Posted on 07/28/2008 5:22:34 AM PDT by nuconvert
Bombers kill 50 in Iraq, wound nearly 250
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Three female suicide bombers killed 28 people and wounded 92 in Baghdad on Monday as Shi'ite pilgrims flooded into the Iraqi capital for a major religious event, police said.
In the northern oil city of Kirkuk a bomb killed at least 22 people and wounded 150 at a protest against a controversial provincial elections law, Iraqi health and security officials said. The U.S. military said initial reports showed the attack was carried out by a suicide bomber.
The blasts marked one of the bloodiest days in months and underscored the fragility of recent security gains in Iraq, where violence is at its lowest level since early 2004.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the Baghdad blasts, but al Qaeda has often targeted Shi'ite pilgrims taking part in religious events in Iraq. It considers Shi'ism -- the majority Muslim denomination in Iraq -- heretical.
"These blasts that happened today will increase our determination to finalize the ceremony of this visit and defeat terrorism," pilgrim Taher Abd-Noor said.
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has urged foreign dignitaries and firms to come to Iraq, citing stronger Iraqi security forces more able to keep the peace with less U.S. military help.
The apparently coordinated explosions in Baghdad shattered a period of relative calm in the city and took place despite a heavy security clampdown before the annual Shi'ite pilgrimage to the Kadhamiya shrine.
At least 1 million people are expected to take part in the pilgrimage, which peaks on Tuesday and marks the death of one of Shi'ite Islam's 12 imams.
The U.S. military said it was possible that three suicide bombers had carried out the attacks in the capital but did not specify if they were women. It
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Like Michael Yon said, the terrorists will continue to launch several spectacular attacks most likely near our elections this year. Nevertheless, the end is near and Al-Qaeda's days in Iraq are numbered.
But my question is why would females want to become terrorists?
In a few days the left will bump up the numbers of Iraqi civilians that the U.S. has killed since entering Iraq. And the terrorists, why freedom fighters on the order of George Washington don’t you know.
What a bunch of perverted, propagandists, and traitors...
lesbians?
Actually, what will the Arab men do when more and more women are coerced into suicide bombing? Will the burka be revised?
My thought was in seeing casualty counts of our troops on a daily basis no matter where it is. When people see that number in their face every day all they want is to pullout. They don’t think of the end cost of just getting out.
Similar to when the black hawks went down in Mogadishu. they paraded our soldiers bodies in the streets and American citizens seeing that on television demanded we leave immediately.
it was a bad move on our part to leave.
I’m not talking about troop casualties - I’m talking about victims of muslim terrorism all over the world. That was clear in my original post:
Imagine the impact if major American newspapers ran a daily tabulation of MUSLIM TERRORIST ATTACKS on the front page:
MUSLIM TERRORIST ATTACKS THIS WEEK
TOTAL MUSLIM TERRORIST ATTACKS WORLDWIDE SINCE 9/11/01
TOTAL PEOPLE KILLED BY MUSLIM ATTACKS SINCE 9/10/01
TOTAL PEOPLE INJURED BY MUSLIM ATTACKS SINCE 9/10/01
COST OF THE WAR TO PROTECT AMERICA FROM MUSLIM ATTACKS
COST OF DAMAGE CAUSED BY MUSLIM ATTACKS
LOSS OF INCOME CAUSED BY MUSLIM ATTACKS
I think we all agree that the MSM will not cover that ever. It would be considered politically incorrect and anytime that I have seen any MSM attempt to do so, they are attacked by the likes of CAIR. Muslims around the world need to be the ones who do this in public, until that time the only thing that the MSM will do is report the effects in the terms of body counts that Americans suffer.
I agree with you 100%, but the reality is that the Muslim communities need to be the ones to do this. If they don’t then anyone who is not Muslim is seen as attacking the faith and then they all jump on the bandwagon attacking the messenger, not the message.
“Cut em off, fence em in, throw ammo over the fence, and let em all blow each other to hell. The sooner theyre all gone, the better !”
There will come a day when rational, patriotic Americans will wish we had given the country of Iraq the Berlin treatment, I have no doubt. It’s what I’ve been saying all along, as much as I’d love to be proven wrong. The bottom line is that they’re muslim, which is a belief system. A hateful, sick, destructive belief system, no less so than Naziism. We would have never tolerated and would never tolerate the kind of hate and destruction the nazis are about, but we do from muslims because of its status as a religion.
I hope and pray every night for success in Iraq because that is what is best for the world and certainly for our military. I just cannot pretend however, that Iraqi muslims are somehow magically different than their brethren in countries we do not have combat operations going on in. If they buy into the ideology, then they are same. Even in places like Qatar, the women are covered in burkas and the men go around hugging each other and holding hands all day for the love of God. Sick, sick culture through and through.
“Im not talking about troop casualties - Im talking about victims of muslim terrorism all over the world.”
Imagine the response if the only thing posted was the cost to muslim lives, injuries, jobs, property etc, that is caused by muslim extremism. That alone would be a huge improvement over the lack of reporting today. Many more people might understand the threat to everyone of us if they just got that information.
Great idea.
I think they would be less concerned about the actual deaths and damage (after all, they kill their own kids for straying from Islam) and more concerned that the information was made available to critics of Islam.
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Imagine the response if the only thing posted was the cost to muslim lives, injuries, jobs, property etc, that is caused by muslim extremism.
Great idea.
I think they would be less concerned about the actual deaths and damage (after all, they kill their own kids for straying from Islam) and more concerned that the information was made available to critics of Islam.
51 posted on Thursday, July 31, 2008 8:27:17 AM by Iron Munro (Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.)”
You inspired me on this. Too many people want to blame USA or blame the West or blame Isreal. Most of them have no clue how much Terrorism is brought onto muslims who have committed the “grave sin” of going to get milk, bread, cooking oil and the like. I think more people need to know that the West is not the only ones who lose to terrorists. If more people knew this, more would stop blaming the USA, Isreal and the like and start blaming the terrorists.
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