Tal Afar Bombing Kills 20, Wounds 70
Did Coalition Ship 200,000 Guns to Guerrillas?
Guerrillas killed 11 persons on a busnear Baqubah Wednesday morning.
At least 30 Iraqis died in the civil war on Tuesday. Some 14 corpses showed up on the streets in Baghdad and Kut, according to al-Zaman.
Guerrillas killed at least 20 and wounded 70 with a truck bomb in Tal Afar, the northern Turkoman city that the US reduced in August of 2005.
In southern Baghdad, someone assassinated Sunni cleric Ra'id Muhammad al-Dulaimi.
The Mirror may be a tabloid, but it asks a good question: have 200,000 AK47s been delivered to the guerrilla insurgency by corrupt contractors instead of to the new Iraqi military? It is apparently a distinct possibility.
David Enders in Iraq has more at Salon.com on the attempt of Muqtada al-Sadr's movement to model itself on Lebanon's Hizbullah-- i.e. services, politics and paramilitary all rolled into one.
Prime Minister Designate Nuri al-Maliki has announced some progress in forming a government. This has after 5 years become the sort of thing where we'll believe it when we see it.
posted by Juan Cole @ 5/10/2006 12:30:00 AM
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On the Mirror's good question...
' Orders for the deal to go ahead were given by the US Department of Defense. But the work was contracted out via a complex web of private arms traders.
' But air traffic controllers in Baghdad have no record of the flights, which supposedly took off between July 2004 and July 2005. A coalition forces spokesman confirmed they had not received "any weapons from Bosnia" and added they were "not aware of any purchases for Iraq from Bosnia". '
Might this not be part of the Negroponte "El Salvador" option of sponsoring terrorism, initially perhaps to justify their own terrorist "counter terrorism" methods, now degenerated, if such a degenerate plan can be said to degenerate further, into the present neocon tactic of spreading chaos and sectarian violence in Iraq for its own sake?
For the construction of permanent US military and "diplomatic" enclaves proceeds apace, while the otherwise inexplicable "lack of planning" for the occupation of Iraq has left the country a basketcase, fully three years and nearly 500 billion dollars later.
And now the neocons are preparing the same destruction and chaos for Iran as we all watch, horrifed, Iraq redux unfold in slow motion before our eyes.
If I were George W Bush and actually held his supposed beliefs, I might not have the courage to face my maker either.
It may well be a sense of despair at his own monstrous sins that is driving him now. Lord help the rest of us on this earth.
Professor Cole, any idea what this odd story is about?
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7374-2174046,00.html
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