The Iraqi resistance knew how to pack them big and exploding them loud so that their MOSSAD handlers in Suleimanyia can hear them. Yesterday, 19.09.09 the Israeli telecommunication company Asia Cell was blown up in the al-Liqa’ quarter of the al-Mansur neighborhood of West Baghdad. The car bomb killed 21 persons and wounded 70 others besides damaging scores of homes and cars. The ASIA CELL Co. shares its HQ offices with MOSSAD operatives in Suleimanyia, North Iraq. The profits of the company is shared with Jalal Talibani, Party Union Of Kurdistan (PUK). It is not the first time that an Israeli concern which operates either from Jordan or from the Kurdish areas is targeted. Furthermore, Katusha and Mortars were also fired at the US embassy in the Green Zone of Baghdad which houses MOSSAD offices too. Definitely there is much more to come until Iraq is free from the American savages and their stooges, the Israeli assassins and killers.
Adnan Darwash, Iraq Occupation Times
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19 Sep 2010 09:45:42 GMT
Source: Reuters
* Tension runs high 6 months after inconclusive vote
* U.S. military has ended combat operations
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By Saad Shalash
BAGHDAD, Sept 19 (Reuters) - Two car bombs tore through crowded parts of the Iraqi capital on Sunday, killing at least 12 people and wounding more than 60 amid simmering tension six months after an inconclusive election.
One blast targeting a national security office killed at least six people and wounded 15, bringing down the facades of nearby houses, officials said. Some security sources put the death toll at nine.
A second car bomb near an office of mobile phone operator Asiacell, part-owned by Qatar Telecommunications Co
The blasts came three weeks after the U.S. military formally ended combat operations in Iraq, 7-1/2 years after the invasion that toppled Sunni dictator Saddam Hussein.
Overall violence has declined sharply over the past three years but a stubborn Sunni Islamist insurgency, opposed to the Shi'ite Muslim-led authorities who came to power after Saddam's fall, continues to stage regular, devastating attacks.
The last major assault in the Iraqi capital occurred on Sept. 5 when suicide bombers attacked an army base in central Baghdad and battled Iraqi troops and U.S. soldiers for several hours. At least 12 people were killed.
Officials say insurgents linked to al Qaeda are seeking to stoke fears of deepening violence after the U.S. military cut its numbers to 50,000 at the end of August and switched its focus to advising Iraqi forces, rather than leading the fight.
U.S. troops still get involved in combat, despite the change in their primary focus.
Insurgents are also trying to exploit political tension six months after a March 7 election that produced no outright winner and which has yet to yield a new government. Shi'ite-led, Sunni-backed and Kurdish factions appear to have made little progress in negotiations to form a coalition government.
An official in the National Security Ministry said one of its offices was hit in the blast at Aden square in northwest Baghdad on Sunday.
"It was a car bomb targeting our building. This explosion damaged the building and we lost one of our staff," the official said, asking not to be identified.
The building used by the ministry was destroyed, a Reuters photographer said at the scene. At least four nearby houses were severely damaged and ambulance drivers said there was at least one body in the rubble.
The second car bomb in the western district of Mansour was outside an Asiacell office and across the street from the popular Zarzour kebab restaurant, officials said.
The blast demolished around 37 vehicles, an official at the Baghdad security command said. (Additional reporting by Muhanad Mohammed, Aseel Kami, Suadad al-Salhy and Baghdad bureau; Writing by Michael Christie; Editing by Mark Heinrich)
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19 September 2010 Last updated at 06:15 ET
Twin blasts in Baghdad 'kill 23'
Iraqi security and fire fighters secure the scene following a car bomb in Mansur, Baghdad The car bomb in Mansur exploded outside a mobile phone company office
At least 23 people have been killed in two large, near-simultaneous blasts in Baghdad, officials say.
The two car bombs exploded near the Aden junction in north Baghdad and the residential district of Mansur, in the west of the Iraqi capital.
More than 100 people were wounded in the blasts, AFP news agency reports, quoting interior ministry officials.
The Mansur blast was in front of a mobile phone company office but it was not clear if this was the target.
The site is also close to restaurants and checkpoints.
The explosion at Aden junction was close to a national security office.
Attacks increase
Violence has increased in Iraq in recent months, with most of the attacks targeting Iraqi soldiers and police.
July and August recorded two of the highest death tolls since 2008, according to government figures.
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It follows elections in March which produced no clear winner and created mounting uncertainty. Politicians have failed to reach agreement on a new government.
The US military withdrew thousands of its soldiers in August and declared an official end to combat operations, though 50,000 soldiers remain in the country ready to support the Iraqi army.
The BBC's Gabriel Gatehouse in Baghdad says that, despite much talk about the increased capabilities of the Iraqi security forces, bombings remain an all too frequent part of everyday life.
Earlier in the morning, rockets were fired from central Baghdad towards the Green Zone, a closely guarded area home to many foreign embassies and government institutions.
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