© Associated Press/Karim KadimPolicemen stand near burning vehicles moments after one in a series of bombs hit the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq Tuesday, May 13, 2014
At least one of the bombs was placed in what authorities described as "an explosives-laden car left in a parking lot in Karrada, a busy commercial area where several government departments are located.
The second bomb, detonated just seconds later - was supposedly the work of a suicide bomber with an explosives belt, who blew himself up outside the offices of Iraq's Higher Education Ministry.
Later that evening another car bomb near an outdoor market in Baghdad's Sadr City killed another eight people and wounded 17.
Meanwhile in Youssifiyah, south of Baghdad, 'unknown gunmen' stormed the home of a Sunni militant who had taken up arms against 'al Qaeda', and killed him along with his entire family.
The following day, Friday 17 May, a bomb exploded at an outdoor market in North Baghdad, killing five shoppers and wounding 14 others, all civilians. The Voice of Russia reports that already this year, 3,500 people have been killed.
The following video provides a glimpse of what it has been like for Iraqis to have been invaded over and over again:
Sadly, last Friday's bloody scenes in Baghdad were nothing out of the ordinary. Over the last two years, violence in Iraq has increased dramatically. During just the month of April this year, 1,000 people were violently killed across Iraq, most of them civilians. Some days are worse than others, but most days are hell:
11 June 2013: 70 die in day of carnage in Iraq
17 June 2013: Attacks in Iraq kill 51, injure many others
1 April 2013: Al-CIA-duh strikes again: Iraq rocked by deadly blast in Tikrit
15 April 2014: Black Monday in Iraq: 55 killed, almost 300 injured in series of attacks
Obama removed the army grunts back in 2011, but U.S. Special Forces (aka death squads for hire) never left.
In fact, they are behind all the attacks we are reading about. The Guardian posted a damning video expose on 6 March 2013, revealing that the U.S. government used these death squads run by that monster James Steele to create the 'civil war' in Iraq:
[I]n the immediate aftermath of the US invasion of Iraq, the US Govt. and military began to assemble a 10,000 strong 'Shia militia' that, under US command, would be used to do three things:In the end, what was the point of it all? This war has cost, and will keep costing, billions of dollars that the U.S. government could be spending on creating jobs for millions of unemployed Americans, on providing food and access to basic resources for the tens of millions who are at or near starvation levels, improving the education system, providing free health services for its people - all things that would be done by a government which truly cares and provides for the physical, mental and spiritual well-being of its people.While the 50 minute documentary is proof enough that Rumsfeld, Cheney, General Petraeus, the CIA et al consciously employed the services of former US army Colonel James Steele in the organisation of death squads against the Iraqi grass-roots resistance (a tactic that he, Steele, had used against resistance movements in South America in the 1970s and 90′s), it panders to the official narrative that 'sectarianism' in Iraq was the root cause of the carnage that unfolded.
- Kidnap, torture, murder and maim members of the Iraq resistance and those members of the Iraqi population that supported them.
- Plants bombs that targeted predominantly Sunni and Shia areas in an effort to divide the population and thereby any unified resistance to the US occupation.
- Create the impression of a 'civil war' in Iraq that could be used by the US and European governments and militaries to justify the continued occupation of Iraq for 'peace-keeping' purposes.
The so-called 'Shia militia' used by the American government (with the help and advice of British and Israeli counter-insurgency 'experts') were recruited directly by the CIA and people like James Steele to carry out extra-judicial murders of anyone they could loosely identify as 'resistance' and also indiscriminate attacks on Iraqi civilians, Shia and Sunni alike. Some of these individuals, in another setting, would be called 'al-qaeda'. The point being that the US forces of occupation, along with their British counterparts, had long experience in what actually happens when you militarily invade and occupy a sovereign nation: the people resist, and not just one ethnic or religious group, but more or less the whole population. There is nothing quite like a foreign occupation for uniting a country.
But 11 years and trillions of dollars later, most Americans can no longer make ends meet. And for Iraqis, each day looks the same.
For more objective information, see:
"Suicide Bombings" - The Cover Story For US Military Ops In Iraq
Ten years on, Iraq lies in ruins as new evidence confirms U.S. government used Death Squads to manufacture 'Civil War'
SOTT Talk Radio: Iraq Invasion - Ten years later
I had a very dear friend who was also an Iraqi. "Sam" was funny, insightful, intelligent and cool. We both lived in Southern California. Back when the demonetization of Saddam had begun Sam and I talked about what Iraq really was like.
"If someone wants to become an astronomer or a farmer or whatever, then they are given an education at no cost to them" Sam would tell me.
"There are no homeless people as there are here in America" he would say.
Under Saddam's rule , which by the way, the people Loved, Life was peaceful ,full and good.
So, I hurt deeply when reading about the unjust invasion and mass murder of innocent Iraqi women children and men.
Sam, my friend, I miss you and Pray that you are well.