Iraqi’s governed by the best!

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Feb 062007
 

Showng that Iraq truly does not judge people by their past mis-steps, Iraq has managed to have among it’s electorate, a known and wantet terrorist who, oddly enough, has been sentenced to death by a middle-eastern country, Kuwait.. You can’t make this kind of news up folks.. per CNN.
A man sentenced to death in Kuwait for the 1983 bombings of the U.S. and French embassies now sits in Iraq’s parliament as a member of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s ruling coalition, according to U.S. military intelligence.

Jamal Jafaar Mohammed’s seat in parliament gives him immunity from prosecution. Washington says he supports Shiite insurgents and acts as an Iranian agent in Iraq.

U.S. military intelligence in Iraq has approached al-Maliki’s government with the allegations against Jamal Jafaar Mohammed, whom it says assists Iranian special forces in Iraq as “a conduit for weapons and political influence.” Continue reading »

 Posted by Administrator at 1:33 am

Launch of the pacifiers.

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Feb 052007
 

If you have never paid attention to GW’s ability to pick the wrong words to use on any given occasion, pay attention to the wording being bandied around to describe the “Big Push” in Iraq. Apparently this new operation, by the new and improved Baghdad Operqational Command is designed to “Pacify” Baghdad and by extension, Iraq. COming on the heels of one of the bloddiest single weeks for the Iraqi’s with over 1000 dead in jst 7 days, we hope that this “Pacification” mission does something to stiop the flow of blood in what thankfully isn’t a Civil War… Hell, if it were actually a civi war can you imagine how many people would be dying daily over there?

After the jump, we’ll take a look at some of the non-civil-war-related violence over there in the last few hours… Continue reading »

 Posted by Administrator at 9:34 am

A gangbusters week for Iraq

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Feb 042007
 

The Iraqi Interior Ministry estimates that about 1,000 people have been killed throughout Iraq in the past week due to gunbattles, drive-by shootings and bomb attacks, a ministry official said Sunday.

The figure includes members of militia and terrorist groups, civilians and Iraqi security forces. The official said the data was gathered by Iraq’s Interior, Health and Defense ministries.

The grim estimate came just a day after a bloody bomb attack on a crowded market in central Baghdad that killed 128 people and wounded 343 others Saturday, according to a Health Ministry official. Continue reading »

 Posted by Administrator at 9:11 pm

If al-Sistani speaks and no one listens, does he make a sound?

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Feb 032007
 

Let’s get a few facts clear to start with. Grand Ayatollah al-Sistani was borin in Iran, to a family of Iranian religious scholars. His family still wields a crap-load of influence in Iran, He IS the leading Iran favoring individual in Iraq today, Hussein kept him under house arrest from ’94 until the U.S. invasion because of those Iranian ties, the same Iran, case you forgot, that Bush wants to make sure does not control Iraq.. Now in Bush’s favor, al-Sistani’s call for peace have been just as ignored as everyone else’s plea’s. yet and still, since the American invasion of Iraq in 2003, Sistani has played an increasingly wider political role in Iraq, and the Western mainstream media has called him the “most influential” figure in post-invasion Iraq.

Sistani’s edicts and rulings have provided many Iraqi Shia religious backing for participating in the January 2005 elections — he urged, in a statement on October 1, 2004, that the people should realize that this was an “important matter” and he also hoped that the elections would be “free and fair . . . with the participation of all Iraqis”. He has consistently urged the Iraqi Shia not to respond in kind to attacks from Sunni Salafists, which have become common in Sunni-dominated regions of Iraq like the area known as the “Triangle of Death”, south of Baghdad.

As a excellent example of how al-Sistani would have the country go, here is his view on the playing of Chess.

Question: Is playing chess and black gammon, without betting, permissible?
Answer: It is not permissible to play both.

CNN article after the jump

Continue reading »

 Posted by Administrator at 11:29 am

Troop Surge greeted by Bomb Surge

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Feb 032007
 

I can’t even keep track of the number of bombs exploding in Iraq. you would think that eventually, the countryside would be such an amalgamation of craters that vehicles wouldn’t be able to travel on the roads anyway… It looks lieke there were at least 12 bombs Saturday, with at least 7 of those being car bombs, This of course was in addition to the regular gunmen riding around killing Iraqis, mostly police this time. Three more US troops gave their lives for Buss’s just cause, bring the US loss total to 3,086. Full CNN article after the jump

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 Posted by Administrator at 11:03 am

New report, Same as the Old Report.

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Feb 022007
 
Ever the posterchild for understatement, the latest official report on Iraq, “Prospects for Iraq’s Stability: A Challenging Road Ahead”, goes the long way about explaining the bloody obvious but clearly fails to support GW’s wished-for view of the war victory in Iraq. I has already been criticized for not taking into account the troop surge trickle planned for Iraq. Of course, the detractors somehow fail to mention that the report was well and on it’s way to final before Bush mentioned the surge dribble. The report is chock full of what we’ve been reporting here for forever now, such as our stated opinion that even in the best case, things are still likely to go bad…

If strengthened Iraqi Security Forces (ISF), more loyal to the government and supported by Coalition forces, are able to reduce levels of violence and establish more effective security for Iraq’s population, Iraqi leaders could have an opportunity to begin the process of political compromise necessary for longer term stability, political progress, and economic recovery.

  • Nevertheless, even if violence is diminished, given the current winner-take-all attitude and sectarian animosities infecting the political scene, Iraqi leaders will be hard pressed to achieve sustained political reconciliation in the time frame of this Estimate.

and…

  • Decades of subordination to Sunni political, social, made the Shia deeply insecure about their hold on power. Shia to mistrust US efforts to reconcile Iraqi sects and to engage with the Sunnis on a variety of issues, including Iraq’s federal system, reining in Shia militias, and easing

  • Many Sunni Arabs remain unwilling to accept their central government is illegitimate and incompetent,
    dominance will increase Iranian influence over Iraq, Arab character and increase Sunni repression.

  • The absence of unifying leaders among the Arab Sunni speak for or exert control over their confessional groups reconciliation. The Kurds remain willing to participate reluctant to surrender any of the gains in autonomy

  • The Kurds are moving systematically to increase their annexation of all or most of the city and province into Government (KRG) after the constitutionally mandated occur no later than 31 December 2007. Arab groups violently what they see as Kurdish encroachment.

In OTHER words, if we stay, we’re screwed, if we leave, they’re screwed. It’s just a matter of how long we want to keep losing American lives, eventually we’ll have to leave and when we do, it’ll all go to crap anyway. There’s no way to fix a conflict that’s been around over 5 times longer than the U.S… The entire report (the remaining six pages after the standard White House redactions that is) after the fold.
 Posted by Administrator at 8:59 pm
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