No killing in Iraq this week

[Pinocchio Liberal 268]

Did any of you know, that there was a day last week that no one died in Iraq? Didnt here to much about it did ya! Why?Well kinda defeats what been bein preached. I LOVE FREEDOM! It aint cheap, hmmmm. Finally were seeing some good.

Some though, are so invested in defeat that they want to see it. To bad it aint workin out for you! GO FREEDOM!

[JODO 2]

Teacher killed in gruesome Iraq shooting

By KIM GAMEL, Associated Press Writer

Thu Oct 25, 6:25 PM ET

A Sunni schoolteacher was hijacked as he drove to visit his sister in a predominantly Shiite area of Baghdad on Thursday. His body was found an hour later with three gunshots to his eyes.

Iraqi police blamed Shiite gang members for the killing — a grim reminder that sectarian hatreds and crimes persist regardless of declining violence in the capital.

Ahmed al-Janabi, a 45-year-old father of three, was stopped at a southwest Baghdad intersection by gunmen in two cars. They drove him away in his own car after inspecting his national ID and food ration card. His name doomed him: the al-Janabi tribe is mainly Sunni.

Police found his body in the car in a nearby neighborhood, with the gunshot wounds to his eyes, according to an officer at the hospital where police delivered the body.

The officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he feared becoming a target himself, said the attackers were Shiite militia members.

Al-Janabi's sister was married to a Shiite man, police said.

Northeast of the capital, women in black and other relatives gathered at another morgue to claim the bodies of eight men found dumped in the city of Baqouba. Two were Shiite brothers who had been abducted at a fake checkpoint near the city two days ago, police said.

Such sectarian killings usually blamed on so-called death squads run by Shiite militias have been a daily occurrence in Iraq since a February 2006 bombing of a Shiite shrine north of Baghdad sparked a wave of retaliatory violence. The shrine attack was believed to have been the work of al-Qaida in Iraq — Sunni extremists.

The number of sectarian killings has fallen dramatically since a joint U.S.-Iraqi security crackdown began in Baghdad in February. Killings declined further beginning in August, when radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr ordered his Mahdi Army militia fighters to cease attacks for up to six months.

At least 284 bullet-riddled bodies bearing the hallmarks of attacks by sectarian death squads have been found nationwide this month — 135 in Baghdad. That compared with 507 bodies found last month and a peak this year of 1,079 in January — 944 of those in Baghdad.

So far in October, Iraqis have been killed in war-related violence at an average of 30 a day. That's less than the nearly 34 a day in September, and far less than nearly 64 in August.

The AP tally is compiled from hospital, police and military officials, as well as accounts from reporters and photographers. Insurgent deaths are not included. Other counts differ and some have given higher civilian death tolls.

Al-Janabi's death, itself unremarkable in the litany of violence that faces Iraqis on a daily basis, was the latest example of continuing attacks by Shiite militiamen the U.S. military claims are being armed and funded by Iran in defiance of al-Sadr's call.

The teacher's death also reinforced the dangers of crossing the increasingly stark sectarian boundaries in the capital.

Al-Sadr's Mahdi Army fought U.S. troops for much of 2004 across central and southern Iraq. After a cease-fire, al-Sadr joined the political process and his loyalists now have 30 of parliament's 275 seats. But his control over the Mahdi Army appears to have frayed.

"Despite the improving security situation, there are still some militia groups that are trying to ignite sectarian strife and maintain the killing and the counter-killing between Shiite and Sunnis," said Salim Abdullah, a spokesman for the main Sunni political bloc, the Iraq Accordance Front.

On Wednesday, al-Sadr again appealed to his followers to uphold the cease-fire and threatened to expel those who don't, according to a statement issued by his office in response to questions from supporters about whether the order to stand down still applied.

U.S. forces also appear to have escalated their campaign against what the military calls rogue militiamen, and clashes between Shiite groups are on the rise in parts of the mainly Shiite south.

"Enemy parties are spreading this news (that the cease-fire ended) to tarnish the image of this heroic ideological army that has shown loyalty to its leadership by implementing the freeze," al-Sadr said in the statement, emphasizing that some did observe the cease-fire.

"So, we appeal to everyone to obey the order in every respect or risk being expelled from this ... army in which there is no place for renegades."

___ Associated Press writer Sameer N. Yacoub in Baghdad and the AP News Research Center in New York contributed to this report

[Pinocchio Liberal 268]

Hold on to the "NEGATIVE"

I hope it serves you well!

[no name 1]

No one was killed for one day since 3/20/03 & we should be rejoicing?

[JODO 2]

No one was killed for one day since 3/20/03 & we should be rejoicing?

Well when the bar is set so low Devilette, what do you expect? It is really obscene the amount of money the US is spending in Iraq and for what? I am watching Charlie Rose right now and they are talking about Iraq and what the journalists are reporting is very disturbing. But I guess to report the truth is negative. Sad.

[Pinocchio Liberal 268]

All your investments are in DEFEAT! Losing is winning? Someday youll get it. Your defence is pissin you off!

My goodness.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Did any of you know, that there was a day last week that no one died in Iraq? Didnt here to much about it did ya! Why?Well kinda defeats what been bein preached. I LOVE FREEDOM! It aint cheap, hmmmm. Finally were seeing some good.

Some though, are so invested in defeat that they want to see it. To bad it aint workin out for you! GO FREEDOM!

Did you actually watch your own video? They were talking about Baghdad - i.e. Baghdad the city in Iraq... As opposed to Iraq - the large country of which Baghdad is the capital city.

Good news for Baghdad. That said - take your righteous indignation and affected outrage and shove it where only fiber-optic cameras and colonoscopy tubes go

[Pinocchio Liberal 268]

Did any of you know, that there was a day last week that no one died in Iraq? Didnt here to much about it did ya! Why?Well kinda defeats what been bein preached. I LOVE FREEDOM! It aint cheap, hmmmm. Finally were seeing some good.

Some though, are so invested in defeat that they want to see it. To bad it aint workin out for you! GO FREEDOM!

Did you actually watch your own video? They were talking about Baghdad - i.e. Baghdad the city in Iraq... As opposed to Iraq - the large country of which Baghdad is the capital city.

Good news for Baghdad. That said - take your righteous indignation and affected outrage and shove it where only fiber-optic cameras and colonoscopy tubes go

Awwwwwwwwwwwwww the NEGATIVE! Righteous indignation? The stab, that missed the mark! You need a GPS for the SOUL!

I love knowing that you see the truth! Your anger is telling me that I am on the mark!

Edited October 26, 2007 by CarolsMarc

[Pinocchio Liberal 268]

BUMPY!

[Marc and Olga 0]

Some though, are so invested in defeat that they want to see it. To bad it aint workin out for you! GO FREEDOM!

Some are so "invested" in "success" that they will pervert the truth.

Title says "No killing in Iraq this week", the story says "Baghdad is a safer place then it was 2 months ago" and "The cerfew has been relaxed"

NOWHERE in the story did it say all of Iraq was violence free, for even 1 day, let alone the whole week which the title claims...

Then again, the only reason we even diverted our attention to Iraq instead of staying on target (OBL) was due to perverted information.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Did any of you know, that there was a day last week that no one died in Iraq? Didnt here to much about it did ya! Why?Well kinda defeats what been bein preached. I LOVE FREEDOM! It aint cheap, hmmmm. Finally were seeing some good.

Some though, are so invested in defeat that they want to see it. To bad it aint workin out for you! GO FREEDOM!

Did you actually watch your own video? They were talking about Baghdad - i.e. Baghdad the city in Iraq... As opposed to Iraq - the large country of which Baghdad is the capital city.

Good news for Baghdad. That said - take your righteous indignation and affected outrage and shove it where only fiber-optic cameras and colonoscopy tubes go

Awwwwwwwwwwwwww the NEGATIVE! Righteous indignation? The stab, that missed the mark! You need a GPS for the SOUL!

I love knowing that you see the truth! Your anger is telling me that I am on the mark!

Pointing out what the article actually says is not negative - its the truth. But hey if you want to watch a video about conditions in Iraq and apply it to the entire country, including making an explicit claim that featured nowhere in the report (and which you can't back up) - feel free.

My "anger" as you put it, does not change the fact that you appear to have fundamentally misread the story you posted.

[AmericanGentleman 0]

There was no killing that day because Osama Bin Laden is calling for the end of the civil war. You remember that guy dont you? The guy we were suppose to get before we went looking for WMD's...how is that easter egg hunt working out?

I am not a defeatist. I just want the administration to stop moving the "victory" goal posts. 1st it was WMD's(the only reason congress approved the action), then it was the hunt for Saddam and bringing freedom to Iraqi people, then it was defeating the insurgency, then it was security until they could form a government, then it was ending the civil war.....what is the victory condition going to be next year? American troops can not leave because Haliburton is not finished with the construction of their mega oil refining plant. And the year after that? Haliburton forms a new independant atonomous country, Haliburtonia lead by his magesty King George II. And the decande after that? Haliburtonia withholds oil shipments and the US is forced to deploy troops against the terrorist military wing of Haliburtonia that is lead by the right wing religious Cheney Cult who is threatening the world with WMD's....

[Jasman0717 9]

New is all about bad things...why report something positive