Monday, June 10, 2013

25 dead, 57 injured

Iraq is slammed with violence today.  A Judaida al-Shat market --  west of Baquba -- was targeted.  AFP notes the bombings "struck a predominantly Shiite town as fruit and vegetable stall owners were crowding the market, purchasing goods for the day's trading, a police officer and a medic said."  Samer al-Bassam (CNN) reports three car bombs and 15 people dead with another thirty injured.  All Iraq News notes that the road from Baquba to Baghdad has been closed as a result of the bombing in the "central market in Jadidat al-Shat."  The road can carry traffic from Baghdad to the KRG when open.   Kitabat reports that one car was parked on the left and one on the right side of the market and the third car bomb was driven into the market by a suicide bomber.

Qassim Abdul-Zahra (AP) reports on the violence for AP -- and that link goes to the Miami Herald because it's a McClatchy newspaper and McClatchy didn't care enough to keep their Iraqi reporters on the payroll.  Qassim Abdul-Zahra (AP) adds another attack, "Shortly after midday, another car bomb went off near a fish market in the northern Baghdad suburb of Taji, killing seven shoppers and wounding 25, police said."  Alsumaria notes the death toll has now climbed to 8 and they note there was a failed attempt to blow up oil wells north-west of Kirkuk. National Iraqi News Agency adds that an armed Mosul attack left 1 police officer dead and another injured, a Mosul roadside bombing claimed 1 life and left another person injured,  and 2 men were kidnapped outside of Kirkuk.


That's 25 reported dead and another fifty-seven injured.  Through Sunday, Iraq Body Count counts 112 violent deaths in Iraq so far this month.

National Iraqi News Agency notes that Ayad Allawi, head of Iraqiya, issued a statement today declaring, "Iraq actually is not ruled by any one, and the street is in a state of chaos and there is a serious worsening of security."


Along with bombs and shootings, there are other disputes.  Alsumaria reports that Iran has seized approximately 1000 head of sheep that were in Iraq but which Iran is insisting were on their side of the border.  Which should serve to remind that Iraq and Iran still haven't agreed to where their shared border is.  Meanwhile Hurriyet reports, "The Turkish Energy Market Regulatory Authority (EPDK) approved the applications of two Turkish companies, Aksa and Kartet, to export power to Iraq. The volume of the power trade to Iraq is estimated at around 400 million Turkish Liras, Hasan Köktaş, the head of the EPDK, announced in the Black Sea province of Trabzon."  Which should remind that although Iraq is among the top three oil producing countries, Nouri's failure to spend any of the billions on Iraq's infrastructure makes it necessary for them to import electricity. 

In the previous entry, we noted Ed Snowden who is the whistle-blower who exposed last week's efforts by Barack Obama to spy on the American people.  Supposedly, Ed Snowden has done damage.

What about Tommy Franks?

The Iraq Times discovers Frank's 2005 book American Soldier and bills it as exposing that the King of Jordan had a role in the Iraq War and allegedly received $950 million from the US for the role.  I've never read Tommy Franks' book.  I'm merely stating how the Iraq Times is interpreting it and conveying it to their readers.

But the point is, if nothing was ever revealed, most books wouldn't be published.  Let's all face reality, Tommy Franks, former general, is not a writer.  If his book didn't reveal a few things (I have no idea what it revealed) it would have sold much more poorly than it did.

Snowden's supposedly done some 'major damage' (I have the TV on in the background).  If all phone calls are being captured, I don't see how any damage was done.  Is the US government going to stop capturing the records for all phone calls as a result of Snowden's whistle-blowing?  If so, I applaud that 'damage.'  But the US government always has a little freak fest over some exposures but not others.




Isaiah's latest goes up after this entry does.  On this week's Law and Disorder Radio,  an hour long program that airs Monday mornings at 9:00 a.m. EST on WBAI and around the country throughout the week, hosted by attorneys Heidi Boghosian, Michael S. Smith and Michael Ratner (Center for Constitutional Rights) topics addressed include political prisoner Lynne Stewart, Bradley Manning, nutty Chris Hedges (no, they'll never call him out on this show -- they will never even note that he was the first NYT reporter to put the false link between Iraq and 9-11 on the front page of the paper), Robert Meeropol speaks about Carry it Forward: Celebrate the Children of Resistance – 60th Anniversary of Rosenberg Execution  on Sunday June 16, 2013  and Michael Ratner's niece Lizzy Ratner talks about actions in NYC. David DeGraw is sharing some of his writing on the state of the world:

Transcend Conditioned Consciousness
None But Ourselves Can Free Our Minds


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