Car Bombs Leave 60 Dead in Southern Iraq

AP via Washington Times ^ | April 21, 2004 | ABBAS FAYADH

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

BASRA, Iraq (AP) -- A series of car bombs ripped through police stations and an academy during rush hour Wednesday morning, killing at least 60 people, including schoolchildren, and wounding scores in the bloodiest attacks to hit this mainly Shiite city since the U.S.-led occupation began a year ago.

[Glenn]

The plan is simple. Bomb civilians until they beg to be ruled by another thug.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

BASRA, Iraq (AP) -- A series of car bombs ripped through police stations and an academy during rush hour Wednesday morning, killing at least 60 people, including schoolchildren, and wounding scores in the bloodiest attacks to hit this mainly Shiite city since the U.S.-led occupation began a year ago.

Iraqis pulled charred and torn bodies from mangled vehicles in front of the Saudia police station, located by Basra's crowded main street market. Two vans carrying schoolchildren were destroyed, one carrying kindergardeners, the other carrying middle-school girls. Dead children, burned beyond recognition, were taken to hospital morgues.

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This is the nature of our enemy, and, AP, this is the very big difference between them and our military. There is no moral equivalent!

[Happy2BMe]

Onward - Muslime Soliders - ping.

More work in Iraq by the Syrian, Iranian, and Saudi Islamic Mujhadeem stirring the pot of Muslime hatred.

Tue Apr 20, 8:09 AM ET
Jermaine Jackson(L), brother of Michael Jackson, Jackson family spokesman Firpo W. Carr(C) and Khawaja Khurshid Reshi hold a rug with a woven picture of Michael Jackson April 19, 2004, in Manama. Jermaine Jackson, in the Gulf to promote understanding between Muslims and his fellow Americans, said Tuesday that Muslims are 'the new Negroes in America.' Jermaine, a convert to Islam and dressed in white Arab garb, has been speaking about Islam and U.S. 'adventures' in Iraq to enthusiastic audiences at Koranic centers and universities in the Gulf Arab state of Bahrain. (Hamad I Mohammed/Reuters)
Iraqis pulled charred and torn bodies from mangled vehicles in front of the Saudia police station, located by Basra's crowded main street market. Two vans carrying schoolchildren were destroyed, one carrying kindergardeners, the other carrying middle-school girls. Dead children, burned beyond recognition, were taken to hospital morgues.

[sgtbono2002]

Just left an internet chat room and the consensus there among the liberals was that since the Kids werent the real target of the Terrorists its ok that they got blown up.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Thank you for that post, Happy.

Over a million young African-Americans are said to have been recruited to militant Islam in America's inner cities during the 90s - by self-appointed 'authorities' appealing to the basest human instincts - envy, fear, hatred - vanity.

Related:

8 Iraq: Explosions heard at 3 Police Stations; casualties reported ~ Ynet  | 4/21/2004 | Reuters
Posted on 04/21/2004 12:26:59 AM EDT by yonif
8Blasts Kill 40 at 3 Iraq Police Stations ~ The Las Vegas Sun  | 4/20/04 | AP
Posted on 04/21/2004 1:43:47 AM EDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach

[SAMWolf]

These guys don't care who they kill. Yet they're considered "heroes" by many Muslims.

[blackie]

Death to all terrorists and to the their supports ~ Bump!

We are winning ~ the bad guys are losing ~ trolls, terrorists, democrats and the mainstream media are sad ~ very sad!

~~ Bush/Cheney 2004 ~~

[Valin]

IRAQ THE MODEL
Wednesday, April 21, 2004

http://iraqthemodel.blogspot.com/

A routine day in Iraq.
Today is a special day for me, it's my birthday I woke up early, had many things to arrange, it was a lovely sunny day. One should enjoy looking at April flowers and not stay at home at all, and I will celebrate it just as I should.

Then I heard the news; tens of people killed in terrorist attacks in Basra with many children among them. Omar, my brother, is still in Basra, and we were very worried and didn’t rest until we called a friend there to have some information about the attacks. We still haven’t heard from him, but that's because he doesn't have a telephone or access to the internet in the small town where he works, and we know that he doesn’t usually go downtown at such times.

This is my daily ‘routine’ thoughout 35 years; wars, meaningless death of innocent people, armed people terrorizing us, relatives and friends get killed or disappeared, close gunshot or explosions awaken me from sleeping, our laughs and talks get lost amid sounds of jetfighters in the sky and noise of tanks in street reminding me where I’m I and where I live. It seems that it’s not allowed for me to live a normal life like others do.

I believe in the bright future ahead but I’m upset now and I came here to write and release some of my frustration. I can't bear it alone. why me? Why my country? All that we need is a moment of peace. I really need it now. Why should I bear it with my people? When will it be over and when can we live in peace at last?

The hardest thing is that I have to fight more, and I will, but God, please give me the strength. Why should I be strong while watching others run away; Spain, Honduras, Thailand, human organizations, the UN and all the others who want (and it’s their right I must say) to avoid the dangers. But why did they disappoint us? Why abandon us in this moment when we really need them? Will they come back when conditions improve? Most likely, but who will need them then!!? We don’t need doctors and engineers. We have enough of those and large numbers of Iraqi doctor, teachers and engineers are working abroad. We do export minds, and some of those have returned and are doing their job and some are on their way back. We need political, financial and military support, and once we get rid of the terrorists, WE will show you what we can do, and we will not forget those who helped us, they will remain as friends and allies, that’s from a political point of view. As for me, they will remain as my real family, my brothers and sisters.

One of our friend was angry when he saw the former slaves burn the flag of their liberators (and he has all the right to feel so), but I saw my country being destroyed for 35 years and I’m not desperate because I have faith that it will be rebuild one day. Still, why am I supposed to be the 'superman' who is never allowed to feel angry, sad or frustrated?

Others ask me to demonstrate and show my support to the coalition. Ok I’m with the coalition but I can’t do it my friends. I’m surrounded by armed criminals who wouldn’t hesitate for a minute before shooting me for just speaking out, yet I do speak, and not only on this page.

You, there in the free world, cannot witness against criminals without witness protection programs. We have nothing of this. Just under trained and half corrupted policemen and few newly graduated army soldiers and the law system, we inherited from Saddam and haven’t really changed it yet, is far from being efficient.
Why do others get discouraged easily? Don’t mistake me. I’m upset but will NEVER run away like some people did.

I wasn’t like this before. I was afraid most of the time. I have always looked for safety above all. I lost faith in the whole world and I wasn’t ready at all to make the slightest sacrifice for the sake of others. I was trying to leave my country and find a better job in a safe place, BUT, The brave solders (who don’t hold shares at Halliburton or Bechtel) who crossed seas and oceans and came to my country to fight for our freedom -and don’t anyone dare say the opposite, as I met so many of these soldiers and had hundreds of letters from them and there families and I know their motives; they fight for their country’s safety and for our freedom and they are proud of what they are doing- gave me the faith and showed me that man should not care only about himself, his family or his country, these are not enough to make a human being. These guys are MUCH better than me because I have to fight for my issue and they fight for me. They deserve the respect of the world and so do the people who support them. They always give me hope to go on no matter how difficult it seems.

I think I’ll have to skip celebrating my birthday this year, but that will not make me less determined than before, and I know that even if other countries pull out of Iraq, we will always have the strongest and greatest nation on our side, the wonderful people of the USA, together with the UK, Italy, Japan and the rest of the coalition forces. We owe you a lot and I pray, and I’m sure, that one day we will be able to return some of your favors and I’m talking about the people not the politicians although I don’t deny those the credit they deserve for doing their job as good as they can. When that day finally comes, you will know for sure that the great efforts and sacrifices you’ve made were not in vain.

-By Mohammed.

- posted by Omar @ 18:20

[MeekOneGOP]

.... Dead children, burned beyond recognition, were taken to hospital morgues.

You excerpted the exact same part I was going to. Car bombing kids. What COWARDS !!!

[Eva]

This is just a variation on the old syndicate protection racket.

[kayak]

Those of you with ping lists, please call attention to #9.

[livius]

This is worth excerpting, too:

During the fighting, a few mosques blared messages calling gunmen to battle.

That's where the whole problem lies. If it were just holdover Baathists, I think this thing would all be over now. But this is a different group, and furthermore, it's a group that has never had any qualms about targeting civilians and children (as it has abundantly shown in Israel).

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Valin, I thank you so much for posting Mohammed's words - most of all for sharing an Iraqi ally's view of our troops, a viewpoint common among the majority of Iraqis, and seldom represented in our FREE press.

The brave solders (who don’t hold shares at Halliburton or Bechtel) who crossed seas and oceans and came to my country to fight for our freedom -and don’t anyone dare say the opposite, as I met so many of these soldiers and had hundreds of letters from them and there families and I know their motives; they fight for their country’s safety and for our freedom and they are proud of what they are doing- gave me the faith and showed me that man should not care only about himself, his family or his country, these are not enough to make a human being. These guys are MUCH better than me because I have to fight for my issue and they fight for me. They deserve the respect of the world and so do the people who support them. They always give me hope to go on no matter how difficult it seems.

(They did that for some of us in free America, too.)

[Valin]

I hit these blogs everyday.

[MeekOneGOP]

Bump to #9, Iraqi Blogger speaks out .....

[happygrl]

So if the collateral damages come from indiscriminate bombing by terrorists, it's "OK", according to the Left, but if they're from US bombs, despite careful targetting, it's Evil ?

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

I used to read them regularly, but have come to count on you and others to post them here at FR - so many war fronts, so little time...

Thank you.

[happygrl]

BUT, The brave solders (who don’t hold shares at Halliburton or Bechtel) who crossed seas and oceans and came to my country to fight for our freedom -and don’t anyone dare say the opposite, as I met so many of these soldiers and had hundreds of letters from them and there families and I know their motives; they fight for their country’s safety and for our freedom and they are proud of what they are doing- gave me the faith and showed me that man should not care only about himself, his family or his country, these are not enough to make a human being. These guys are MUCH better than me because I have to fight for my issue and they fight for me. They deserve the respect of the world and so do the people who support them. They always give me hope to go on no matter how difficult it seems.

This makes me teary-eyed and proud.

[Happy2BMe]

Depraved infidel minds think alike - beware - they are eveywhere!

:~)