From the AP:
4 CommentsAmerican forces are tracking about 50 members of an elite Iranian force who have crossed the border into southern Iraq to train Shiite militia fighters, a top U.S. general said Sunday.
In east Baghdad, a mortar barrage slammed into a mainly Shiite neighborhood, killing 12 and wounding 31, police said, and a major battle raged north of the capital where residents of a Shiite city were fighting what police said was a band of al-Qaida in Iraq gunmen.
Interesting to choose Memorial Day as a day for the first official talks in 27 years between the U.S. and Iran. Just coincidence or could it be symbolic of some message that we intend to convey to Iran? I hope whatever is said, the Iranians get the message that we mean business and that deaths of Americans are going to be answered for. Do I think we can actually negotiate peace with Iran? Absolutely not — not until we deliver a message with fire and steel first.
From the AP:
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The machinations of Iran can be seen so clearly through Muqtada al-Sadr. He should be part of any victory plan in Iraq and a coming offensive against Iran. He needs to be captured, convicted and hung. However, because he is not being “dealt” with, our government and military do not truly seem to have the stomach to prosecute this war correctly. If they continue to fear upheaval among Muslims for any actions we might take against Islamic leaders that are knowingly behind jihad and the deaths of our soldiers, then how in the hell are we going to ever face up to the fact that Islam is the enemy of the Free World and that Iran in particular needs to be swatted aside? Next week I plan to put together a long overdue plan for victory in Iraq. You can bet that al-Sadr will appear on that plan, and he won’t be left alive.
A sad AP report delivers the inevitable news:
3 CommentsBAGHDAD - Thousands of U.S. and Iraqi troops fanned out across the fields of southern
Iraq in scorching temperatures Thursday as the military said it remained determined to find two missing U.S. soldiers after the body of a third was pulled from a river.Also Thursday, a car bomb targeting a funeral procession in the turbulent city of Fallujah killed at least 26 people, police and medical officials said.
Here’s a snippet (hat-tip: Sheila) from The Guardian that details inside information about an expected upswing in the Iranian-sponsored violence in Iraq. This is hardly news to me, but it is interesting to read anonymous quotes from American officials to the same effect as I have been warning of for so many months:
I said this man should have been killed years ago and, well, I told you so…
From the AP:
0 CommentsBAGHDAD - Cabinet ministers loyal to radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr quit the government Monday, severing the powerful Shiite religious leader from the U.S.-backed prime minister and raising fears al-Sadr’s Mahdi Army militia might again confront American troops.
Tiny Minority of Extremists attack. From the AP:
13 CommentsBAGHDAD - A suspected suicide bomber blew himself up Thursday in the Iraqi parliament’s cafeteria in a stunning assault in the heart of the heavily fortified, U.S.-protected Green Zone, killing at least eight people, a military spokesman said, and wounding dozens of others.
The blast in the parliament building came hours after a suicide truck bomb exploded on a major bridge in Baghdad, collapsing the steel structure and sending cars tumbling into the Tigris River, police and witnesses said. At least 10 people were killed.
Let’s let Muslims continue to dress in masks, head-scarves and full-body burqas. We wouldn’t want to keep them from blowing things up. When we leave Iraq, expect this sort of story to arrive in your local mall.
From the AP:
0 CommentsBAGHDAD - A woman with explosives hidden beneath her black abaya detonated them Tuesday in a crowd of about 200 police recruits northeast of Baghdad, killing at least 16 people, police and hospital officials said.
Another would-be-President, a little-known fellow named John McCain, has written an article detailing his latest trip to Iraq. It’s filled with “cautious optimism” and is worth a read on this Easter morning:
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Insurgents? Insurgents?! Enough nonsense: jihadists.
From the AP clones:
0 CommentsBAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S.-led coalition forces killed 20 insurgents, including two women, Friday in fighting and airstrikes that targeted al-Qaida in
Iraq militants northwest of Baghdad, the military said. The mayor of the village, which was the site of a U.S. raid earlier this year, said 19 civilians were killed, including seven women and eight children.
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1 CommentMinistry said 2 teachers ’slaughtered’ in Baghdad primary schools
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Local police and neighbors of two Baghdad schools where gunmen had reportedly beheaded teachers in front of their students Wednesday said the slayings never happened, despite an official statement to the contrary.
Reuters and Associated Press news crews responded to a statement by the Ministry of Interior, saying that two teachers were “slaughtered” at Amna and Shaheed Hamdi primary schools in Shaab district in Baghdad.
Well, I knew that Muqtada al-Sadr would raise his scaled head again. He’s a pure Islamist and I’m convinced he’s been getting backing from the Iranian mullahs in addition to Al Qaeda.
Just look at this story.
0 CommentsBAGHDAD, Iraq - The militant Shiite cleric whose uprising last April left hundreds dead pledged to resist “oppression and occupation” and called the new interim Iraqi government “illegitimate.”
In a separate development, Iraqi officials arrested two Iranians trying to explode a car bomb Monday in a town east of Baghdad, authorities said.
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