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54 Die in Post-Withdrawal Bombings

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Posted on Jul 10, 2009
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Iraqis inspect wreckage after a suicide attack in Tal Afar, a town near Mosul.

Thursday saw the deadliest day since the withdrawal of most U.S. soldiers from Iraq’s urban areas, with 54 people being killed in attacks across the country. Some believe the increase in bombings is an attempt to delegitimize the post-U.S. Iraqi security forces. Others believe it to be just the continuation of six years of bloodshed.

The Los Angeles Times:

In the deadliest day of violence since the withdrawal of most U.S. troops from Iraq’s cities last week, at least 54 people were killed in bombings Thursday in Baghdad and other locations.

Prime Minister Nouri Maliki has warned that various armed groups will try to discredit Iraq’s security forces and cause instability as American troops pull back. The majority of U.S. troops left their bases in the cities June 30, in accordance with a security agreement signed by officials late last year.  

The worst attack Thursday occurred in Tall Afar in Nineveh province in the north, where a double suicide bombing killed 34 people, prompting a senior Iraqi official to express concern that the country’s security forces, now fully responsible for protecting the cities, had been penetrated by armed groups.

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By John Hanks, July 14, 2009 at 12:14 pm Link to this comment
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These stupid adventures serve only sociopaths and the useless rich.

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By rodney, July 14, 2009 at 12:53 am Link to this comment
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can’t wait for the holy month of ram a bomb

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By John Hanks, July 12, 2009 at 7:59 am Link to this comment
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You lost your losing hand.  Quit moaning for another chance.  Get the hell out.  100,000 French were slaughtered when Hitler pulled out.

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By rollzone, July 10, 2009 at 7:55 pm Link to this comment

hello. bring all our troops home and put them on the southern border. let the foreigners have what they want. live there, or come live here. kill yourselves, but no longer us. bring our soldiers home from Afghanistan. we have no reason for being there. our war business is better served with defense posturing here in our country. we do not deserve daily body counts. our economy does not need to support these exercises in human slaughter. allow our troops to live long enough with all their body parts intact to join local police, and fight the burgeoning gang problem here at home. exporting murder is not what my country stood for; sadly does.

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By KDelphi, July 10, 2009 at 1:04 pm Link to this comment

I dont want to downplay it either, but is someone surprised? The US has destroyed Iraq.

But, Af-Pak is the “good ” war, right? These “drones” attacks, by Stealth Bush (Obama) are war crimes…more war crimes..

“Since early 2009, Barack Obama administration officials have been claiming that the predator attacks in Pakistan have killed nine of 20 top al Qaeda officials, but they have refused to disclose how many civilians have been killed in the strikes….


In April, The News, a newspaper in Lahore, Pakistan, published figures provided by Pakistani officials indicating that 687 civilians have been killed along with 14 al Qaeda leaders in some 60 drone strikes since January 2008 – just over 50 civilians killed for every al Qaeda leader.

“The initial story on the CIA payments for placing the chips by Carol Grisanti and Mushtaq Yusufzai of NBC News Apr. 17 was based on a confession by a 19-year-old in North Waziristan on a video released by the Taliban. In his confession, the young man says, “I was given 122 dollars to drop chips wrapped in a cigarette paper at al Qaida and Taliban houses. If I was successful, I was told, I would be given thousands of dollars.”


“He goes on to say, “I thought this was a very easy job. The money was so good so I started throwing the chips all over. I knew people were dying because of what I was doing, but I needed the money”

He was later shot as a traitor.

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By ardee, July 10, 2009 at 12:14 pm Link to this comment

Without seeming to minimize death and tragedy I would offer that this is but the beginning of the chaos we ourselves created.

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