Blast Kills 13 Year After Saddam Capture

[Moloch]

BAGHDAD, Iraq - An al-Qaida-linked suicide bomber blew up his vehicle Monday near cars waiting to enter the Green Zone, home to the U.S. Embassy and Iraq (news - web sites)'s interim government, killing 13 Iraqis on the anniversary of Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s capture.

As insurgents continued to step up attacks against U.S. and Iraqi forces ahead of next month's elections, the country's interim president said Washington was wrong for dismantling Iraq's security forces, including its 350,000-strong army, after last year's invasion.

"Definitely dissolving the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Interior was a big mistake," Ghazi al-Yawer told British Broadcasting Corp. radio, saying it would have been more effective to screen out former regime loyalists than to rebuild from scratch.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&e=1&u=/ap/20041213/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

[Journeyman]

1. Can anyone find anything in this article. . .

that verifies the wild assertion made in the lede, that the suicide bomber was "al-Qaida-linked."

They just make shit up, not even out of whole cloth, since a blast that large wouldn't have left much cloth with which to reconstruct the bomber's features, let alone his past associations.

[Tempest]

2. That was my very first thought

They don't have a freaking clue on who the bomber was.

[plasticsundance]

3. I think the headline intentionally misleads

It tries to imply that the bombing is somehow related to the anniversary of Saddam's capture, and then it throws out the world al-Qaeda to still somehow make the link between al-Qaeda and Saddam.

There's almost daily suicide bombers. They should have just titled the headline: "Another Day in Iraq."

[Tempest]

5. You are so very right

It's part of the pro-administration corporate media's attempt to justify the war.

Welcome to DU!

[Not_Giving_Up]

4. I saw a headline somewhere that called it a "Homicide Bomber"

Umm, does that mean the bomber didn't die?? I don't remember where I saw this, darn it!

[Tempest]

6. Homocide bomber is the new lexicon

Certain (rightwing) media started using homocide bomber a few months ago.