Suicide bombing in Iraq kills as many as 32 people.
By on Jan 3rd, 2009 at 9:17 am
Suicide bombing in Iraq kills as many as 32 people.
Outside of Baghdad yesterday, a suicide bomber disrupted a reconciliation gathering, killing as many as 32 people and wounding dozens more. Capt. Muthanna Ahmed, a spokesman for the provincial police, told the Washington Post that the “gathering was convened to foster reconciliation between Sunni and Shiite tribes in a region once so violent that residents had nicknamed it the Triangle of Death.” The attack was the worst Iraq has seen “since a suicide bomber killed 57 people at a Dec. 11 meeting of Arab and Kurdish leaders who had gathered to discuss ways to reduce tensions in the contested northern city of Kirkuk.”
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The article states the coming elections won’t be held in the Kurdish regions. Why not? Is it because there are no opposition candidates? The article doesn’t specify.
January 3rd, 2009 at 9:45 amWere there suicide bombings in Iraq before Bush invaded and occupied their nation?
January 3rd, 2009 at 9:53 amOil revenues from the fields around Kirkuk, seems to be the sticking point. Perhaps someone can explain how the surge helped in this regard, ’cause I don’t see it.
January 3rd, 2009 at 9:54 amIf , as advertised, the Iraqis have regained their sovereignty, then the Kirkuk sticking point is Now their Problem.
We need to rapidly get out of there, and let them work it out on their own.
January 3rd, 2009 at 10:11 amThe attack, which killed 32, was the worst since an attack on December 11th, which killed 57.
So it’s been a whole three weeks since the last major suicide bombing, and this is considered good news? This exemplifies the Bush Foreign Policy Legacy.
The outcomes of Bush’s domestic policies are just as impressive.
PEACE
January 3rd, 2009 at 10:12 amRight Spenser’s Mom, there haven’t been any collapses of a major industry in what, three or four weeks? Bush is leading us out of the the clinton depression!
January 3rd, 2009 at 10:19 amI just heard this on c-span… true and funny:
George Bush came into office a Social Conservative.
He is leaving office a Conservative Socialist.
:)
January 3rd, 2009 at 10:26 amToday Isreal bombed a mosque and killed ten.
January 3rd, 2009 at 11:55 amIsrael — sorry.
January 3rd, 2009 at 11:55 amAh, more of the George W Bush legacy.
January 3rd, 2009 at 12:48 pmThere will be no US oil pipeline! Leave! Free Iraq and Afeghanistan from the USA/UK/Israel terror!
January 3rd, 2009 at 12:54 pmHAGUE 2009!
#8
January 3rd, 2009 at 12:58 pmThe Terrorist State of Israel bombed a crowded mosque. It killed 12 and injured 200. Out of the 12 killed, there were two boys, 10 and 11. Israel is a Terror State and the United States are behind them. That makes US also a terrorist state, acording to Bush’s words: “Those habouring terrorism… blah,blah,blah,blah,blah…”
#4 and #6
The US’s media is lying!!!!! Google Bridas Corporation / Caspian Pipeline and you will see what is direct behind the US’s military industrial complex/ oil corporation / and 9/11!
January 3rd, 2009 at 1:01 pmThey want to escalate WAR before ObamaShortChange gets in!
January 3rd, 2009 at 1:01 pmThat’s hilarious, JK.
January 3rd, 2009 at 4:35 pmHi John Kerry!
We might just do French Bread Pizzas, Otherwise it is broiled skirt steak with cauliflower and mixed baby greens…
Most people don’t find me so scary….
January 3rd, 2009 at 4:54 pmWhat was that line the wingnuts love to use…?
“The soft bigotry of low expectations”?
The Bush Administration has made lowering expectations policy priority.
January 3rd, 2009 at 5:39 pmHi Troll JK. I recommend that you stick around for the feast offered by dbadass. Those mixed baby greens are as good as you’ll find anywhere.
January 3rd, 2009 at 5:41 pm15. John Kerry?
You mean Obama is black ? Why didn’t anyone tell me ?
January 3rd, 2009 at 6:04 pmDumb Question:
What is the comparison of non-combatant deaths in Iraq in the past month to the number of non-combatant deaths in Gaza in the past month ?
Now normalize for the larger population in Iraq – what is the number of deaths in Iraq per 1,000 population vs the number of non-combatant deaths in Gaza per 1,000 population ?
Of course, Both Israel and the USA have adopted this curious doctrine that as everyone could potentially be a terrorist, everyone is a combatant.
Similar to the attacks on the Amerind Nations in the 1800s when the saying was “nits make lice” !
January 3rd, 2009 at 6:08 pmy’know… if I didn’t know Troll John Kerry as well as I do, I might surmise from his comment that he’s racist.
Good thing I know that he’s just silly.
January 3rd, 2009 at 6:10 pm22. ralph,
I’m not sure. The fact that he was looking for a negative adjective to apply and he settled for “black” (and he could have chosen communist, Hawaiian, un-American, etc.) seems to belie some deeply held predjudice.
January 3rd, 2009 at 6:16 pmJohn Kerry Says:
Memo to JK shut up you cowardly ignorant troll. No one in the entire world cares what a lying moron like you has to say. Do the world a favor and go skydiving with a handkerchief parachute
January 3rd, 2009 at 8:34 pmWe can forget about responding to the troll. Like most right wingers, he just shows up to try to destroy things and then runs away. Kind of like the right wing policies of the last 8 years.
January 3rd, 2009 at 8:45 pmYou wont see this in the war propaganda filled US MEDIA:
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