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Subj: One day in Iraq 13 Mar 2008
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13 March 2008 - Just a normal day in Iraq
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Here's the news which they'd rather we didn't hear, which we won't see
on TV or in the newspapers, especially in the US. Just one day in Iraq -
13 March 2008 - fifth anniversary of US invasion:
03/13/08 Reuters:
Gunmen killed Qassim Abdul-Hussein, head of the circulation department for
al-Muwatin newspaper in a drive-by shooting in central Baghdad said Jabbar
Tarrad, the head of the Iraqi journalists' syndicate.
This brings the total number of journalists killed by hostile action since
hostilities began in Iraq in March 2003 to 128, plus 50 support workers.
03/13/08 AP: Car bomb kills 18 in Baghdad:
A parked car bomb exploded in a commercial district of central Baghdad
Thursday killing 18 people, wounding dozens more. The bombing took place
off a bridge in Tahrir Square, a district of clothing shops just outside
the heavily fortified Green Zone.
03/13/08 AFP: Chaldean archbishop kidnapped in Iraq found dead:
Pope Benedict XVI has repeatedly worried out loud about the fate of
Christian minorities in the Islamic world and has complained that
churches can't be built in many Muslim countries.
He warned of a mass exodus of his ancient Catholic flock from places like
Beirut and Bethlehem. Now, the Pope has a martyred Iraqi bishop to lament.
A Chaldean Catholic archbishop kidnapped last month in northern Iraq has
been found dead, the information service of the Italian Catholic Church
said.
03/13/08 Reuters: Car bomb kills 1 person and wounds 4 in central Baghdad
A car bomb killed one person and wounded four in central Baghdad, police
said.
03/13/08 Reuters: Two people killed and two wounded when gunmen attacked
a neighbourhood security checkpoint near the city of Baiji, 180 km (110
miles) north of Baghdad, police said.
03/13/08 Reuters: Iraqi soldier killed, 10 others wounded in Kirkuk:
A suicide car bomber killed an Iraqi army soldier and wounded 10 others in
an attack on a security checkpoint near the city of Kirkuk, 250 km (155
miles) north of Baghdad, police said.
03/13/08 Reuters: Suicide bomber kills 2, wounds 6 near Kirkuk:
Two members of a U.S.-backed neighbourhood security patrol were killed and
six wounded by a suicide bomber wearing an explosives vest in the town of
al-Zab near Kirkuk, police said.
03/13/08 Reuters: Roadside bomb wounds 5 in southwestern Baghdad:
A roadside bomb wounded five people near a market in
al-Shurta al-Khamissa in southwestern Baghdad, police said.
03/13/08 Reuters: Two soldiers were wounded when a roadside bomb exploded
close to an Iraqi army convoy near the town of Udhaim, north of Baghdad,
police said.
03/13/08 Reuters:
A roadside bomb wounded three people in Kirkuk, police said.
03/13/08 Reuters: The bodies of four people were found
in different areas of Baghdad on Wednesday, police said.
03/13/08 Reuters: Iran shelled bases used by Kurdish separatist rebels in
the Qandil Mountains in northeastern Iraq for about 90 minutes, said the
spokesman for Kurdish security forces in northern Iraq, Jabbar Yawar.
03/13/08 AP: U.S. soldiers kill young Iraqi girl:
U.S. soldiers shot and killed a young Iraqi girl after firing a warning
shot at a woman who "appeared to be signalling to someone" along a road
where several bombs had recently been found, a military official said
early Thursday.
Finally, this ought not to come as any surprise:
03/12/08 MCT: Exhaustive review finds no link between Saddam and al Qaida:
An exhaustive review of more than 600,000 Iraqi documents captured after
the 2003 U.S. invasion has found no evidence that Saddam Hussein's regime
had any operational links with Osama bin Laden's al Qaida terrorist
network.
No surprises here either:
03/12/08 MCT: Pentagon cancels Web release of controversial Iraq report:
The Pentagon on Wednesday cancelled plans for broad public release of a
study that found no pre-Iraq war link between late Iraqi President Saddam
Hussein and the al Qaeda terrorist network.
End quote.
What else is the Pentagon hiding that they don't want the American people
to know about? Bush introduced the PATRIOT ACT to poke and pry into every
corner of the lives of ordinary Americans and others.
What do Americans have to keep the checks and balances upon those they
elect to serve them (not rule over them) to make them accountable?
They don't have any.
The above report confirming no link between Saddam and Al Queda is not a
matter of national security which needs to be kept secret, it's a matter
of global embarrassment for the Bush administration - Bush, Cheney,
Rumsfeld, Tennet...
It confirms what the world already knew, and the Pentagon must have known,
from the outset.
But I guess that if you're a US car worker and you've lost your job and
are about to be evicted from your home through defaulting on your
sub-prime mortgage, Bush's dangerous devotions in Iraq won't exactly be at
the forefront of your mind (unless you've got a loved one in Iraq that
is).
Just don't get ill, that's all.
Quote of the day:
"The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem.
It is generally employed only by small children and large nations".
(David Friedman).
Best wishes
David, G4EBT @ GB7FCR
Cottingham, East Yorkshire.
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