Iraqis Find Little to Celebrate on Holiday

[leftchick]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040201/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_unhappy_eid&cid=540&ncid=1480


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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq (news - web sites)'s U.S. administrator marked the start of a major Muslim festival Sunday with a message of hope, saying the people had "much to be thankful for."
But his words rang hollow for many in the country on one of the bloodiest days since Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s downfall.

At least 56 were killed and more than 200 injured in a pair of suicide bombings in the northern city of Irbil. At least two Iraqis were injured when a roadside bomb went off, missing a U.S. military convoy in Baghdad.

Also, a U.S. soldier was killed and 12 were wounded in a rocket attack near Balad. Several more Iraqis died well to the south of the city raiding an ammo dump to scavenge munitions for scrap metal.

And in the capital, Abu Nawas Street — a Tigris riverside boulevard once the center of holiday merriment — stood almost deserted on a day when it normally would be packed with revelers celebrating Eid al-Adha, or Feast of Sacrifice.

.... I would bet the Iraqis hate bremer almost as much as shrub*.

[pfitz59]

1. Is Bremer a Muslim?

Why should he comment on a MUSLIM event? Did he tell them to go buy "I (HEART) Allah" t-shirts? Yep, the Islamic world loves us....