Baghdad is under attack:
Two car bombs detonated in quick succession near a crowded market in eastern Baghdad, killing at least 16 people and wounding 90 in one of the worst attacks the capital has seen in weeks. […]
A roadside bomb killed an American soldier north of Baghdad, the U.S. military reported Friday. The soldier, assigned to Multi-National Division Baghdad, died Thursday evening. It was the sixth American military fatality this month; the deaths of five U.S. soldiers were announced Thursday.
Three soldiers died in a roadside bombing Wednesday when an explosion raked their vehicle south of Baghdad. A fourth soldier was killed Wednesday after being struck by small arms fire in southwestern Baghdad, and a U.S. marine was fatally wounded in combat near Falluja. It marked the deadliest day for the U.S. military in a month.
In the latest of a series of gruesome discoveries, the Iraqi police found the bullet-riddled bodies of 14 men in a ditch in eastern Baghdad, blindfolded, their hands bound. On Tuesday, 11 bodies were found in one of the capital’s western districts.
Indeed, things are going so well there, that Iraq is now exporting terrorists to Afghanistan to fight for the Taliban:
AL-QAEDA militants are moving from Iraq to Afghanistan to fight with the Taliban, officials said after the capture of several suspected foreign guerillas.
Authorities in Nimroz province reported the arrest of three Kashmiri Pakistanis and an Iraqi, in an ominous escalation of the threat to NATO forces.
The Governor of Nimroz has claimed that the Iraqi has admitted being part of a group of al-Qaeda-linked fighters despatched from Iraq to fight Western forces in Afghanistan.
I’m sure glad they’re killing our troops over there, so they won’t have to kill us over here. For one thing, it means I won’t be bothered by messy television coverage 24/7. After all, what happens in the Middle East, stays in the Middle East, right?
Oh and Donald Rumsfeld sounds prophetic these days, doesn’t he?
“Compelled by a militant ideology that celebrates murder and suicide with no territory to defend, with little to lose, they will either succeed in changing our way of life, or we will succeed in changing theirs,” Mr Rumsfeld told the National Press Club.
Well, we all know how that’s working out, now don’t we.
