[JCG]

In April, a Kurdish Yazidi teenage girl was brutally beaten, kicked and stoned to death in northern Iraq by other Yazidis in what authorities said was an "honor killing" after she was seen with a Sunni Muslim man. Although she had not married him or converted, her attackers believed she had. 

Lessee, Muslims kill Yazidis and Yazidis kill their own.  Looks like a win for the rest of us.

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[snarks_when_bored]

In war, it’s never wise to underestimate the savagery of your opponents.

[Allegra]

The attacks, targeting Kurdish villages of the Yazidi religious minority, were attempts to "break the will" of the American people and show that the U.S. troop escalation -- the "surge" -- is failing, Maj. Gen. Benjamin Mixon said.

We don't need al Qaeda for that. We have Democrats.

[Allegra]

Lessee, Muslims kill Yazidis and Yazidis kill their own. Looks like a win for the rest of us.

That was one (horrible, nasty) incident. That doesn't mean they're all like that.

[SuziQ]

There was some confusion yesterday, over the first bombing that Reuters quoted “Iraqi military officials” as saying had killed 175, but then someone said it was really only 30 or so. Is this report from that same source used by Reuters? Apparently, another news agency had picked up the Reuters story yesterday and was reporting that 175 number. There was some speculation that al Queda was putting out a press report, in the name of an “Iraqi military official”, and that it had inflated the number of dead by including the wounded.

[drzz]

Be careful with the numbers given by the Iraqis, they are always overestimated.

Wait for the US confirmation.

[McGruff]

The Tuesday truck bombs that targeted the villages of Qahtaniya, al-Jazeera and Tal Uzair, in northern Iraq near the border with Syria, were a "trademark al Qaeda event" designed to sway U.S. public opinion against the war, a U.S. general said Wednesday.

Aren't the Iraqi insurgents now siding with us against al Qaeda because of them killing innocent women and children? I would think this would only make things worst for al Qaeda.

This number 500 seems out of whack to me for some reason. Odd that we haven't seen pictures of this all over the MSM like we always do.

[RightWhale]

Terrorists can do this any time they want regardless how seriously 95% of the population is really tired of this. It would not be a valid indicator of how the war is going.