"Suicide Bombings" - The Cover Story for US Military Ops in Iraq

News Type: Opinion — Seeded on Fri Apr 13, 2007 6:17 PM EDT

Article Source: The Times

world-news, us, iraq, terrorism, usa, occupation, baghdad, us-military, suicide-bombings, us-military-ops

"Suicide bombings" are a daily occurrence in Iraq, and are the major propaganda tool used by the US government and its mainstream media to convince the world that there is still some "freedom and Democracy" work to be done by US troops in Iraq. But what if they are a cover for something else?

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Keld Bach

Iraqirabita quoting an eyewitness [who] lives in Al-Atafiya – western side of the river says she woke up 07,10 this morning because of the unusual sounds of Americans helicopters above the river Tigris.

I thought that this a beginning of an raid in our neighborhood, to be sure I went upstairs to see where are these helicopters are heading to.

I saw with my own eyes a helicopter firing two missiles, I heard an explosion, then I saw the bridge collapsed.

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3 votes

#1 - Fri Apr 13, 2007 6:22 PM EDT

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Keld Bach

High level security sources said that destroying al-Sarafya Bridge wasn't by a trapped lorry as it was reported in the beginning but it was by remote controlled explosive rifles, and the news about a trapped car was made to cover the accident.

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1 vote

#1.1 - Sat Apr 14, 2007 1:24 PM EDT

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I SPY

The death toll for Iraqi citizens has almost halved during the surge. The death toll for US troops has increased by more than 20%.

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1 vote

#2 - Sat Apr 14, 2007 3:29 AM EDT

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Synthesis

Without dissenting too much from the point that some are making about the Al-Sarafiya bridge destruction not being a truck-bombing (a hypothesis I'm inclined to go along with), let me just say -- as someone's taken formal journalism training including instruction on the importance of balance and objectivity -- what a giant pile of steaming crap this article is.

It's a giant and unsupportable leap to go from the fact that the Al-Sarafiya bridge bombing is not all that it seems to leaping to the conclusion that all suicide bombings are U.S.-concocted lies or propaganda.

The logical jumps in this article are able to leap tall jihadis in a single bound.

The worst part is that -- once again -- I'm being forced to seem like a Bush apologist, for which I really hate you, Joe Quinn....

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1 vote

#3 - Sat Apr 14, 2007 9:53 PM EDT

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I SPY

Awww

The logical jumps in this article are able to leap tall jihadis in a single bound.

The worst part is that -- once again -- I'm being forced to seem like a Bush apologist, for which I really hate you, Joe Quinn....

I think that this is the point of putting this type of article up Joe Quinn. So we can see how it can be knocked down.

The logical jumps in this article are able to leap tall jihadis in a single bound.

is a good analysis, the only hard facts we have at the moment is

The death toll for Iraqi citizens has almost halved during the surge. The death toll for US troops has increased by more than 20%.

and that thewre are more US troops in Iraq for longer.

In defense of this article it gives the source as

Iraqirabita quoting an eyewitness [who] lives in Al-Atafiya – western side of the river says she woke up 07,10

Now it is well known there is no western media in a position to cover this event, and that the US army regularly rely on intrepid reporters for information regarding "Conditions on the ground." At present there is a possibility that this represents a pattern of events that could mean the US is trying or the Militia's to cut Baghdad in half. So I think you should concerntrate on whats between the lines in this report rather than the actual words, and that is someone is trying to cut Baghdad in half.

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#3.1 - Sun Apr 15, 2007 12:01 AM EDT

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Synthesis

I Spy, I think you make a good point.

I have long thought that far from being incompetently allowing themselves to be enmeshed in a quagmire, the powers that be have things exactly the way they'd like them in Iraq.

The only thing better than seeing the Sunni and Shia in a permanent state of hostilities in Iraq would be if they could somehow manage something similiar in Iran.

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1 vote

#3.2 - Sun Apr 15, 2007 12:58 AM EDT

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