Thread: News with no link required

Originally Posted by Inscrutable

Doltish? Obviously I was referring to you as you post claiming to be a service man in Iraq. Check your PM.

Please show me where I claim to be a serviceman in IRAQ. I assure you I am aware of my status here.

Also I am not in need of any websights or articles that show deaths or injuries anywhere in IRAQ.

If you had read my post you would realize that I suggested you post them here in the thread for the readers to enjoy since you want to try and paint a rosy picture of the place.

I do appreciate your efforts though.

Originally Posted by CampVictory

Please show me where I claim to be a serviceman in IRAQ. I assure you I am aware of my status here.

Also I am not in need of any websights or articles that show deaths or injuries anywhere in IRAQ.

If you had read my post you would realize that I suggested you post them here in the thread for the readers to enjoy since you want to try and paint a rosy picture of the place.
You friend were the one painting the rosy picture. Read your post related to the truth article.

I do appreciate your efforts though.

I PM'd the link for your pleasure since you stated the article appears to be garbage. Look for yourself and see, it's not for the weak at heart.

We've certainly have taken this thread way off topic so any further comment that's not related to the thread would be appreciated in my PM.

It was correctly stated this thread has derailed. At this time, drop any further disputes and get back to posting "News" without a link necessary. Thank you.

Regards,

Thelema

Aug. 7, 2007, 4:51AM
Suicide bombing kills 28 — 19 children — in Iraq


By SAMEER N. YACOUB



BAGHDAD — As the suicide bomber rumbled his dump truck load of explosives into a Shiite neighborhood, families were getting ready for a new day in the northern city of Tal Afar.

Children were home on their summer break, and some were already outdoors playing hopscotch and marbles. Nineteen of them had just moments to live.

They were among the 28 people killed when the blast ripped through the neighborhood's tightly packed houses, the latest suicide bombing tragedy to hit the city that President Bush once called a success story after major military operations there against insurgents.

The American military, meanwhile, reported five new U.S. deaths: Four soldiers were killed in a combat explosion in restive Diyala province north of the capital Monday, and a soldier was killed and two were wounded during fighting in eastern Baghdad on Sunday.

Iraq's political crisis worsened Monday as five more ministers announced a boycott of Cabinet meetings — leaving the embattled prime minister's unity government with no members affiliated with Sunni political factions.

The Cabinet boycott of five ministers loyal to former Iraqi leader Ayad Allawi leaves the government, at least temporarily, without participants of the Sunni political apparatus — a deep blow to the prime minister's attempt to craft reconciliation among the country's majority Shiites and minority Sunnis and Kurds.

The Allawi bloc, a mixture of Sunnis and Shiites, cited al-Maliki's failure to respond to its demands for political reform. The top Sunni political bloc already had pulled its six ministers from the 40-member Cabinet of al-Maliki, a Shiite, last week.

In Tal Afar, meanwhile, officials slapped an immediate curfew on the religiously mixed city after the suicide bombing. The powerful blast caused houses to collapse and officials said the death toll could rise. Several residents said boys and girls were playing hopscotch and marbles outside the houses at the time of the explosion.

"This is an ugly crime. I cannot understand how the insurgents did not think about these children," said one man, Kahlil Atta, a wedding photographer in the city of 200,000 near the Syrian border.

MOSUL: Fifty-four people died in unabated sectarian violence in Iraq with yet another suicide bomb explosion killing 30 people and wounding 50. Twelve children were among 30 people killed in a massive blast when a suicide bomber blew up a truck packed with explosives in a Shi'ite village in northern Iraq. "Twenty houses were destroyed, 10 of them completely," said mayor of a near by town Tal Afar Major General Najim Abdullah said.

Witnesses also spoke of seeing foam to let the mattresses stick out of the truck to hide the explosives underneath, Abdullah said.

It was the deadliest attack on yet another bloody day in Iraq, where the military announced the deaths of five US soldiers in Baquba and four in the Diyala province.
Fifteen Iraqis were killed further south, including a roadside bomb that wiped out nine.

Says nine but likely 29 or more.