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Thread #117126   Message #2589202
Posted By: Gervase
15-Mar-09 - 07:12 AM
Thread Name: BS: Why Iraq Was a Mistake, Teribus...
Subject: RE: BS: Why Iraq Was a Mistake, Teribus...
You're being selective there, Teribus (no surprises there, of course!).
At least half of those incidents can be blamed on militant Islam, and the Iraq misadventure has poured petrol on the flames.
Discount Iraq and Afghanistan? That's a bit like looking at PIRA murders and discounting those that happened in Northern Ireland, you clot.

OK, How about a bit of cut and paste – giving just the January attacks? Twenty-five of them; eighteen of which can be linked to militant Islamic factions.
Nice to know terrorism is on the wane, eh? Just because the US and the UK hasn't been attacked for a while doesn't mean that terrorism has gone away.

Date              Dead        Injured        Incident
January 1        5        50        Guwahati, Assam. Police are blaming a insurgent group in Assam for three explosions early on New Year's Day that killed 5 people and injured 50 others. The United Liberation Front of Asom has been waging a low level insurgency for two decades in the province leaving at least 10,000 people dead. This comes just after the Mumbai attacks.
January 1        4        16        Khar, Bajaur Agency. Militants fired rockets at a civil colony in the Bajaur Agency town of Khar killing four people and injuring 16 others. The attackers were able to get away before police and army officials caught them. LINKED
January 2        23        72        Yusufiya. A relative of a Sunni tribal shiek blew himself up at a Sunni gathering south of Baghdad killing 23 people and wounding 72 others, including many of his relatives. LINKED
January 2        4        37        Colombo. Hours after the capture of the Tamil Tigers capital in northern Sri Lanka a suicide bomber in Colombo struck killing three security officers and himself and wounding an additional 37 others.[4]
January 3        0        3        Colombo. A bomb blast outside a mosque in Colombo has injured three people.
January 4        35        79        Baghdad. A suicide bomb blast at a Shite religious shrine in Baghdad has killed at least 35 people and injured 79.LINKED
January 4        7        28        Dera Ismail Khan. Police officers investigating "explosives" in the North-West town of Dera Ismail Khan were attacked by a teenage suicide bomber resulting in the deaths of 7 people and the injuring of another 28. Five policemen are among the dead. LINKED
January 5        0        1        Athens. Police guarding the Cultural Ministry in Athens were attacked by gunfire. This comes nearly a month after riots began over the killing of a 15 year old boy by Athens Police. The unit targetted was a riot squad unit and one policeman was taken to hospital with serious injuries. Three people were arrested a short time later.
January 8        1        2        Khuzdar, Balochistan. One person was killed and two others injured in an bomb incident. The bomb had been placed on a sitting motorcycle and there is no information on who committed the act.
January 9        12        20        Zaranj,Nimroz. A car bomb in a market place killed 10 civilians and two Afghan police officers and injured at least 20 others. LINKED
January 11        3        0        . Suspected Islamic insurgents in Thailand southern provinces shot and killed two Buddhist men and a Muslim woman as they headed to work at a rubber plantation. Police are looking for four gunmen. LINKED
January 12        9        18        Baghdad Three explosions in Baghdad in a market, at a checkpoint and a military patrol resulted in the deaths of at least 9 Iraqis and the injuring of 18 others. LINKED
January 14        1        15        Bugti colony, Sui A remote control triggered explosive detonated in Sui province killing one man and injuring 15 others including ten Pakistani soldiers. LINKED
January 15        6        2        Bardhere Town A remote controlled landmine detonated in Bardhere town killing a militia commander and three other Somali militiamen and two civilians while injuring two more civilians in an attack blamed on Islamist rebels. LINKED
January 17        0        0        Hernani, Basque Country A blast went off at a television station in Hernani causing damage but no injuries. ETA is blamed for the attack.
January 17        6        19        Kabul A suicide car bomber in Kabul killed one U.S serviceman 4 civilians and himself and wounded 19 others in Kabul. LINKED
January 18        5        20        Qaiyara A Sunni political leader was killed along with four other people and at least 20 other people were wounded in a suicide bombing in the northern community of Qaiyara. LINKED
January 18        0        4        Herat A bridge was blown up by Taliban insurgents wounding four Afghan civilians as foreign troops were apparently going over the bridge. No foreign fatalities or injuries reported. LINKED
January 20        2        2        Kandahar A bicycle bomb exploded killing two Afghan police officers and wounding two more people.
January 21        4        10        Baghdad Ziyad al-Ain, a dean of Baghdad's Islamic University and the Iraqi Under-secretary for the Education Ministry, Ammar Aziz Mohammed Ali, survived a car bomb but four others including a woman and a child were killed and ten others injured.LINKED
January 24        14        30        Mogadishu A car bomb exploded in Mogadishu killing 15 civilians and one Somali policemen. The bomb was meant for AU peacekeepers but policemen noticed the suspicious vehicle and fired several shots at the driver resulting in the vehicle crashing short of its target and exploding. At least 30 others were wounded. LINKED
January 24        6        13        Jarma A car bomb exploded north of Baghdad killing five police officers and the suicide car bomber and injured 13 others just a week before provincial elections in Iraq. LINKED
January 24        0        0        Kidapawan City Two men tossed a grenade into a church grounds in the city of Kidapawan City in insurgency hit southern Philippines and it exploded causing some damage. No injuries or deaths were reported in the incident. LINKED
January 26        2        6        Katahariya village A bomb hanging from a tree at the Katahariya village local market exploded killing one person and injuring two other people seriously. The Tarai Army has claimed responsibility for the blast. LINKED
January 27        2        5        Kissufim A bombing by Palestinian militants at the Kissufim crossing killing one Israeli soldier and injured three others. Israeli soldiers invaded Gaza to find the bombers but withdrew after a short time when their operation was not successful. In retaliation Israeli forces later shot and killed a Palestinian farmer and wounded two other Palestinian civilians, a second terrorist incident connected to the first.
January 28        2        4        Bogota An explosion in a two-story building in Bogota has killed 2 people and injured at least four others.
January 30        0        10        Davao City Communist rebels set off a landmine by a military convoy in Davao City and then attacked a police station with gunfire resulting in the injuring of ten people, but no fatalities.