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Obama's Killing Fields: Dozens Dead As Jihad Bombs Rip Baghdad; Ex-Iraqi PM Accuses US of Leaving Job Unfinished
The criminally corrupt media ripped Bush to shreds when he successfully fought back the global jihad guerrilla network in Iraq. Obama turned and ran and declared victory. And Iraq is engulfed in chaos.
Another colossal Obama failure.
Spencer saw this coming: "What Now For Iraq? Jihad."
Dozens die as 14 bombs explode across Baghdad MSNBC hat tip Van
BAGHDAD — A wave of bombings ripped across Baghdad on Thursday morning, killing at least 63 people and injuring almost 200 in the worst violence Iraq has seen for months. The bloodbath comes just days after American forces left the country.
The blasts also came on the heels of a political crisis between Iraq's Sunni and Shiite factions that erupted this weekend.
The political spat has raised fears that Iraq's sectarian wounds will be reopened during a fragile time when Iraq is finally navigating its own political future without U.S. military support.
The string of explosions will ratchet up tensions at a time when many Iraqis are already worried about security. If continued, it could lead to the same type of tit-for-tat attacks that characterized the insurgency years ago.
Iraqi officials said at least 14 blasts went off early Thursday morning in 11 neighborhoods around the city. Most of the attacks appeared to hit Shiite areas.
"The timing of these crimes and the places where they were carried out confirm... the political nature of the targets," Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said in a statement.
Citing police and security officials, Reuters said at least 63 people had been killed and a total of 194 people were wounded.
Ex-Iraqi PM accuses US of leaving job unfinished MSNBC hat tip Van
A leading Iraqi politician has accused the country's prime minister of acting like Saddam Hussein in trying to silence opposition, saying he risks provoking a new fightback against dictatorship.
Iyad Allawi -- a former prime minister who leads the Sunni-backed Iraqiya bloc -- also claimed the United States had pulled out its troops "without completing the job they should have finished."
Allawi said that the current premier, Nuri al-Maliki, had used fabricated confessions to demand the arrest of the country's Sunni Muslim vice president, Tareq al-Hashemi.
Al-Hashemi, who has taken refuge in Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region, denies allegations he ordered bombings and shootings against his opponents. The move against him, on the very day U.S. troops left the country, threatens to upset a balance among Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish factions.
As troops leave Iraq, they cross the border into Kuwait for the final steps toward departure. NBC's Richard Engel reports.
Speaking to Reuters two days after the final departure of the U.S. forces that ended Saddam's Sunni-dominated rule, Allawi called for international efforts to prevent al-Maliki, who is a Shiite, from provoking renewed sectarian warfare of the kind that killed tens of thousands in the years after Saddam fell in 2003.
"This is terrifying, to bring fabricated confessions," Allawi said shortly before leaving the Jordanian capital Amman to return to Iraq. "It reminds me personally of what Saddam Hussein used to do where he would accuse his political opponents of being terrorists and conspirators."
"We fear the return of dictatorship by this authoritarian way of governing. It's the latest in a build-up of atrocities, arrests and intimidation that has been going on a wide scale," said Allawi, who comes from the Shiite Muslim majority but who has drawn support heavily from disaffected Sunnis.
Obama's Killing Fields: Dozens Dead As Jihad Bombs Rip Baghdad; Ex-Iraqi PM Accuses US of Leaving Job Unfinished
The criminally corrupt media ripped Bush to shreds when he successfully fought back the global jihad guerrilla network in Iraq. Obama turned and ran and declared victory. And Iraq is engulfed in chaos.
Another colossal Obama failure.
Spencer saw this coming: "What Now For Iraq? Jihad."
Dozens die as 14 bombs explode across Baghdad MSNBC hat tip Van
BAGHDAD — A wave of bombings ripped across Baghdad on Thursday morning, killing at least 63 people and injuring almost 200 in the worst violence Iraq has seen for months. The bloodbath comes just days after American forces left the country.
The blasts also came on the heels of a political crisis between Iraq's Sunni and Shiite factions that erupted this weekend.
The political spat has raised fears that Iraq's sectarian wounds will be reopened during a fragile time when Iraq is finally navigating its own political future without U.S. military support.
The string of explosions will ratchet up tensions at a time when many Iraqis are already worried about security. If continued, it could lead to the same type of tit-for-tat attacks that characterized the insurgency years ago.
Iraqi officials said at least 14 blasts went off early Thursday morning in 11 neighborhoods around the city. Most of the attacks appeared to hit Shiite areas.
"The timing of these crimes and the places where they were carried out confirm... the political nature of the targets," Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said in a statement.
Citing police and security officials, Reuters said at least 63 people had been killed and a total of 194 people were wounded.
Ex-Iraqi PM accuses US of leaving job unfinished MSNBC hat tip Van
A leading Iraqi politician has accused the country's prime minister of acting like Saddam Hussein in trying to silence opposition, saying he risks provoking a new fightback against dictatorship.
Iyad Allawi -- a former prime minister who leads the Sunni-backed Iraqiya bloc -- also claimed the United States had pulled out its troops "without completing the job they should have finished."
Allawi said that the current premier, Nuri al-Maliki, had used fabricated confessions to demand the arrest of the country's Sunni Muslim vice president, Tareq al-Hashemi.
Al-Hashemi, who has taken refuge in Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region, denies allegations he ordered bombings and shootings against his opponents. The move against him, on the very day U.S. troops left the country, threatens to upset a balance among Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish factions.
As troops leave Iraq, they cross the border into Kuwait for the final steps toward departure. NBC's Richard Engel reports.
Speaking to Reuters two days after the final departure of the U.S. forces that ended Saddam's Sunni-dominated rule, Allawi called for international efforts to prevent al-Maliki, who is a Shiite, from provoking renewed sectarian warfare of the kind that killed tens of thousands in the years after Saddam fell in 2003.
"This is terrifying, to bring fabricated confessions," Allawi said shortly before leaving the Jordanian capital Amman to return to Iraq. "It reminds me personally of what Saddam Hussein used to do where he would accuse his political opponents of being terrorists and conspirators."
"We fear the return of dictatorship by this authoritarian way of governing. It's the latest in a build-up of atrocities, arrests and intimidation that has been going on a wide scale," said Allawi, who comes from the Shiite Muslim majority but who has drawn support heavily from disaffected Sunnis.
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