Today in Iraq - News & Pics

[DoYouEverWonder]

While Popapalooza is wrapping up, here's some news from Iraq that the CCM doesn't seem to have time to pay attention to.


Hassan al-Zaidi is hugged by a family member following his release by kidnappers in Amara, Iraq. An Iraqi man who lived for nine years in Germany, where he obtained political asylum, said he had been freed after being abducted in Iraq in March and paraded on videotape by his captors.



Iraqis rally after Friday prayers in the Sadr City section of Baghdad, Iraq Friday, April 8, 2005. Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, who led uprisings against the U.S.-led coalition last year, called on his supporters to stage a mass protest at Firdos Square in Baghdad Saturday, where jubilant demonstrators pulled down a statue of Saddam Hussein two years earlier, marking the beginning of a U.S.-led occupation of the country. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)



An Iraqi man looks an oil tanker following an attack by unknown assailants near Kirkuk. Iraq's newly appointed prime minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari began the process of building a cabinet which he said must include efficient technocrats and nationalists with a 'clean history'.(AFP/Marwan Ibrahim)



Iraqi National Guard (ING) soldiers carry the coffin of an ING major who was assassinated in the southern Iraq city of Basra, April 8, 2005. The officer was eating dinner in a restaurant late April 7 when he was shot dead by unidentified gunmen, witnesses said. REUTERS/Atef Hassan



An Iraqi Police officer, at right, looks over the scene of an overnight attack on a rest area used by Turkish truck drivers in Kirkuk, Iraq Friday, April 8, 2005. One driver was killed, six were injured, and several oil tankers were set ablaze.



Iraqis gather around the Shrine of Imam Ali in Najaf, Iraq Thursday, April 7, 2005. Thousands of Shiites gathered in Najaf Thursday in remembrance of the death of the Prophet Muhammad.

[inflection]

1. God have mercy on that country... it's been through so much

[Terran1212]

5. I second inflection's comments

[leftchick]

2. LBN thread on al-Sadr's military...

they are patiently gearing up for the next battle....


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1380642#1380773


fuck the US Cartoon Media for ignoring OUR War!

[DoYouEverWonder]

3. But some twit retired General

was on last night assuring everyone that the resistance was falling apart and desperate. That's why they are launching bigger and more organized attacks. Yeah, right.

[leftchick]

4. I notice most of those retired generals....

(The ones that get on the cartoon news networks) are still in denial just like 35 years ago in a SE Asian country. :grr:

[leftchick]

6. Another link... 4 kids dead digging in garbage in Baghdad....

Four Children Killed in Baghdad Explosion


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36431-20...

~snip~

BAGHDAD -- Four children collecting trash were killed Friday by a homemade bomb in Baghdad, and masked gunmen killed an Iraqi Army officer in a restaurant in the southern city of Basra, police said.

The children died in the New Baghdad neighborhood in the southeast section of the city, police Capt. Sabah Hamid Al-Fartosi said. Insurgents frequently use hidden roadside bombs against U.S. and Iraqi Army convoys.


In the attack in Basra, three masked gunmen killed an Iraqi Army officer -- Maj. Mahmoud Hassan Yassiri -- late Thursday, Capt. Firas Timimi of the Iraqi Army said.

A U.S. Marine was killed Wednesday in a vehicle accident during combat operations in Fallujah, 40 miles west of Baghdad, the military said Friday in a statement.

... it just keeps getting better!

[leftchick]

7. The Horror....