The Washington Post reports that, in more than ten car bombings, more than 50 Iraqis were killed this morning at about the same time;
The deadliest of the day’s bombings was in the eastern Sadr City district, where a parked car bomb tore through a small vegetable market and its parking lot, killing seven people and wounding 16, a police officer said.
That was followed by a total of 10 parked car bombs, which went off in quick sequence in the Shiite neighborhoods of New Baghdad, Habibiya, Sabaa al-Bour, Kazimiyah, Shaab, Ur, Shula as well as the Sunni neighborhoods of Jamiaa and Ghazaliyah.
The 10 other explosions also struck at outdoor markets or parking lots, killing 44 people and wounding 139, according to other police officers. Medical officials confirmed the causality figures in Monday’s attacks. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media.
It’s good that the violence has ended in Iraq now that there are no US troops in Iraq. It’s also good that al Qaeda has been “decimated”. Can you imagine what it’d be like if the reverse were true? No one has taken credit for the bombings, but most of them were in Shi’ite neighborhoods, so you go ahead and make your best bet.
I am always very impressed to see the religion of peace working its’ magic on the lives of the true believers. Nothing like a nice peaceful day in the vegetable market killing the heretics who are not as fervent as you, or who believe in a slightly different flavor of it than you do.
Alerting the rest of the world to the majesty of allah by killing the children of your neighbors is a fantastic method of showing exactly what you mean when you explain how your religion is a tolerant, peaceful faith respectful of life….
At some point people need to rise from their stupor and view this religion for what it is, the religion of death as currently practiced today. Death and fear, death from the true believers and fear from the not so true believers that if they say something against the murderous true believers they’ll be next…
I don’t much care for any religion mostly because when men get involved they pervert the words of their deities to suit their own selfish desires and perceptions thus also perverting their religion. It’s too bad so many people have lives that lack so many of the basics that they are easily fooled by these men of god into doing unspeakable acts against people they don’t know and don’t care to know.
We would be wise to believe these religious folks when they tell us we are the great Satan and they intend to wipe us from the earth…maybe some day we will find our will to survive and flourish again and bring the hell fire to these sh1tbags until they either stop trying to kill us or they are all dead….preferably the latter that way there’s no confusion about what happens when you cross us. It’s okay to let them hate us as long as they fear us more than death itself.
“No one has taken credit for the bombings, but most of them were in Shi’ite neighborhoods, so you go ahead and make your best bet.” Okay, I’ll play. Catholics.
@2 – Naw – it’s the Catamites. They climbed out of their dibbuk box and went at it full tilt.
Religion is an excuse. This is nothing but gang warfare with the ante upped to bombing the neighborhood instead of driveby shootings, aiming at grandparents and children in their own front yards. I see no difference between this and what is going on down on the south side of Chicago.
OH, while I’m on about Chicago, some aldermen from down there want the National Guard patrolling Chicago so as to stop the gangs, but the Chief of CPD (to his credit) has bluntly said ‘N-O, NO’. And so far, I see no MRAPS on the streets of Chicago, although I do know that they have a HAZMAT and bomb/explosives unit.
Personally, I blame gay witches.
The longer this goes on, the more I come to believe Samuel Hutchinson was at least partially correct back in 1993.
@4 C’mon now, I know polytheistic religions (regardless of sexual orientation of the followers) tend to cut across the grain of popular belief systems and are inherently distrusted, but we all know the monotheistic religions are the real killers throughout history…
Religions where being naked in the woods and having an orgasm are key elements of the ceremony tend to be less involved in killing their neighbors (most folks aren’t that p1ssed off after sex). It’s all those religions where everybody is repressing their normal human urges where the followers go f#cking crazy and start shooting and bombing their neighbors….and those followers of allah sure look like a group of dudes in serious need of a happy ending…
/sarc
I think it was done by Hippies that worship the Flying Spaghetti Monster!! /sarc
ISLAM, the religion of carbombs!!
VoV – think you are confusing cause and effect. It’s not the repression that causes the religion, it’s the religion cynically using the repression to foster the violence, a la “My God is the Prince of Peace and if you don’t acknowledge it I’m gonna f**king well kill you”
Strongly recommend Twain’s story in “Letter From the Earth” on which are the higher forms of animal life and why.
“Personally, I blame gay witches.”…now I have a wet keyboard to deal with.
NEW RULE! The words Iraq, Iraqi, and sectarian violence, in any combination, are banned from the American lexicon. No more news stories using these words, in any combination, shall be reported, published or discussed in any way, forever. Nothing that happens in the aforementioned locale is reason for any sympathy on our part. We no longer care how many men, women, or children are blown to bits in that country, as it spirals down the drain of history.
Maybe we’ll get lucky and they will all blow each other up. Then we can go back to naked in the woods orgies and partying full time.
Behead all those who say islam is violent.
Not in the woods I grew up around, Ex-PH2. Yellow jackets, blackberries, thorn vines (AKA “bamboo vines”), poison ivy, and chiggers are all kinda rough on bare skin. (smile)
Veritas Omnia Vincit @ #1:
There’s this rabbi who told a story, saying that the Word of God is like good seed sown by a farmer, and the hearts of men are like the soil upon which the seed falls. Some falls on the pathway, and is trampled. Some falls upon stony soil, sprouts, but then dies because it can’t reach water. But the seed that falls upon good, rich soil flourishes and yields 100-fold.
I’ve been around long enough to realize that good people will make a good life out of any religion. That’s why Christians have taken this greeting to heart: “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth, peace to men of good will.” First comes the good will, then the peace.
Glad to see our hard work paying off for the “religion of peace”. Countdown clock has already started for the next “intervention”.