Massive Attack on Yazidis Kills nearly 200
The BBC says that Ninevah Province police are reporting that three car bombs targeted a Yazidi village in northern Iraq near Sinjar not far from the Syria border. One of them was a fuel truck. The bombings destroyed buildings and 175 are now being reported dead, with 200 wounded. The death toll is expected to rise.
Yazidis were targeted by Sunni gunmen last April, in part because of a clan feud sparked by a Juliet and Romeo star-crossed romance between a Yazidi young woman and a Sunni man.
This massive bombing is likely to be the work of the Sunni Arab guerrilla movement, which has been blocked from carrying out such destabilizing operations in Baghdad itself by Gen. Petraeus's efforts. The point is to spread generalized fear. It may be that Salafi Jihadis are also especially targeting non-Sunni populations in the north, since that has the double value to them of also punishing lack of orthodoxy.
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posted by Juan Cole @ 8/14/2007 12:34:00 PM
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This is so pathetic. The Yazidi, no matter what you think of their theology, pose no serious threat to Islam in Iraq. That these Sunni would target a tiny religious minority for having the nerve to even exist reveals them for the worthless human beings they are. It's like beating a puppy for not being a cat.
I hope you caught the Jim Miklaszewski segment about this on Hardball tonight. It was a classic Pentagon mouthpiece absurdity. He cited the typical "Pentagon officials" thinking this is al-Qaeda (note he used simply "al-Qaeda" countless times and only in a couple of instances referred to al-Qaeda in Iraq). His vast knowledge professed this is a classic "al-Qaeda" attack and he did not mention the Sunni guerrillas or other suspects so far as I caught. In another bold assertion, apparently it is also almost exclusively the foreign fighters carrying out the suicide attacks for "al-Qaeda." It seems surreal that correspondents responsible for covering the Pentagon at this point have either no clue about the war or otherwise deliberately choose to echo the oh-so-trustworthy words of the executors of this disaster.
Karl Rove's so-called political genius can be explained by this riddle.
Q: Why does a dog lick his own testicles?
A: Because he can.
Karl Rove discovered that he could engineer electoral victories by breaking any rule of decency (smears, McCain or Kerry) or by abandoning any duty (such as to protect Valerie Plame's identity), much as Adolf Hitler concluded he was a military genius for launching unprovoked attacks on other nations.
Never able to deliver a worthy candidate, he chose to support ne'er do wells such as our feckless leader. These rubes have ruined our country. Their trail of destruction is testament to Rove's ineptitude. Now Karl Rove wants to spend time with his family, retiring, we suppose, to a society still functioning despite his "genius" for trashing the fabric others have created.
This is Karl Rove. He uses and depends on that which he abuses and despises.
Someone not a coward might hang around Washington long enough to grow fat off his own blighted harvest.
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