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President Bush strongly condemned the attack, saying: "My message to the Iraqi government is `We stand with you.'"

"It reminds us, though, that there is an enemy willing to bomb innocent people in a symbol of democracy," he said.

You'd think the President would have been furious over that terrible security failure. But he didn't seem at all hopping mad, or even upset. In fact, honestly, he looked to me like he was lying his head off, but that's just my interpretation. I always feel that way whenever he opens his mouth. Who can blame me, he's told so many whoppers that believing him would be an unbelievable thing to do.

You know what really bothers me though, is what he didn't say. He didn't say, "We are deeply sorry for your loss and we apologize for failing to protect your lawmakers, we are so ashamed and so sorry for letting you down. We tried with everything we had, but we didn't catch this one, and we are so sorry". He didn't say that, he said, "We stand with you." Well what the hell does that mean? I hate phony, insincere canned speeches. Pretty words. No heart. Makes me ill. I'm sure it's just his way. I keep hearing what a nice guy he is. Oh wait....no, that's wrong, I haven't heard that. Sorry, my mistake.

Congress has passed bills that would force the Bush administration to set a timetable for withdrawing American troops. Bush has said he would veto any such measure and that American forces need more time to curb the raging violence.

And in the meantime, I guess they'll just go on inciting it. Makes perfect sense.

Hours after the bombing, Iraqi officials including Deputy Prime Minister Barham Saleh met with the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus, and decided to put the Interior Ministry in charge of security at parliament, government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said. The building was previously guarded by a private security company, he said.

A PRIVATE SECURITY COMPANY?! RENT-A-COPS? People with no loyalties whatsoever that can be bought off in a heartbeat? OH GOOD THINKING MERGATROID! Some "tightest security net". Why weren't they using our nation's finest? You know them: Dedicated, highly trained, crack teams, loyal to their country, willing to die for their beliefs? Why didn't they use them? Our guys and gals NEVER would have let this happen. Oh.... I get it. Our guys and gals never would have let this happen. That's why they didn't use them.

I need a drink... and I don't even drink, but I need one now. brb.

The video of the bombing was shot by Alhurra, a U.S. government-funded Arab-language channel.

What a coincidence. The news crew on hand at the bombing, who just happened to film the bombing from A to Z, was U.S. funded!

They must be the Arab-language channel's version of the CIA/Fox News. (Would they be U.S. funded if they weren't?)

Mohammed Abu Bakr, who heads the legislature's media department, said he saw the bomber's body amid the ghastly scene.

HE KNEW WHO THE BOMBER WAS? I just spit my Crown Royal all over my keyboard. How did he know who the bomber was?

"I saw two legs in the middle of the cafeteria, and none of those killed or wounded lost their legs — which means they must be the legs of the suicide attacker," he said.

OH. He saw the LEGS of the suicide bomber. Okay, that's different. Pretty misleading statement there, if you ask me. But did he mean he just saw some legs? Or did he mean he saw some legs and he knew who's legs they were? Did I just say that? This is getting too surreal for me.

Earlier in the day, security officials brought dogs inside the building in a rare precaution — apparently concerned that an attack might take place.

THEY DON'T keep bomb sniffing dogs on the premises of the tightest security net in Baghdad? Oh someone help me. There's tighter security in place at my local library!

But a security scanner that checks pedestrians at the entrance to the Green Zone near the parliament building was not working Thursday, Abu Bakr said. People were searched only by hand and had to pass through metal detectors, he said.

Forget the drink. I need something stronger. A ball peen hammer to the fingers maybe.

It's so bizarre that security equipment is always broken on the ONE DAY that something bad happens. It's just like how none of the 300 security cameras managed to catch a glimpse of any of the 7/7 bombers in London on THAT day. And the ones on the buses weren't working ON THAT ONE SPECIFIC DAY either. What a crock.

Technology is not a boon to finding and locking up criminals, it's a hindrance. Time and time again. Good old fashioned police work is much better. We didn't have terrorists when we used to do things the good old fashioned way. And by the way, where's all our footage of the Pentagon on 9/11? There must be all kinds of clues in there that would help invesigators catch the bad guys. Oh... I get it. It would help investigators catch the bad guys. Pour me another shot please. GULP.

The parliament building was built during Saddam Hussein's reign as a convention center. After the war, it served as a press center and provided offices for a variety of U.S. and international agencies. The explosion took place just a few steps away from the room where the U.S.-appointed occupation governor, L. Paul Bremer, announced "We got him!" after the capture of Saddam in a spider hole in December 2003.

Saddam Hussein reigned as a convention center? No wonder it was so hard to find him. By the way, please don't use the words " Paul Bremer" within sixteen hours of my last meal. It's just too risky. Okay?

Besides killing 10 people, Thursday's bombing of the al-Sarafiya bridge wounded 26, hospital officials said. But the death toll was feared to be much higher: Police tried but apparently failed to rescue as many as 20 people whose cars plummeted off one of Baghdad's nine Tigris River spans.

Damn.

Waves lapped against twisted girders as patrol boats searched for survivors and U.S. helicopters flew overhead. Scuba divers donned flippers and waded in from the riverbanks.

How poetic. Was that Haiku?

Farhan al-Sudani, a 34-year-old Shiite businessman who lives near the bridge, said the blast woke him at dawn.

I bet it did. I'd wake right up too.

"A huge explosion shook our house and I thought it would demolish our house. My wife and I jumped immediately from our bed, grabbed our three kids and took them outside," he said.

Damn. I couldn't live like that. They can't either. No one could. Oh well, now that they're out of bed, I need to go lie down; I feel sick. Must have been the Bremer.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070412/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

Bombing at Iraqi parliament kills 8

By STEVEN R. HURST and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA, Associated Press Writers

April 12, 2007

Yahoo News

BAGHDAD - A suicide bomber slipped through the tightest security net in Baghdad and blew himself up in the midst of lawmakers having lunch in the parliament dining hall Thursday. U.S. officials said eight people, including parliament members, were killed in the deadliest-ever attack in the American-guarded Green Zone.

The tightest security net in Baghdad? Inside the Green Zone? Meaning, inside the place where there are hundreds, even thousands of troops, with lots of guns? And some of them were assigned to guard the Iraqi Parliament to protect the lives of those important people?

And a suicide bomber "slipped" through? Multiple checkpoints?

Is that so. Hmmm. Well, I'm no security expert, but my first gut instinct is, it sounds kind of like an inside job.

Who just "slips through the tightest security net in the entire city"? And how?

Imagine trying that here. (Without airplanes that is.)

What unauthorized person is allowed anywhere near our nuclear facilities? Or our own congressional buildings? Just ask Rep. Cynthia McKinney how hard it is to get in even when you ARE authorized.

Could a suicide bomber strapped down with enough bulky explosives to kill a room full of people, slip by White House Security? That would be pretty tough to do. Darn near impossible.

Perplexing.

The stunning breach of security, on the same day that a massive bombing destroyed one of Baghdad's main bridges, laid a cloud of heavy doubt about progress in the latest U.S.-Iraqi bid to clamp off violence in the capital. The drive has put thousands of troops on the streets in a massive operation to round up militants and their weapons.

I wonder why an Iraqi insurgent would blow up his own lawmakers. Or blow up a big bridge in his own city. Who was that supposed to hurt? Did he get confused and think, "I know. Instead of taking out my wrath on the invading American infidels, I shall hurt my own country because it hurts me so much to see it devastated by this invasion. Surely that will send a message to America to get out of our country!"

That bomber probably would have felt stupid to know the heat would be on the Iraqi people like never before after this. He should have thought of that. Guess he didn't think it through very well.

A news video camera captured the moment of the blast, about 2:30 p.m. — a flash and an orange ball of fire causing Jalaluddin al-Saghir, a startled parliament member who was being interviewed, to duck. Smoke and dust billowed through the area, and confused and frightened lawmakers and others could be heard screaming for help and to find colleagues. Al-Saghir reportedly escaped injury.

What an unbelievable coincidence that a news reporter AND a camera crew were there on the scene taping, and amazingly, taping facing the exact direction of the soon to occur explosion! They couldn't have been at a more perfect angle, at a more perfectly safe distance, and more perfectly already rolling, interviewing a man who almost jumped out of his skin when the explosion happened. I mean they got it all on film perfectly. It was almost like they were there just to film it.

But a woman was shown kneeling over what appeared to be a wounded or dead man near a table and chairs. The camera then focused on a bloody, severed leg — apparently that of the suicide bomber. At least two lawmakers were among the dead.

Is that important news, a severed leg? We never really see anything like that on the news here do we. I wonder why they made an exception this time? For people not used to seeing that kind of real gore, it might get them a bit hysterical. Especially if you happened to be a lawmaker. Apparently nobody is safe over there, not even high level government officials in the tightest security net there is. Maybe more troops and cash would help, huh?

Watch the bomb go off on the video that came along with the article. That camera guy sure had nerves of steel. He didn't know if more bombs were going to go off or what and he stayed there and kept filming, he even went inside the bombed out area right away and it was filled with smoke and eerie shapes, and he went right in there to film it. Not to help, but to film it, and now you can see how creepy it all was right in the comfort of your own livingroom. Personally, I'd have bolted out of there faster than a hyper-bunny. I don't like explosions.

U.S. military spokesman Maj. Gen. William Caldwell said the attack bore the trademarks of al-Qaida in Iraq. The terrorist group is fighting not only to oust U.S. forces from Iraq but also against fellow Sunnis in the west of the country who have begun to leave the insurgency and side with U.S. and Iraqi soldiers.

I wonder what the trademarks are of al-Qaida in Iraq? Are they different in other places? Gee I wish they would give some details about these things. It's so hard to interpret statements like these when you never have any details to refer to.

"We don't know at this point who it was. We do know in the past that suicide vests have been used predominantly by al-Qaida," the U.S. military spokesman said.

So suicide vests are predominantly al-Qaida? I didn't know that. You learn something new every day. Maybe the Spokesman should get with Israel. It's probably not the Palestinians doing the suicide bombing over there then. It's obviously al-Qaida. Geez, what a terrible mess that could turn out to be. It was al-Qaida all along. I can't even think about it.

Those have to be some small vests to not be noticed immediately. Don't these civilian combatants have to rig up explosives from scratch? How could they make such incredibly advanced explosive technologies I wonder? So small they can line a suit vest and not be noticed in a pat down. And not be sniffed out by bomb sniffing dogs.

They did have a pat down didn't they? And they did have bomb sniffing dogs, right? Of course they did, what am I thinking.

Security officials told The Associated Press then that the bodyguard was a distant relative who had been arrested as an insurgent, freed at al-Zubaie's request, then hired as a bodyguard. At the time, the assassination attempt was at least the third major security breach involving a top politician in four months.

WHAT? Let me get this straight. The suspected bomber was in prison after being arrested as one of "the enemy". And this politician requests his release, and they just let him go? Is that all it takes to get a dangerous insurgent out of prison camp, a little request from a hot shot? Well what's wrong with THIS picture? Is this a common occurence? Releasing dangerous criminals into the hands of political powers who hire them for their own purposes? Why yes it is, where do you think patsies come from? They are handy as heck for underhanded deeds. This sure looks like one too. Is it fishy enough for you yet?

"Just after noon on 28th April 1996, an unknown marksman opened fire on diners in the Broad Arrow Cafe at Port Arthur in Australia.

In less than 20 minutes at this and five other crime scenes, the marksman killed 35, injured 22, and crippled two cars with only 64 shots.

Nineteen of the first twenty dead in the Broad Arrow Cafe died from single shots to the head, all fired by the unknown marksman from his right hip.

This staggering display of marksman- ship was blamed on left-handed and intellectually impaired Martin Bryant, whose shooting experience extended to popping off cans in the bush, and had no military training

of any kind.

From the time of his arrest, remand prisoner Martin Bryant was illegally held in strict solitary confinement and denied access to media

of any kind until his police interrogation on 4th July 1996.

When he refused to admit to the Port Arthur Massacre at interrogation, he was once more placed back in illegal solitary confinement. Eventually in desperation during November 1996, Martin Bryant pleaded "guilty" 72 times, thereby allowing the authorities to avoid a humiliating trial at which they could present no hard evidence of guilt.

Intellectually impaired Martin Bryant was convicted by a hysterical media pack, then forced to plead guilty by prison officials illegally enforcing solitary confinement."

http://home.overflow.net.au/~nedwood/portarthur.html

Noble Resolve 07: Four days of “simulated” nuclear terrorist scenarios in the US & Europe

DL Abrahamson

False Flag News

Thursday, April 19, 2007

From April, 23 to April 27, the elite echelon of the military are running Noble Resolve 07, a four-day marathon of “simulated” terror attacks across the US and Europe. This includes a simulated detonation of a “loose” ten-kiloton nuclear weapon Virginia harbor, smuggled in by a “foreign nation.”

This week Dick Cheney has also been warning of the “very real” threat of a nuclear attack on an American city. Could the Nobel Resolve drills be used as a screen for a false-flag attack to be blamed on Iran, Hezbollah, Al-Qaeda, or sheep-dipped Americans like Adam Gadahn?

The drills are being run by Joint Task Force Command (JTFCOM), Northern Command (NORTHCOM), J9 Joint Innovation and Experimentation Directorate, FEMA’s command bunker, the Department of Homeland Security, and Virginia police.

The US Marines are also running “Emerald Express 07” in Virginia on April 24 as part of their Urban Warrior 07 drill package.

It is important to note the “Nobel Resolve” drills are dominated by NORTHCOM, the branch of “homeland defense” based in Colorado and responsible for shutting down the United States under martial law, as well as ushering in the merger of the US, Canada, and Mexico via the SPP.

Meanwhile the J9 Directorate, formulates various terror scenarios and uses advanced computer modeling to run drills and predict human reactions; Recent articles highlight how they are using virtual environments to create and manage realistic war scenarios with millions of “people.”

Some key quotes from the article:

“He said the scenario of the experiment's first phase starts with multinational partners and goes down to individual municipalities. It begins with a threat that originates in Europe and travels toward the United States.”

“Kersh said that as the scenario progresses, other agencies and other layers of government become involved.”

"The problem eventually arrives at the commonwealth of Virginia with that threat making it into port and then blowing up. This will cause us to work the consequence management part of the problem”

“The fusion center is in a state police headquarters and it's collocated with Virginia's emergency operations center.” (ed: Mount Weather)

“coordinated with DHS, possibly to coincide with one of that department's major exercises.”

We must remember that CIA agent Philip Giraldi warned the American Conservative magazine that STRATCOM would launch a nuclear attack on Iran in the wake of a new WMD-style attack on American soil.

And the Russian media and former Russian military members continue to warn that an American and Israeli strike on Iran is imminent.

While many drills are run every month, Nobel Resolve 07, with it’s “realistic” scenarios, comes at a time of increased geopolitical tension. It is reminiscent of the drills in 2005, where a ten-kiloton nuclear weapon was “simulated” to explode in South Carolina. Some speculated that four-star Gen. Kevin Byrnes, of the Fort Meade TRADOC command, was fired due to his exposure of the drill.

We should not live in a constant state of panic and fear, or make any irresponsible predictions about Noble Resolve 07. But in the coming days, we can email this information to blogs, media outlets, friends and family. Congressmen, and others to help inoculate against any possibility that rogue “red teams” inside the drills may be activated.

http://prisonplanet.com/articles/april2007/190407resolve.htm PRISONPLANET.COM