Thursday, May 16, 2013

At least 24 deaths and forty-four injured

Through yesterday, Iraq Body Count counts 256 violent deaths in Iraq through yesterday -- 38 deaths yesterday alone with Dar Addustour counting 12 bombings in Baghad.  Al Rafidayn reports that, as usual, Nouri immediately blamed the violence on 'Ba'athists.'  National Iraqi News Agency reports that Iraqiya MP Nada al-Jubouri is calling for an emergency session of Parliament to address yesterday's bombings, "These repeated security breaches came as a result of the lack of a way to detect car bombs, which claim the lives of people, in addition to the weakness of the intelligence information." 

Today National Iraqi News Agency reports a Mosul roadside bombing left two Iraqi soldiers injured, 2 Mosul car bombings have left six people injured, the brother of Iraqiya MP Ahmed Msari was shot dead in Baghdad, a Tikrit roadside bombing claimed the lives of 2 police officers and left a third injured,  a Mosul car bombing injured two police officers, another Mosul car bombing claimed the lives of 2 Iraqi soldiers and left three injured, Mosul security forces shot dead 1 suspect,  1 police officer was shot dead in Falluja,  and a car bomb went off in the Sadr City section of Baghdad. On the last one, Sinan Salaheddin (AP) reports that the Sadr City bombing resulted in 9 deaths ("including a 7-year old child") and sixteen injured while another Baghdad car bombing claimed the lives of 3 people with fourteen injured.


That's 19 reported deaths so far today and forty-four injured.

And already those figures are out of date.  Alsumaria is reporting a bombing targeting a Kirkuk funeral has claimed 4 lives and left twenty-five people injured -- and 1 corpse (shot dead) was found in Kirkuk.

Those car bombs?  Nouri al-Maliki not only continues their use in Baghdad -- magic wands that never worked and were a scam -- but he ordered their purchase despite the fact that the Ministry of Interior found out in 2009 that they didn't work. The Iraq Times notes that growing anger and criticism from Iraqi citizens of the wasted money on these devices that never worked.

The user pumps his feet while holding the grip of the wand and 'magically' it moves and will tell you whether ot not there's a bomb in a car.

It doesn't work.

So when Iraqi police officers use that, they waste time. They're using a device that doesn't work (made to use it) and that time could have been spent on actual security work instead that might have prevented some violence.

All Iraq News notes Nouri has imposed a curfew on Ramadi and Falluja.  Looking at the above, those aren't today's hot spots.  What's going on?  UPI explains:

 Tribal forces in the Sunni-dominated province said they have an Iraqi military headquarters in Ramadi surrounded. They said they want Iraqi forces, alleged to have conducted raids on the community early Thursday, to leave immediately.
Sunni elder Ali Hatem al-Suleiman told CNN that tribal forces don't want to negotiate with the government after the latest raids.
"This is it. Enough is enough," he said. "We will attack every Iraqi army checkpoint in Anbar if they don't withdraw from Anbar province immediately."



Protests have been taking place in Iraq since December 21st.  Nouri's response to demands for public services, an end to government corruption, releasing the innocent from prisons, etc. has mainly been to have his forces kill a protester here and a protester there.  He upped that last month with a mass killing.   The April 23rd massacre by Nouri's forces storming a sit-in in Hawija resulted in massive deaths and injuries.  Alsumaria noted Kirkuk's Department of Health (Hawija is in Kirkuk)  announced 50 activists have died and 110 were injured in the assault.   AFP has been reporting 53 dead for several days now -- indicating that some of the wounded did not recover. UNICEF noted that the dead included 8 children (twelve more were injured).

Ayad al-Tamimi (Al Mada) reports that MP Kamal Saadi (with Nouri's State of Law political slate) has lodged a complaint with the Human RIghts Commission accusing the investigation of the massacre of being biased.  Meanwhile NINA reports Iraqiya MP Haider al-Mulla states that they have filed complaints about the massacre with the International Court of Justice, the Human Rights Commission and the United Nations.


Also, Cindy Sheehan was on The Mike Malloy Show and has posted video to her site.







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