Three bombs hit Baghdad, at least 10 dead (Tuesday)

[maddezmom]

BAGHDAD, Feb 28 (Reuters) - Three bombs hit Baghdad on Tuesday, and police said one of them killed at least 10 people.

The bombs exploded as former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was expected to return to court for the resumption of his trial.

Earlier, bombs exploded at the shrine Saddam built over his father's grave in his hometown of Tikrit north of Baghdad, police and local officials said.
`snip~
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L28714174.htm

[libodem]

1. I wonder if they know the chance for civil war is past?

someone posted a news article saying some Iraq leaders said they spoke to some factions and they agreed to stop bombing each other and that has deflected civil war. I think they are using some of that Iraq propaganda right here at home. We are lied to right and left.

[maddezmom]

3. here is a WP article dated today: Diplomacy Helped To Calm the Chaos

By Nelson Hernandez
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, February 28, 2006; Page A11

BAGHDAD, Feb. 27 -- In the days that followed the bombing of a sacred Shiite shrine, Iraq seemed within a hair's breadth of civil war. But an aggressive U.S. and Kurdish diplomatic campaign appears for now to have coaxed the country back from open conflict between Sunni Arabs and Shiites, according to Iraqi politicians and Western diplomats speaking in interviews on Monday.

"Localized difficulties also persist, but I think, at the strategic level, this crisis -- a mosque attack leading to civil war -- is over," Zalmay Khalilzad, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, said in a telephone interview. "It was a serious crisis. I believe that Iraq came to the brink and came back."


Khalilzad and others sounded upbeat on Monday, as authorities lifted a three-day ban on vehicle traffic and life in Baghdad returned to a state of uneasy normalcy after five days of bloodletting. The ambassador, another Western diplomat and Iraqi politicians described the behind-the-scenes political negotiations that helped stem the violence.

The crisis began Wednesday with the destruction of the golden-domed Askariya shrine in Samarra, one of the holiest sites in Shiite Islam. Although no one was killed in the bombing, the mosque is so important as a symbol that within hours the country appeared heading toward chaos. As Shiite and Sunni leaders called for peace by day, their followers waged war by night on one another and civilian bystanders in a campaign of raids, bombings, arson and assassinations. More than 1,300 Iraqis have been killed in the past five days, according to workers in the Baghdad morgue.

more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/27/AR2006022701420.html

[leftchick]

5. unfuckingbelievable

still putting lipstick on a pig. Still! :grr:

[PassingFair]

11. From what I've read, Al Sadr

..is the "peace keeper" such as it were.
What a world, what a world!

[malaise]

2. Freedom is on the march

Thanks W

[global1]

4. They Called Off The Civil War - But No One Listened......n/t

[leftchick]

6. 15 Dead and I am living in Bizarro world....

the verbal gymnastics these writers are going through to cover up the obvious...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060228/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Four explosions rocked the Iraqi capital of Baghdad on Tuesday, killing at least 15 people and prompting fears that sectarian violence was continuing following last week's bombing of a sacred Shiite shrine.


In northern Iraq, a blast badly damaged a Sunni mosque where the father of Saddam Hussein is buried. The deposed leader was due back in court as his trial was to resume in the 1982 killings of nearly 150 people in the town of Dujail.

In the Baghdad violence, a car bomb detonated near a Shiite mosque in the crowded southeastern Karada neighborhood, killing four people and injuring 16, said Interior Ministry official Maj. Falah al-Mohammedawi. The vehicle was parked opposite a mosque which was closed for repairs, police said.

Another car bomb targeting a police patrol in the eastern New Baghdad neighborhood killed eight people and injured 10 — all civilians, said police Col. Ahmed Aboud. A man wearing an explosives belt blew himself up at a gas station in the same neighborhood, killing three people and wounding four, said police Capt. Haidir Ibrahim.

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. Now "at least 36 people"

same story, updated a few minutes later. Also 2 British soldiers killed in the south - it's not just the Baghdad area, where Sunni and Shiite are quite mixed - that unrest continues.

[maddezmom]

9. just heard the same on CNN and over 80 wounded

:(

[Eugene]

8. Fourth blast - no details yet (AP)

15 Killed in Four Baghdad Explosions

Tuesday February 28, 2006 11:01 AM

AP Photo BAG112

By ALEXANDRA ZAVIS

Associated Press Writer

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Four explosions rocked the Iraqi capital of Baghdad on Tuesday, killing
at least 15 people and prompting fears that sectarian violence was continuing following last week's
bombing of a sacred Shiite shrine.

<snip>

The fourth blast took place in an open area near the downtown national theater, Mohammedawi said.
There were no immediate reports of casualties.

<snip>

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5652604,00.html

ON EDIT: Updated AP Article: 36 Killed in Four Explosions in Baghdad

[screembloodymurder]

10. This can't be. According to our local paper

we're not only winning the war, we're making friends and winning over the Iraqi people. Why do these communist,
liberal papers like Reuters print only negative news? They should be imprisoned with Hillary and the other librals. Support America or die.

[Lochloosa]

12. Explosions hit Baghdad, killing at least 41 (GRAPHIC)

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A suicide bomber detonated an explosives belt at a crowded gas station Tuesday — one of five attacks that rocked Baghdad in quick succession, killing at least 41 people and wounding scores, police said.

The surge of violence, including three car bombs, came as the Iraqi government denied a Washington Post report that more than 1,300 Iraqis were killed in recent violence. A statement from the prime minister’s office said 379 people had been killed and 458 wounded.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11491483/

But it's not a civil war...my ass

[mymomwasright]

13. NOT A CIVIL WAR

Just a bunch of "dead-enders". Isn't that what Uncle Donnie says? :evilgrin:

[Earth_First]

14. Go fu*k yourself, Mr. Cheney...

http://movies.crooksandliars.com/Cheney_090805.wmv

[qanda]

15. This thread needs a graphic warning

I certainly wasn't expecting to see that. It is heartbreaking.

[Lochloosa]

16. Done....sorry. Just thought there was a need for the visual impact

of this war.

[qanda]

17. Oh, I certainly understand

No need to apologize. I agree with you.

[superconnected]

18. He looks like Cheney got him.

Oh yeah, he did.

[theHandpuppet]

19. Sorry, I don't think that's funny

Cracking jokes over real human suffering isn't my cup of tea.

[superconnected]

20. It's not a joke. It's sickening.

Cheney's policys did get him.

Notice how someone who shoots a guy in a mini-mart gets life sentences and sometimes the death penalty but Cheney and Bush are killing thousands and compeletely getting away with murder.

I assure you I said a silent prayer for the man and the other victims.

And I also assure you, I believe Cheney and Bush are at fault for this. This is what their work looks like. I should have said Bushco got him. But since Cheney shoots people in the face and then blames them, he looked like the person to tag this immediate blood soaked violence on.

[gasperc]

21. I thought this was called Monday

I thought Tuesday was when two bombs, a suicide attack, three gunmen kill 18 or more civilians, I hate when I mix up the name of Iraq's day's of the week

in jest, but I take the horror in Iraq seriously