Cafe blasts kill 17 in Iraq as US signals accelerated arms sales to the region

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Independent

Cafe blasts kill 17 in Iraq as US signals accelerated arms sales to the region

Bombs across Baghdad mark an upsurge in violence amid concerns of sectarian warfare

Oliver Duggan
Friday 28 June 2013

A string of attacks on cafes and public meeting areas across Iraq have killed 17 people, officials said today.

Sparking concerns that the country could once again descend into a quagmire of sectarian violence, blasts ripped through several cafes in a Sunni Arab neighbourhood of the capital Baghdad and elsewhere last night.

In the central city of Baquba, one of Iraq’s most violent areas, two car bombs killed 12 people and wounded 25. The attackers detonated the second as passers-by rushed to help those injured in the first.

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The attacks come as senior Iraqi officials and American military personnel signal the possibility of renewed army training for local forces.

General Martin Dempsey, the Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, recommended on Wednesday that the American government send training teams and accelerate sales of weapons and equipment to the region to bolster Iraq’s military capabilities.


Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/cafe-blasts-kill-17-in-iraq-as-us-signals-accelerated-arms-sales-to-the-region-8678129.html

[snappyturtle]

1. Oh for the profitability of ongoing wars + 'aid' to Syrian rebels ...whoo!

[Sand Wind]

2. Iran is moving his pawns.

They are providing "bonus" to Shiite extremist.

[Comrade Grumpy]

6. That's a totally one-sided and distorted view of things. What a surprise.

Al Qaeda in Iraq has been blowing shit up all over the place, and in Syria, too.

[Solly Mack]

3. K&R

[Javaman]

4. putting the fire out with gasoline. nt

[KansDem]

5. MIC's interests come first

All other concerns are strictly secondary.

[frylock]

7. here, have some weapons..

see you in 20 years and we'll do this all over again.

[blkmusclmachine]

8. The threat of extreme violence as a deterrent to war. So USA

[Lugal Zaggesi]

9. The Pottery Barn Rule - you break it, you own it

'You are going to be the proud owner of 25 million people,' he told the president.
'You will own all their hopes, aspirations, and problems. You'll own it all.'
Privately, (U.S. Secretary of State Colin) Powell and Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage called this the Pottery Barn rule: You break it, you own it.'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pottery_Barn_rule



Well, they certainly BROKE IT.
Too bad they don't really "own" the $10 trillion of oil reserves Iraq has - I think Bush wasn't quite clear on that point.
The Iraqi Hiroshima - oh that's right, out of sight, out of mind. Nothing to see here, move along.

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"Thanks a lot for the depleted uranium, you fucking morons."
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