Eleven killed in Iraq attacks including imam, two US troops (1935)

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http://www.africasia.com/services/news/newsitem.php?area=mideast&item=051001131851.62dxuj2c.php

Eleven killed in Iraq attacks including imam, two US troops

Eleven people, including a Sunni imam and two US soldiers, were killed in attacks in the capital and northern Iraq on Saturday, security sources and the US military said.

The soldiers were killed in separate bomb attacks, one in central Baghdad and the other near Baiji, some 200 kilometres (120 miles) north of the capital, the US military said, without providing further details.

The latest deaths brings to 1,921 the number of US military personnel killed in Iraq since the US-led invasion of March 2003. Another five civilian Defence Department employees have also been killed, according to Pentagon figures.

The imam of Baghdad's Arafat mosque, Salah Hassan Ayash, was shot dead at the wheel of his car in southeastern Baghdad, while an Iraqi army officer was also shot dead in his car in the Shiite district of Sadr City.

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1. anybody think a civil war is going on??

One day I read that its shiite's being killed and the next day I erad that its Sunni's being killed...

Makes you wonder out loud, why they are not calling this a civil war??

[sabra]

2. according to Rummy we are making "progress"

up is down, black is white...

[acmavm]

6. And John Kerry said the same thing lately. Maybe we just don't

understand the meaning of the word 'progress'.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/iraq-burns-dems-look-on-_b_7974.html

If you need yet another reminder why the Democrats continue to teeter on the verge of becoming a permanent minority party, I suggest you pick up the Boston Herald and watch CBS News.

At the same time the situation in Iraq continues to deteriorate, with CBS reporting on the "undeclared civil war" raging between Shiites and Sunnis and the Saudi Foreign Minister telling the world that Iraq is "going toward disintegration," there was John Kerry giving a speech arguing that "progress" was being made. As the Boston Herald put it, Senator John Kerry "back-pedalled on blistering criticism of the war."

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[babylonsister]

3. Because Rummy and that retiring general sez it ain't so?

:sarcasm:

[leftchick]

7. Juan Cole seems to think so...

110 Shiites Dead in 2 Days
Talabani Blasts Jaafari for Illegalities

AP reports that guerrilla violence in Iraq has taken the lives of 110 Shiites in two days. Sounds like a sectarian civil war to me.

Al-Zaman/ AFP/ DPA: Iraq's president, Jalal Talabani, launched charges on Friday against Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari of having contravened the pact he had earlier concluded with the Kurdistan Alliance. The accusations came via a joint letter cosigned by Massoud Barzani, president of the Kurdistan regional confederation. Despite his blistering attack, Talabani said he did not expect the Jaafari government to fall over it. Talabani said that the difficulties lay with Jaafari's personsal style and that of his party, the Dawa Islamic Party, and that there was no institutional rift between the Kurdistan Alliance and the Iraq. government. But Talabani used such harsh language that it is difficult to imagine the two men ever working together again. He called Jaafari a law-breaker.


http://www.juancole.com/

[marmar]

4. And just wait until...

Basra blows up into a bigger mess than they can hide from the media anymore...

:yoiks:

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5. May be right around the corner.