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[Breaking News] Bomb smuggled into village mosque kills Iraqi police officer ...: Iraqi police: 24 killed in Baghdad bombingsBAGHDAD ”” Multiple bombs have exploded near three Shiite mosques in Baghdad as worshippers were leaving Friday prayers, killing at least 24 and wounding dozens more, Iraqi police officials said. The bombings shattered a period of relative calm in the Iraqi capital, raising to at least 303 Iraqis killed in what has been one of the least deadly months in Iraq for both Iraqi civilians and U.S.

[Clusterfuck Nation] World War Three Anybody? - Clusterfuck Nation:  I imagine that what followed would be a very extravagant military frenzy amounting to World War Three, with European air forces and navies dragged in, with Hezbollah and Syria striking back at Israel, India and Pakistan possibly incinerating each other, and mayhem galore among the bystanders in Iraq, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Afghanistan. There could easily be internal mischief in the UK, France, and Germany from angry immigrant populations, and "sleepers" could work some overdue hoodoo in the USA.

[Breaking News] Wave of blasts in Iraq kills 29 near Shiite mosques in apparently ...: Iraqi police: 24 killed in Baghdad bombingsBAGHDAD ”” Multiple bombs have exploded near three Shiite mosques in Baghdad as worshippers were leaving Friday prayers, killing at least 24 and wounding dozens more, Iraqi police officials said. The bombings shattered a period of relative calm in the Iraqi capital, raising to at least 303 Iraqis killed in what has been one of the least deadly months in Iraq for both Iraqi civilians and U.S.

[Jihad Watch] 44 dead in attacks on Shi'ite ceremonies in Iraq - Jihad Watch: Those who, in Arab lands beyond Iraq, have taken to describing the Iraqi constitution as an "American-Iranian constitution," give voice to a debilitating incoherence. At the heart of this incoherence lies an adamant determination to deny the Shiites of Iraq a claim to their rightful place in their country's political order.

[Informed Comment] 18 Comments - Informed Comment: Then - one can think if all fails in Iraq the best think for Occupation forces will be a sectarian war for more then one reason ( divide and rule principal) that will give them a legitimacy to prolong there stay, or gives them power to get new resolutions with even more mandates through UN to aid one side or another the Palestine model, historically that is what the British end up doing in Iraq at the 1920’s, so it is not far fetched to think the US policy makers came to conclusion that since you can not fix it let’s shovel the deck we may get a better hand Samara Bombing was a deck shoveling that is what happened during the 1920’s so much so that Shieh Ayatollahs of Najaff escaped to Qoum Iran and that is how Qoum became important theology center for Shih Islam after Najaff.

[Breaking News] Body of revered Shiite leader arrives in Baghdad amid tight ...: Iraqi PM: Death of Shiite leader leaves 'void'BAGHDAD ”” Thousands poured into the streets of the Iraqi capital Friday amid tight security to pay their respects to a revered Shiite leader whose death the Iraqi prime minister said left a void in the country during a "delicate and sensitive period."The funeral service Friday at a Baghdad mosque came on the second day of a two-day funeral procession for Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim, a powerbroker whose death has a left a hole in Shiite politics in Iraq ahead of national elections in January. "We have lost you while we are undergoing a delicate and sensitive period, and in a time when we are in need of strong men with experience and who have made great sacrifices," al-Maliki said, speaking at the airport directly to al-Hakim's casket shortly after it arrived in Baghdad.

[Jihad Watch] Report: Iran has data necessary to make a nuclear bomb - Jihad Watch: just to cut through the cr*p, and save time and bandwidth, I would like to share with you my conviction, based on reading all of his postings since he first turned up here, that 'dave742' is a Shiite Muslim mohammedtroll or dementor, tasked with trying to prevent new and less well-informed readers here from waking up to Islamic Iran's assorted nefarious activities (many of which are intended to destroy that pesky little state of the Evil Joooz). He is most active on threads to do with Iran, with Iran's nuclear project, and threads to do with Israel.

[At War] A Very Different Dhuluiya - At War Blog - NYTimes.com: A couple of armed men stood with AK-47s in front of the headquarters of the local Awakening Council, the “sons of Iraq” who had turned against Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia and joined forces with the American military and Iraqi government. Mullah Nadhim, once allied with Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, led the council of 700 in Dhuluiya.

[Breaking News] Mourning in Iran and Iraq as body of prominent Iraqi leader taken ...: Iraqi PM: Death of Shiite leader leaves 'void'BAGHDAD ”” Thousands poured into the streets of the Iraqi capital Friday amid tight security to pay their respects to a revered Shiite leader whose death the Iraqi prime minister said left a void in the country during a "delicate and sensitive period."The funeral service Friday at a Baghdad mosque came on the second day of a two-day funeral procession for Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim, a powerbroker whose death has a left a hole in Shiite politics in Iraq ahead of national elections in January. "We have lost you while we are undergoing a delicate and sensitive period, and in a time when we are in need of strong men with experience and who have made great sacrifices," al-Maliki said, speaking at the airport directly to al-Hakim's casket shortly after it arrived in Baghdad.

[The Opinionator] The Bombs of Iraq - The Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com: The level of violence recalls the terrible year of 2006, when scarcely a week went by without its toll of destroyed mosques and markets, and numbed Iraqis almost counted on dying themselves or losing someone near and dear to them, so terrifying and inexorable were the statistics.

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