Dozens of Iraqis killed in 'orgy of violence'

[Judi Lynn]

Dozens of Iraqis killed in 'orgy of violence'

June 08 2005 at 09:15AM

By Marwan Ibrahim

Baghdad - At least 33 Iraqis were cut down on Tuesday by violence that defied government and United States efforts to stem a dogged insurgency.

The one-day death toll was the heaviest since the bloody month of May, during which almost 700 Iraqis lost their lives.

Fourteen Iraqis died, half of them soldiers, in early morning car bomb attacks around the northern town of Hawijah in the latest major attack on Iraq's security forces.

The explosions occurred as officials hailed gains from Operation Lightning, a more than two-week-old sweep of the capital, but warned against complacency, saying the insurgency's demise would be "a slow death".
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http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=3&art_id=vn20050608074752747C140598

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. ok ok tehy do know how to celebrate

candy and flowers I see

[oblivious]

2. Let the propaganda brigade here take note that this is not indiscriminate.

There are a few people on DU who keep repeating that these "terrorists" are indiscriminately killing innocent people, blah blah.

Innocent bystanders are dying to be sure, but I look at these reports every day, and it is almost always the same: The people being targeted are US and Iraqi troops, police and other people cooperating with the invaders.

Thia is war, not terrorism.

A list of the attacks from the article
- Fourteen Iraqis died, half of them soldiers...in the latest major attack on Iraq's security forces.

Three suicide bombers struck almost simultaneously, targeting army checkpoints

Nine people were killed...including four peshmerga militiamen reportedly shot dead by police after they were mistaken for insurgents

...three students killed when unknown gunmen burst into their apartment.

One policeman died in a drive-by shooting in the city's industrial district and another in a mortar attack on his station

...four Iraqi soldiers were killed in an ambush and roadside bombing, while two bullet-riddled bodies were found on the banks of a nearby river.

...three civilians died and 13 were wounded in a mortar attack on a military base.

...an employee of the foreign ministry was killed in a drive-by shooting

...a policeman was shot dead in the southern Aamel neighbourhood.

...The body of a policeman was also discovered near the infamous Abu Ghraib prison west of Baghdad.

[leftchick]

3. and their relatives as well...

:(



A woman grieves beside the body of her husband, the father of an Iraqi police officer, who was shot dead in Baghdad's Sadr City June 8, 2005. Mazin Mohammad Jadem, a Ministry of Interior police officer, said he received unknown death threats three months ago to quit his job. Jadem ignored the threats and as a result gunmen shot dead his father and injured his two younger brothers. REUTERS/Kareem Raheem

[oblivious]

4. Oh God, that's sad. How must the son feel? That's just so brutal.

[leftchick]

5. bush really is a monster

to have unleashed this sort of daily brutality on innocent people. He makes Saddam look like an amateur.

[saigon68]

6. He is a Thug and a WAR CRIMINAL

[bowens43]

7. I agree absolutely.

These bombings are nip different then bombings carried out by the US military. Both target 'military' targets and kill and kill civilians as well. If the insurgency is a terrorist organization then so is the US military.

[David__77]

8. There are thousands ready to replace whoever is arrested or killed.

The Iraqi people will not accept occupation. There are many thousands of brothers, fathers, sons, cousins and friends of those who have been killed by US bombs and bullets in Iraq who will step forward to fight for independence. There is not US "win" in Iraq short of genocide.

[bemildred]

9. US-led troops battle insurgents in north Iraq, three US soldiers killed

US-led troops have clashed with insurgents in northwest Iraq, as at least 36 people including three US soldiers were killed in attacks centred mostly north of the capital.

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"Major clashes occurred in the area of Tal Afar where Iraqi and coalition forces were successful in security operations," it said in a statement.

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Predominantly Turkmen Tal Afar, 100 kilometres (60 miles) from the Syrian border, is suspected by US and Iraqi officials of being a sanctuary for Sunni Arab foreign fighters infiltrating through the country's porous borders with its western neighbour and carrying out attacks in the area which includes Mosul.

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Since November, Mosul, Iraq's third largest city, has become a new front for the fight against insurgents with both US and Iraqi officials frequently announcing the arrest of senior aides to Iraq's most wanted man Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the alleged frontman for the Al-Qaeda terror network in the violence-ravaged country.

http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=45582

[gratuitous]

10. The heaviest one day death toll since . . .

Last month, when Dick Cheney made another of his predictions that the death and destruction was just about all over.

[Zerex71]

11. But Cheney says the insurgency is on its last legs!!!