At Least 17 Dead in Baghdad Blast

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BAGHDAD (*******) - A roadside bomb exploded next to a fuel truck in Baghdad Wednesday, causing a huge ball of fire that caught a minibus in which 17 people were killed, police said.
A police spokesman said the explosion in the Bayya'a neighborhood also wounded several people.

Roadside bombs are a favorite weapon of anti-American guerrillas who use them to attack U.S. military patrols. Civilians are sometimes caught up in such attacks.

The violence was another blow to any hopes that the capture of ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein last Saturday near his hometown of Tikrit. north of Baghdad, would ease guerrilla attacks.



http://www.*******.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=4005201

[ShotOver]

What are they still fighting for? Their old leader is in American custody...

Rest in Peace the slain :(

[Skaman]

What are they still fighting for? Their old leader is in American custody...

Rest in Peace the slain :(


You seriously thought the resistance would stop? This IS NOT about SADDAM or his will. When will you people understand?

[ShotOver]

Uh oh... here we go again. Someone must of pre-maturly ejaculated in bed with his boyfriend again, and has to come on here to make himself feel more of a man.

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PT wrote:

"What are they still fighting for? Their old leader is in American custody... "

This might explain to you why the resistance continues:

"While many believe the Baathist party is gone as any sort of force in Iraq, nationalist rhetoric lives on. By the time of his capture, Saddam had become "irrelevant," wrote Juan Cole, a University of Michigan Mideast expert, in an early Monday morning e-mail. "The Sunni Arab resisters to U.S. occupation in the country's heartland had long since jettisoned Saddam and the Baath as symbols. They are fighting for local reasons. Some are Sunni fundamentalists who despised the Baath. Others are Arab nationalists who weep at the idea of their country being occupied. Some had relatives killed or humiliated by U.S. troops and are pursuing a clan vendetta. Some fear a Shiite- and Kurdish-dominated Iraq will reduce them to second-class citizens. They will fight on."

http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0351/mondo1.php

Did you really believe that the capture of Saddam Hussein would suddenly signal a cease-fire amongst all the groups? Wait until they start to carve out, and attempt to hold onto, enclaves for themselves... then they'll start hacking away at each other as well as any foreign presence.

cheers

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[Seoulstriker]

noone expected there to be a ceasefire. :cantbeli:

remember what president bush said about this?

terrorists are terrorists.

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Seoulstriker? My reply was to PTs question of "why are they still fighting?"

Cease-fire as in "stop the fighting". Not as in "everybody hold off while we get down to some discussions". Keep slapping yourself in the head. :-)

"remember what president bush said about this?

terrorists are terrorists."

I remember what President Reagan said about the Contras in Nicaragua:

"As a matter of fact, for quite a long time now, a matter of years, I have been publicly speaking of the necessity of the American people to support our program of aid to those freedom fighters down there..."

Reagan, Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session With Southeast Regional Editors and Broadcasters, 5/15/87, Public Papers of the Presidents, 1987, Vol. I, p. 514.

So while I remember what our leaders say it does not neccessarily mean that I agree with them nor their reasons for saying such things.

cheers

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[Trigger]

Yeah, I felt that way too when Clinton was purjuring himself about banging Ms. Lewinsky when he was supposed to be running the country.