Is this your "Mission Accomplished" Mr. President? Just asking. Yeah right, PEACEFUL LOVING relgion my a**!!! The proof is in the pudding. We don't have to make this sh*t up! :/ These radical Islamic extremist have NO RESPECT FOR LIFE! They are and have a HISTORY of KILLING the INNOCENT muslim people in Iraq to gain control. They are DEMENTED! Again I remind everybody the world over that satan comes to steal, kill and destroy! By the looks of many reports that I read daily about radical Islamic murders, that is precisely what they are GUILTY of doing in many many nations. No, I'm sorry Imam whatever your name is these radical Islamic extremist have MURDERED MORE INNOCENTS than you care to PUBLICLY ADMIT.
Here is some food for thought for all of you to chew on... Not ALL Muslims are terrorists, but ALL murderous destructive terrorists around the WORLD are Muslim.
Here is some food for thought for all of you to chew on... Not ALL Muslims are terrorists, but ALL murderous destructive terrorists around the WORLD are Muslim.
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Statesman News
written by Anthony Shadid, NY Times
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Insurgents unleashed a wave of coordinated attacks across Iraq on Wednesday, mostly targeting security forces in a demonstration of their ability to strike at will, offering their counterpoint to American aspirations of bringing the war in Iraq "to a responsible end."
The death toll of at least 56 made August the deadliest month for Iraqi police and soldiers in two years and came a day after the number of U.S. troops in Iraq had fallen to fewer than 50,000, their lowest level since the war began in 2003, as America plans to formally end its combat operations Tuesday.
In attacks within about three hours in 13 towns and cities, from southernmost Basra to restive Mosul in the north, insurgents deployed their full arsenal: hit-and-run shootings, roadside mines and more than a dozen car bombs.
"The message the insurgents want to deliver to the Iraqi people and the politicians is that we exist, and we choose the time and place," said Wael Abdel-Latif, a judge and former lawmaker. "They are carrying out such attacks when the Americans are still here, so just imagine what they can do after the Americans leave."
Throughout the troop drawdown, U.S. officials have insisted that, while work remains, Iraq's army and police force are ready to inherit control over security. Military officials have said they think that militants number only in the hundreds, and the military has issued a daily drumbeat of announcements that insurgent leaders and cadres have been arrested or killed in U.S.-Iraqi operations.
Wednesday's attacks were seemingly the insurgents' reply. The mostly Sunni insurgents proved their ability to undertake sophisticated attacks virtually anywhere in Iraq, capitalizing on the Shiite-led government's dysfunction and perceptions of U.S. vulnerability.
"The countdown has begun to return Iraq to the embrace of Islam and its Sunnis, with God's permission," read a statement on a prominent insurgent website Wednesday.
Beginning with the car bombing of a police station in a northern Baghdad neighborhood, the attacks seemed to sow chaos and confusion among the Iraqi police and soldiers who responded. Twice, police officers brawled with soldiers at the scene, where the blast sheared the top floors off six houses and bent streetlights like paper clips. In each confrontation, a shot was fired into the air before officers broke up the fight.
The police kept angry residents away, but the residents, in turn, heckled them for their impotence in stopping a blast that cut like a scythe through the street. While dismembered bodies were pulled from the rubble, others remained entombed.
"You get millions of dinars in salaries and you won't let us help our families?" one youth shouted. Another cried, "You just take money and don't care about us!"
An Iraqi investigator walked by. "This is the state?" he said. "This is the government?"
Since Iraq's March 7 elections failed to produce a clear winner, U.S. officials have feared that competing political factions could stir up widespread violence.
"Here you have a government paralysis, you have a political vacuum you have the U.S. troop withdrawal," Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said. "And, in such environment, these terrorist networks flourish."
For weeks, there had been a sense of inevitability about attacks, and U.S. military officials had warned that the insurgents would seek to show their prowess during the holy month of Ramadan. But the anticipation seemed to do little to prepare security forces for the breadth of the strikes, which followed what has become a daily campaign of bombings, hit-and-run attacks and assassinations against security forces and officials in Baghdad and elsewhere.
In one of the worst assaults Wednesday, in the southern city of Kut, Iraqi officials said a car bomb detonated by its driver killed 19 people and wounded 87, most of them police officers, in an attack that destroyed the police station near the provincial headquarters.
In Diyala province, five roadside bombs were detonated in the morning in Buhriz. The first was against a police patrol, a second against reinforcements who were heading to the scene and three others targeted houses belonging to police officers, officials said. They were followed by a car bomb that struck the provincial headquarters in Baqouba, northeast of Baghdad, killing three people. Another car bomb struck a hospital in nearby Muqdadiya.
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