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2006-08-09 Iraq

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Posted by Fred 2006-08-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 killed at least 33 people Slow day, eh? I remember when 33 people in one blast was concidered routine. Are these not suicide bombers anymore? Is that why the death tolls per bomb are so low? Are there fewer willing 'martyrs'?

a make-or-break bid Ah, yes. This is the last chance, right? What, before the Labor Day holiday?

...security operation was launched Monday "to reduce the level of murders, kidnappings, assassinations, terrorism and sectarian violence in the city and to reinforce the Iraqi government's control of Baghdad." Formerly, it was the government that performed most of the sectarian killing, sort of Soviet-collective style.

Much of the violence has been blamed on sectarian militias that have stepped up a campaign of tit-for-tat killings since the Feb. 22 bombing of a Shiite shrine in Samarra So Zarko-boy is still having an effect, it seems. Except for the fewer numbers of really horrific bombings by splodydopes. Maybe there are older, Saddam-era scores to settle? Nah - too complex to get into all those.

...the violence, much of which is believed carried out by criminal gangs and freelance gunmen settling personal scores. So it's not about settling old scores? Does this suggest the war with the insurgents is over, or that the killings at this level will never end? I wish the MSM could stop teasing us this way and be clear!

Analysis by Bobby, but at least it's labeled as such.

Posted by Bobby 2006-08-09 06:19|| 2006-08-09 06:19|| Front Page Top

#2 And nobody is screwing with the Kurds, which is the non-reported news.

Posted by phil_b">phil_b 2006-08-09 09:19|| http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/]">[http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/] 2006-08-09 09:19|| Front Page Top

#3 Lovely, Bobby.

Analysis by Bobby Golly, you could patent that! ;-)

Posted by trailing wife 2006-08-09 14:59|| 2006-08-09 14:59|| Front Page Top

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