Monday, July 09, 2007

More signs of progress in Iraq

Right in Baghdad, the focus of the surge: a car bomb, an attack on police, and another 26 sectarian killings.
"Attacks on U.S. supply convoys rise"? But how? Isn't Al-Qaeda on the run? 12 workers killed in Baghdad? Could there possibly be other groups in Iraq destabilising the situation other than Al-Qaeda? Wouldn't the Decider have mentioned this? If this were true, I'm sure the right-wing blogs would have discussed it, because they are very scrupulous about honesty and the truth. Okay, you got me; they don't care about either one at all.
Right-wing bloggers love cites, apparently, so here ya go:

Story from Xinhua


Four people killed in Iraqi violence, 26 corpses found

Attacks on U.S. supply convoys in Iraq rise: report
Iraqi FM warns of civil war if U.S. troops leave
Nine Iraqi soldiers killed in bomb attack
Another car bomb kills civilian in Baghdad
Gunmen execute 12 workers in village of southern Baghdad


Four people were killed and three others injured in two separate attacks in Baghdad on Monday, while the Iraqi police picked up 26 corpses from the streets of the Iraqi capital, an Interior Ministry source said.

A car bomb, parking in the Kendi Street where dozens of private clinics and shops located in Baghdad's western neighborhood of Harthiyah, went off near a passing police patrol in the afternoon, killing a civilian and wounding three others, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

Separately, gunmen opened fire on a police patrol in Baghdad's northern neighborhood of Sliekh, killing three policemen, the source said.

In addition, the source said that the police patrol collected 26 unidentified bodies in execution-style in Baghdad's neighborhoods during the past 24 hours.

Most of the bodies were handcuffed, blindfolded and showing signs of torture with bullet holes riddled in the chest and the head, he said.

Insurgency, sectarian violence and daily gruesome finding of unidentified corpses continued in the capital despite the U.S. and Iraqi security staged a security plan in the capital since Feb. 14 with an aim of putting rampant violence under control.

Source: Xinhua

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