Christian liquor store owner killed in east Baghdad

"Militants planted a bomb in an eastern Baghdad liquor store on Tuesday, killing the Christian owner and two others, while a TV reporter had his legs blown off by a bomb attached to his car in scattered violence across the city."

Total bribed Saddam

"A French judge has charged Total SA (TOT) with bribery in connection with the oil major's involvement in the United Nations' Oil-for-Food program in Iraq during the late 1990s and early 2000s, company lawyer Jean Veil said Tuesday, confirming a statement in the group's annual report."

Sectarian violence continues after elections

"Bombings gutted a market and destroyed at least five buildings in working-class Shiite Muslim areas of Baghdad on Tuesday, killing dozens as violence following last month's elections continued to escalate and raise fears among Iraqis that a new civil war could erupt."

Meanwhile the "Palestinian Pundit" is much more concerned about a three year old US helicopter attack that killed a dozen people, including two Reuters journalists.

WikiLeaks did not merely post the 38-minute video, it used the label “Collateral Murder” and said it depicted “indiscriminate” and “unprovoked” killing.

Hey that sounds like what Al Qaeda did just in the last few days. But our Arab brethren seem to be angered only when Americans kill Iraqis, as they always have been.

Hardcore Baathists think killers are Iranian

"The talk about the suicide bombers was lively today at work. Not one person said they supported the killers because nobody could justify the killing of civilians. The intersting thing was those who are pro-Baath said the killers were Iranian." --Iraq Pundit

I've heard this brand of conspiracy theory before. The hardcore Baathists, like so many Arabs, apear to be clueless. My comment on IP's post was that the Baathist idiots seem to ignore logic completely. One of the targets was the Iranian embassy!

Please stop exporting death ya 3arab

"Iraq does not need Arab Forces to provide security; we just need Arab terrorists to stop blowing themselves up and to stop slaughtering our people. Instead of sending us soldiers why can’t they just stop exporting death?"

-Hayder Al Khoei

41 people killed in 3 suicide bombings

"At least 41 people were killed and 237 wounded Sunday in three suicide car bombings targeting the Iranian and German embassies and the Egyptian Consulate in Iraq in a span of 30 minutes.

The attacks, which Iraqi government officials blamed on the Sunni Arab extremist group Al Qaeda in Iraq, came two days after unknown gunmen in uniforms massacred 25 people in a Sunni district south of Baghdad.

The bloodshed raises fears that the security situation could unravel before Iraq's next government is formed, as armed groups and political parties look to exploit the uncertain period after last month's national elections. The conditions are reminiscent of early 2006 when Al Qaeda in Iraq took advantage of the transition between elected governments to blow up a major Shiite Muslim shrine and ignite a civil war between the country's Shiite majority and its Sunni minority, which dominated the government of President Saddam Hussein before he was toppled in the 2003 U.S.-led invasion."

--Ned Parker and Usama Redha, LA Times

Iraqi forces killed AQI leader in Mosul

"Iraqi troops, backed by US advisers, have struck a blow to al Qaeda in Iraq's leadership in the north during targeted raids in March.

This past month, three top al Qaeda leaders have been killed and three more have been captured during multiple raids in Mosul and northern Iraq. Among those killed were the top leader and the "economic security emir" of al Qaeda's network in northern Iraq, and al Qaeda's top leader in Mosul, US Forces Iraq said in a press release."

Read more: http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2010/04/iraqi_forces_strike.php#ixzz0jzACD6Sb