Bombers kill 16, Iraq parlt hears of civil war

[sabra]

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IBO125561.htm

Bombers kill 16, Iraq parlt hears of civil war


BAGHDAD, July 11 (Reuters) - Suicide bombers struck outside Baghdad's fortified Green Zone on Tuesday, killing 16 people, close to where parliament met in heated session to hear at least one lawmaker warn that civil war was close at hand.

Since parliament last met last week, dozens have been killed in the capital in bombings and some of the worst attacks yet seen by sectarian gunmen; militants in a Sunni area ambushed a bus full of Shi'ite mourners, killing 10 of them on Tuesday.

Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, a Shi'ite leading a U.S.- backed national unity coalition, condemned an "awful crime" by terrorists "trying to incite sectarian strife".

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Addressing a heated session on a day in which at least 30 other people were killed around Baghdad and an Iraqi diplomat was kidnapped, Ali al-Adib, from the prime minister's Dawa party said: "The country is sliding fast towards civil war."

[Norquist Nemesis]

1. They've been "sliding fast towards a civil war" for quite some time

Sometime around mid-November, the Bush etals will admit to it.

[iconoclastic cat]

2. ...and that cow flying past you said a storm was a-brewin'. nt

[Frustratedlady]

3. They'd better hurry Saddam's trial up, or the "improbable" will become

the probable. In fact, there would probably be several groups that would like to free him...for and against. Anyone thinking of THAT possibility?

[Sanity Claws]

4. Civil war? Who could have imagined that?

That'll be the * Administration's reaction