The Iraq Security force members we trained and are counting on to take over are doing the bombings

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By Ammar Karim (AFP) – 6 hours ago

BAGHDAD — More than 60 soldiers and policemen, including 13 officers, have been arrested over twin bombings in central Baghdad that killed 153 people, a security spokesman said Thursday.

Those arrested were deployed in the Salhiyeh neighbourhood of the capital where the suicide attackers blasted government buildings on Sunday and wrought havoc in the streets, said Major General Qasim Atta, spokesman for Baghdad operations command.

"The commission of inquiry into the double attacks on Sunday ordered the arrest of 13 officers of various ranks, and 50 members of the security forces responsible for the protection of Salhiyeh," he told AFP.

Among those arrested, said Atta, were six army officers and seven senior policemen, including the chief of police of Salhiyeh under whose jurisdiction falls the justice ministry, one of the attackers' targets.

Also rounded up, he added, were the commanders of 15 security checkpoints in Salhiyeh.

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1. Mission Accomplished

[Ruby the Liberal]

2. FFS!

Get our military out of there NOW.

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3. Yep, including Al Queda which was NOT in Iraq before the invasion.

What a mess.

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4. Too Easy

This is like all the ballots in the Iranian elections being counted in three days, just a little hard to believe!

"The capital's governor, Salah Abdul Razzaq, has blamed negligence or even collusion by the security forces for the bombings, and has called for Interior Minister Jawad al-Bolani and Baghdad Operations Command chief Lieutenant General Abboud Qanbar to be sacked."

Sounds like a CYA move to me. Put the blame on anyone who's close to the area where this took place.

Now I'm not saying that elements within the police and military forces aren't sympathetic to Al-Qaeda, but these arrests happened too damn quick.