Today at least 24 civilians killed by gunmen at a makeshift checkpoint outside Baghdad. Next came a massacre of 20 high school students and elderly men pulled off two minibuses and a car bus northeast of Baquba. The victims were mainly Shiites.
Yesterday, 40 deaths were reported in terrorist attacks and various retaliations. In Basra, a Sunni religious faction accused the police of killing 12 unarmed worshippers in a Sunni mosque. But police claim they were just returning fire and that nine armed men were killed. In another attack 28 people were killed and dozens injured by a suicide car bomber in a crowded Basra souk Saturday night. On the same day, a Russian diplomat was killed in a driveby ambush.
The Iraqis are desperately trying to get the violence under control.That won't happen, I fear, until the problem of Iranis dealt with. They are flooding the country with fighters explosives and arms..not only to the Shiite Militias but to the al Qaeda terorists who are left in country.
Of course the big story is the alleged `massacres' in Haditha and elsewhere. al-Maliki has refused to accept the results of the US investigation that cleared US marines of misconduct in a raid of the town of Ishaqi two months ago, in which 11 civilians were killed. Al-Maliki said his government would carry out its own probes into US-led raids at Haditha and Ishaqi.
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