58 killed in Iraq as attacks rage on. US says violence is "confined"

[Bluebear]

I'm so relieved it is "confined". :sarcasm:

BAGHDAD -- The US military spokesman in Iraq asserted yesterday that major violence is largely confined to three of the country's 18 provinces, but fighting there raged on, with at least 58 people killed in execution-style slayings, bombings, and gunbattles.

For the third straight day, Sunni insurgents hit a major police and jail facility, this time with a suicide car bombing that killed 25 in central Baghdad. The attacker detonated his explosives at the entrance to the Interior Ministry Major Crimes unit in the Karradah district, killing 10 civilians and 15 policemen, authorities said.

As insurgent forces raised the stakes with the attacks, the US military announced late yesterday that it was in the second day of an operation with Iraqi soldiers ''to disrupt anti-Iraqi forces and to find and destroy terrorist caches in the Abu Ghraib area west of Baghdad."...

'There is not widespread violence across Iraq," Lynch said. ''There is not. Seventy-five percent of the attacks still take place in Baghdad, al-Anbar, or Salaheddin. And in the other 15 provinces, they all averaged less than six attacks a day, and 12 of those provinces averaged less than two attacks a day."

http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2006/03/24/58_killed_in_iraq_as_attacks_rage_on/

[bowens43]

1. It is confined ..... to Iraq ...at least for now.

[acmavm]

2. That kind of remark doesn't make the US Military brass look any

too bright (or honest). They should quit the lying. It's not like the people of the world can't figure this out for themselves.

I just don't understand the mentality of people who think the can tell whoppers like 'it's not a civil war', 'there is a lot of progress being made in Iraq', etc. Do they think they're the smartest people in the world and we're all just so stupid that we'll believe anything they say?

[Cooley Hurd]

3. George Custer: "nothing to fear - the Indians are confined..."

No wonder we're losing this war...:eyes:

[rfkrfk]

4. sorta like Houston, on a Friday .n/t

[leftchick]

5. Fox News: Bombs Kill DOZENS ACROSS IRAQ!

That was their original headline. It appears to have been scrubbed. When you click on the google page you get their new headline....

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=attacks+across+iraq

[maddezmom]

6. AP headlinel; U.S. Military Asserts Most of Iraq Peaceful

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In a rundown of recent military activity, Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch, the U.S. military spokesman, told reporters Thursday that most Iraqi violence was focused in three central provinces, including Baghdad.

"There is not widespread violence across Iraq. There is not. Seventy-five percent of the attacks still take place in Baghdad, al-Anbar or Salaheddin (provinces). And in the other 15 provinces, they all averaged less than six attacks a day, and 12 of those provinces averaged less than two attacks a day."

He said attacks nationwide were averaging 75 a day, a level that has been generally sustained since last August.

The three provinces he cited, however, are home to about 9 million people, according to the Iraqi Ministry of Planning and Development — a third of the country's population of 27 million.


more:http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060324/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq;_

[HysteryDiagnosis]

7. The American insurgency resulted in a civil war... or going by their

standards.... the American civil war was nothing more than an insurgency since a functioning government was in place during the affair.

[Disturbed]

8. The American Liberal Media should stop..

covering news like this. It help those evil doers.

[Botany]

9. 114 Attaks per day in Iraq? but no civil war?

'There is not widespread violence across Iraq," Lynch said. ''There is not. Seventy-five percent of the attacks still take place in Baghdad, al-Anbar, or Salaheddin. And in the other 15 provinces, they all averaged less than six attacks a day, and 12 of those provinces averaged less than two attacks a day."

So # of attacks / day 15 X 6= 90 + 12 x 2 = 24 + 3 x the # of attacks per day in those provinces

90 + 24 = 114 attacks a day without the # of from the 3 most violent provinces

God Damn quit lying to us ...... we can add and multiply .... look at what the military is still try to say.

"Lynch said attacks nationwide were averaging 75 a day, a level that has been generally sustained since last August. The three provinces he cited, however, are home to about 9 million people, according to the Iraqi Ministry of Planning and Development, a third of the country's population of 27 million."