Iraqi government vows crackdown

[bemildred]

Mostly for the Condi quote, but note that there is no discussion
of HOW the Iraqi "government" is going to crackdown. WRT the Condi
quote I was wondering if this is like a "non-traditional hijacking"?

BAGHDAD (AP) - Three Iraqis were found shot dead near a Baghdad dam on Monday and a slain Iraqi Kurd was left in a garbage dump in northern Iraq, raising the number of bodies found in recent days to 45. The government vowed to find those responsible, saying insurgents were seeking to exploit sectarian rivalries.

Elsewhere, mortar barrages, roadside bombings and drive-by shootings killed at least 10 Iraqis, including four soldiers who died in a roadside bomb attack as they raced to a fire station that had come under mortar fire.

Batches of bodies, many blindfolded and bound, were found in various areas over the weekend, from a garbage-strewn vacant lot in Baghdad's Sadr City to a Latifiyah chicken farm south of the capital in a region dubbed the Triangle of Death.

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Condi quote:

"Yes, the levels of violence are still very high and it's in large part because the advent of the car bomb makes it possible with relatively few people to do great damage, and that is something that has to be addressed," Rice said.

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[Roland99]

1. That'll be as effective as Pickles eliminating gangs

[noamnety]

2. Terrorism experts at work

"Hmmm, maybe we should put a stop to car bombs somehow."

[tabasco]

3. The puppet Iraqis will issue a decree from the Green Zone !!

I guess we can just declare the insurgency over now.

Condi Rice - "... the advent of car bombs ..." I suppose she never heard of car bombs before Iraq. Just like she never considered that planes might be used as weapons, despite warnings from the CIA.

[merwin]

4. OK Ms Rice... Car bombs are not a new thing. In fact, they have been used

as far back as 1920. And before car bombs, there were wagon bombs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_bomb

How stupid do these people think we are? I wouldn't be suprised to hear "The levels of violence are high in part because the advent of torture makes it possible to do a massive amount of pain to a hundreds of parts of a person's body with one single device!"

[bemildred]

5. Wasn't there something like that in Lebanon 25 years ago or so?

Some Marines involved IIRC.

[okieinpain]

7. that stupid. well at least the people that vote for her are.

[Decay]

6. Outlaw cars?

:patriot:

[killbotfactory]

8. Durrrrr

Nobody thought they'd use well-known and effective tactics against us! Not our fault! Durrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr