Baghdad was one of the cities the Bush Administration and their puppet propaganda network, FOX NEWS, were claiming the violence was brought under control by "the surge," but on Monday Baghdad exploded with violence including the death of two more American soldiers.
Ten rockets and mortar rounds were fired into the heavily guarded "Green Zone" in Baghdad on Saturday. The "Green Zone" is the seat of the Iraqi government as well as the United States and British embassies. "Camp Victory," home to thousands of U.S. military personnel deployed to Baghdad, is situated nearby the "Green Zone."
There were other incidents of violence in other provinces and cities in Iraq as unrest and chaos are on the rise in the war torn country.
Meanwhile, back in the United States the mainstream media has turned a deaf ear and a blind eye to the escalation of violence in Baghdad and all across Iraq.
By Bill Corcoran, editor of CORKSPHERE, http://corksphere.blogspot.com/ the blog that brings readers the TRUTH about conditions in Baghdad and the rest of Iraq and not Bush White House "spin" or propaganda by the Bush White House public relations tool, FOX NEWS.
TWO MORE GIS KILLED IN BAGHDAD AS VIOLENCE SWEEPS ACROSS IRAQ
MAN IN WHEELCHAIR BLOWS HIMSELF UP OUTSIDE A POLICE STATION
MNF-Iraq is reporting the death of a Multi-National Division - Baghdad soldier in an IED attack in a northern neighborhood of Baghdad on Sunday, February 24th. MNF-Iraq is reporting the death of a Multi-National Division - Baghdad soldier from a small-arms fire attack in a southern neighborhood of Baghdad on Sunday, February 24th.
The Danish Ministry of Defense is reporting the death of a soldier in a training accident in Helmand province in Afghanistan on Sunday, February 24th. Here's the ISAF statement.Security incidents:Baghdad:#1:
Also Monday, a roadside bomb exploded in the middle of a crowd of Shiite Muslims in southeastern Baghdad on Monday, killing three and wounding 15, an Interior Ministry official told CNN. The strike, in the Zafaraniya district, is the latest in a flurry of attacks against pilgrims trekking to Karbala for al-Arbaeen, one of the holiest days of the Shiite religious calendar. It falls on Wednesday this year.
#2: An Iraqi militant group has posted a video on the internet showing the killings of 12 Nepalese men who worked for a Nepalese company with a US contract. In 2004, an Iraqi militant group killed 12 Nepali hostages who had gone to Iraq to work as cooks and cleaners for a Jordanian firm. It showed pictures of one being beheaded and the others with bullet wounds to the head and back.The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) has dismissed news reports of killing of 12 Nepali workers in Iraq by Islamic insurgents. MoFA spokesperson Hira Bahadur Thapa told Nepalnews that Nepali embassies in Islamabad and Saudi Arabia reported to the ministry, after being asked to find out the truth, that so far no proof had been found to corroborate the news.
#2: A traffic policeman was wounded when two improvised explosive devices went off simultaneously in downtown Baghdad, Baghdad operations command said on Monday. "Two roadside explosive charges detonated simultaneously on Muhammad al-Qasim highway while an Iraqi police patrol was passing the location, wounding a traffic cop who was close to the scene of the blast," a spokesman for the operations command, Major General Qassim Ata, told Aswat al-Iraq, Voices of Iraq,Around 12:30 p.m., two roadside bombs exploded at the Qasim highway near the Shaab stadium (east Baghdad).
Two people were injured in that incident.#3: Around 7:30 a.m., a roadside bomb exploded at Zafaraniyah neighborhood (east Baghdad) near Al-Noor mosque. No casualties recordedDiyala Prv:Baquba:
#1: Gunmen wearing Iraqi army uniforms stormed a house and killed a woman near Baquba, police said.
#2: Police found the decomposing bodies of eight women who had been blindfolded, handcuffed and shot in the head, in a grave in a town just north of Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.
#3: "Unidentified gunmen killed two persons near a garage in central Baaquba," the source, who declined to reveal his name, told Aswat al-Iraq – Voices of IraqIskandariya:#1: (update) The death toll from Sunday's suicide bomb attack on Iraqi pilgrims heading to a Shi'ite festival south of Baghdad has risen to 63, a health official said on Monday.Basra:
#1: This morning, gunmen opened fire on three oil company guards at Bahadriya of Abu Al-Khaseeb, southeast of Basra. One guard was killed and the other two were seriously injured.
#2: Police found the body of the engineer Ali Mahmoud at Hamdan neighborhood in south Basra. Ali was kidnapped a month ago from his house at a residential compound by gunmen who were wearing police uniforms.Samarra:
#1: A disabled, wheelchair-bound man blew himself up on Monday in a northern Iraqi police station, killing a top police official and wounding six police officers, police told CNN. The attack, which occurred in Samarra in Salaheddin province. A high-ranking official with Samarra police said that the man came to meet with Brig. Gen. Abdul Jabbar Rabei Muttar, the deputy commander of security, at the security operations building in the city. The pair met last week as well. The man was searched when he entered the building, but police didn't look under his wheelchair seat, where the explosives had been placed. The man detonated the explosives when Muttar approached him.
In a separate attack on Monday, a handicapped man in a wheel chair wearing an explosives vest blew himself up inside a police building in the central city of Samarra, killing three policemen, including a general, officials said.Hawija:
#1: A civilian was killed and nine people were wounded (6 of them are Sahwa members including the leader of Sahwa Colonel Hussein Khalaf Ali and a commander of battalion in Sahwa) when a car bomb exploded targeting Sahwa members in Hawija town south of Kirkuk on Monday morning. Kirkuk:
#1: In the oil-rich city of Kirkuk, a police commander, General Sarhad Qadir, escaped an assassination attempt, according to security officials. A bomb went off as the general's motorcade was driving by the main hospital in central Kirkuk. In Kirkuk, police chief Brigadier Sarhad Qader escaped injury when a roadside explosive device detonated as his convoy passed, KUNA reported. Mosul:
#1: In the northern city of Mosul, three people from the same family including a child, and four women were injured in a blast. An object fell on a house in the Tal al-Roman area, in western Mosul, causing the blast, security sources told VOI. A mortar shell killed three and wounded four civilians.
#2: Also in Mosul, four policemen were killed in an attack by gunmen on their patrol in the eastern Muarid district, VOI reported.
10 comments:
You can't fight violence with violence, you MUST use peace. People are scared and have all but lost hope. We cannot afford to loose hope. If perhaps we were to make reperations without guns and death to recapture the people trust the "terrorists" would stop. We are all people and we all bleed the same color, we all have loved ones. It isn't just oh a soldier died that is one family and countless others forever changed. Mister Bush fuck you and your surge all you understand is violence. I took me a while to realize this, but doing to them what they did to us doesn't make us better, it makes us Monsters.
You obviously have never been to Iraq otherwise you would know that Camp Victory is not in the Green Zone. So if that little very simple fact escapes your "expertise" it shows how little truth is probably in the rest of your garbage on this site. Sleep well tonight as we who are actually here in Iraq protect your ability to do so.
dhAnon #1...yeah and use peace won the Civil War, WWI and WWII right? Using peace stopped Hitler from murdering millions of Jews...oh wait...no peace didn't do that...the United States Military did that! So you just continue to enjoy your peace as those of us who are fighting to protect your peace continue to do so.
As long as you are going to take off on me for moving Camp Victory inside the "Green Zone" from a few KM away at the Baghdad airport, I would think you would identify yourself. And BTW, do you really think this war is worth it? What have you accomplished? Are the Iraqi people better off now than they were before? According to everything I read and report the Iraqi people are not doing well since we invaded their country. They have little potable water and electricity is on only a few hours a day. So what is it the U.S. military is doing in Iraq to make things better for the Iraqi people?
To GI anonymous:
You are typical of the right wingers who claim everything I write is a lie,but everything I write is backed up with links to reliable news sources.
You'll wake up someday, young man. I was a combat engineer in the U.S. Army in the Korean War and it took me years to realize that war was a total waste of time and over 56,000 young American lives.
This war is no different. And BTW, have you heard about how the mainstream media in the U.S. has turned their back on you guys? They don't write about you nor do they report on anything that is happening in Iraq on FOX NEWS and other right wing corporate media outlets. If you think the media in the U.S. cares about YOU and your buddies, you are living in a dream world. They don't even print or report about the Iraq war anymore. You are living the second "Forgotten War" and don't even realize it. I was in the first "Forgotten War," the Korean War, and now the Iraq War is the second "Forgotten War." You should be thanking me for trying to keep the war in front of the American people instead of making typical right wing idiotic remarks about my blog and what I post. Just because Camp Victory isn't inside the Green Zone doesn't mean everything I print is false and you know it or you really aren't in Iraq at all.
According to the Iraq Study Group (led by republicans but bi-partisan), the war in Iraq has made us less safe. Not only because of terrorism, but because of the money we are spending there is not going to keep our infrastructure here safe (levees, bridges, fires and so on). Therefore, it is a false cliche that fighting there is making us safe...go read The Iraq Group Report. You'll see...we are far less safe because of the fighting in Iraq. Very different from the Civil War or other wars. This was a war of choice, based on KNOWING (see Downing Street Minutes) LIES. I am sorry for those fighting there who were lied to, but please do not suggest that we are safer because of it. FACTS say we are not.
The reason the MSM in the US is no longer covering the war is b/c it is in fact getting much better thanks to the surge and being they can no longer use it to bash the military or President Bush that is why they are no longer covering it.
So you just go right on reading Al Jazeera and other anti-American outlets for your sources and I'll keep protecting your right to be wrong.
If you think things are getting better since "the surge," I suggest you read my new post on this blog where I take to task FOX NEWS' Jennifer Griffin for NOT reporting on all the information I provide in my thread about what is happening in Iraq.
If what I report is an indication of how well "the surge" is going, then I think you and everyone in America are in a whale of lot of trouble, and that doesn't even take into consideration the poor Iraqi people and the GIs who are stuck in this quagmire.
I see the same reports every day and actually track them daily. Why not compare your "news" to the news a year ago. Violence down 80% in Baghdad and now nearly non-existant in Anbar. The only place left where any serious violence is happening is in Mosul and once we wipe them out there, al qaeda will have no major operation center left from which to operate. So as I've said over and over. I'm here, you aren't. I know what is really going on on the ground and you have absolutely no clue. Just b/c you can quote news stories without giving any context to them means absolutely nothing b/c I can quote just as many if not more of Iraqis turning in caches of weapons and foreign terrorist every single day. Last time I'll waste my time on here, so once again, enjoy your sleep free of worrying about terrorist b/c I'm taking care of them here so they don't go there. Enjoy the koolaid.
To Anonymous from IRAQ???????
You certainly have memorized the FOX NEWS "double-speak" when it comes to the Iraq War. Right down to using words like "kook aid" and talking about Anbar province as if the U.S. military had something to do with cleaning that province up when EVERYONE (it has even been reported in the press in the U.S.) that it was the Iraqi tribal leaders who banded together and ran Al Qaeda out of Anbar.
My feelings you are NOT in the military but probably work for Blackwater, KBR or Haliburton, just a few of the companies making a ton of money off of the Iraq war.
But as long as you wanna play "military wannabe, enjoy yourself.
You even have that stupid FOX NEWS line down about fighting them over there so we don't have to fight them here in the U.S.
Enjoy your make believe world. And BTW, I hope you are making a ton of U.S. taxpayer dollars working for some defense contractor because U.S. military you are NOT.
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