Comments on: Death And Violence Continue To Drop In Iraq http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/4519 High Flying Political Debate Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:37:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: QT Monster's Place http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/4519/comment-page-1#comment-220897 QT Monster's Place Wed, 10 Oct 2007 21:19:59 +0000 http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/4519#comment-220897 <strong>Iraq: Death, Violence Decreasing...</strong> The Iraqi people continue to show signs that they are finished, disgusted with al-Qaeda:al-Qaeda is running out of land to operate from, the noose is tightening. Their brutality creates a backlash among the people they ‘control’ so fierce that if U... Iraq: Death, Violence Decreasing…

The Iraqi people continue to show signs that they are finished, disgusted with al-Qaeda:al-Qaeda is running out of land to operate from, the noose is tightening. Their brutality creates a backlash among the people they ‘control’ so fierce that if U…

]]> By: Soothsayer http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/4519/comment-page-1#comment-220792 Soothsayer Wed, 10 Oct 2007 14:09:37 +0000 http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/4519#comment-220792 Hate to flog a dead horse, as it were, but does 56 dead in one day - and the threat of lots more - sound like violence is dropping: Yesterday in Iraq: <blockquote>Two suicide car bombs killed 22 people in northern Iraq on Tuesday in attacks targeting a police chief and a tribal leader working with U.S. forces, part of an upsurge in violence that killed 56 across the country. The spate of attacks across Iraq, which also wounded nearly 120 people, marked one of the bloodiest days during the holy Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. Al Qaeda in Iraq has vowed to target officials and Sunni Arab tribal leaders who have joined the U.S. military to combat the Sunni Islamist group, pledging to ramp up attacks in Ramadan, which is expected to finish on the weekend. Also in Baghdad, a series of bomb blasts killed at least 11 people. And in the northern city of Mosul, authorities say gunmen shot dead a deputy police chief. The deadly incidents come as an Iraqi government report calls for the American security firm Blackwater USA to pay $136 million to the families of Iraqis killed in a recent shooting by the company - equal to $8 million per victim. Plumes of gray smoke rose from hillsides as Iraqi Kurdish farmers huddled Tuesday to peek into craters they said were left by artillery shells that hit close to Iraq’s restive boundary with Turkey. Although Ankara has not confirmed any shelling of Iraqi territory, the Turkish military has said it was carrying out an operation to track down Kurdish rebels after a deadly attack that killed 13 Turkish soldiers Sunday in a clash in the country’s southeast Turkish province of Sirnak. Turkey prepares for raids into Iraq. Turkey is preparing for a possible incursion into northern Iraq as the government says it is willing to take all necessary measures against Kurdish separatists it suspects of hiding there.</blockquote> Reconstruction is just around the corner. With the possible exception of that 1,000 year feud between Shia and Sunni, a breakaway Kurdistan, and the threat of a new war against neighboring Iran. Hate to flog a dead horse, as it were, but does 56 dead in one day – and the threat of lots more – sound like violence is dropping:

Yesterday in Iraq:

Two suicide car bombs killed 22 people in northern Iraq on Tuesday in attacks targeting a police chief and a tribal leader working with U.S. forces, part of an upsurge in violence that killed 56 across the country.

The spate of attacks across Iraq, which also wounded nearly 120 people, marked one of the bloodiest days during the holy Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.

Al Qaeda in Iraq has vowed to target officials and Sunni Arab tribal leaders who have joined the U.S. military to combat the Sunni Islamist group, pledging to ramp up attacks in Ramadan, which is expected to finish on the weekend.

Also in Baghdad, a series of bomb blasts killed at least 11 people. And in the northern city of Mosul, authorities say gunmen shot dead a deputy police chief.

The deadly incidents come as an Iraqi government report calls for the American security firm Blackwater USA to pay $136 million to the families of Iraqis killed in a recent shooting by the company – equal to $8 million per victim.

Plumes of gray smoke rose from hillsides as Iraqi Kurdish farmers huddled Tuesday to peek into craters they said were left by artillery shells that hit close to Iraq’s restive boundary with Turkey.

Although Ankara has not confirmed any shelling of Iraqi territory, the Turkish military has said it was carrying out an operation to track down Kurdish rebels after a deadly attack that killed 13 Turkish soldiers Sunday in a clash in the country’s southeast Turkish province of Sirnak.

Turkey prepares for raids into Iraq. Turkey is preparing for a possible incursion into northern Iraq as the government says it is willing to take all necessary measures against Kurdish separatists it suspects of hiding there.

Reconstruction is just around the corner. With the possible exception of that 1,000 year feud between Shia and Sunni, a breakaway Kurdistan, and the threat of a new war against neighboring Iran.

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