……..therefore I work on not erring
Too much. Way too much.
This past Friday the Democratic National Committee welcomed a radical imam — one Husham Al-Husainy — to offer its invocation at its winter meeting. Last year Al-Hussainy reportedly led demonstrations of Dearborn locals supporting Hezbollah.
The NYTimes today has a story blaming the new plan (surge) for the widespread violence this weekend. In particular the suicide bombing that took place.
BAGHDAD, Feb. 4 — A growing number of Iraqis blamed the United States on Sunday for creating conditions that led to the worst single suicide bombing in the war, which devastated a Shiite market in Baghdad the day before. They argued that the Americans had been slow in completing the vaunted new American security plan, making Shiite neighborhoods much more vulnerable to such horrific attacks.
(Far be it from me to note that no plan anywhere in the world except perhaps a big wall has ever stopped a suicide bomber) (Whoops, too late, I already noted it!)
What I do want to officially note is the ‘notes on the ground’ version of what happened this weekend from Mohammed.
about a huge explosion in al-Sadriya market and casualty tolls were increasing every other minute—25, then 40, then 75…an hour later news was talking bout more than a hundred killed in what the media like to call a “predominantly Shia neighborhood”.Al-Sadriya doesn’t belong to a certain sect; it’s a commercial area where shoppers and shopkeepers are simply Baghdadis but sadly the media is keen on adding sectarian descriptions of the attacked targets in their reports. These descriptions draw the path for blind retaliators who in this case shortly responded by showering what the media calls “predominantly Sunni neighborhoods” with mortars to kill and wound dozens.
Remember that part, “but sadly the media is keen on adding sectarian descriptions of the attacked targets in their reports…….for blind retaliators……”
So then what happens? Well just what Mohammed predicted.
Sunni neighborhood attacked
More than 70 people were reported killed, including 42 whose corpses were dumped around the city and 15 killed in the mortar barrage against Adhamiya, a Sunni neighborhood that is typically targeted in the aftermath of bombings against Shiite neighborhoods.
It’s getting pretty bad when people can predict bad reporting and the results of such before it actually happens!
In todays Washington Post Sebastian Mallaby notes the Chinese sucking up to the President of Sudan. While the west works to sanction this hell hold, the Chinese are giving them money. Greeeaat.
But China’s talk of “sovereignty” is code for the opposite policy. As well as paying for a presidential palace, Hu used his trip to cancel $80 million of Sudanese debt, to announce a plan to build a railway line and to visit an oil refinery that China partly owns, basking in the fact that 80 percent of Sudan’s oil goes to his country.
Those Palestinian are finally figuring out that fighting each other might be a media disaster for them. There’s no need for them to worry though. If it can happen at all, the media will twist things so that it’s either Bush’s or Israel’s fault.
They’re very clever. Read the post, but here’s a snippet from Captain Ed:
Did you get that? Their insensitivity to death comes from all of the Palestinians killed by Israelis, rather than the countless men, women, and children killed by Palestinian terrorists since Yasser Arafat first formed the PLO. Their culture of death comes from the Israelis and not their own twisted culture that lionizes lunatics who blow up pizzerias and falafel stands.
