Sunday, March 9, 2008

BRIT HUME'S FOX NEWS SUNDAY GUEST, REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN MIKE PENCE, OVERLOOKS REAL VIOLENCE IN IRAQ

Brit Hume, Washington bureau chief and managing editor of FOX NEWS, subbed for Chris Wallace on "Fox News Sunday" and one of his guests was Republican Congressmen (R-Ind.) Mike Pence who had just returned from Iraq and was boasting about how secure Iraq has become.

Pence did admit the peace was fragile, but he obviously didn't visit any of the areas covered in this report about violence all across Iraq.

CAR BOMBINGS, SUICIDE BOMBERS AND VIOLENCE MARK LIFE IN IRAQ

Baghdad blast toll rises to 68
Thursday: 97 Iraqis Killed, 148 Wounded
Saturday: 1 GI, 7 Iraqis Killed; 14 Iraqis Wounded; 100 Bodies Found
Friday: 27 Iraqis Killed, 33 Wounded

HadithaFour killed by a roadside bomb on the road between Haditha and Baiji

TikritOne police officer killed, three injured in bomb attack on their patrol. Two similar attacks on police patrols in the city caused no injuries. VoI says no damage was caused by these two bombs, but DPA says shops were damaged.

IskandariyaGunmen storm the house of a neighborhood supervisor, killing him and his son. Police later kill four people said to be suspects in the incident.

MosulRemotely detonated car bomb in a garage kills two civilians, injures 5.

Musayab (south of Baghdad)A boy is killed by a roadside bomb.

KarbalaPolice arrest 34 people, including 3 believed to belong to the Ahmed al-Yamani Organization. This is the outlawed messianic movement which has frequently clashed with the authorities in the Shiite south. It is unclear whether the others arrested are suspected militia members, or common criminals.

BaqubaA civilian is killed by gunmen suspected of belonging to the al Qaeda in Iraq organization.The same VoI story says that a mass grave was discovered in al-Salam district, 15 km north of Baaquba, on Sunday, without giving further details. This probably refers to the grave containing 6 bodies found in Khalis near the larger one found yesterday, reported by DPA. DPA quotes VoI as its source, but the DPA dispatch contains more information than the English language VoI posting. I'm assuming the additional information is in the Arabic report --

FallujaAll roads out of the city have been sealed by U.S. forces after a report that "terrorists" have infiltrated.

FOX NEWS' BRIT HUME allowed REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN PENCE to brag about how secure certain sections of Iraq have become. Pence must have been having lunch inside of Camp Victory when all of the above was happening in Iraq.

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