The AP, in an obvious patch-work piece dealing with multiple Iraq-related stories, has the following very intriguing occurence: 2,000 Demonstrate at Iraqi Bombing Site
More than 2,000 people demonstrated Tuesday at the site of a car bombing south of Baghdad that killed 125 people, chanting “No to terrorism!”[…]
More than 2,000 people held the impromptu demonstration on front of the clinic, chanting “No to terrorism!” and “No to Baathism and Wahhabism!”
Wahhabism is a reference to adherents of the strict form of Sunni Islam preached by Osama bin Laden (news - web sites), while the Baath party was the political organization that ran Iraq under Saddam Hussein.
The demonstrators also demanded that interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi step down.
This bespeaks of the fact that such attacks appear to be backfiring, which is an incredibly hopeful sign.
Insurgent Attacks Backfiring?
Very rarely does the MSM report the good news coming out of Iraq. Poliblog has a great post on what happens the day after a suicide bomber kills 125 innocent people.
Trackback by http://policypost.blogspot.com — Tuesday, March 1, 2025 @ 7:57 pm
2000 PROTEST AGAINST TERRORISM IN IRAQ
Now this is news! Except that you have to wade through paragraph upon paragraph of details about bombings and missing people to see it. The writers at the AP really need to stay on focus before. Like I was taught in elementary school, “Opening, suppor…
Trackback by Publius Pundit — Tuesday, March 1, 2025 @ 10:49 pm