Insurgents Explode 8 Car Bombs in Baghdad

[maddezmom]

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Insurgents exploded eight car bombs in separate attacks in Baghdad early Sunday, wounding 11 people but causing no deaths, police said.


The bombs exploded within a span of several hours across the city. Police also found a ninth bomb and detonated it, but no one was hurt.

One of the bombs exploded in northern Baghdad as an Iraqi army patrol was passing, wounding two soldiers, police Lt. Bilal Ali Majid said.

The other wounded people were all civilians.

more:http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060101/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_car_bombs;_

[rzemanfl]

1. Didn't some government clown say a day or two ago that the

insurgency was "weakening?" Yeah, they are in their fricking death throes for sure.

[DoYouEverWonder]

2. Ah, make that 12

Insurgents Explode 12 Car Bombs in Iraq

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060101/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq;_ylt=A9FJqZEcw7dDmCQAEwSs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA2Z2szazkxBHNlYwN0bQ--

[maddezmom]

6. what a way to bring in the New year

:(

[Journeyman]

3. Thank goodness they're in their "final throes" . . .

(anyone know how long that lasts?)

[xchrom]

4. well, if you've got a bad diva singing the final aria

for juliet in romeo and juliet -- it can go on and on and on....

[wakeme2008]

5. Happy New Years --- George Bush

:grr:

[cal04]

7. Bomb blast sets Iraq oil pipeline ablaze

A bomb has exploded near one of Iraq's largest oil refineries and set fire to an oil pipeline, police said, in an attack that threatened to exacerbate the country's fuel crisis.

It was the second sabotage attack in the past few days on a pipeline feeding the Doura refinery in Baghdad, one of the three largest in the country.

It comes as Iraq grapples with a fuel crisis stemming from the closure of a major refinery in the north that has prompted panic buying of fuel and long queues at petrol stations.

The previous attack on the pipeline feeding the Doura refinery cut capacity at the plant down to 30 per cent, while the Baiji refinery in the north was shut on December 21 after insurgents threatened truck drivers transporting petrol along Iraq's perilous roads.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060101/wl_mideast_afp/iraqunrestoil_060101135010

[Rose Siding]

8. This "fuel crisis" is just nutty

The refinery was closed because of threats of attacks....which were a result of an outrageous price increase at the pump- 200-800% depending on the report.

What *stable* nation could effortlessly withstand an economic assault like that?

Apparently, the increase is to re-pay IMF loans....Wolfowitz, but I don't understand why.

[cal04]

10. It's getting worse by the day

I remember having to sit on long gas lines on odd or even days.


Security forces in Iraq shot dead four people protesting against a recent hike in fuel prices on Sunday, police said, after rioters set cars and petrol stations on fire near the northern oil city of Kirkuk. Iraq, which has the world's third biggest oil reserves, is grappling with its latest fuel crisis and price rises imposed by a deal with the International Monetary Fund; longer than usual queues have built up at petrol stations and many who voted in last month's peaceful election talk of disillusion.

In Baghdad, eight bombs exploded across the capital on New Year's morning, causing minor damage and only a handful of injuries; U.S. commanders have been congratulating themselves of late on disrupting deadlier suicide car bomb attacks. In Rahinawa, near Kirkuk, security forces opened fire on young men as they marched down a main street protesting a lack of basic amenities and the doubling and tripling of prices for vehicle fuel and household gas 13 days ago, police said.

At least four protesters were killed and two wounded, police Captain Salaam Zangana said. A curfew was imposed. Police said it was unclear whether U.S. or Iraqi forces fired. A spokesman for U.S. forces said U.S. troops wounded only one person in a car at a checkpoint and said there were no other gunshot casualties in the hospital. The protesters set fire to an office building belonging to Iraq's North Oil Company, a police colonel said. Four cars and two petrol stations were also set ablaze.

http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=6355556&cKey=1136136024000

[Jim__]

9. This looks like total chaos.

And yet, when I listen to the news media, I hear any number of "analysts" predict "further advances for democracy in Iraq" and/or "a large reduction in American forces as the Iraqis begin to stabilize their own country."

The American press is still largely repsonsible for the massive disinformation that is being spread to the American people.