Roadside bombs strike Iraq police convoy, kill 5

[WhiteTara]

Source: Yahoo

BAGHDAD - Three roadside bombs planted in succession struck a police convoy in one of Iraq's most dangerous provinces on Sunday, killing five policemen. In Baghdad, the leader of a Sunni group allied with the U.S. died when his booby-trapped car exploded.

The bombs planted along a main thoroughfare targeted a police convoy in Jalawla, 60 miles north of Baghdad, said Ibrahim Bajilan, head of the provincial council of Diyala.

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On Saturday night, a bomb killed the leader of a U.S.-backed, Sunni armed group in the al-Furat neighborhood of western Baghdad.

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In political developments, Iraq's parliament voted to lift the immunity of a Sunni Arab lawmaker who visited Israel to attend a counterterrorism conference this month. Mithal al-Alusi was also barred from traveling outside Iraq or attending parliamentary sessions.

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Also Sunday, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki formed a committee to investigate the killing of four employees of the Iraqi television network Al-Sharqiya as they filmed an episode on the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, which began two weeks ago.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080914/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

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This morning some "newscaster" stated that John McCain believes we can win in Afghanistan. Just passed on by Iraq like it never happened. And of course, it is still happening in a terrible way, every day. These are just brief excerpt from a fairly long report.

[angstlessk]

1. Iraq? where is that?? why should we care..we got us a moosekiller

for VP...let's get our priorities straight right fucking now!!!