Iraqi Officials: Truck Bombings Killed At Least 500

Assyrian International News Agency ^ | 08-15-07 | Not known

[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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[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.

[pacelvi]

“That doesn’t mean they’re all like that”

Of course not... That sounds like the standard sycophant mantra

“Not all Muslims want to kill us, only 109674902 of them do”

[Lurker]

The Yazids are a small minority which many other mohamedens considered heretical. Therefore they were an easy little prop for AQ.

But they weren't the target.

The target was the Democrat Surrender Caucus.

Make no mistake about that.

Have a great time on vacation.

And here's hoping the Iraqi authorities will hang everyone involved in the murder of that poor girl.

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[Allegra]

LOL - see my Post #3.

I'm still in the Middle East...but almost....almost out!

(For a couple of weeks, anyway...)

Take care.

[Captain Kirk]

The target was the Democratic Surrender Caucus.

After five years of continuous failure in Iraq, don't you think that thread-bare rationalization for yet more failure is getting a little old?

[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.

[SuziQ]

After five years of continuous failure in Iraq,

I think many, if not most, Iraqis would disagree with that assessment.

[drzz]

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

Wait for the US confirmation.

[Captain Kirk]

Polls of Iraqis consistently show that they want the U.S. out. Heck, even Maliki said so!

[Captain Kirk]

Another article this morning from AFP backs up the stats on the high death toll.

[Sterlis]

Have you seen the video of the stoning?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThM-wca_tqM

Youtube took down the unedited footage but this will give you an idea. They may not all be like this but I think that most are. This was a whole town event involving over a hundred people unfortunantely.

[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.

[Allegra]

Yes, I saw it and it was awful. Arrests have been made and I hope everybody involved is hanged.

But that still doesn't mean they're all like that and they certainly did not deserve what happpened yesterday.

I live in Iraq. I will never, ever, ever condone anything al Qaeda does.

[Allegra]

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.

I strongly suspect that the number is inflated. Even the initial 250 number they announced didn't pass the smell test.

[bigred41]

“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.”

There HAVE been pictures of this up all morning on all the cable networks. It looks like a huge square of the city was flattened. (They showed pics from a helicopter) They are also showing pics from the hospital, and reporting that the dead are “stacked” up on the sidewalks waiting for a mass burial. FOX called around to hospitals- and they said there are over 300 injured in the 3 hospitals they called- with over 50% listed in critical condition. Since these hospitals have little to no drugs etc.. a good number of those will also die. It looks like this 400 number of dead is probably correct and will only go higher.

[angcat]

Are you French?