You say a cicada blew himself up, all red-eyed at the prospect at meeting 72 larvae? How sad!
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| Iraq |
| Al-Qaeda claims Mosul bombing |
| 2006-03-28 |
| A militant coalition led by Al-Qaeda's Iraq branch claimed it was begin attack against an Iraqi army center Monday that killed at least 40 people and said the suicide bomber was a Saudi, according to an Internet statement. "A brother... from Mohammed's Peninsula (Saudi Arabia)... wearing an explosives belt plunged this morning into the crusaders' base northeast of Tal Afar and infiltrated among hundreds of recruits before blowing himself up," said the statement by the Mujahedeen Consultative Council. "The blessed operation left hundreds killed or wounded," according to the statement, whose authenticity could not be verified. At least 40 people were killed and 20 wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowd of people waiting at an army recruitment center near Tal Afar. The Mujahedeen Consultative Council, established in January, groups seven Sunni Muslim armed factions and is dominated by Al-Qaeda's Iraqi branch led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Saudi Arabia itself has been battling Al-Qaeda militants, and an undetermined number of Saudis are among Arab fighters taking part in the insurgency against US-led and local government forces in Iraq. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #4 You say a cicada blew himself up, all red-eyed at the prospect at meeting 72 larvae? How sad! |
| Posted by: BigEd 2006-03-28 19:11 |
| #3 Call me disjointed, but is there a contradiction in this?: "Saudi Arabia itself has been battling Al-Qaeda militants, and an undetermined number of Saudis are among Arab fighters taking part in the insurgency against US-led and local government forces in Iraq." Seems to me the way the Soddies have been "fighting" these |
| Posted by: Happy 88mm 2006-03-28 17:39 |
| #2 you really got to hand it to this new Iraqi Army though. When they get killed, it's always 20 at a time, 40 at a time. Numbers like that would have the average American citizen's panties in a knot. |
| Posted by: banned from rantburg 2006-03-28 13:07 |
| #1 Why do people say that when AQ blows up a bunch of people it makes the people fearful and cooperative, but when the US kills a bunch of AQ it makes the people angry and more likely to join the jihad? |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2006-03-28 07:14 |