But today comes the news that two won't be participating. NINA reports Qatar and Saudi Arabia have decided not to participate. This decision comes after Saturday's broadcast of Nouri al-Maliki's interview where he slammed Qatar and Saudi Arabia repeatedly. (See Saturday's "Nouri 'celebrates' International Women's Day" and "Iraq snapshot.")
So now two big regional players won't be present?
What leadership, he shows. That's sarcasm. And his big mouth is also responsible for a building being burned down today. We'll cover that in the snapshot.
All Iraq News notes another ridiculous move by Nouri, he hosted the Red Cross today to discuss the Syrian refugees in Iraq.
What is it? 15% of them are in Iraq proper? The bulk are in the KRG. Nouri's turned them away and refused to accept them. He's publicly whined about the strain they present on his budget. But how he preens in photos of the meet-up today, pretending he's a humanitarian.
He's a pedophile engaged in child trafficking as demonstrated by his effort last week to lower the age for girls to marry to *nine-years-old.*
[Dona note: C.I/'s post was changed from "nine" to five and Isaiah's comic redone -- both are at Flickr -- to change nine to five by me. I wrongly thought an e-mail was correct about an error. The e-mail was one error, my changing the things was the second error. My apologies to community members, readers, C.I. and Isaiah.]
He's pure trash.
NPR has a 'report' 'on' Iraq that we'll take on in the snapshot. For now, Ann's left a comment on it and copied it into an e-mail "in case it never makes it up at NPR."
I'm saying right now, Ann's got one of the two "Truest statement of the week"s at Third on Sunday for the above.
I repeatedly acknowledge that people can only be as informed as their news media allows. And the news media doesn't want to cover Iraq, not in this country. But at some point, it is the fault of Americans. When you've got Human Rights Watch sounding alarms and all you can do is whine about Bully Boy Bush? You're just sporting your ignorance like it's a new hat.
If you haven't before, click here for HRW's Iraq section.
National Iraqi News Agency reports 2 people were shot dead in Mosul, a Mosul roadside bombing injured five bodyguards of Hussein Juma'a ("Adviser of the head of Hajj and Umrah"), 2 suicide bombers took their own lives in Mosul and the lives of 3 police members with four more police left injured, Joint Operations Command announced they killed 4 suspects outside Falluja, an Anbar incident left Major General Ali Ghazi al-Hashemi "shot in his left foot," a battle in Mosul left 1 fighter dead, another injured and 1 federal police member dead, security forces in Ramadi say they killed 4 suspects and wounded six more, and a Sadr City roadside bombing left 2 people dead and four more injured.
The following community sites -- plus Antiwar.com, Cindy Sheehan, NPR and The Bat Segundo Show -- updated:
Julia Angwin (BSS #537)
Isaiah's The World Today Just Nuts "Nouri The Child Molester" went up earlier. I'll change the time stamp so it'll be on top and the last thing here before the snapshot. Yesterday, his "The 'Patriot' takes a Stand" went up and Kat's "Kat's Korner: Are you listening to Ben Taylor?" went up Sunday.
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Isaiah's The World Today Just Nuts "Nouri The Child Molester" went up earlier. I'll change the time stamp so it'll be on top and the last thing here before the snapshot. Yesterday, his "The 'Patriot' takes a Stand" went up and Kat's "Kat's Korner: Are you listening to Ben Taylor?" went up Sunday.
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