American public is being taxed to pay a bill for Iraq mounting toward $1 trillion (and Americans are nowadays staring the tax man in the face), that appears to go mostly to finance continued search and destroy missions that are probably mostly failures as counter insurgency.

[Articles.news.aol.com] Scores Killed in Iraq After Series of Blasts, Attacks - AOL News: BAGHDAD, Iraq (Nov. 23) -- Three suicide car bombers and two mortar attacks shook Baghdad's Sadr City Shiite slum Thursday afternoon, killing at least 144 .

http://dailywarnews.blogspot.com [Dailywarnews.blogspot.com] Today in Iraq: It should be noted that the Swords of Righteousness Brigade is linked to the Islamic Army in Iraq and the IAI is linked to the Muslim Brotherhood, itself a documented British and U.S. intelligence asset (for details, see my New Swords of Righteousness Brigades Video blog entry from earlier this month). Evidence abounds that much of the "al-Qaeda in Iraq" and Iraqi "insurgent" violence is the result on Anglo-American black ops, as the capture and subsequent release of several British SAS and American "counterinsurgency" terrorists over the past few months reveal.

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