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| Iraq Death Toll Spikes in January |
| 2013-02-02 |
| [An Nahar] January was Iraq's deadliest month since September, Agence La Belle France Presse data showed Friday, as cut-throats shattered a relative calm and the country grapples with a political crisis and anti-government rallies. The violence largely targeted security forces and officials, and struck Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish communities, mostly north and west of Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... Al-Qaeda's front group in Iraq has claimed much of the violence, including a suicide kaboom that killed a Sunni MP, and a string of attacks in mid-January. The bad turban group often carries out deadly attacks in order to destabilize the government and push Iraq back towards the sectarian war that blighted it from 2005 to 2008. A total of 246 people were killed last month, including 30 coppers and 18 soldiers, according to an AFP tally based on reports from security and medical officials. Two anti-Qaeda beturbanned goons known as Sahwa also died. Some 735 other people were also maimed in violence, among them 31 coppers, 26 soldiers, six members of the security forces of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region, and one Sahwa fighter. The corpse count was the highest since September, when 253 people died, and comes with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki mired in a political crisis that has pitted himself against many of his erstwhile government partners. Meanwhile, ...back at the Council of Boskone, Helmuth ordered the entire 614th quadrant searched. The Green Lensman must be found!... massive protests in Sunni-majority areas of Iraq's north and west have railed against alleged targeting of the community and, more recently, called for the premier to quit. Most of the victims last month were killed in two separate strings of violence -- 88 people were killed in the January 15-17 period, and 70 others for January 22-23. The month's deadliest single attack struck on January 23, when a jacket wallah made his way into a Shiite mosque and went kaboom!in the middle of a packed funeral, killing 42 people. A day earlier, a wave of attacks in and around Storied Baghdad and in northern Iraq killed 26 people and maimed dozens more. And on January 17, spate of bombings and shootings across the country left 29 people dead, in a third day of deadly violence that killed 88 people overall. Violence is down markedly from its peak in 2006 and 2007, but attacks remain common. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 Whens the the Eid thingy? They always spike unexpectedly then. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2013-02-02 15:43 |
| #3 "Were you correct when you said the surge in Iraq would be an unmitigated disaster? Please senator, just answer yes or no". |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2013-02-02 06:37 |
| #2 Iff the Bammer isn't careful he could end up wid a BIGGER "SYRIA CRISIS" IN AFRICA. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2013-02-02 00:44 |
| #1 Wouldn't have anythingy to do wid TOPIX > AL-QAEDA IN IRAQ CALLS ON SUNNIS TO TAKE UP ARMS??? Just askin'. OR ... * DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > US LIMITED IN FIGHT AGZ NORTH AFRICA MILITANTS. Unreliable INTEL + even fewer unreliable State partners, even amongst those whom hate the Hard Boyz. Also a "Mehhh/Who cares" poor attitude ingeneral among many of the US Pols on Capitol Hill. I suspect the Hard Boyz will have to forcibly violently takeover a few more African countries + threaten the Suez Canal + South AFrica before these attitudes change. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2013-02-02 00:43 |