Today was the deadliest day in a year in Iraq, with two massive bombings killing at least 90 people and suggesting that far from being a handful of isolated incidents, the increase in attacks over recent weeks is a trend which threatens to return the nation to the disastrous levels of violence in recent years.
There have been 33 bombings in Baghdad alone this month, including a high profile strike today against a crowd waiting for Red Crescent food parcels being handed out by the Iraqi national police. US military spokesman Lt. Col Brian Maka, however, tried to downplay the situation, saying “these attacks are an attempt to incite violence, but the Iraqi people have shown that they are rejecting this bankrupt philosophy.”
Though no group has yet taken credit for today’s attacks, both targeted Shi’ites. Shi’ites have taken the brunt of the attacks in recent weeks, an ominous sign as the Shi’ite-led government cautions the massive US-allied Sunni Awakening Council has been infilitrated by both Ba’athists and al-Qaeda. As the Shi’ite death toll rises, it seems only a matter of time before their own militant factions begin to retaliate, resuming the tit-for-tat sectarian violence that killed an enormous portion of the civilian population and made refugees out of even more.
There is absolutely NO question in my mind that all this sudden escalation in violence is catagorically black flag operations set off by the Americans in order to claim that Iraq is still not stable and therefore, they have to stay. They did the same thing when they continually bombed the Shiaa community claiming it was the Sunni doing it, unti finally they bombed the Golden Mosque and that set off the two communities against each other for real.
The US murderers will never leave Iraq unless and until the US goes bankrupt, which mercifully for the rest of the world, is about to happen soon.
Why would the US want to stay in Iraq when they are gearing up for Pakistan. More like Mossad letting off a bomb because Iran has just sent one of their spy's to jail. What would have happened in the AIPAC trial if it had proceeded one has to wounder>