Huge bombing in Mosul Targets Governor;
Awakening meeting 50 Miles from Baghdad Hit
Big bombs in Mosul and in Karma, al-Anbar.
Questions are being raised about whether the Iraqi army can hold Mosul.
DPA reports that two major bombings in Sunni Arab areas of Iraq on Thursday killed over 40 persons and left over 70 wounded.
Al-Hayat reports in Arabic that the Sunni Arab guerrilla movement against the US and the Iraqi government has regrouped and reorganized, and is effectively lashing out again. Al-Hayat calls the guerrillas 'al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia,' but we don't in fact know who exactly carried out the massive bombings of Thursday and the days before that. In Mosul, it could be remnants of the Baath Party or Sunni Arab nationalists who are ex-Baathists.
The bombing in Karma was carried out by a man dressed in a police uniform, and it killed more than 20 persons. Among them were the head of the Karma tribal council. Three policemen were killed. About 20 persons were wounded.
More on the goings-on in Iraq on Thursday:
Antiwar.com says that over 70 were killed and over 117 were wounded.
At Informed Comment: Global Affairs, see Howard Eissenstat's essay on the building crisis between secularists and political Islam lite in Turkey.
Labels: Iraq
posted by Juan Cole @ 6/27/2008 01:15:00 AM
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I met a veteran of the Vietnam war at our regular meeting of local democrats in our county, who is running for a county council seat ( not mine ).
His son is back from Iraq, and I asked him how the surge was working.
He snorted in a dismissive way, and told me all it did was move all the trouble up to Mosul, where he served.
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Baghdad's 20 foot tall american installed barriers keep peace but feel like prison
will the usa ever remove these freedom loving barriers ?
Anonymous: "will the usa ever remove these freedom loving barriers ?"
Heck NO! If they don't keep putting them up the Iraqi economy would collapse!
Reconstruction in Baghdad: blast walls
Bulk of funds allocated to Iraq reconstruction go towards providing security measures such as blast walls.
"Yassir Jaddu, whose private company is now working on contracts handed out by the US authorities in Iraq, said many contractors had been forced to switch from civil to military contracts because of the precarious security situation. The bulk of funds allocated to reconstruction, he added, was going towards providing security measures such as blast walls.
“If we measure the money spent on building blast walls you will find that it is more than that spent on fuel, electricity and other services. “One of our small contracts was to build a wall around a police station in Baghdad. We needed 2,500 concrete pieces. Just imagine how costly that was,” he said. “Now banks, the courts and even the markets are surrounded by walls, not to speak of military camps and police stations. About 99 percent of Iraq’s budget is going towards building walls."
Middle East Online
(second sourced after the original AFP story vanished)
hallo,
i,m indonesian and i'm moslem. i don't agree with what just happened in iraq. but i'm sure that USA has a responsibility to all that blood and tears. i hope you visit my blog and comment my articles. thank you
US military has constructed four advanced bases 20 miles from Iraq's border with Iran
The bases, equipped with missile launch pads, have been set up over the past four months on the Iraq-Iran border
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