Baghdad governor says suspends cooperation with US(military)

[maddezmom]

BAGHDAD, March 27 (Reuters) - Baghdad provincial governor Hussein al-Tahan said on Monday he would suspend all cooperation with U.S. forces until an independent investigation is launched into the killing of 20 Shi'ites in a mosque.

"Today we decided to stop all political and service cooperation with the U.S. forces until a legal committee is formed to investigate this incident," he told reporters, adding that the inquiry panel should include the U.S. embassy and the Iraqi defence ministry but not the U.S. military.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/FRI741255.htm

[Cooley Hurd]

1. Jeebus...

I can only shake my head... :(

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

2. See, this is all the media's fault.

alTahan ought to stop reading those liberal rags. Hasn't he heard that things are going great?

[yellowcanine]

13. Why didn't they report how many people WEREN'T killed at the mosque?

I am sure more people were not killed than were killed. Why not report the good news?:sarcasm:

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

15. No...

...it actually sounds like they pretty much killed everybody.

[yellowcanine]

17. Oh well then - maybe the mosque only received MINOR damage. There

must be SOME good news that could be reported. Besides, how many mosques in the city were not attacked at all? See how easy this is if one looks on the bright side?

Always Look on the Bright Side of Life (from Monty Python)

From: A Faire To Remember
words and music by Eric Idle

Some things in life are bad
They can really make you mad
Other things just make you swear and curse.
When you're chewing on life's gristle
Don't grumble, give a whistle
And this'll help things turn out for the best...

And...always look on the bright side of life...
Always look on the light side of life...

If life seems jolly rotten
There's something you've forgotten
And that's to laugh and smile and dance and sing.
When you're feeling in the dumps
Don't be silly chumps
Just purse your lips and whistle - that's the thing.

And...always look on the bright side of life...
Always look on the light side of life...

For life is quite absurd
And death's the final word
You must always face the curtain with a bow.
Forget about your sin - give the audience a grin
Enjoy it - it's your last chance anyhow.

So always look on the bright side of death
Just before you draw your terminal breath

Life's a piece of shit
When you look at it
Life's a laugh and death's a joke, it's true.
You'll see it's all a show
Keep 'em laughing as you go
Just remember that the last laugh is on you.

And always look on the bright side of life...
Always look on the right side of life...
(Come on guys, cheer up!)
Always look on the bright side of life...
Always look on the bright side of life...
(Worse things happen at sea, you know.)
Always look on the bright side of life...
(I mean - what have you got to lose?)
(You know, you come from nothing - you're going back to nothing.
What have you lost? Nothing!)
Always look on the right side of life...

[ChairmanAgnostic]

14. Why does the media hate America? Do they us for our freedoms?

[peacebird]

3. slaughtering people in a mosque, great way to win hearts and minds!

or a totally twisted way to get the Iraqi politicians to "ask" us to draw down our forces.....

[saigon68]

6. A throwback to the "Old Days"

[Massachusetts]

7. Buck Fush!

And guess who has to pick up the pieces....WE The People

[Taxloss]

10. Actually, it's more likely to be

THEM your kids and your kids' kids. And the Iraqis, obviously.

[DoYouEverWonder]

4. Didn't Bush say we would leave Iraq

if the Iraqis asked us to? Looks like it's time to go. Don't let the door hit us in the ass on the way out.

[katinmn]

5. wow. The Interior Minister said it "may" have been a suicide bomber

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L27647399.htm
An Interior Ministry source said the explosion targeted Iraqi army recruits and may have been carried out by a suicide bomber strapped with explosives but it was not immediately possible to verify this. No further details were available.

But I believe the Interior ministry is the most corrupt arm of the government, put in place and supported by BushCo.

Yikes.

[maddezmom]

11. Mosul is a different attack

this is concerning the attack at the Shiite mosque that left 18+ people dead.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2190266

[MiniMe]

8. No wonder they aren't greeting us with flowers and chocolates

:sarcasm:

[0007]

9. junior is one of the dumbest son of a bitches on this planet

BRING THE TROOPS HOME TODAY

[Village Idiot]

12. This all sounds so damn familiar...

SOG Black Ops, Death Squads...Is Reagan still president? Is Baghdad a city in Guatemala, El Salvador or Nicaragua?

And US politicians wonder why US troops are preferred targets of Islamic insurgents?

SHEESH!

[phusion]

19. yes, very familiar

Reagan isn't president, but Negroponte is still around and is probably orchestrating these death squads.

Many of the same murderous individuals at work here...

[HeatherDawn]

16. Now it'll really get ugly

The best thing we can do for our country is impeach Bush, try all in his administration for War Crimes (including their drivers), withdrawal our troops and beg the United Nations to clean up our mess, and apologize to Muslims for blaming their religion heir religion for our attack on Iraq when it was actually because Saddam said he would only accept Euros for oil.

[peacebird]

28. true words, HeatherDawn.

When does the Iranian Oil Bourse open for business...?

[Just Me]

18. Wonder how long this governor lives.

Jus' sayin!!! :shrug:

[rodeodance]

20. and he does not want the US military to be involved in the investigation.

"Today we decided to stop all political and service cooperation with the U.S. forces until a legal committee is formed to investigate this incident," he told reporters, adding that the inquiry panel should include the U.S. embassy and the Iraqi defence ministry but not the U.S. military.

[Teaser]

21. not really a mosque

but a husseiniya. It's more of a shrine to dead "saints" if you will than a mosque. Same effect though.

[superconnected]

22. how many hundreds of billions is this failure costing us?

How many lives?

Bush and Cheney and Condoleza, should be imprisoned and tried for all of the murders in this war and the theft of Americas money.

[peacebird]

29. i believe we're circling in on trillions at this point.....

and far too many deaths - Iraqi and "coalition" forces....

[Roland99]

23. Things are spiraling out of control.

[Barrett808]

24. Iraq minister says US, Iraqi troops killed 37 civilians

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's security minister, a Shi'ite political ally of Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari, accused U.S. and Iraqi troops on Monday of killing 37 unarmed people in an attack on a mosque complex a day earlier.

"At evening prayers, American soldiers accompanied by Iraqi troops raided the Mustafa mosque and killed 37 people," Abd al-Karim al-Enzi, minister of state for national security, said.

"They were all unarmed. Nobody fired a single shot at them (the troops). They went in, tied up the people and shot them all. They did not leave any wounded behind," he told Reuters.

Shi'ite politicians had earlier said 20 people were killed at the mosque. The U.S. military's account of Sunday evening's incident said Iraqi special forces with U.S. advisers killed 16 "insurgents", arrested 15 people and freed an Iraqi hostage. The military denied entering any mosque.

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-03-27T131812Z_01_L27693156_RTRUKOC_0_US-IRAQ-MOSQUE-DAWA.xml

[Teaser]

25. The shi'ah are going to war with us now

Right now they're just trying to give us bad PR.

They are sick of our meddling in the gov't negotiations and these military incidents make good camera fodder.

[MrPrax]

26. Interesting MSM take...

I notice that when US troops are involved with the killings, the term 'sectarian' disappears. The mosque in this Roto-Reuter story is not identified as Shia--you have to assume that from the story's quoted critics.

Clearly the 'catholic'/'protestant' tags can't work in this context, so they just dispense with the metaphor until the next story.

[pinniped]

30. That's why Rummy the Dummy kept pimping these alleged....

Iraqi special forces. They can take the blame for all present and future clusterfucks.

--The U.S. military's account of Sunday evening's incident said Iraqi special forces with U.S. advisers killed 16 "insurgents", arrested 15 people and freed an Iraqi hostage.--

Hey, finally the media gets on the good newz bandwagon.

[IndianaGreen]

27. BBC: Political storm over Iraq deaths

Political storm over Iraq deaths

The US military in Iraq is facing growing political pressure over a raid on a Baghdad mosque complex that left about 20 people dead on Sunday evening.

US officials said 16 insurgents had been killed and 18 captured, along with a significant weapons cache.

However, members of Iraq's ruling Shia Islamist bloc say many of the dead were civilians taking part in prayers.

<snip>

News footage taken after the attack seemed to belie US assertions that troops had not entered or damaged any sacred building during the raid.

The room where the killing occurred appeared to be a prayer hall. The floors are carpeted and the walls covered with religious posters.

The tape showed a tangle of male bodies and spent 5.56mm bullet casings on the blood-smeared floor - the kind of ammunition used by the US military.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4850108.stm