Iraqis Urged to Take Up Arms for Defense

[Ghost in the Machine]

Iraqis Urged to Take Up Arms for Defense
Published: 7/9/07, 12:25 AM EDT
By ROBERT H. REID

BAGHDAD (AP) - Prominent Shiite and Sunni politicians called on Iraqi civilians to take up arms to defend themselves after a weekend of violence that claimed more than 220 lives, including 60 who died Sunday in a surge of bombings and shootings around Baghdad.

The calls reflect growing frustration with the inability of Iraqi security forces to prevent extremist attacks.

The weekend deaths included two American soldiers - one killed Sunday in a suicide bombing on the western outskirts of Baghdad and another who died in combat Saturday in Salahuddin province north of the capital, the U.S. command said. Three soldiers were wounded in the Sunday blast.

Sunday's deadliest attack occurred when a bomb struck a truckload of newly recruited Iraqi soldiers on the outskirts of Baghdad, killing 15 and wounding 20, a police official at the nearest police station said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release the information.

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[tularetom]

1. As the NRA might say "An armed populace is the best tool

a people can have in the prevention of crime".

Jeezus, the Iraqis are already armed to the fuckin teeth, what more do they want?

Doen't look like it's prevented a lot of crime either.