Major Explosion in Baghdad - 20 dead(Breaking)

cnn ^ | feb 11th 2004 | cnn

[Eurotwit]

Huge Car bomb exploded outside the new Iraqi recruiting center.

[Rockitz]

Those monsters are now going after Iraqi civilians!

Seems foolish. That's not going help them develop a popular revolt against occupying forces like they want.

[jdontom]

http://foxnews.com

ISKANDARIYAH, Iraq — An explosion went off near an army recruiting center in Baghad (search) on Wednesday, killing between 20 and 25 Iraqis, a coalition spokesman said.
The blast took place about 7:40 a.m., the spokesman said. The casualties were all Iraqis.
The explosion came a day after a homicide bomber (search) detonated a truckload of explosives outside a police station in a town 30 miles south of Baghdad, killing up to 53 people and wounding scores -- including would-be Iraqi recruits lined up to apply for jobs.

[GeronL]

I understand Halliburton is hiring like crazy for Americans to work in Iraq... $80,000 some positions... anyone interested??

=o)

[dpwiener]

In a way this is evidence that they're running out of ability. Carbombing to intimidate is a loser's move.

They can't kill large numbers of U.S. soldiers because our security is too tight. So they are going after relatively soft civilian targets. This is indeed an act of desperation: They've given up any hope whatsoever of winning support of the population, since this will just create enormous anger against the perpetrators. They are reduced to trying to intimidate and terrorize the general population, in order to prove that they are still an effective threat.

This could well mean that the guerillas in Iraq are close to collapse.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

The Romans had the right answer for this garbage...

[Judith Anne]

I'm too old to want to go overseas to be a nurse. Otherwise...tempting...

[JulieRNR21]

Those monsters are punishing Iraqis for working with Americans to create a free democratic Iraq.

[Fledermaus]

Desperate measures.

Also, it's never widely reported about what our forces do when this stuff happens. We crack down, we arrest, we kill.

And more and more Iraqis get involved. As we know from the recent 17 page memo the Kurds captured and turned over to the U.S., this is the plan of the outside terrorist, mostly Al-Qaeda. To try and attack and kill Iraqis now because Americans are getting better at intelligence and stopping them and aren't frightened away if you kill a few of us every other day. We aren't cutting and running AS WAS THEIR PLAN watching 8 years of Clinton.

So they are going to keep attacking Shiites hoping they'll blame it on the Sunnis, but that won't work either.

[Prodigal Son]

AP

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=4&u=/ap/20040211/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_explosion

BAGHDAD, Iraq - An explosion went off near an army recruiting center in Baghdad on Wednesday, killing between 20 and 25 Iraqis, a coalition spokesman said.


The blast took place about 7:40 a.m. at the center, which is located in central Baghdad less than a mile from the Green Zone, the high-security neighborhood where the U.S.-led coalition has its headquarters, the spokesman said. The casualties were all Iraqis.


The explosion came a day after a suicide bomber detonated a truckload of explosives outside a police station in a town 30 miles south of Baghdad, killing up to 53 people and wounding scores — including would-be Iraqi recruits lined up to apply for jobs.


Tuesday's blast in Iskandariyah was at least the eighth vehicle bombing in Iraq (news - web sites) this year and followed warnings from occupation officials that insurgents would step up attacks against Iraqis who work with the coalition, especially ahead of the planned June 30 transfer of sovereignty to a provisional Iraqi government.

[serurier]

It's bad message , I think , army need a network ( to explosion attack ) , This network need more device ( Airship , UAV , sensor , Set up files for Iraq people , database ) , people ( ICDC , police , Intelligence agent ) , Intelligence center .

[saquin]

This is all part of the desperation strategy outlined in the Zarqawi memo. And there's no question that it *is* desperation. As others have said, they've given up any pretense of getting the support of the population. Sure, they can send suicide bombers to blow up crowds of people, but as a movement or "resistance", they're dead. Now we just have to have the help of the population in ferreting out these jihadists.

[cartoonistx]

The Romans had the right answer for this garbage...

So did the Soviets!

[Prodigal Son]

This is all part of the desperation strategy outlined in the Zarqawi memo.

Yep.

[kellynla]

and estimates of 150 injured. people were in line for jobs.

[ambrose]

That can't help recruiting efforts.

[yonif]

I don't think its desperation, just part of their campaign to make it unberable for Americans to be there, not per say from Iraqis themselves, but from the American public (Congress) who they might be trying to influence, into pulling back US troops so that the terror groups seem victorious.

They will keep coming at Iraq, which is their main area of operations now. Their ideology will follow Christians and Jews wherever they go until their homes, which they also seek to destroy.

They aren't really fighting the occupation, in my opinion, that is, they are not fighting to get a Baathist state back. They are just targetting Americans and those round them, in order to cause anarchy and death as part of their wider goal.

The US must target what is driving these terrorists to come and what is driving these terrorists to have no problem filling their ranks (including those entities, such as states, which harbor them). This is militant Islam. Until the US realizes that there is something else that is driving these people to come, something which is widespread throughout the region, the US will not get very far in Iraq.

[ambrose]

The intel also said AQ wants to start an Iraqi civil war...

So does the Democratic Party.

[yonif]

And I also believe its not just Al Queda doing this, but many terror groups, all united in their first goal of killing infidels.

[serurier]

I am afraid that the terrorist has enough personnel who supplement , the munition are supplied and just dare to launch this kind of attack, I want and know the munitions of they supply passway and way, explosive and weapons impossible to produce from the city most now, I think , and sure to there are terrorist bases in the city peripheral .

[CurlyDave]

Its any terrorist who wants to kill Americans doing this

The bombers do not necessarily want to kill Americans, although if they happen to get some of us they will be happy.

These bombs are intended to frighten Iraqis and prevent them from collaborating with Americans.

We have to start providing better security. Move the recruiting locations to somewhere a car can't be driven up to the building or the line of people waiting to get in. These are police recruits--if they can't walk 500 yards we don't want them anyway.