Iraq Reviews > Another Attack On A Shiite Target

http://alieaday.blogspot.com [A Lie a Day] A car bomb has killed at least six people, most of them pilgrims, in a mainly Shia town south of Baghdad, Iraqi police say. The blast in Musayyib came as funerals were held in Baghdad for the 90 people killed when suicide bombers attacked an important Shia mosque in the city.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/thenewswire [Latest News | The Huffington Post] Senior Iraqi Govt. Official Iraq Has "Been In... : ONLY the totally brain dead officials of the US Government and their lap dog MASS MEDIA ENABLERS do not recognize the fact that the civil war in Iraq has been going on for some time. Any one with an IQ of 90 or above KNOWS THAT!

Sleepy Kid[ Sleepy Kid] Have we stopped painting the schools in Iraq?: "On a daily basis Shia, Sunni, Kurds and Christians are being killed and the only undeclared thing is that a civil war has not been officially announced by the parties involved."

http://doctorc.blogspot.com [Dr. C.] The Sobering Truth: Here is a chart of this carnage: Again, this is from Juan Cole, Informed Comment: Monday, April 03, 2006 Violence

[Big Lizards:Blog:Main] Iraq Army, Coalition Begin Mahdi Militia... : In a statement on Monday about the raid, the American command did not vary much from its original public account Sunday night. It maintained that Iraqi and American troops had raided "multiple structures" but not a mosque, as Shiite leaders have contended, and that troops received fire from "several buildings near the target area." The troops killed 16 insurgents, wounded three, detained 18 other people, discovered a weapons stockpile and released a dental technician who had been taken hostage, the statement said.

http://dailywarnews.blogspot.com [Today in Iraq] DAILY WAR NEWS FOR FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 2006 ... : IRAQI SECURITY FORCES PLAGUED BY CORRUPTION, MISMANAGEMENT: Senior military advisors acknowledge that "[t]rying to reform the police forces could take years, because sectarian loyalties have become entrenched, and police officers are rooted in their communities." When Shiite militiamen attacked dozens of Sunni mosques after the February bombing of the Shiite Askariya shrine, many "police units stood aside, either out of confusion or sectarian loyalties, according to Iraqi witnesses." Rumsfeld's testimony ignored the administration's responsibility for the unprepared state of the police force.

[Big Lizards:Blog:Main] Fool Me Once...: One of the major goals of the current training by American forces is to weed out those Iraqi cops who are either corrupt in the old-fashioned sense of taking bribes to turn their backs (or aid a jailbreak) -- or in the really old-fashioned sense of being pure tribalists, seeing their uniforms as license to attack rival tribes under color of authority.

http://english.aljazeera-news.net [Al Jazeera-News] Shia pilgrims attacked in Iraq: Attackers have killed two Shia pilgrims and wounded dozens in Baghdad, raking their vehicles with gunfire.

Dear_raed.blogspot.comhttp://dear_raed.blogspot.com [Dear_raed.blogspot.com] Where is Raed ?: In preparation for the transition of power to Iraqi hands there have been numerous conferences and discussion groups, starting at neighborhood levels and going up to more specialized discussions. This has been going on for quite a while and I know that he (my father) was invited to a couple of them to talk, I read one of the papers he wrote on forms of representation, he’s a caucus type of guy.

[Juancole.com] Informed Comment: He added, "The Alliance agreed that there will be a committee that will go to the Iraqi National List [headed by Iyad Allawi), the Iraqi Accord Front, and the Kurdistan Alliance to discover the causes of their objections and to clarify their position-- [though] it is clear that a large proportion of them have backed off from their objections with regard to some issues, and that the matter is confused, and the causes are unknown and various. there is a clear insistence on the part of the United Iraqi Alliance on retaining its candidate, and America has now denied that it desires to see Jaafari step down;

[Televisionreporter.typepad.com] Iraq Hack: A Reporter's Blog: This is what the streets sound like, after a mortar round landed about a half-block away, a couple of days ago.

http://www.ww4report.com [Ww4report.com] Iraq: 800 US troops sent in ahead of Arabeen celebrations | World ...: BAGHDAD: A suicide bomber on a motorcycle killed two Iraqis and wounded five others yesterday in the volatile town of Baquba, northwest of Baghdad, said police. The motorcycle blew up in a small alley in the Amin neighborhood of downtown Baquba but does not appear to have had any specific target.

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