Suicide bombing kills at least 17 in Pakistan
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Islamabad - A suicide bombing at a mosque killed at least 17 people, including a pro-government religious scholar and former member of the national parliament, on Monday in Pakistan's tribal region near the Afghan border, a government official said.
The suicide bomber detonated his explosives at the main gate of the mosque in Wana, the main town of the South Waziristan district, when the former lawmaker Maulna Noor Mohammad was leaving.
An official at the office of the political agent, a term used locally to refer to a civil administrator in the district, said that 17 people were killed and 30 injured in the blast.
The official also confirmed the death of Mohammad, who had stayed neutral when thousands of troops launched an operation against Taliban led by Hakimullah Mehsud in South Waziristan in October.
Mohammad supported Islamic Jihad against international forces in Afghanistan but he was against the Taliban's attacks on civilians and officials inside Pakistan.
Islamic crimes against humainty - another day in paradise.
by Lit » Tue Aug 24, 2010 6:34 pm
Suicide bomber, gunmen attack hotel in Somalia, killing 32 people, including 6 members of parliament
BY Sean Alfano
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Tuesday, August 24th 2010, 8:31 AM
A nurse at Medina hospital treats a wounded civilian in Mogadishu, Somalia.
More than 30 people are dead, including six government officials, after a suicide bomber and gunmen dressed as soldiers attacked a hotel in Somalia's capital Monday.
The attacks follow fighting the previous night in Mogadishu, which left 40 people dead, and a threat by Al Shabab — a militant group aligned with Al Qaeda — of a “massive" war against African Union troops.
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BY Sean Alfano
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Tuesday, August 24th 2010, 8:31 AM
A nurse at Medina hospital treats a wounded civilian in Mogadishu, Somalia.
More than 30 people are dead, including six government officials, after a suicide bomber and gunmen dressed as soldiers attacked a hotel in Somalia's capital Monday.
The attacks follow fighting the previous night in Mogadishu, which left 40 people dead, and a threat by Al Shabab — a militant group aligned with Al Qaeda — of a “massive" war against African Union troops.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/2 ... z0xXeuroOe
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by Lit » Tue Aug 24, 2010 6:38 pm
Lit wrote:Suicide bomber, gunmen attack hotel in Somalia, killing 32 people, including 6 members of parliament
BY Sean Alfano
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Tuesday, August 24th 2010, 8:31 AM
A nurse at Medina hospital treats a wounded civilian in Mogadishu, Somalia.
More than 30 people are dead, including six government officials, after a suicide bomber and gunmen dressed as soldiers attacked a hotel in Somalia's capital Monday.
The attacks follow fighting the previous night in Mogadishu, which left 40 people dead, and a threat by Al Shabab — a militant group aligned with Al Qaeda — of a “massive" war against African Union troops.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/2 ... z0xXeuroOe
Mogadishu: Men are forced to grow beards. Women can't leave home without a male relative. Music, movies and watching sports on TV are banned. Limbs are chopped off as punishment, and executions by stoning have become a public spectacle.
Somalia is looking more and more like Afghanistan under the Taliban, two rugged countries 2,000 miles apart, each lacking a central government, each with a hard-line Islamist militia that cows the public into submission.
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Wave of Iraq suicide bombings target police
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A wave of Iraq suicide bombings and other attacks largely targeted the police on Wednesday, leaving at least 41 Iraqis dead in 7 different provinces. A poll shows that a majority of Iraqis say the US is withdrawing combat troops too soon.
By Jane Arraf, Correspondent / August 25, 2010
Baghdad
A string of suicide bombings across Iraq Wednesday targeted local security forces amid growing fears among many Iraqis that the US is withdrawing combat troops too soon.
In one of the deadliest attacks, a suicide car bomb detonated outside a police station near the provincial headquarters in Kut, about 100 miles south of Baghdad. Initial reports had at least 20 people killed and 85 wounded, according to police officials.
In Baghdad, a suicide truck bomb detonated in the parking lot of a police station in the northeastern Qahira neighborhood, killing at least 15 people and wounding 34. A separate car bomb killed two police and wounded seven civilians in the city center while two other policemen were shot dead in the Al Amal neighborhood in south Baghdad.
No group has yet taken responsibility but Prime Minister Nouri al-Malaki's office blamed the attacks on Al Qaeda and Baathists. The statement said the bombings would not derail the 'historic national achievement' of the troop withdrawal in line with Iraq achieving full national sovereignty.
The US military announced on Tuesday there were fewer than 50,000 troops left in Iraq following the departure of the last US combat brigade last week. The withdrawal is part of President Obama’s pledge to shift the Iraq effort from a combat to training and assistance mission on Sept. 1.
The US has not conducted unilateral combat operations since an Iraq-US security agreement took effect in June of last year, and is currently scheduled to withdraw all troops from the country by the end of 2011.
The White House on Tuesday characterized the drawdown to 50,000 troops as a “remarkable achievement” for the United States. But an Iraqi public opinion poll on Tuesday indicated that a majority of Iraqis want the US to stay. The Asharq research center poll found that almost 60 percent of Iraqis think the withdrawal is coming too soon, with 51 percent saying the withdrawal would harm the security situation; 26 percent said it would have a positive effect.
The US and Iraqi military have made significant inroads in dismantling the network of Al Qaeda in Iraq and other insurgent groups. US officials say they believe there are fewer than 200 hard-core Al Qaeda fighters left in Iraq. But they have not been able to halt regular, high-profile attacks against Iraqi security forces, particularly against police who are supposed to take over from the Iraqi Army in securing cities and towns.
More attacks
West of Baghdad, in Ramadi, three people, including two police officers, were killed and 16 wounded in two car bombs. One occurred at a police checkpoint. North of the capital, in the oil city of Kirkuk, attacks killed one and wounded 11 others. Another car bomb in Muqdadiya in Diyala Province killed three people and wounded 18, many of them police in one of at least five attacks in the province.
Car bombs in the southern cities of Karbala and Basra wounded more than 40 other people, according to security officials.
Attacks had been expected to spike during the holy month of Ramadan when Muslims believe God revealed the Koran to the prophet Mohammad. The violence is continuing as Iraq's leading political factions have failed to form a government almost six months after Iraqis went to the polls.
“We are facing a stagnant pond – there is nothing new but continuous meetings,” says Haider al-Mulla, a member of parliament and spokesman for the Al Iraqiya bloc. “The main obstacle remains choosing the prime minister.”
Political fractures
Prime Minister Maliki’s Shiite alliance, which forms the biggest coalition, appears to be in danger of fracturing over Maliki’s insistence that he lead any new government. As prime minister, he sent Iraqi Army troops into Basra and Sadr City to fight Muqtada Sadr’s Mahdi Army militia and he has alienated other former political allies by making major decisions without consulting them. The Sadrists are one of Maliki’s coalition partners.
Iraqiya is headed by one-time prime minister Ayad Allawi, a secular Shiite whose party has substantial Sunni support.
The Sadr bloc has indicated it could abandon Maliki’s coalition to align itself with the more secular Iraqiya coalition but al-Mulla described those talks as ‘vague’ and inconclusive.
Neither Maliki nor Allawi’s political blocs won enough seats in the election to form a majority in parliament.
“The outcome of the election is complicated because there was no clear winner,” says Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, who belongs to the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Massoud Barzani. “The Iraqi leadership is not accustomed to a culture of compromise.”
Laith Hammoudi and Mohammad Dulaimi contributed to this report.
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-E ... get-police
A wave of Iraq suicide bombings and other attacks largely targeted the police on Wednesday, leaving at least 41 Iraqis dead in 7 different provinces. A poll shows that a majority of Iraqis say the US is withdrawing combat troops too soon.
By Jane Arraf, Correspondent / August 25, 2010
Baghdad
A string of suicide bombings across Iraq Wednesday targeted local security forces amid growing fears among many Iraqis that the US is withdrawing combat troops too soon.
In one of the deadliest attacks, a suicide car bomb detonated outside a police station near the provincial headquarters in Kut, about 100 miles south of Baghdad. Initial reports had at least 20 people killed and 85 wounded, according to police officials.
In Baghdad, a suicide truck bomb detonated in the parking lot of a police station in the northeastern Qahira neighborhood, killing at least 15 people and wounding 34. A separate car bomb killed two police and wounded seven civilians in the city center while two other policemen were shot dead in the Al Amal neighborhood in south Baghdad.
No group has yet taken responsibility but Prime Minister Nouri al-Malaki's office blamed the attacks on Al Qaeda and Baathists. The statement said the bombings would not derail the 'historic national achievement' of the troop withdrawal in line with Iraq achieving full national sovereignty.
The US military announced on Tuesday there were fewer than 50,000 troops left in Iraq following the departure of the last US combat brigade last week. The withdrawal is part of President Obama’s pledge to shift the Iraq effort from a combat to training and assistance mission on Sept. 1.
The US has not conducted unilateral combat operations since an Iraq-US security agreement took effect in June of last year, and is currently scheduled to withdraw all troops from the country by the end of 2011.
The White House on Tuesday characterized the drawdown to 50,000 troops as a “remarkable achievement” for the United States. But an Iraqi public opinion poll on Tuesday indicated that a majority of Iraqis want the US to stay. The Asharq research center poll found that almost 60 percent of Iraqis think the withdrawal is coming too soon, with 51 percent saying the withdrawal would harm the security situation; 26 percent said it would have a positive effect.
The US and Iraqi military have made significant inroads in dismantling the network of Al Qaeda in Iraq and other insurgent groups. US officials say they believe there are fewer than 200 hard-core Al Qaeda fighters left in Iraq. But they have not been able to halt regular, high-profile attacks against Iraqi security forces, particularly against police who are supposed to take over from the Iraqi Army in securing cities and towns.
More attacks
West of Baghdad, in Ramadi, three people, including two police officers, were killed and 16 wounded in two car bombs. One occurred at a police checkpoint. North of the capital, in the oil city of Kirkuk, attacks killed one and wounded 11 others. Another car bomb in Muqdadiya in Diyala Province killed three people and wounded 18, many of them police in one of at least five attacks in the province.
Car bombs in the southern cities of Karbala and Basra wounded more than 40 other people, according to security officials.
Attacks had been expected to spike during the holy month of Ramadan when Muslims believe God revealed the Koran to the prophet Mohammad. The violence is continuing as Iraq's leading political factions have failed to form a government almost six months after Iraqis went to the polls.
“We are facing a stagnant pond – there is nothing new but continuous meetings,” says Haider al-Mulla, a member of parliament and spokesman for the Al Iraqiya bloc. “The main obstacle remains choosing the prime minister.”
Political fractures
Prime Minister Maliki’s Shiite alliance, which forms the biggest coalition, appears to be in danger of fracturing over Maliki’s insistence that he lead any new government. As prime minister, he sent Iraqi Army troops into Basra and Sadr City to fight Muqtada Sadr’s Mahdi Army militia and he has alienated other former political allies by making major decisions without consulting them. The Sadrists are one of Maliki’s coalition partners.
Iraqiya is headed by one-time prime minister Ayad Allawi, a secular Shiite whose party has substantial Sunni support.
The Sadr bloc has indicated it could abandon Maliki’s coalition to align itself with the more secular Iraqiya coalition but al-Mulla described those talks as ‘vague’ and inconclusive.
Neither Maliki nor Allawi’s political blocs won enough seats in the election to form a majority in parliament.
“The outcome of the election is complicated because there was no clear winner,” says Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, who belongs to the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Massoud Barzani. “The Iraqi leadership is not accustomed to a culture of compromise.”
Laith Hammoudi and Mohammad Dulaimi contributed to this report.
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by IMPOSTALIEDUS » Wed Aug 25, 2010 9:02 pm
This so called 50000 troop drawdown is bull,,,t, All the americans have done is move 50000 frontline troops into office jobs in iraq , there has been no withdrawn troops back to the us, and they are staying to make sure the americans stay in control
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by Lit » Wed Aug 25, 2010 9:20 pm
Forty-five killed in bomb blasts in seven Iraqi cities
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/au ... aqi-cities
Forty-five people in seven cities across Iraq have died when a series of bombs was detonated in what is being seen as an insurgent push to ramp up security fears in the last remaining days before the deadline for the end of the US combat mission.
Authorities said the attacks were co-ordinated and led by Sunni militant groups aligned to the al-Qaida worldview. They follow a spate of bombings throughout Iraq this month, bringing the monthly death toll towards 535.
If that figure is reached it would mark the first time that the number of people killed in Iraq has remained at such levels for consecutive months in close to two years.
The latest attacks come as the political deadlock that has paralysed decision-making in Iraq nears six months with little sign of a government emerging from painstaking negotiations.
The most deadly blast took place in Kut, south-east of Baghdad, where 16 people were killed. Large early morning explosions caused havoc in Baghdad, where 15 people were killed by a car bomb outside a police station. Police stations or patrols were widely targeted in other areas of the country, including the restive western cities of Ramadi and Fallujah, the central cities of Baquba and Maqdudiyah, Mosul to the north and Karbala and Basra in southern Iraq.
The US military has announced that its troop numbers in Iraq had dropped to 49,700, 300 below the prescribed threshhold enshrined by a security agreement between Washington and Baghdad. The deal paves the way for an overall American exit from Iraq by the end of 2011.
The US military faces mounting pleas from Iraqis to reconsider its exit. However, US commanders insist their job is done and that the US embassy in Baghdad's fortified green zone is now the focal point of bilateral relations. President Barack Obama is due to give a speech outlining the nature of bilateral ties when he returns from leave later this month.
US officials disputed the July death toll figure, regarded as a key measure of militant activity. The monthly tolls are usually compiled from ministry of health surveys of hospitals and morgues, and sometimes from media accounts. However, American officials have few means to verify the figures for themselves on a nationwide basis.
The last designated US combat unit left Iraq last week. Counter-terrorism troops and US forces who will take on an advisory role will stay in Iraq and be phased out by 2011.
Senior US officers concede it would be unlikely that remaining US troops would take an interventionist role from now on.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/au ... aqi-cities
Forty-five people in seven cities across Iraq have died when a series of bombs was detonated in what is being seen as an insurgent push to ramp up security fears in the last remaining days before the deadline for the end of the US combat mission.
Authorities said the attacks were co-ordinated and led by Sunni militant groups aligned to the al-Qaida worldview. They follow a spate of bombings throughout Iraq this month, bringing the monthly death toll towards 535.
If that figure is reached it would mark the first time that the number of people killed in Iraq has remained at such levels for consecutive months in close to two years.
The latest attacks come as the political deadlock that has paralysed decision-making in Iraq nears six months with little sign of a government emerging from painstaking negotiations.
The most deadly blast took place in Kut, south-east of Baghdad, where 16 people were killed. Large early morning explosions caused havoc in Baghdad, where 15 people were killed by a car bomb outside a police station. Police stations or patrols were widely targeted in other areas of the country, including the restive western cities of Ramadi and Fallujah, the central cities of Baquba and Maqdudiyah, Mosul to the north and Karbala and Basra in southern Iraq.
The US military has announced that its troop numbers in Iraq had dropped to 49,700, 300 below the prescribed threshhold enshrined by a security agreement between Washington and Baghdad. The deal paves the way for an overall American exit from Iraq by the end of 2011.
The US military faces mounting pleas from Iraqis to reconsider its exit. However, US commanders insist their job is done and that the US embassy in Baghdad's fortified green zone is now the focal point of bilateral relations. President Barack Obama is due to give a speech outlining the nature of bilateral ties when he returns from leave later this month.
US officials disputed the July death toll figure, regarded as a key measure of militant activity. The monthly tolls are usually compiled from ministry of health surveys of hospitals and morgues, and sometimes from media accounts. However, American officials have few means to verify the figures for themselves on a nationwide basis.
The last designated US combat unit left Iraq last week. Counter-terrorism troops and US forces who will take on an advisory role will stay in Iraq and be phased out by 2011.
Senior US officers concede it would be unlikely that remaining US troops would take an interventionist role from now on.
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by Schnauzer » Wed Aug 25, 2010 9:27 pm
IMPOSTALIEDUS wrote:This so called 50000 troop drawdown is bull,,,t, All the americans have done is move 50000 frontline troops into office jobs in iraq , there has been no withdrawn troops back to the us, and they are staying to make sure the americans stay in control
Actually, I think the whole scenario is a 'Face Saving' operation, it would come as no surprise to learn that the Americans have PAID to be allowed to withdraw with a modicum of military unity.
The fact IS, that they have created their own 'Nemisis' in Iraq and the only thing missing is the good strong 'Boot in the Arse' they so thoroughly deserve as they 'Withdraw'.
Fortunately, the majority of the troops are so high on drugs, they do not really comprehend the damage they have done to themselves (and the innocents of Iraq), which would explain how it was that some of the 'Addle brained Saps' were waving their arms in the air declaring "We,ve won, we brought democracy to Iraq", as they trundled through the ruins of the villages they were 'Allowed' to pass through unhindered.
Time alone will tell whether it is 'Withdrawal' or 'Retreat', the people of Iraq are not quite as stupid as their invaders. (IMHO)
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