Enraged Sunnis Blame Al-Qaida

[ECH1969]

The residents of Ramadi had had enough. As they frantically searched the city's hospital for relatives killed and wounded in bomb blasts at a police recruiting station Thursday, they did something they had never publicly done: They blamed al-Qaida in Iraq, the insurgent movement led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

"Neither the Americans nor the Shiites have any benefit in doing this. It is Zarqawi," said Khalid Saadi, 42, who came to the hospital looking for his brother, Muhammed. Saadi said he hoped that sympathies in the city, considered a hotbed of support for the Sunni Arab insurgency, would turn against al-Zarqawi's faction.

Saadi later learned that his brother was one of at least 130 people killed in attacks Thursday in Iraq, most occurring within an hour's time. The violence, which included a suicide bombing in Karbala, contributed to one of the bloodiest days since the U.S.-led invasion of the country in 2003.

At least 56 Sunni Arabs were killed and 60 wounded at the recruiting center in Ramadi, the capital of the Sunni-dominated province of Anbar, when a bomber standing among some 1,000 police recruits struck near the Ramadi Glass and Ceramics Works, said Mohammed al-Ani, a doctor at the city's hospital.

http://www.courant.com/news/nationworld/hc-iraq0106.artjan06,0,4487705.story?coll=hc-headlines-nationworld

[HuffleClaw]

1. erm, isn't it kind of customary

to attack those who are seen as collaberating with the occupying force?

[oneoftheboys]

4. I thought that was supposed to be the Kurds.

Collaborating, that is.

[enigma000]

6. But at this point most the the adult population qualify as collaborators

Over 10 million Iraqis voted in last month's elections so that makes them collaborators. Shiites are seen, by some resistance groups, as apostates and hence, must die. Most Sunni Arabs don't actively support the insurgency either, so I imagine killing them is acceptable was well.

[hadrons]

2. this reads like BS ....

seems like they interviewed a couple of people and turned it into "enraged Sunnis"

Also, check this out:

"The surviving police recruits showed where their sympathies lay - after the bombing, they got back in line to continue the screening process, the U.S. military said."

Spin, spin, spin

[leftchick]

3. they haven't interviewed anyone blaming the Americans and Brits?

interesting since they are the ones to blame. This is horse shit.

[enigma000]

5. I suspect the bomber wasn't American

so they wouldn't be directly to blame. They might not like Americans, but the certainly would hate the bomber and his associates much more.

[leftchick]

7. what about those brits dressed as Arabs with explosives?

The UK busted them out of jail so fast the story died. I have no doubt that episode is on the mind of Iraqis every time a bomb goes off.

[enigma000]

8. That's a lot of commitment for a brit

What's the compensation for undertaking a suicide bombing? Are all these bombings by Anglo-American special forces?

[leftchick]

10. who says it has to be a "suicide" bombing?

The US Military??

[KansDem]

9. I thought the same thing: how do we know they weren't Brits?

Or Americans, for that matter? Or Americans disguised as Brits disguised as Arabs with a car full of arms and explosives?

Who benefits from continued chaos in Iraq?

We just can't be sure anymore...

[ECH1969]

11. The Sunnis beat the hell out of a doctor who tried to blame the US

for the suicide bombing.
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Another group of people beat a doctor in the hospital after he told an Iraqi journalist that U.S. forces were to blame for the attacks.

http://www.courant.com/news/nationworld/hc-iraq0106.artjan06,0,4487705.story?coll=hc-headlines-nationworld