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| Scores killed in Iraq violence |
| 2004-09-13 |
| In a series of tightly sequenced attacks, at least 25 Iraqis were killed by suicide car bombings and a barrage of missile and mortar fire in several neighborhoods across Baghdad on Sunday. The attacks were the most widespread in months, seeming to demonstrate the growing power of the insurgency and heightening the sense of uncertainty and chaos in the capital at a time when American forces have already ceded control to insurgents in a number of cities outside of Baghdad. The Associated Press reported that the total death toll throughout the country for the day reached 59, citing the Health Ministry and local authorities. Nearly 200 people were wounded, more than half of those in Baghdad. Four suicide car bombings struck targets in Baghdad and Abu Ghraib, with two of them detonating nearly simultaneously and one hitting just outside the gates of the Abu Ghraib prison. In Baghdad, American military helicopters fired at Iraqis who were scaling a burning American armored vehicle. It was unclear how many Iraqis were killed in the airstrike: at least one television journalist was confirmed dead, and photographs immediately after the strike showed a group of four men severely wounded or dead at the site. American military commanders said the helicopters were returning fire aimed at them from the ground. American forces appear to be facing a guerrilla insurgency that is more sophisticated and more widespread than ever before. Last month, attacks on American forces reached their highest level since the war began, an average of 87 per day. In a Sunday appearance on the NBC News program "Meet The Press," Secretary of State Colin L. Powell acknowledged that the United States faced a "difficult time" in Iraq but had a plan to "bring it under control" before nationwide elections scheduled for January. "It's not an impossible task," he said. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #7 NYT, eh? It figures. The sky is falling, the sky is falling,...! |
| Posted by: Highlander 2004-09-13 10:44:29 AM |
| #6 I don't know anything about this particular reporter -so I'm not talking about him directly. But I do think it's time that we start considering some specific reporters as ememy combatants. The pen isn't really more mighty when it actually comes up against a sword. |
| Posted by: B 2004-09-13 10:16:02 AM |
| #5 Al Arabiya showed compelling images that followed the journalist, Mazen al-Tumeizi, as he stumbled away from the scene of the airstrikes, yelling, "I’m dying, I’m dying!" Shouldn't the guy have said, "Virgins, here I come?" Whatever happened to loving death as Americans love life? |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2004-09-13 10:09:27 AM |
| #4 Al Arabiya showed compelling images that followed the journalist, Mazen al-Tumeizi, as he stumbled away from the scene of the airstrikes, yelling, "I’m dying, I’m dying!" More than 20 journalists have been killed here since the beginning of the American invasion. How you like your Big Story now? |
| Posted by: eLarson 2004-09-13 9:36:56 AM |
| #3 Shame, in Arabia, is simply embarrassment - it carries no connotation of being instructive, no requisite self-examination. It's not the same thing as what we know as shame. No Arab will hang its head in shame - it will seethe and seek revenge for being embarrassed. There's only one way to deal with them: hard with a steel fist. The lesson for those who survive the clash must be fear. Kill it if you can. Make it fear your very glance, if you let it live. Sooner or later we will "get it". It WILL learn that a hot stove burns, so you can condition these creatures to give up the end-zone dance - just make the penalty STEEP. And never let up. My $0.02. |
| Posted by: .com 2004-09-13 9:01:13 AM |
| #2 Yup, stay away from burning American armour in future. The process of natural selection continues apace in Iraq. |
| Posted by: Howard UK 2004-09-13 8:32:38 AM |
| #1 There were no innocent people killed. Stupid? yes. Innocent? no. Innocent people would not put themseleves, or their children in such a dangerous situation. Innocent people would hang their head in shame, behind closed doors. The guilty, the guilty by association, and the stupid learned a very hard lesson....PISS ON THE US AND YOU TAKE YOUR LIFE IN YOUR OWN HANDS. CAVEAT EMPTOR, A**HOLES |
| Posted by: anymouse 2004-09-13 1:18:08 AM |