Family of 3 Stabbed to Death in Baghdad

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Source: The Huffington Post

BAGHDAD — A former city official was stabbed to death along with his wife and daughter in their home in a predominantly Shiite neighborhood in northeastern Baghdad, officials said Sunday. Elsewhere in the capital, two American soldiers were killed in separate bombings, the military said Sunday.

The knife-wielding attackers stormed the two-story house late Saturday, killing Ahmed Jwad Hashim, his wife and their daughter, and leaving a visiting nephew seriously wounded, according to police and hospital officials.

Neighbors gathered outside the white clapboard doors and trim bushes surrounding the house told AP Television News that Hashim, a Shiite engineer from Karbala, was director-general of the Baghdad municipality office until he retired about four months ago.

The slaughter occurred in Talbiyah, a middle-class neighborhood on the fringes of the Shiite militia stronghold of Sadr City. More details could not immediately be obtained.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/01/27/family-of-3-stabbed-to-de_n_83440.html

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Iraqi Prime Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki gestures as he announces during a press conference in Karbala, 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Jan. 25, 2008 that the government was sending troops to Mosul, Iraq's third-largest city, to fight the insurgents who have taken refuge there following operations in Baghdad and surrounding areas. Al-Maliki announced Friday that the government was launching a major offensive against al-Qaida in the northern city of Mosul after two days of deadly bombings that killed nearly 40 people. He promised the fight "will be decisive." (AP Photo/Ahmed al-Husseini)

[acmavm]

1. Americans are still dying? You could have fooled me. The MSM isn't

making much of a point of that fact, are they?

[Amerigo Vespucci]

2. The "Montel Williams on Fox" video clip

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=385&topic_id=88063&mesg_id=88063

You might have seen this already. Montel points out the balance between Fox's reporting on Iraq versus reporting on Heath Ledger.

:patriot: