Wednesday, July 03, 2013

19 dead, 45 wounded so far today in Iraq

Violence continues today in Iraq.  National Iraqi News Agency reports a roadside bombing north of Baghdad has claimed the lives of 2 Sahwa and left five more injured, a Tikrit roadside bombing claimed the life of 1 police officer and left two more injured, another Tikrit bombing has claimed 1 life and left another person injured, a Falluja armed attack has left three people injured, and a Baquba sticky bombing injured one person.  All Iraq News notes a Mosul bombing has left two people injured, another Baquba bombing left five people injured, and the corpse of a 2-year-old child was discovered in Diwaniya -- dead from gunshots to the head.  Alsumaria adds that a Mosul suicide bomber targeted military headquarters and claimed the lives of 4 Iraqi soldiers and twelve more were left injured.  Press TV, BBC News and AFP  report a Baghdad bombing (southwest Baghdad, Nahrawan) which has claimed 7 lives and left fourteen people injured.  Qassim Abdul-Zahra (AP) also reports the Baghdad bombing and notes that, in addition, 3 corpses (gunshot wounds) have been discovered in Baghdad.  That's 19 reported deaths and 45 injured.


 On violence, All Iraq News notes Iraqiya leader Ayad Allawi posted to his Facebook page today, "Iraq and the Iraqis are living a disastrous situation due to the continuity of bombings and the lack of services in addition to the unstable political and security situations."   The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization issued the following earlier today:


Baghdad, 3 July 2013; Director of UNESCO Office in Iraq Ms. Louise Haxthausen condemned the killing of Dr. Ahmed Shaker, professor at the University of Baghdad and urged the authorities to investigate this crime.
"UNESCO condemns this terrible act and offers its deep condolences to Dr. Shaker's family and friends, as well as his colleagues and students at the University of Baghdad", said Ms. Haxthausen. "A clear message must be sent to the perpetrators that their acts will not go unpunished. Such crimes affect the Iraqi society at whole, as they erode the human capital of the country. Teachers and professors define the shape of our future. They are the true advocates of durable peace and sustainable development in Iraq”, added Ms. Haxthausen.
According to security reports, Dr. Ahmed Shakir, specialist in cardio-vascular diseases and professor at the Faculty of medicine in the University of Baghdad, was killed when a bomb planted in his car exploded in Zaafaraniyya, south of Baghdad, on Monday 1 July 2013.
Acts of violence committed against academics and scientists in Iraq remain a main cause of brain drain. Many qualified academics flee to other countries in search of security. In partnership with the Iraqi government and UN sister Organizations, UNESCO is responding to these challenges through projects that focus on supporting Iraq in restoring its human capital, and improving the country’s learning environment.


Iraq's prime minister  Nouri al-Maliki arrived in Russia Sunday on a multi-day visit.  Pravda reports today:

The deliveries of Russian Mi-28NE Night Hunter to Baghdad are to begin in September 2013, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said in an interview with Interfax. The contract for the purchase of ten helicopters was included in the package of agreements in the amount of $4.2 billion," said the Iraqi prime minister.
When asked what other weapons Russia is to supply in accordance with the contracts, al-Maliki mentioned air defense systems, but did not specify which ones exactly.




October 9th, with much fanfare, Nouri signed a $4.2 billion dollar weapons deal with Russia.  After taking his bows on the world stage and with Parliament and others raising objections, Nouri quickly announced the deal was off.  If the scandal's now over, presumably Nouri and his State of Law-ers will drop their allegations about Ali al-Dabbagh -- Nouri's former spokesperson who fled the country and his post when he felt he was being fingered for the corruption in the deal.


In the snapshot today, we'll be exploring when dumb asses interview liars.  An American has gone to the foreign media and has created a fantasy.  That's why we don't note the liar here or his 'organization.'  But we will pick apart some of his lies -- just some, we don't have time to take on all of them. It's really amazing how many lies one person can tell to whore for Barack.  I think we'll zoom in on the liar's 2010 lies in the interview because they are the most ridiculous and 2010 explains the crises today. He's a liar and the left should have rejected him long ago.  All Iraq News reports on another liar, State of Law MP Salman al-Mousawi who declared today, "Extending Barzani's term is an establishment of dictatorship and ignorance to democracy."  That is hilarious and it's related to the lies the American told foreign television.  So we'll run them together and explain how stupidity breeds stupidity.  He's not the only liar -- this one the left trusted.  There's another American, a right-winger, who lies about 2010 as well but I really don't think a Republican administration official is one to expect truth from.


The following community sites -- plus Dissident Voice, Chocolate City, Jody Watley, Susan's On the Edge, Antiwar.com, Pacifica Evening News, Adam Kokesh, the Guardian and Cindy Sheehan --  updated last night and this morning:





We'll close with this from Patrick C. Toomey's "The NSA's Spying On Americans: Not As "Inadvertent" As It Claims" (ACLU Blog of Rights):
Another week, another trove of documents detailing the inner secrets of the NSA's massive spying program. Recent revelations have finally provided a look at the procedures that the NSA uses to target and retain communications under the FISA Amendments Act (FAA). As my colleague Brett Max Kaufman wrote even before this latest batch of news broke, officials have been using the word "target" in very misleading ways to repeatedly reassure the American public that the law only applies to foreigners abroad, and does not permit the NSA to listen in on Americans' phone calls or read their emails.
We now know just how misleading those assurances have been. The procedures show that the NSA has carved out several enormous loopholes in the law's "targeting" requirements.
The FAA was passed in 2008 to facilitate the mass acquisition of international communications. Under this authority, the NSA claims only to intercept American communications "inadvertently," but this is a clever fiction: the surveillance program has been engineered to sweep up American communications in vast quantity, while giving the NSA cover to claim that it is not intentionally targeting Americans.
This deliberate collection of Americans' communications happens in at least three ways. First, the government can target foreigners on the other end of Americans' international communications. So, if you call or email family, friends, or business associates abroad, the NSA can intercept those communications so long as it doesn't intentionally target a specific, known American in another country. The surveillance must also relate to "foreign intelligence," but this term has been construed so broadly as to be all but meaningless.

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