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| Iraqi suicide boomer kills 6 at funeral |
| 2004-07-06 |
| A suicide bomber exploded a car in the middle of a funeral gathering in an Iraqi town north of Baghdad on Tuesday, killing six people and wounding 35. The blast in Khalis, some 80 km (50 miles) north of Baghdad, was the bloodiest guerrilla attack in Iraq since an interim government took charge from U.S.-led occupiers on June 28. A senior police commander was among those wounded in the attack on the funeral for the brother of the town’s mayor, police said. Tents had been erected in the street to shelter mourners paying condolences to the man’s family. "A suicide bomber drove right into the funeral gathering and his car exploded," said witness Ghassan Sabah Kadhem. Prime Minister Iyad Allawi’s government said it would unveil a new security law on Wednesday for wider powers to combat guerrillas, an announcement that has been delayed several times. Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari said on Monday the law would empower the government to impose curfews, set up checkpoints and search and detain suspects. The measures would be temporary and would apply only in parts of Iraq. "The people of Iraq will not tolerate terrorist groups or those who collaborate with any other foreign fighters such as the Zarqawi network to continue their wicked ways," he said. Hospital sources said women and children were among the casualties in the raid, the fifth such strike on Falluja in three weeks and the first since the June 28 handover. Allawi wants to enlist Iraqi opinion against Zarqawi, but openly supporting U.S. air strikes is risky. Many Iraqis are angered by Zarqawi’s tactics, but few are convinced U.S. raids kill only foreign militants, rather than Iraqi civilians. Rooters, being omniscient, knows this as a matter of course ... U.S. patrols came under fire in Falluja and Ramadi, another Sunni Muslim city west of Baghdad, witnesses said. The U.S. military had no word on those attacks, but it said three marines were killed in action in western Iraq on Monday. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #3 American bombs are an inefficient solution that is used because the Iraqis won't kill the jihadis themselves. There's enough ammo lying around in country to allow the locals to mop up all the Syrians and Iranians in a single night. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2004-07-06 10:27:22 PM |
| #2 Reuters = knee-jerk, anti-US propaganda machine. |
| Posted by: anymouse 2004-07-06 2:51:00 PM |
| #1 Many Iraqis are angered by Zarqawi’s tactics, but few are convinced U.S. raids kill only foreign militants, rather than Iraqi civilians. Instinctive badmouthing of U.S. actions without stopping to question terrorist tactics of concealing their activities among the general population is the desired effect. The sooner the ignorant Iraqi gets this and changes their tune accordingly, the sooner their country will be cleaned up and the sooner U.S. forces will leave. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2004-07-06 2:33:39 PM |