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Iraq
Eastern Baghdad car blast toll up to 32 dead, 63 injured
2006-07-24
(KUNA) -- The latest reports bring up the death toll in the car blast earlier in the day in Sadr City, eastern Baghdad, to 32 and the number of those injured to 63 people, according to Interior Ministry sources. The sources said the explosives team thinks it is most probable the car was rigged with 200 kilograms of explosives. They said this 'preliminary' tally of victims was provided by Kindi and Sadr Hospitals and from medical teams who took part in rescue and recovery at the scene. The sources said the blast set fire to seven civilian vehicles, including a minibus that was transporting passengers from Sadr City and caused damage to a nearby building and 10 shops in close proximity.

The American Army had in a statement today reported that Iraqi forces managed to free two hostages and arrest eight of the kidnappers involved in the so-called death squads in Sadr City. It said confrontations erupted in the area between Iraqi and US forces on the one hand and militants on the other. The joint forces, it said, came under heavy shooting from several locations using small arms, automatic weapons, and RPGs. The statement would not say whether the confrontations were actually in Sadr City but Iraqi Police sources said there were raids and violent confrontations this morning when Iraqi-US forces broke into the city. The sources said that joint forces backed up with helicopters broke into sector seven of the city early this morning, which led to the heavy confrontations, and added the toll is yet to be known.
Posted by:Fred

#11  
"Better to terminate the line."

Sterilize and quarantine, then let them kill each other off.

Arabs are a defective branch of the human line, 14 centuries of inbreeding haven't helped matters either. Time to do what is necessary.

I see all of this coming to a blowup a lot faster than I had originally thought it would. We may be enjoying the last days or modern society right now. All because we won't do what is needed. Pity.

-M
Posted by: Manolo   2006-07-24 20:59  

#10  They will not do without the cell phones or motorized vehicles, Champ Angeger5024, because without them they aren't kewl, y'know. And they will keep getting caught as a result. As for taking the children away -- unless you get them before they know who they are, enough will grow up hating as a matter of principle those who kidnapped them, and legitimately so. I have no interest in going there.
Posted by: trailing wife   2006-07-24 15:44  

#9  KBK - Sure I do. You could enroll them in Catholic schools, Jewish schools, or to make a point of one of your recent comments - put them in Utah public schools, pick a few of those solid Moromon Wards where they'd also learn patriotism and civic responsibility.
Posted by: Champ Angeger5024   2006-07-24 10:37  

#8  Champ: "Raise them in the US. Teach them rule of law, logic, science, math, honest history."

ROFLMAO. I gather you don't live in the USA.
Posted by: KBK   2006-07-24 10:25  

#7  Great, Champ. I like that leper colony idea.
Some of the women should be pulled from the group along with the young children. No sense letting them reproduce as lepers. They (the lepers) would also be a source of stem cells.
Posted by: wxjames   2006-07-24 07:54  

#6  My headline of choice: IRAQI OIL STILL FLOWING.
Posted by: Anginens Threreng8133   2006-07-24 01:05  

#5  The Kurds have. Bless that bunch of Islam's misfits. The truest form of exception to the rule.

The Arabs never will. Same for those who take Islam seriously.

I empathize with the attempt, the effort, to give them the chance and choice, but they are miserable failures and miserable excuses for humans. They've shown promise only in dribs and drabs, individuals here and there. Time to partition this shithole and offer sanctuary to those few who are capable of lifting themselves from the muck and mire of Arab "society and customs" and Islam.

Embargo the remainder as a leper colony.
Posted by: Champ Angeger5024   2006-07-24 00:52  

#4  So they haven't got the hang of democracy yet then?
Posted by: Spike   2006-07-24 00:42  

#3  "I'd suggest the UK and Olde Europe be excluded as they are infected."

I sort of addressed that in item 1, but you're right -- I wasn't clear enough in item 2, LOL. :-/
Posted by: Champ Angeger5024   2006-07-24 00:36  

#2  What about all those nice kids raised in the UK? Rule of law and all that. Turns out they thought mom and dad's place was not for them and they should turn to "the old ways". That would be the splodydope way. Better to terminate the line.
Posted by: Remoteman   2006-07-24 00:29  

#1  Soon, if the stars are aligned correctly, the Iraqis will figure out that there are two modern conveniences which they will either have to do without - or they will have to continue to endure the Arab-on-Arab / Muslim-on-Muslim killing.

Cars and cellphones.

Ban them both in all but Kurdistan, return to the 7th century where they all long to be, and they will know much more peace than they do now.

Technology and Arabs / Muslims just do not mix.

Oh, and two ideas to safeguard the rest of us:

1) Some have strongly suggested that the civilized world (heh) enforce a total blockade on Islam ala Hotel California: You can check in, but you can never leave. You can debate who to include in the "civilized world", though I'd suggest the UK and Olde Europe be excluded as they are infected.

2) Take their children away from them. You can debate what means will be employed to stop the Baby Factory that is Islam from producing more. Raise them in the US. Teach them rule of law, logic, science, math, honest history.

That would end this, otherwise, endless shit.
Posted by: Champ Angeger5024   2006-07-24 00:20  

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