Again, this is from Juan Cole, Informed Comment:
Monday, April 03, 2006Now, Mr. Bush, can you tell me with a straight face that things are going well in Iraq?
Violence Kills 50
Health, Food, Security Situations Spiral Down
Sunday, April 02, 2006
42 Bodies Found in Iraq
19 Others Killed in Separate Incidents
In a macabre harvest, 42 bodies were found in various places in Iraq on Saturday, killed in night-time sectarian reprisals. AP counts another 19 killed in separate incidents in Baghdad, Basra and elsewhere. In Basra, a Sunni cleric was killed. On Friday evening a minibus full of Shiites was shot up, with 5 deaths.
Friday, March 31, 2006
Guerrillas shot dead 8 oil workers at the Baiji refinery
Thursday, March 30, 2006
A US soldier was killed in Habbaniyah and another was shot dead south of Baghdad.
Thursday, March 30, 2006
A US soldier was killed in Habbaniyah and another was shot dead south of Baghdad.
Wednesday, March 29, 2006
Dozens Kidnapped, Killed, Wounded
A car bomb wounded 11 in an attack on police in the norther part of the city of Hilla.
Guerrillas killed two US soldiers in separate incidents and wounded 3, at an installation near to Baghdad. Three guerrilla cells kidnapped 24 Iraqis in Baghdad on Tuesday, from 2 electronics shops and a money changing stall. Guerrilla violence killed 9 and wounded 29 in separate incidents around the country.
Tuesday, March 28, 2006
As Many as 90 Killed
A suicide bomber struck an army recruiting station near Tal Afar in northern Iraq, killing 40 and wounding 20. President Bush recently lauded the situation in Tal Afar and environs as a US success story. About 29 corpses corpses showed up in the streets of Baghdad, most of them strangled and tortured.
Monday, March 27, 2006
69 Killed in Separate Outbreaks of Violence
All hell broke loose in Iraq on Sunday, but I'm darned if I can figure out most of what happened or why. It seems possible that the US committed two major military blunders that will worsen its relationship with Iraqi political forces. So they found 30 decapitated bodies near Buhriz, an old Baath stronghold in Diyala northeast of Baghdad. Those killed were a mix of Shiites and Sunnis
Sunday, March 26, 2006
40 Casualties in Mahdi Army clash with Sunni Arab guerrillas
AP reports that major clashes were fought Saturday at Mahmudiyah south of Baghdad
Saturday, March 25, 2006
Year Four of Iraq Civil War: 51 Killed
AP reports that guerrilla violence in Iraq killed 51 on Friday. In addition to bombings and drive-by shootings, police discovered 25 bodies, killed execution-style, in Kadhimiyah and Binok districts. (Kadhimiyah is largely Shiite). AP adds, "The rising death toll among Iraqis on Friday included five worshippers killed in a bombing outside a Sunni Muslim mosque after Friday prayers. At least 15 were wounded in the blast in Khalis, northeast of Baghdad."
Friday, March 24, 2006
Guerrilla Violence Kills 58
A suicide bomber detonated his payload outside the major crime unit of the Ministry of the Interior on Thursday, killing 15 policemen and 10 civilians and wounding 35 others.
Thursday, March 23, 2006
At Least 35 Killed
Roadside bombs targetting police in Baghdad and Iskandariyah killed five and wounded a dozen on Wednesday.
Guerrillas in Baghdad killed 15 Shiite pilgrims in separate attacks, and wounded scores others, as they returnted from the 40th day commemoration of the anniversary of the martyrdom of Imam Husain, the grandson of the Prophet, at Karbala. The United Nations is expressing concern that since the Askariyah Shrine bombing of Feb. 22, the security situation has been in a downward spiral and wants the Iraqi government to do something about it.
Tuesday, March 21, 2006
39 Killed
Sunni Arabs demand War Reparations from US
At least 39 Iraqis were killed in guerrilla violence on Monday,
Monday, March 20, 2006
Allawi: This is Civil War
35 Killed in Sectarian Violence
Iyad Allawi, the former interim prime minister of Iraq, said Sunday that Iraq is in a civil war.
Sunday, March 19, 2006
Baghdad police announced Saturday that they had found another 18 bodies in the streets. There were some bombings, including an attack on pilgrims heading to Karbala. It turns out that the head of the Iraqi army was almost killed in Kirkuk on Thursday. It was announced on Saturday that on Thursday guerrillas north of Tikrit killed 2 US soldiers and wounded another. It grinds on.
Friday, March 17, 2006
Security sources told al-Hayat that a boy was killed and six other persons were wounded by the bullets of the Peshmerga paramilitary, who opened fire to disperse the demonstrators.
Thursday, March 16, 2006
Two Shiite pilgrims were shot dead in Baghdad on Wednesday, among other killings and bombings in the capital, in Baqubah and in Anbar province, which include the killing of two US soldiers.
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
80 Bodies Found
Massive Attack on Green Zone Foiled
Some 80 bodies have been found in Baghdad and environs since Monday. On Tuesday alone, police discovered 46 bodies around the capital. They appear mostly to have been Sunni Arabs targeted by enraged Shiites attacked by the guerrillas during the past three weeks. Some were in the back of a minibus. Some were in a mass grave in Shiite East Baghdad. The latter were discovered when passers-by saw blood oozing out of the earth. Blood oozing out of the earth is a good metaphor for Iraq nowadays. As one of my readers noted, if the US military isn't in Iraq to prevent a civil war, then they must be there to guard the oil. I feel an editorial photo-cartoon coming on.
Tuesday, March 14, 2006
More Bombs Kill 11, Wound 40
There was more violence on Monday in Baghdad, according to AP:
' Bomb blasts in Baghdad and north of the capital - many of them targeting Iraqi police patrols - killed at least 11 more people Monday and wounded more than 40. They included a U.S. soldier killed in a roadside bombing in east Baghdad, the military said. A U.S. Marine was reported killed Sunday in the western insurgent-plagued province of Anbar. ' Angry Shiites in Sadr City appear to have strung up 4 Sunni Arabs and hung them from lamp posts, after the attacks on Sunday.
Monday, March 13, 2006
80 Killed, over 200 Wounded in Black Sunday
Dawn estimates that mortar attacks and bombings in Iraq killed 80 persons on Sunday. Other sources suggest the number of wounded may exceed 200. Some 52 of the dead were killed by carbombings at markets in Shiite Sadr City, east Baghdad. The violence is aimed at provoking sectarian warfare, in hopes it would force the US out and pave the way for a coup by the guerrillas.
Sunday, March 12, 2006
Breaking News: Massive Bombings in Baghdad
A string of carbombings in Baghdad Sunday killed three or four dozen people and wounded over a hundred. Two of the big blasts targeted the poor Shiites of Sadr City, who have proven in the past especially willing to engage in reprisal killings against Sunni Arabs. It seems likely that this is the guerrillas' further attempt to bait them into sectarian civil war.
Saturday, March 11, 2006
20 Killed in Guerrilla Violence
Friday, March 10, 2006
11 Killed in Blasts
Aljazeera reports,
One of the deadly blasts on Thursday targeted an Iraqi army patrol in al-Amariyah, a middle-class neighbourhood in west Baghdad, killing nine civilians and wounding six, according to Major Falah al-Mohammedawi of the Interior Ministry.
At Yarmouk hospital in west Baghdad, a car bomb was detonated, killing at least two people and wounding 13 as they entered the clinic, according to police Lieutenant Thaer Mahmoud. and adds, "Several other large blasts were heard in the capital on Thursday, but police only had details about one - a roadside bomb aimed at a police patrol in al-Jihad, a mostly Sunni western neighbourhood. Three bystanders were hurt."
Aljazeera also reports that the US military is now confirming that the 50 security guards of a firm owned by an uncle of Vice President Ghazi al-Yawir were kidnapped by persons unknown, who were wearing stolen uniforms of the special police commandos of the Ministry of the Interior. Most of them were from the mostly Sunni Arab Shamar tribe, to which the al-Yawirs belong. Many Shamar clans in the north form part of the guerrilla movement, but I am told that there was no reason to suspect this firm of being other than it represented itself. Obviously someone--probably hard line Shiites-- had suspicions about it, however.
Thursday, March 09, 2006
24 Found Dead
Police patrols discovered 24 dead bodies in Baghdad on Wednesday, which had been strangled or shot. They were probably victims of sectarian reprisal killings. Another six were killed in bombings and other violence.
Guerrillas killed two US Marines.
Al-Zaman says that the security situation has gotten so bad in Mosul, with constant kidnappings and violence, that provincial governor Kashmulah has decreed that ordinary citizens may carry around a pistol or even a Kalashnikov machine gun.
Wednesday, March 08, 2006
Reuters reports several bombs and attacks in Baghdad, as well as in Baqubah, Khalis, Kirkuk and elsewhere, leaving over a dozen dead. Significant items include the assassination of 3 members of Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Militia in Baqubah; the blowing up of a Sunni shrine in Tikrit; and a mortar attack on the offices in Baghdad of the National Dialogue Council (Sunni Arab neo-Baathists). [NDC leader Salih Mutlak said last summer that you couldn't find a better party for Iraq than the Baath).
Tuesday, March 07, 2006
Over 20 Dead in Guerrilla Violence
The Iraqi general in charge of Baghdad security was killed by a sniper on Monday. I suppose it doesn't need underlining that this is very bad news for Baghdad security. The assassinated commander, himself a Sunni Arab who led men during the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s, was almost certainly the victim of an inside job. The Iraqi military is deeply infiltrated by guerrilla supporters.
He was among over 20 deaths from guerrilla violence in Iraq on Monday, which saw several car bombs in Baghdad and a major one in Baqubah. The actions in these two cities killed 11 and wounded 30. In downtown Basra, there was a firefight at a police checkpoint that wounded 4. A car bomb in Mahmudiyah killed 3 and wounded 5.
The dean of the engineering school at Mustansiriyah University in the capital, Dr. Ali Hasan al-Mahawish, was kidnapped.
A US soldier was killed by enemy action in the western Anbar province.
Monday, March 06, 2006
3 Mosques Attacked
Sunday, March 05, 2006
Saturday, March 04, 2006
The killing, execution-style, of some 25 Shiite workers in a brick-making plant in Nahrawan by Sunni Arab guerrillas caused renewed ethnic tensions on Friday.
Friday, March 03, 2006
Friday Headlines to Make You Laugh and Cry at the Same Time
25 Dead in Sectarian Strike at Nahrawan
Sunni Arab guerrillas attacked Shiites in the town of Nahrawan. Some 25 are feared dead, with bodies being pulled out of a factory and some found in a field.
On Thursday, 33 people were killed in guerrilla violence, including in a bomb attack on a Shiite area.
Reuters says:
' In one of the bloodiest attacks on Thursday, at least five people were killed and eight wounded when a car bomb went off in the Shiite-dominated Sadr City district of Baghdad, a security official said.
"A car loaded with explosives was parked not far from a market in Sadr City," the official said.
In another attack in Baghdad, four people were killed and 11 wounded, mostly women, when a bomb exploded in a market in the mixed south-eastern Jaafaraniya district, an Interior Ministry official said. '
Thursday, March 02, 2006
Violence Leaves 30 Dead
Guerrilla violence killed 30 in Iraq on Wednesday.
The Financial Times says
"bloodshed in central Iraq continued into its third day on Wednesday, with at least 30 killed in bombings and mortar attacks in Baghdad and neighboring regions. In the worst of Wednesday’s attacks, 23 people were killed in a car bomb in a mostly-Shia district of Baghdad. Tuesday’s death toll meanwhile was at least 76, feeding fears that the February 21 bombing of a Shia shrine and the subsequent wave of reprisals may produce a sustained surge in political and sectarian killings."
Wednesday, March 01, 2006
Salon: Iraq's worst week -- and Bush's
Deadly Sectarian Violence kills 76, Wounds 179
The Los Angeles Times estimates the dead in various attacks throughout Iraq on Tuesday at 76, with 179 wounded. Details are below.
I don't think so.
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