Going to Iraq (and Afghanistan) was a humongous tragic error! So many bombings now!

[mzkitty]

I've been ignoring this news for months now because so many other things seemed more important, but do you know how many attacks and bombings have been going on in those two countries lately? I've lost count. As mentioned on other threads here, Jihad is ramping up all over the world today. If you think it's not going to be a big problem here, you're mistaken. A lot of us are on pins and needles waiting for them to strike again in the continental US. Letting them in here was a huge mistake, one that I'm certain was deliberate though.

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At least 19 people killed in 2 car bomb explosions in Iraqi capital, officials say - @BBCNews

19 mins ago from www.bbc.co.uk by editor

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31 July 2012 Last updated at 10:53 ET

Iraq car bombings kill 19 in central Baghdad

Emergency services personnel at the scene of one of the bombings in Baghdad (31 July 2012) At least five policemen were among those killed by the blasts


At least 19 people have been killed in two car bomb explosions in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, officials say.

The blasts happened within minutes of each other in the central Shia district of Karrada in the middle of the afternoon rush hour.

The first bomb exploded outside a restaurant near the police major crimes headquarters and the second outside a passport office a few kilometres away.

More than 240 people have been killed this month in militant attacks in Iraq.

Sunni insurgents linked to al-Qaeda appear to have been behind most of the violence, including a wave of bombings and shootings in Baghdad and towns to the north on 23 July which left at least 107 dead.

Clouds of black smoke rose above the centre of the capital on Tuesday after the latest bombings, which also injured more than 50 people.

"We were in a patrol when we heard the first explosion. The second explosion hit another square, and we went to help," Ahmed Hassan, a policeman, told the Reuters news agency.

"There was a minibus with six dead passengers inside it."

At least five policemen were also among those killed, officials said.

An interior ministry official told the AFP news agency that the first attack had been carried out by a suicide bomber, while the local TV news channel al-Sharqiya said they had both been suicide bombings.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-midd...02#TWEET180794

[Flippper]

Nations jockeying for top position in the final one world government, they all want to be the antichrist's favorite lap dog and get those juicy table scraps.

In war, it's rarely the people starting it who pay the price, it's always the innocent bystanders. One day that will change.

[mzkitty]

UK let millions of them in too.


Twins Mohammed Shabir Ali and Mohammed Shafiq Ali, 25, from east London, plead guilty to fundraising for acts of terrorism abroad - PA

30 mins ago by editor

[Boise Rocker]

"Going to Iraq (and Afghanistan) was a humongous tragic error!"

I disagree to an extent. Going into Iraq and Afghanistan unready to do what needed to be done -- that is to say, unready to fight the WOT as a war, not a limp-noodle PR campaign -- is the humongous tragic error. Instead of lining up every B-1, B-2 and B-52 in our inventory wingtip to wingtip, carpet bombing both countries into powder, then rolling the tanks, Bradleys and artillery in and killing everything that crawled out of the rubble, until they begged us to stop killing them, the Bush administration (and yes, I do place the lion's share of the blame on Bush and his advisers) decided to fight our enemy by building schools and roads. So 5,000 dead and God only knows how many wounded later, we're where we are now...weaker than we were, the initiative lost, and setting ourselves up for yet another attack on our own soil. The WOT needed to be fought...the problem is, it wasn't.

[Ragnarok]

"Going to Iraq (and Afghanistan) was a humongous tragic error!"


Been saying that since before we went in... Seems we learned nothing from the Soviet folly in Afghanistan... Now the Russians are, probably, laughing their butts off at us.

[mzkitty]

Iraq says July was the deadliest month in 2 years, with 325 killed in attacks; official figures released - @AFP

12 mins ago from www.france24.com by editor

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Iraq says July deadliest month in nearly two years

AFP - July was the deadliest month in Iraq in almost two years, with 325 people killed in attacks, and included the deadliest day since December 2009, official figures released on Wednesday showed.

The statistics compiled by the health, interior and defence ministries showed that 325 people -- 241 civilians, 40 police and 44 soldiers -- were killed nationwide during the month.

Another 697 people -- 480 civilians, 122 police and 95 soldiers -- were wounded. It was the highest monthly toll given by the government since August 2010, when figures showed 426 people killed and 838 wounded in attacks.

The previous highest official toll this year was for January, when government figures showed that 151 Iraqis were killed and 321 wounded in attacks.

Government figures are usually lower than those given by other sources, but the July toll was higher than a tally kept by AFP based on reports from security and medical officials.

According to the AFP tally, at least 278 people were killed and 683 wounded in July, down slightly from at least 282 fatalities in June.

While violence has decreased from its peak in 2006-2007, attacks still remain near-daily occurrences in Iraq.

Of the 31 days in July, there were attacks on at least 27 of them, with 10 or more people killed in attacks on five separate days -- 39 on July 3, 11 on July 4, 17 on July 22, 113 on July 23, and 23 on July 31.

The July 23 violence, in which some 259 people were also wounded in attacks across the country, was the deadliest single day of violence in Iraq since 126 people were killed on December 8, 2009.

The July 23 wave of violence consisted of at least 29 separate attacks in 19 cities, with most of the unrest concentrated in Baghdad and areas north of the capital.

In the deadliest incidents -- a string of roadside bombs and a car bomb followed by a suicide attack targeting emergency responders in the town of Taji, just north of Baghdad -- at least 42 people were killed and 40 wounded, medical officials said.

Al-Qaeda's front group, the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI), claimed the attacks, saying they were part of a new campaign in the holy Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.

"As part of the new military campaign aimed at recovering territory given up by the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI), the war ministry has sent its sons and the mujahedeen on a sacred offensive during the month of Ramadan," the group said.

"The operation by the jihadists has stunned the enemy and made him lose his head. It has demonstrated the failings of the security and intelligence services," it continued.

Al-Qaeda in Iraq is regarded by Iraqi officials as significantly weaker than at the peak of its strength in 2006 and 2007, but it is still capable of spectacular mass-casualty attacks across the country.

http://www.france24.com/en/20120801-...arly-two-years

[fairbanksb]

My son-in-law is in Afghanistan now. We are on pins and needles every day and will be praying until he makes it back safely.

[VesperSparrow]

Why is it that us 'commoners' understand that you cannot tame a rattlesnake...did we really expect them to grasp the concept of freedom? Hell, we can't even do that here anymore. This thing is too big a fire to put out by conventional means anymore. From Iraq to Chicago to Cairo and Tora Bora...this entire WORLD is screwed and we'd best bring OUR troops home here and gear them up in the militias. The rope in this tug-of-war game is about ready to snap. And NOBODY wins. Everybody just falls on their asses. Hard.