How do I know about today’s bombing before it happened? Friday I received email from a friend who is a “mole” inside the Supreme Council, and the image above [click on the image to enlarge] is part from what he wrote:
I received information from one the members of the Supreme Council saying: We are planning a series of explosions targeting the pilgrims at the AL Kazim martyrdom memorial in AL-Adil and Al-Jami’a neighborhoods…so that regular Iraqis think that these acts are committed by the Sunnis and the Sadrists.
It seems that the Kurds adopted the same strategy in Kirkuk today. Turkomen parties accused the Kurds of bringing their militias from other parts of Kurdistan, orchestrating demonstrations and claiming that “Kirkuk residents” are demonstrating against the law [confirmed by the American Consulate in Kirkuk] .
As stated by Kurdish official in Dihuk describes the provincial law as “military coup”, Turkomen officials accused the Kurds of militarly occupying the city.
Totally agree with Al-Akhbar report today saying: It is Kurds vs. Arabs, who is going to scream first?
Even Iraqi governemnt official information website saying it is Kurds vs. Arabs on Kirkuk, saying that Talabani remided the the Arab factions in the governemnt that they agreed to involve Kirkuk to Kudistan in London conference [before the invasion].
Actually when I heard the news today about the twin suicide bombings both in Kirkuk and in Baghdad, I WAS SURE that Iran through its proxies and the Kurds ARE RESPONSIBLIE FOR THEM.
It is NOT in the interest of Iran to have a relative security in IRAQ and IRAN would love to ignite sectarian strife again — mark my words.
And the Sadrist will be used by IRAN again and again when convenient. They are a psychopathic BULLSHIT sectarian movement.
While no one has taken responsibility for either incident, they were both apparently carried out by female suicide bombers (definitely in Baghdad, still up for debate in Kirkuk), which is a trademark of Al Qaeda in Iraq. They have been using the tactic more and more as they run out of foreign volunteers and their own followers to carry out attacks. Saying it’s Iran is just wild speculation not based upon any reporting, or the Iraqi and U.S. security forces. Shiite pilgrimages have often been attacked each year, and it’s always been Sunnis. The attack in Kirkuk set off the Kurdish crowd to attack the offices of the Turkoman Front and the home of an Arab member of the provincial council. Those types of divisions were probably just what the bombers wanted. Click on my name for two reports on my blog about it.
MOTOWN67, saying that Iran is behind these types of things is not ridiculous in the least. There have been at least 2 occasions when even the Americans have said that Iranian-backed groups in Iraq have attacked their own Shi’ite people to create outrage against Al-Qa’idah.
And saying that ‘female’ suicide bombers is an Al-Qa’idah trademark is silly. This is an idea put forth by the Iraqi interior ministry to try and minimalize Al-Qa’idah. Anyways, other groups (Islamic Army in Iraq, Ansar Al-Islam, etc.) have used suicide bombers also — why couldn’t it be them that did it? The Baathist are widely known to hate the Shia more than they dislike the U.S.
@motown67
You are simplifying the whole conflict, trying to make it as Shiite vs. Sunnis with no role of the U.S. or the neighboring countries.
@Sa’ad
Where do you came with this:
The Baathist are widely known to hate the Shia more than they dislike the U.S.
There are more Shiite members in Ba’ath party than Sunnis.
@Layla Anwar
You are right about Iran using the Sadrists again and again.….and they are using every single party and political bloc participate in Maliki government.
They are even using the Americans.
Good points @ LB
Saad — you seem to come up with the usual lame US propaganda or is it the Iranian one — Oh well, they amount to the same. It is clear that you are another sectarian who will definitely bite the dust, along with your other drilling sectarian racist mates.
It is clear that the Iraqi R. repeated over and over that they do not target innocent iraqis. AQ is another story. And tons of evidence point to the Iranians and Americans and Mossad intelligence using suicide bombers, car bombs etc…
The sectarian shias remind me of the zionist jews in Iraq, when they used to target the iraqi jews for israel eyes only.