{"id":15964,"date":"2009-12-08T07:39:42","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T12:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=15964"},"modified":"2009-12-08T07:39:42","modified_gmt":"2009-12-08T12:39:42","slug":"300-casualties-in-iraq-bombings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=15964","title":{"rendered":"300 casualties in Iraq bombings"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Times and Associated Press<\/a> report a series of four coordinated attacks in Baghdad which has caused at least 300 casualties this morning;<\/p>\n

At least 103 were killed and 197 wounded in the worst wave of violence in the capital in more than a month, authorities said.<\/p>\n

A total of four attacks, which also included a suicide car bomb on a police patrol, showed the ability of insurgents to strike high-profile targets in the heart of Baghdad and marked the third time since August that government buildings were targeted with multiple blasts that brought massive bloodshed.<\/p>\n

It also was another embarrassment to Iraqi forces in their expanding role as front-line security as U.S. forces plan their withdrawal. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m pretty sure this attack was intended to embarrass the Iraqi government and to prove that terrorists in Iraq have more staying power than the US. USAToday<\/a> reports a bomb which killed 12 detonated near a Pakistani intelligence office; <\/p>\n

The bombing in Multan signaled a relentless determination on the part of the militants, who \u2014 despite being pressured by a major army offensive in one of their Afghan border havens \u2014 have sustained a retaliatory campaign since October that has killed more than 400 people. On Monday, bombings elsewhere in the country killed 59 people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’d say these bombings are directly related to the Obama Administration’s 94-day decision period on the Afghan Surge and ultimately the president’s weak response to his generals. If the bombers didn’t think they see an opening and a chance to win the wars, these bombings wouldn’t have happened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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