Re: Who to blame for Islamophobia

Nope. Associated Press again?

Suicide bomber kills 28 in Basra market
By Patrick Quinn, Associated Press | June 4, 2006

BAGHDAD -- A suicide car bomber attacked a crowded market in oil-rich
southern Basra yesterday, killing 28 people and wounding 62. In Baghdad, a
Russian diplomat was killed and four diplomatic employees were kidnapped.

Around Iraq, at least 42 people were killed yesterday and dozens were
wounded, and police discovered the remains of 12 people, including eight
severed heads.

In Basra, the country's second-biggest city, the suicide car bomb exploded
in the late afternoon when many people were shopping, police Captain Mushtaq
Kadhim said. The blast left pools of blood around the market square and set
several vehicles on fire.

It wasn't known who staged the attack, but Basra has seen growing violence
and unrest, leading the prime minister last week to declare a monthlong
state of emergency in the mainly Shi'ite city.

The attack came one day after Jordanian-born terrorist mastermind Abu Musab
al-Zarqawi called on Iraq's Sunni Arabs to kill Shi'ites. His Al Qaeda in
Iraq has claimed responsibility for some of the most horrific attacks in
Iraq, including bombings that have killed more than 100 people.

In Baghdad, gunmen attacked a Russian diplomatic car just after noon,
killing one Russian foreign service employee and kidnapping four, Russia's
Foreign Ministry said in a statement. The ministry identified the slain
Russian as Vitaly Vitalyevich Titov, according to the ITAR-Tass news agency.

At least 439 foreigners including diplomats have been kidnapped in Iraq
since the US-led invasion three years ago, according to figures provided
earlier this month by a US anti-kidnapping task force.

Russia opposed the US-led invasion of Iraq and has no troops here but
maintains a diplomatic presence.

Associated Press Television News footage showed a white SUV with tinted
windows and diplomatic license plates, a type of car favored by US officials
and security contractors and often targeted by insurgents.

A small paper tag in the car window reading ``Russian Embassy" in English
and Arabic was punctured by a bullet hole.

Amid the violence, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki held last-minute
negotiations with Sunni and Shi'ite leaders. Maliki plans to announce today
his choices for interior and defense ministers, two weeks after his
government of national unity took office.

Sunni Arabs complained that negotiators for Maliki's Shi'ite faction again
rejected their candidates for defense minister. They said they would hold
further talks today before parliament convenes. The Interior Ministry post
will go to a Shi'ite, the Defense Ministry to a Sunni Arab.

Fellow Sunni Arab legislator Hashim al-Taie said the issue had to settled
today ``because it's taking so long and the Iraqi people are expecting us to
solve their problems."

Iraqi police found eight severed heads north of Baghdad with a note
indicating they were killed in retaliation for the slaying of four Shiite
doctors. Five of the slain men were security guards at a Baghdad hospital
complex who had been arrested Thursday by Iraqi police, police Lieutenant
Colonel Adil al-Zihari said.

In other violence yesterday , according to police:

Gunmen ambushed a police checkpoint in the capital, killing seven police and
wounding five pedestrians.

Six mortar rounds hit a central Baghdad square, killing a child.

Drive-by attackers shot and killed two car-parts salesmen and a mechanic as
they worked at their shop in Baqubah.

Gunmen in a car opened fire on two people in another vehicle, killing one
and wounding the other, in the predominantly Sunni Dora neighborhood in
southern Baghdad.

Gunmen stopped an ambulance and opened fire in Dora, killing the driver and
wounding a passenger.



"Rami" <ramiabaz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1149445384.363487.52900@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
CNN, MSNBC, YAHOO, FOX are all to blame for the disrimination and
stereotypes against the Arabs and Muslims.


If you agree with me than send me back.

Rami



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