Bombs hit Baghdad Shiite areas; 45 dead

[bemildred]

Source: Yahoo/AP

BAGHDAD - Cars, minibuses and roadside bombs exploded in Shiite Muslim enclaves across the city Sunday, killing at least 45 people in sectarian violence that defied the Baghdad security crackdown, while a radical anti-U.S. cleric raised a new threat to Iraq's government.

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And in a rare gesture of dissent from America's partners in Baghdad, dozens of Iraqi policemen demonstrated in front of their station, accusing U.S. troops of treating them like "animals" and "slaves."

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Six powerful bombs, gunfire and artillery blasts enveloped Baghdad in a near-constant din that seemed a setback for the 9-week-old U.S.-Iraqi military campaign to pacify the capital.

U.S. commanders previously cited a slight decrease in violence since the crackdown began Feb. 14, but urged patience for what they warned would be a long, tough fight.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070415/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. And it keeps on getting worse and worse.........

[habitual]

2. I remember when they were selling the surge

we were told that we'd be able to see the results in 2-3 months... now of course they are saying wait for the summer to see if it is working, cuz 2 months on now, it clearly is not. Why is the press not holding them to the original 2-3 month timetable?????

[The_Casual_Observer]

3. success is always a few months away & it's been that way for years.

[durtee librul]

5. What press?

If we HAD a press, maybe they would.

[tabasco]

4. Must be a misprint. McCain said it was safe there.

I know a good man like McCain wouldn't tell a lie.

[TheCowsCameHome]

8. Wrong. He said there was a SALE there. (Great deals on rugs, remember?)

Nothing like screwing a struggling rug merchant while you're surrounded by half an army.

[xchrom]

6. land -o-mercy -- looks like them A-rabs got themselves a surge too.

[Jacobin]

7. Surge, meet seawall

[maddezmom]

9. 36 bodies found

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/KAM628011.htm

[Heidi]

10. Kick.

:kick:

[Jcrowley]

11. 45 dead as bombs rock Iraqi capital

Source: The Canberra Times

The Canberra Times
17 April 2007
45 dead as bombs rock Iraqi capital
Hamid Ahmed

Six bombs exploded in predominantly Shi'ite sections of the Iraqi capital yesterday, killing at least 45 people in a renewal of sectarian carnage that set back the US push to pacify Baghdad.

And in another day of bloodshed:

US forces killed three Iraqi police officers in a case of friendly fire during a raid near Ramadi.

An American soldier was killed trying to reach an Iraqi police unit under attack near a mosque in southern Baghdad, the military said.

Two British servicemen were killed and another injured yesterday after the helicopters they were travelling in crashed north of Baghdad during a special forces mission.

In the holy Shi'ite city of Karbala, health officials raised the toll from a bombing on Sunday close to one of the sect's most sacred shrines, saying 47 people were killed and 224 wounded.


Read more: http://canberra.yourguide.com.au/detail.asp?class=international%20news&subclass=general&story_id=575985&category=General

[Monkeyman]

12. Dam Your Full of Good News Are You Not. SHIT

[napi21]

13. Is that surge still working????? I'll have to ask Shrub & McCain!

Hell, maybe I'll even check with Unka Dick!

[uppityperson]

14. k&r and my condolences for all the dead, their families, friends.

[Erika]

15. Let us light a candle for the 47 dead and 224 wounded

at www.icasualties.org

[The_Casual_Observer]

16. "a renewal of sectarian carnage" What happened to all that

bush inspired optimism??