Carnage and rioting hit Karbala

[Pirate Smile]

Source: McClatchy

Carnage and rioting hit Karbala

By Hussam Ali and Leila Fadel
McClatchy Newspapers

KARBALA, Iraq - Two months into the U.S.-led Baghdad Security Plan, at least 289 people were killed and injured across Iraq on Saturday, including 36 dead in a car bomb attack in the holy Shiite city of Karbala. The carnage of a crowd teeming with women and children set off an angry mob of hundreds against the governor and police.

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Bodies littered the street and body parts were found as far as 160 yards from the site of the explosion. Three buses of passengers were charred and storefronts lay in shambles.

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As police and ambulances approached to carry away victims, angry residents shot at them, witnesses said. The police responded, firing bullets into the air to dissipate the angry crowd. As the bullets rained down, a child and elderly man were killed, witnesses said.
A man screamed, "They added new victims and don't care about our losses. It's enough."

Aqeel al-Khazaali, the governor of Karbala, blamed the Baghdad Security Plan for the attack inside the relatively safe southern city. Karbala is about 50 miles south of Baghdad.
"The Baghdad crackdown and the tribes in Ramadi are forcing the terrorists to leave their cities," he said. "Now Karbala is under fire from terrorists, and the central government has to take the necessary steps to help us to protect the holy city."


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[VegasWolf]

1. Didn't bush's little puppet, ex-Oil exec, Karzi just say everything was hunky-dory? nt

[Subdivisions]

2. An old man combed through the rubble searching for his wife.

"I can't find her," he cried. "I can't find her."

Were these people terrorists Mr. Bush?

[aquart]

6. We murdered them for their oil.

This is all on us. In the years Saddam had left, that man and his wife could have died of natural causes.

[reprobate]

9. Let me suggest that oil was only a minor reason for the war.

The main push for the war came from the military contractors. it was the same for Viet Nam.

The military-industrial-congressional complex must be fed. Once fed they'll digest for about twenty years and then we must have another was to let them gorge again.

And there's nothing we can do to stop it, short of another revolution.

Or maybe public financing of all elections so our representatives are answerable to US and not to the corporations that feed their campaigns.

[azurnoir]

3. We have to leave now

at one time I thought some troops should if only for humanitarian reasons but at this point the Iraqi people hate us to the point that they may not be willing to accept even that, can't say that I blame them either. Thing have gone from our troops being supposed liberators to our being simply invaders, in essence we are at war with the Iraqi people even though that is not supposed to be.

[bvar22]

8. The people of Iraq would have NEVER...

The people of Iraq would NEVER submit to occupation and Imperial governence by a White, Christian invader.
NEVER.
Those of us who study History knew this before the evil folly got started.

[stillcool]

4. Hmmmm....

Samia Aziz Ahmed, a Kurdish legislator, questioned the parliament's legitimacy.

"All these crimes and no results," she said. "How can we work to build a country when we have no idea what's happening and why?"

cause and effect

[uppityperson]

5. But this is all good.They now have the ability to speak freely, see?

If everything was quiet, that would be because they were afraid to riot and kill each other. Bringing DemoCracy, 1 nation at a time.

damn damn damn damn damn

[SpiralHawk]

7. "I call on all Americans to celebrate 'Mission Accomplished' Day." - Commander AWOL

"The 4th anniversary of my magnificent and unforgettable photo-op of "mission accomplished" is just around the corner.

"I know all Americans will all want to join me and my merry band of republicon cronies as we celebrate the 4th Annual "Mission Accomplished Day" by wearing codpieces as we count up our Massive Crony War Profits."

- Commander AWOL