Many casualties after ambulance drives into wedding party and explodes south of Baghdad

CNN ^ | January 21, 2005 | CNN

[Jaded]

Really, it won't take a rocket scientist to figure this one out. Unless he works for CBS.

[anniegetyourgun]

When will the Iraqi people get angry enough to start exposing the location, methods, and intentions of these freaks? They haven't done much when they bomb mosques or deface gravesites. Now a wedding. Will they perhaps respond when the terrorists strike a school full of children? When?

[2banana]

Right in front of a mosque...they will kill anyone

[Blzbba]

"When?"


Maybe after a few hundred more American troops waste their lives for these ungrateful, lazy people?

I agree with Koch - pull 'em out after the election.

[Pearls Before Swine]

There was a Shiite mosque blown up yesterday (I assume that was a separate event). It starting to look like like the long predicted Sunni-Shiite civil war as much as an anti-US effort.

[NativeNewYorker]

It's Bush's fault!

/sarcasm

[freedomson]

And a blood covered, allah, roars with laughter.

[Brilliant]

I guess that it must be really bad manners to bust up a wedding in a Muslim country.

[drt1]

I agree. I have been surprised at the Iraqi general populations apparent lack of cooperation in stopping these atrocities. The Terrorists certainly have places of operation and methods of action that are known to large numbers of the general population yet I see no evidence of any active or even passive (Informing and the like) resistance by these people.

Maybe I'm being unduly pessimistic but I'm not sure these people, after centuries of being led by tyrants, are ready to put forth the effort it will take to have real freedom. Like sheep!

[oceanview]

and that indeed is the key to winning over there. its got to come from the iraqis. I don't know when they are going to rise up and clean this scum from their streets.

[Onelifetogive]

Maybe I'm being unduly pessimistic but I'm not sure these people, after centuries of being led by tyrants, are ready to put forth the effort it will take to have real freedom.

Unlike most Americans???

</sarcasm*>

[1rudeboy]

First SUV's, now ambulances?

[oceanview]

they seem more interested in getting a good spot for their stands to sell consumer products at the baghdad street bazaars.

[anniegetyourgun]

I don't think it's inherent in their nature....and they aren't really as "religious" as their terrorist killers. I think you hit it on the head when you recall their long history of being cowed by a tyrant. They are going to have to (re)learn things like patriotism, bravery, and national sovereignty. Sadly, however, I'm not sure they can see those things modeled anywhere on the globe but in the U.S. And, the rest of the world is telling them to hate us and our ways.

We shall see....I hope they wake up and realize their future, and that of their children is at stake.

[Mr. K]

I think we are judging by our standards- dont forget they lived under a monster for 30 years

They have still not had their first election

[thegreatbeast]

Another instance of the Red Crescent being used as a cover for terrorist purposes?

[Jaded]

The media plays a big part in this. From what I've read there is no impending shiite-sunni civil war that the liberal media keeps babbling about. Most of the terrorists are imported jihadis.

[Eurotwit]

zarqawi really ramped up the anti shia rethoric in his last tape.

[LurkedLongEnough]

The term "wedding" means "operation" in an intelligence sense. Newspapers using the word "wedding" makes it seem literal, but it's not. Just makes it sound sensationalistic (which is what the terrorists want, right?).

For instance, the term "wedding" was used extensively in al-Q communications. I remember reading it was actually used to refer to the 9/11 operation.