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Iraq-Jordan
Vegetable cart booms in Mahmoudiya
2005-07-03
A bomb exploded on Saturday in a vegetable cart in a market in Mahmoudiya, a religiously mixed town about 20km south of Baghdad, killing two people and injuring 10 others, hospital officials said. The blast occurred a few minutes after mourners passed by with the body of an aide to Shia Grand Ayat Allah Ali al-Sistani - Kamaleddin al-Ghuraifi - who was slain on Friday outside a Baghdad mosque. It was unknown whether the bomb was intended for the mourners, who were carrying the body through the town en route to burial in the Shia shrine city of Najaf.

"It is a calamity for the neighbourhood, for Baghdad, for Muslims and for Shia," al-Ghuraifi's weeping brother Abu Hussein said. "What was his guilt? He was an old man, 70 years old and paralysed. What did he do?" Al-Ghuraifi's murder was one of three attacks on prominent Shia targets within 24 hours.
Posted by:Fred

#8  Well let's drop this, then, and go back to the topic. I think the Shi'a behavior is actually rather bizarre, almost masochistic. Reading the Iraqi bloggers hasn't really explained it. Obeying Sistani or his type of authority isn't absolute by any means, just as with most people, they actually only obey when doing so suits them - or they fear too many are watching. You see it in the everyday behavior of Muzzies. They're "good" when it suits / serves... then quietly break half the rules at once when that serves individual interests. So standing there and taking it in all of these bombings, which have killed truckloads of Shi'a, and the assasinations of Mullahs, leading right up to Sistani's door, demands something more to explain it than mere calls for restraint, IMHO.
Posted by: .com   2005-07-03 16:56  

#7  I'm sorry that what I wrote annoyed you, .com. That was not my intention. I'll come back later when my brain is better oxygenated.
Posted by: trailing wife   2005-07-03 16:17  

#6  Huh? "Good morning to you too..."?

Look, you started this shit - and this post doesn't do dick to end it. It's a Dicky Turban response. If you don't have the stones to clarify and drive home your point, whatever it was, or apologize if you misspoke, then save it. I don't respect crap like this. Gee, I'm sorry about your blood loss. OJ and a cookie seems to be the thing at the blood banks.
Posted by: .com   2005-07-03 12:31  

#5  Good morning to you, too, .com. Bad night, I guess. The nurse drew 15 vials of blood Friday morning, and I seem to be suffering some after effects.
Posted by: trailing wife   2005-07-03 12:15  

#4  Really? The Shi'a, huh? Are you so sure?

And you think I don't understand the civil war thingy and Iranian attempts to play the Shi'a card, huh? Ol' Tater's an Iranian Shi'a proxy, wouldn't you say? I think I get it.

And with a 3:1 numerical advantage, it doesn't have to be endless.

And I though I made it clear I wasn't advocating, just observing. At the end there, I was just speaking for myself. And made it clear.

Hmmm. Not sure what to make of your apparent mini-'splosion there, tw. I guess, since it seems you're lecturing me on something I did not say, my response should be... Don't wag your digital digit at me, lol! I said precisely what I meant and meant precisely what I said. No more, no less.

K? Lol! :P
Posted by: .com   2005-07-03 11:46  

#3  The Shia want the whole country, .com, and they'll have it to split with the Kurds unless they allow Al Qaeda and the Baathists to goad them into what will become an endless civil war. Which will morph quickly into a proxy war between Shia Iran and the rest of the Arab world. I have no doubt the Americans din something similar into appropriate ears, likely on an hourly loop.
Posted by: trailing wife   2005-07-03 08:37  

#2  Vegan - right up your alley, M4D, lol! Hey, when you want a V-8, well, nothing else will do...

I must admit I'm morbidly fascinated that all the attempts to ignite a civil war have failed, thus far. Perhaps the Shi'a have just been down so long that they don't have it in their genes, anymore, I dunno. I'm not for it, but it is a remarkable social tell-tale, no? With or without "official" sanction, I'd be looking for like-minded people for targeted payback. Now if I was a "leading Shi'ite", I'd quietly form hit squads and start taking out tribal leaders and sheikhs all across al Anbar - not the Sunni "holy men", no no no, I'd go after the people who are actively supporting the killers and making it possible for them to operate. But then that's just me. Yeah, I know how some will take this. Tough shit.
Posted by: .com   2005-07-03 03:47  

#1  sumthin seeriusly rong wen we reech em f***** flyin carots of doom staje.
Posted by: muck4doo   2005-07-03 03:15  

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