From AFP, with thanks to Skeet Street.
A former Iraqi police commando blew himself up in a failed attempt to assassinate the leader of the anti-insurgent Wolf Brigade, killing three policemen, the Interior Minister, Bayan Jabr, said.The bomber walked into the unit's headquarters in Baghdad on Saturday and detonated a belt hidden under his police uniform.
A patriotic song broadcast regularly on Iraqi television says members of the brigade "disarm bombs with their teeth".
Mr Jabr said the bomber was trying to kill the brigade's leader, Major-General Mohammed Qureishi. General Qureishi, popularly known as Abu Walid, is well-known in Iraq as the host of a TV show on which accused insurgents confess their crimes.
He and the bulk of the Wolf Brigade are Shiite Muslims, and leaders of the country's Sunni Muslim minority have accused the brigade of conducting kidnappings and summary executions during a continuing security crackdown known as Operation Lightning.
Mr Jabr echoed recent statements by Iraqi officials, calling Operation Lightning a huge success that had greatly reduced car bombings and other such attacks in and around Baghdad since it began a fortnight ago. During a surge of insurgent attacks last month a dozen or more bombs were exploding in Baghdad every day, Mr Jabr said, pointing to a diagram that tracked the trend. "Now we have one car bomb or two per day."
Mr Jabr said 36 terrorism suspects had been killed in gunfights during the operation and 1318 arrested.
Good job buddy...One less moron to worry about.
You know, it pains me to know end that, Their really are good folks in Iraq, who are trying to make changes. And what do they get for doing what's right??...Some friggin whack-a-do blowing themselfs up.
Nuke Mecca...
Regular Ron...Let Freedom Ring
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Regular Ron,
You cannot advocate "Nuke Mecca" here... until after some jihadist element nukes an American city.
Seriously, we are advocating the destruction of this nihilistic jihadist trend in Islam, not their cities or people or icons (even though they claim to be iconoclasts, that meteorite in the Ka'aba looks suspiciously like a 'holy' object [icon] to me).
If the murderous aspects of the Koran were interpreted as "metaphors" by Muslims (for that much proclaimed, but rarely see "inner struggle"), there would be no problem living side by side with Islamic believers.
As long as they are homicidal religious despots our to conquer and convert the world, we have a little quarrel.
Save the apocalyptic rhetoric.
It only fuels their madness.
They swim in it.
Time to drain the swamp.
BigSleep...Yeah, I am sorry about that comment. And you are right about "fueling the fire"...
Sometimes I can be a little overboard on it.
So again..anyone who was offended by my comments...I am sorry.
Regular Ron
That's why I got an uneasy feeling watching news footage of U.S. military personel training Iraqis.I just knew that someday it will be used against us.BLOWBACK.
Red-
Does the name Osama (the 'valiant anti-Soviet freedom fighter' of the Reagan years, taught to use shoulder-fired missiles, etc.etc.,etc., by our CIA) Bin Laden ring a bell?
Blowback like the afterburner on an F-16.
We need to ease out of the Iraq mess, now that we've determined that there are no WMD's in Saddamland, and get on Iran's ass to freeze their nuclear plans.
Or they may find us to be a real warm neighbor. (Solar surface warm, if need be.)
And not for anything to do with their beliefs. Just their essential instability.
Mental, moral, and proliferational.