[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Well.....from page 2...

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He put the time of the explosion at about 5 p.m. The controlled U.S. blast was at 5:34 p.m., Pool said.

Tribal leader Hamid Farhan al-Hays from Ramadi told Iraqiya state television 12 children and six women were killed.

Hays blamed the blast on Sunni al Qaeda, which is involved in an escalating power struggle with Sunni elders for control of Anbar, a vast desert province that is the heart of the Sunni Arab insurgency in Iraq. Ramadi is the capital of Anbar.

"The groups which did this barbaric crime are al Qaeda," he said.

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Now al-Queda is getting blamed ....not sure of the time line here....just fascinating.....

[SolidWood]

This becomes more and more interesting.

It appears that the Sunni Sheikh (Anti-alQaeda) distorted the report/incident to gather support against Al-Qaeda. This may be well meant. So to speak Anti-alQaeda propaganda for domestic Sunni Iraqi consumption.

The media on the other hand took up his report, which fits their agenda that Iraq is a mess and the US is losing... Bush is a failure... blah blah blah... which again helps Al-Qaeda's agenda.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Interesting stuff here.

[Marine_Uncle]

Regardless of the outcome, let these people in think AQIR did it, and get pissed off the moreso and start to side 100% with the IG and their forces and ours. Al Ramadi must be cleared of pockets of goons still operating there.
Gotta kill em all off and let the reconstruction projects take full hold and start employing Iraqi, give em a reason to hate the insurgents and radical muslim groups.