posted on March 21, 2006 04:27:07 AM new
FOR THE GOOD OF AMERICA, JUST GO AWAY DUMBO BUSH JUST GO AWAY!!!
Insurgents Kill 17 Iraqi Police Officers
Tuesday, March 21, 2006 6:38 AM EST
The Associated Press
By VANESSA ARRINGTON
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — Insurgents stormed a jail about dawn Tuesday in the Sunni Muslim heartland north of Baghdad, killing at least 17 policemen and a courthouse guard. Authorities said all 33 prisoners in the lockup were freed and 10 attackers were killed in the battle.
As many as 100 insurgent fighters — armed with automatic rifles and rocket-propelled grenades — stormed the judicial compound in Muqdadiyah, about 60 miles northeast of the capital. The assault began after the attackers fired a mortar round into the police and court complex, said police Brig. Ali al-Jabouri.
After torching the police station, the insurgents detonated a string of roadside bombs as they fled, taking the bodies of many of their dead comrades with them, police said. At least 13 policemen and civilians and 15 gunmen were wounded in the attack.
Five other police were wounded in two separate roadside bomb attacks targeting patrols in northern and southern Baghdad early Tuesday, police said.
Tuesday's assaults came a day after 39 people were reported killed by insurgents and shadowy sectarian gangs in Iraq, continuing the wave of violence that has left more than 1,000 Iraqis dead since the bombing last month of a Shiite Muslim shrine.
Police found the bodies of at least 15 more people — including that of a 13-year-old girl — dumped in and near Baghdad. The discoveries marked the latest in a string of execution-style killings that have become an almost daily occurrence as Sunni and Shiite extremists settle scores.
As night fell on Monday, a bomb struck a coffee shop in northern Baghdad, killing at least three civilians and injuring 23 others. The bomb was left in a plastic bag inside the shop in a market area of the Azamiyah neighborhood, police Maj. Falah al-Mohammadewi said.
At about the same time, gunmen killed two oil engineers leaving work at the Beiji refinery north of Baghdad. An electrical engineer and technician were gunned down at the nearby power station, Beiji police Lt. Khalaf Ayed Al-Janabi said.
Separately, the owner of a small grocery in downtown Baghdad was shot and killed.
In southeast Baghdad, also toward evening, a roadside bomb blew apart a minibus, killing four pilgrims returning from the holy city of Karbala, where millions of Shiite faithful gathered to mark the 40th and final day of the annual mourning period for Imam Hussein, grandson of the Prophet Muhammad. Five pilgrims on their way to Karbala were wounded in a drive-by shooting earlier in the day, police said.
Otherwise, the commemoration passed largely without incident and absent the violent bomb attacks that have hit pilgrims there over the past two years.
Other violence in Iraq Monday targeted more policemen.
Roadside bombs — one just a few hundred yards from an Interior Ministry lockup in central Baghdad and one in a farming area near the so-called Triangle of Death south of Baghdad — killed at least seven police and one prisoner.
A policeman in a joint American-Iraqi patrol was killed in Baghdad during fighting with insurgents, and a car bomb targeting a police checkpoint exploded in Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, killing another policeman, authorities said.
The international airport in Baghdad remained closed Tuesday after authorities shut it down citing the need to protect the Karbala commemoration, apparently from any attackers who might try to fly into the country.
And Jordanian authorities closed their border with Iraq until further notice to "prevent those without valid travel documents from entering the country," said Maj. Bashir al-Da'ajah, spokesman of Jordan's Public Security Department. The New York Times reported the border was closed because a large number of Palestinians living in Iraq were trying to cross into Jordan without proper documents.
AGAIN, FOR THE GOOD OF AMERICA JUST GO AWAY DUMBO BUSH JUST GO AWAY!!!!!!!
posted on March 21, 2006 05:23:05 AM new Al-Zaman says that the Association of Muslim Scholars (hard line Sunni clerics) issued a communique on the third anniversary of the war, saying, "The American plan has failed" and working Iraqi forces that they "should not fool themselves that they are battling terrorists who have arrived from abroad."
The text says, "Everyone must realize that the American plan has failed in Iraq. We demand not just the withdrawal of Occupation troops in accordance with a timetable agreed upon with the United Nations but also that reparations be paid for the losses attendant on this attack."
As Murtha, a hawk and NOT a liberal has recognized, leaving is the only reasonable option at this point.
posted on March 21, 2006 08:12:13 AM new
Typical liberal swinging gate logic. Zitch about American combat deaths yet when American deaths decline after Iraqis start accepting more front line responsibility and become targets for the terrorists.
Sheepa too bad you dont take your own advice
FOR THE GOOD OF AMERICA JUST GO AWAY
"“More Iraqis think things are going well in Iraq than Americans do. I guess they don’t get the New York Times over there.”—Jay Leno".
posted on March 21, 2006 09:41:12 AM newFOR THE GOOD OF AMERICA JUST GO AWAY
I agree. bigsheepa needs to go away.
And take that witch Helen with you.
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Many misleading tricks in 2006. The new Demomoron slogan.
[ edited by stonecold613 on Mar 22, 2006 10:54 AM ]
' "It is unfortunate that we are in civil war. We are losing each day as an average 50 to 60 people throughout the country, if not more.
"If this is not civil war, then God knows what civil war is." . . .
Iraq is moving towards the "point of no return", he said, when the country would fragment.
"It will not only fall apart but sectarianism will spread throughout the region, and even Europe and the US will not be spared the violence that results...," he said.
posted on March 21, 2006 05:00:06 PM new
Bear and Stone just can't face the truth about their failed leaders. 70% of the AMERICAN people think DUMBO HAS FAILED AMERICA.
GIVEN THAT FACT, I AM SUPPOSE TO LISTEN TO THE LIKES OF YOU TWO. LOLs
SORRY BOYS WHY SHOULD I LEAVE OR STOP WHAT I AM DOING. MY SIDE IS ON THE VERGE OF KICKING YOUR SIDES AZZ STARTING IN 2006.
YOU GUYS HAD IT ALL BUT BECAUSE OF YOUR UNSATISFIABLE GREED AND DUMBO'S IRAQ WAR YOU ARE NOW LOSING IT.
Under DUMBO its been PRAISE THE LORD LOUDLY then pass the money under the table quietly.
By this summer you will see several more Republican Lawmakers in big trouble facing money crimes.
Parklane again I will say. FOR THE GOOD OF AMERICA, JUST GO AWAY DUMBO BUSH JUST GO AWAY!
I am starting to hear IMPEACHMENT TALK FROM REPUBLICAN LAWMAKERS NO LESS. MAYBE SOON AMERICA WILL SEE BUSH AND CHENEY STARTING TO FACE IF THEY COMMITTED CRIMES OR NOT.
posted on March 21, 2006 06:51:28 PM new
While the disapproval ratings are not quite what Peepa is claiming. I don't think you guys can deny that that his approval ratings are dropping. Even Fox, by far the most sympathetic source to the Bush cause is recording a drop of 5 points in the past month. There was even a conversation this weekend speculating on whether or not he might surpass Carters 29% approval rating.
I'm sure that his statement that it will be up to the next president as to when there will be a troop withdrawal from Iraq isn't going to help much.
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[ edited by fenix03 on Mar 22, 2006 04:08 AM ]
posted on March 22, 2006 03:20:59 AM new
O.K. I will put it this way almost 70% of the American people think DUMBO BUSH is leading the country in the wrong direction.
The problem here is there are 4 people replying to this post that just can't except DUMBO'S a FAILURE.
I am hoping soon the American people can start making Bush and Cheney pay for their crimes.
FOR THE GOOD OF AMERICA JUST GO AWAY DUMBO BUSH JUST GO AWAY!!!!!!!
