The Associated Press
BAGHDAD, Iraq October 4, 2006, 7:24 a.m. ET A series of bombs exploded in rapid succession in a shopping district in a mainly Christian neighborhood of Baghdad on Wednesday, killing 16 people and wounding 87, police said.
Scattered attacks around Iraq killed five other people, and the U.S. military announced the death of two soldiers -- raising the toll of one of the deadliest periods for American troops this year. |
29 Sep 2006
NY Times Ahmed al-Karbouli was the fourth journalist killed in Iraq in September alone, out of a total of more than 130 since the 2003 invasion, the vast majority of them Iraqis... Under a broad new set of laws criminalizing speech that ridicules the government or its officials, some resurrected verbatim from Saddam Hussein's penal code, roughly a dozen Iraqi journalists have been charged with offending public officials in the past year.
Comment: US freedom and democracy, replacing one corrupt regime that they could not control with another that they can.
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