U.S. Warplanes Bomb Rebel Target in Iraq

[maddezmom]

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A U.S. jet bombed a suspected insurgent target in central Iraq (news - web sites) on Tuesday, as gunmen assassinated an Iraqi nuclear scientist north of Baghdad and a pipeline fire cut oil exports to Turkey.



Elsewhere, five American soldiers and an Iraqi civilian were wounded when the Humvee they were traveling in was hit by a car bomb near Hawija, 150 miles north of Baghdad, the U.S. military said.


The bloodshed came a day after Iraq's interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi blamed the upsurge of violence on a campaign by insurgents to foment sectarian civil war as well as derail legislative elections set for Jan. 30.


Allawi said the mainly Sunni Muslim insurgents, blamed for Sunday's bombings in the Shiite holy cities of Najaf and Karbala, want to "create ethnic and religious tensions, problems and conflicts ... to destroy the unity of this country."


more: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=736&e=1&u=/ap/20041221/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

[MyDogSpot]

1. Still bombing Iraq

Most of America thinks this is "freeing" Iraq. Has there ever been a dumber country?

[maddezmom]

2. Iraqi northern oil pipeline hub ablaze after attack

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=1&u=/afp/20041221/wl_mideast_afp/iraqunrestoil_041221110116

[Nihil]

3. Masters of the bleeding obvious

> A U.S. jet bombed a suspected insurgent target in central Iraq

Like that doesn't happen every day?
Like it hasn't happened several times a week since 1991?
Like "central Iraq" is a clearly defined target area?
Like anything they hit is going to be declared anything other than a
"suspected insurgent target"?

Wonder what it was? Maybe another hospital? A school? A mosque?
A water purification plant?

There are no types of building in Iraq that haven't been bombed (AFAIK)
so just what is the point of a non-news release like this?

As for the "wounds" of the five American soldiers and the Iraqi
civilian ... handy how that term covers everything from a cut requiring
a band-aid to severed limbs, from bruising to massive internal injury.
Don't trouble your beautiful minds, you poor sheep of Amerika: the
media will screen you from the nasty truth and numb you with content-free
"news releases" so that there will be no reaction to any *real* news
that might trickle in from abroad.

All of you good people who read this on DU are getting slowly but
surely isolated from the brain-dead masses of your fellow countrymen.
I hope that you all take care when times become more troubled as the
ignorant can always be persuaded to victimise the knowledgeable.

Nihil