Widespread Violence Kills Dozens Across Iraq (NYT)

[Up2Late]

(Yeah, progress is being made, but in the wrong direction.)

Widespread Violence Kills Dozens Across Iraq

By EDWARD WONG
Published: November 20, 2005

BAGHDAD, Iraq, Nov. 20 - The Marine Corps said today that 15 Iraqi civilians and a United States marine were killed on Saturday when a roadside bomb exploded in the town of Haditha, 140 miles northwest of Baghdad. At least 11 other Iraqis were killed or discovered dead today in various incidents, and military officials reported the deaths of two more Americans and a British soldier.

The deaths capped one of the deadliest three-day periods since the American invasion. In all, at least 155 Iraqis and 7 foreign soldiers have been killed in a spate of bombings and assaults that began Friday morning, when jihadists tried using two trucks packed with explosives to demolish a Baghdad hotel full of Western journalists.

That attack was followed by a pair of suicide bombings in two mosques in the northern Kurdish town of Khanaqin that left at least 80 dead and more than 100 wounded.

It is unclear what exactly provoked this series of attacks, but several factors could be stirring the anger of the Sunni-led insurgency. Last week, the American military announced that soldiers had discovered 169 malnourished, mostly Sunni Arab detainees in a secret police prison in Baghdad run by the Shiite-led Interior Ministry. The interior minister, Bayan Jabr, tried to play down the discovery, but admitted that seven of the detainees had been tortured.

<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/20/international/middleeast/20cnd-iraq.html?ex=1290142800&en=59a3d0a955a09cac&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss>
(more at link above)

[Skittles]

1. IRAQ WILL DESCEND INTO CHAOS IF WE LEAVE!!!!

I.............ER....................:o

[Submariner]

2. This must be part of that "Last Throes" thingy Crashcart mentioned

about a month ago. What vision....what foresight....what an asshole..

[NanceGreggs]

3. Didn't know Cheney had decided to run in '08 ...

... apparently he has. I see you're writing campaign slogans for him already:

"What vision....what foresight....what an asshole."


:rofl: