Monday, May 29, 2006
More Bush vs Reality
So, where is all the good news from Iraq? Why isn't the MSM reporting all the positve stuff that the neocons so fervently believe in?
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Bombs killed dozens of people in Iraq on Monday, adding to pressure on rival factions in the country's new coalition government to agree on interior and defense ministers who can tackle the relentless violence.And of course there are always stories like this:
A series of separate attacks claimed at least 47 lives, most of them in the capital Baghdad, police and other officials said.
In the bloodiest incident, a car bomb targeting an Iraqi army patrol killed 12 people, mostly students, in a Sunni Arab area of northern Baghdad, police said. A roadside bomb killed at least eight people in a Shi'ite area in the city's northwest.
Elsewhere, 11 people were killed when a bomb planted on a bus taking laborers to work went off in the town of Khalis in a volatile area 80 km (50 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.
"What wrong had they done?" a middle-aged man said as he inspected the blood-stained bus. He declined to be named.
An Iranian exiled opposition group said the dead were employees traveling to its base in the area.
Noting Iran's foreign minister was in Baghdad last week, the People's Mujahideen Organization pointed the finger at Tehran and also blamed its Shi'ite Islamist allies running Iraq's new government. Iran sees the group as a terrorist organization.
Two British journalists working for U.S. television network CBS were among four people killed when a car bomb struck a U.S. military patrol in Baghdad.
American CBS correspondent Kimberly Dozier was seriously wounded in the attack and six U.S. soldiers were also wounded, CBS and the U.S. military said in separate statements.
An unnamed soldier and an Iraqi civilian working with the military were killed along with the network's London-based cameraman Paul Douglas, 48, and sound man James Brolan, 42.
Sunni Who Aided U.S. Gunned Down in IraqThe good news just keeps demanding to be heard.