mr ed
i was hoping not to stumble across rubbish in these basra police station bombings - but alas - its full of all the same shit. even from the guardian. sad sad.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1200401,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1200386,00.html

"Last night Iraqi officials said they were interrogating one suicide bomber who had failed to blow himself up."
ive ranted before about how odd it is that theres always one who fails to blow himself up, or an unexploded belt or whatever. nice to see this one again.

"Amid the carnage outside Zubair's police academy, investigators found the remains of the suicide bomber - including his head. He was bearded, lending credence to the theory that the blasts were the work of radical Islamists, possibly foreign, rather than secular supporters of the old regime."
have u ever seen anything as absurd as this para? they found his head and he was bearded ergo prolly a radical foreigner. its also not clear how they ascertain that the dead guy was the suicide bomber.

"I saw the body and the person had a dish dash," Ali Al Basari, a witness, told the Guardian. "But the body and his clothes were destroyed. There was nothing in his pockets."
its not obvious why a witness was going thru the pockets of a dead man, nor how it was possible to even look in pockets given that the clothes and body were destroyed. its not sure why they make this up - praps to indicate that we'll never work out who he was.
further, i know nothing about arabic names, but if someone asked me to make up a witness name for a bombing in basra, id prolly come up with something like ali al basari.

and then this:
"By midday Basra's governor, Wael Abdul-Latif, was blaming al-Qaida and its Jordanian lieutenant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, as well as former Ba'ath party supporters of Saddam Hussein. "The attacks were obviously well planned and coordinated," Mr D'Angelo said, quoting the governor. "It would have taken weeks if not months of planning."
didnt we learn anything about jumping to conclusions from aznar??? its not obvious why this would take months of planning - but the point seems to be to highlight the apparent required sophistication and therefore 'alq did it' - cos alq is sophisticated. cos alq is sophisticated. cos alq is sophisticated.

and this is just from looking at two articles in the guardian. i fear for the rest of the rubbish we will be forcefed.


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