02-28-2007, 04:26 AM
AQ blows up little kids and women in Iraq (Iraqi TV and local community leader says several kids are dead, US soldiers only know of an event where several kids were wounded).
AQ's recruitment drive: islamics all over the world will doubtless want to join in this righteous passtime of massacring innocents. It's what they always do, right? After all, this is the Religion of Peace: the kind of complete peace one gets by effecting complete destruction.
http://xtramsn.co.nz/news/0,,11965-7007895,00.html
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Conflicting Reports Over Blast In Iraqi City</b>
28/02/2007 07:35 AM
Reuters
The US military said it was unaware of a bomb attack in the city of Ramadi on Tuesday in which Iraqi officials and a tribal leader said 18 people, mostly children, had been killed.
Iraqiya state TV said all those killed near a soccer field were children while local tribal leader Hamid Farhan al-Hays told the station 12 were children and six were women. Police said 19 people, mostly children, were killed or wounded.
A US military spokesman, Major Jeff Pool, said a controlled blast by US soldiers near a soccer field in Ramadi slightly wounded 30 people, including nine children. He said the wounded had cuts and bruises.
"I can't imagine there would be another attack involving children without our people knowing," said Pool.
Hays blamed the blast on Sunni Arab-led al Qaeda, which is involved in an escalating power struggle with Sunni elders for control of Anbar province, heart of the Sunni insurgency in Iraq. Ramadi is the capital of Anbar.
"The groups which did this barbaric crime are al Qaeda," said Hays.
Iraqiya said the blast was caused by a car bomb, while police said it was a roadside bomb.
Police said the soccer field was near a US military base and that US military patrols frequently went past it.
<b>Qaeda</b>
A truck bomb near a Sunni mosque in Ramadi killed 52 people on Saturday, a day after the mosque's imam had made a speech criticising al Qaeda, which is entrenched in the area.
On Monday, a suicide bomber blew up an ambulance at a police station near Ramadi, killing 14 people including women and children.
The attacks signalled an increasing conflict in Anbar between al Qaeda and Sunni tribal leaders, officials have said.
Such attacks also underscore the violence gripping Iraq, as US and Iraqi forces step up a new security crackdown in Baghdad. Washington is also sending extra troops to Anbar.
As part of efforts to stabilise Iraq, officials from regional states including Iran and Syria would join U.S. and British envoys at a meeting in Baghdad next month, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari said on Tuesday.
The White House said Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki had not announced the conference, but if invited U.S. officials would attend and that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice would be a logical choice to participate.
The US embassy in Baghdad confirmed Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad would attend. A British embassy spokeswoman said Britain would also take part but it was unclear at what level.
Zebari said the mid-March meeting would be a chance for Western and regional powers to try to bridge some of their differences over Iraq.
"Our hope is that this will be an ice-breaking attempt for maybe holding other meetings in the future. We want Iraq, instead of being a divisive issue, to be a unifying issue," Zebari said by telephone from Denmark where he is on a visit.
In December, a report by the bipartisan US Iraq Study Group recommended Washington hold direct talks with Damascus and Tehran to try and persuade them to help stem violence in Iraq.
US President George W. Bush reacted coolly. He has not ruled out a regional conference on Iraq involving Iran and Syria but the White House has indicated Iraq would have to set it up.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
AQ's recruitment drive: islamics all over the world will doubtless want to join in this righteous passtime of massacring innocents. It's what they always do, right? After all, this is the Religion of Peace: the kind of complete peace one gets by effecting complete destruction.
http://xtramsn.co.nz/news/0,,11965-7007895,00.html
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Conflicting Reports Over Blast In Iraqi City</b>
28/02/2007 07:35 AM
Reuters
The US military said it was unaware of a bomb attack in the city of Ramadi on Tuesday in which Iraqi officials and a tribal leader said 18 people, mostly children, had been killed.
Iraqiya state TV said all those killed near a soccer field were children while local tribal leader Hamid Farhan al-Hays told the station 12 were children and six were women. Police said 19 people, mostly children, were killed or wounded.
A US military spokesman, Major Jeff Pool, said a controlled blast by US soldiers near a soccer field in Ramadi slightly wounded 30 people, including nine children. He said the wounded had cuts and bruises.
"I can't imagine there would be another attack involving children without our people knowing," said Pool.
Hays blamed the blast on Sunni Arab-led al Qaeda, which is involved in an escalating power struggle with Sunni elders for control of Anbar province, heart of the Sunni insurgency in Iraq. Ramadi is the capital of Anbar.
"The groups which did this barbaric crime are al Qaeda," said Hays.
Iraqiya said the blast was caused by a car bomb, while police said it was a roadside bomb.
Police said the soccer field was near a US military base and that US military patrols frequently went past it.
<b>Qaeda</b>
A truck bomb near a Sunni mosque in Ramadi killed 52 people on Saturday, a day after the mosque's imam had made a speech criticising al Qaeda, which is entrenched in the area.
On Monday, a suicide bomber blew up an ambulance at a police station near Ramadi, killing 14 people including women and children.
The attacks signalled an increasing conflict in Anbar between al Qaeda and Sunni tribal leaders, officials have said.
Such attacks also underscore the violence gripping Iraq, as US and Iraqi forces step up a new security crackdown in Baghdad. Washington is also sending extra troops to Anbar.
As part of efforts to stabilise Iraq, officials from regional states including Iran and Syria would join U.S. and British envoys at a meeting in Baghdad next month, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari said on Tuesday.
The White House said Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki had not announced the conference, but if invited U.S. officials would attend and that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice would be a logical choice to participate.
The US embassy in Baghdad confirmed Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad would attend. A British embassy spokeswoman said Britain would also take part but it was unclear at what level.
Zebari said the mid-March meeting would be a chance for Western and regional powers to try to bridge some of their differences over Iraq.
"Our hope is that this will be an ice-breaking attempt for maybe holding other meetings in the future. We want Iraq, instead of being a divisive issue, to be a unifying issue," Zebari said by telephone from Denmark where he is on a visit.
In December, a report by the bipartisan US Iraq Study Group recommended Washington hold direct talks with Damascus and Tehran to try and persuade them to help stem violence in Iraq.
US President George W. Bush reacted coolly. He has not ruled out a regional conference on Iraq involving Iran and Syria but the White House has indicated Iraq would have to set it up.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->