Largest Iraq bombing in two years may have been inside job

By David Edwards and Daniel Tencer
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009 -- 9:50 am
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baghdadbombingoctober2009 Largest Iraq bombing in two years may have been inside jobSunday's twin suicide bombings in Baghdad that killed at least 155 people and wounded 500 others may have had help from within Iraq's security apparatus, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow reported Monday.

"This was a really well coordinated attack on an area in Baghdad that's supposed to be well protected," Maddow told viewers. "In order to reach their targets, the bombers driving these truck bombs had to pass through several checkpoints that were guarded by security forces and those security forces were supposed to be using hand-held devices designed to detect explosives."

Maddow quoted a comment from Brian Katulis, a Middle East expert at the Center for American Progress, who wrote, "You don't want to do this kind of attack without having someone on the inside. It implies infiltration of the government. If there is an objective, it's to send a message to whoever is in power that not everyone recognizes them as being in charge."

A group called the Islamic State of Iraq, which reportedly includes Al Qaeda in Iraq, has claimed responsibility for the bombing, though, as the Washington Post notes, the authenticity of that claim has not been verified.

As Maddow noted, the Iraqi government says it has arrested at least 75 people in connection with the bombings.

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This is not the first time questions have arisen about the possibility of government infiltration by insurgents. In August, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Sebari said he suspected infiltration in a blast that killed nearly 100 people. “According to our information, there has even been collaboration between security officers and the murderers and killers,” said Zebari.

In April of 2007, a bomb attack against the Iraq parliament that killed eight people, including two members of parliament, was suspected to have involved insurgent sympathizers within Iraq's security forces. The attack "reflects the fact that perhaps there are some people within the Iraqi security forces who have been infiltrated by insurgents and terrorist organizations," then-Australian Defense Minister Brendan Nelson said.

This video is from MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show, broadcast Oct. 26, 2009.



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  • Nerf
    It's all about keeping the U.S.A mired in Iraq and Afghanistan. Ever notice how whenever the U.S. is trying to disentangle itself from Afghanistan and Iraq that all of the sudden there are all of these attacks? Or when the USA is about to disentangle itself Bin Laden pops up on your tv? It is an a "Strategy of Tension" probably being run by certain groups in the USA, Pakistan, Israel and Saudi Arabia using Iraqi and Afghanistan exiles. Same strategy the USA has been using for many years to keep the USA mired in foreign wars. You can ask questions about insiders in the Iraqi security complex but why does no one ask about insiders in the American security complex? Like ask how the hijackers who were being watched by Pentagon's Able Danger were never shutdown? Or why the USA was running wargames for hijacked planes on the very day 9/11. Who on the American inside helped pull this off???
  • archiebird
    This attack sounds like an intricately orchestrated attack headed by none other than the Dick Cheney faction of the CIA
  • lorn
    Oh puleeeezze!!!

    The Dick Cheney faction is the CIA. The Democrats play ball with Dick and all the dirty filthy Republican war criminals. The Democrats are now protecting them from prosecution for their war crimes. The Democrats with puppet Obama are continuing all of the Bush crimes of war, torture and the destruction of the nation.

    They are both the same, and yes this likely was an inside job to prolong the occupation and rape of Iraq...........under reign of Bush3 Obama. Wake up!
  • archiebird
    The Dick cheney faction of the CIA was also responsible for the attacks on the Iranian National guard that claimed, like, 5 generals last week ,as well. Dick Cheney will do whatever it takes to keep the US mired in war. The Iranians and the US are SO CLOSE to becoming peaceful. I bet Cheney is wringing his hands in anger right about now.
  • miggy
    The warning from Eisenhower on the real danger from the Military Industrial complex has all so much come true.
    The monster that is being fed by the cartel of international bankers (Federal Reserve / IMF) continues unchecked.
    When we look to an economy based on the pentagon, death and destruction lie ahead.
    It’s time for us and ONLY us to DEMAND an end to war, but much more…an end to the system that perpetrates them…the Federal Reserve.
    END THE FED
  • thx1138a
    The ally of my ally is my enemy. Total Syriana Spookville, dude. When it comes to protecting BILLIONS of dollars in military industrial spending, there IS no discernible truth.
  • Satan
    The invasion started Jan 17, 1991, let's not pretend it didn't. Endless war and endless silence on the subject from Americans too consumed with their own lives to give a shit what their tax dollars pay for.
  • cadavre
    Has the Iraqi government hired Mossad, US Army Intelligence and MI5 to fill the ranks of Iraqi Security Services?

    Rachel, you spend too much time at the alter of Obama. Lets look at some facts:

    "On October 4, 2005, it was reported by the Sydney Morning Herald that, “The FBI’s counterterrorism unit has launched a broad investigation of US-based theft rings after discovering some vehicles used in deadly car bombings in Iraq, including attacks that killed US troops and Iraqi civilians, were probably stolen in the United States, according to senior US Government officials.” Further, “The inquiry began after coalition troops raided a Falluja bomb factory last November and found a Texas-registered four-wheel-drive being prepared for a bombing mission. Investigators said there were several other cases where vehicles evidently stolen in the US wound up in Syria or other Middle Eastern countries and ultimately in the hands of Iraqi insurgent groups, including al-Qaeda in Iraq.”
    http://go2.wordpress.com/?id=725X1342&site=ther...

    Let's see. Iraqi terrorist come to the US then transport cars back to Iraq to use a car bombs?

    It was reported that in May of 2005, an Iraqi man was arrested after witnessing a car bombing that took place in front of his home, as it was said he shot an Iraqi National Guardsman. However, “People from the area claim that the man was taken away not because he shot anyone, but because he knew too much about the bomb. Rumor has it that he saw an American patrol passing through the area and pausing at the bomb site minutes before the explosion. Soon after they drove away, the bomb went off and chaos ensued. He ran out of his house screaming to the neighbors and bystanders that the Americans had either planted the bomb or seen the bomb and done nothing about it. He was promptly taken away.”

    Further, another story was reported in the same month that took place in Baghdad when an Iraqi driver had his license and car confiscated at a checkpoint, after which he was instructed “to report to an American military camp near Baghdad airport for interrogation and in order to retrieve his license.” After being questioned for a short while, he was told to drive his car to an Iraqi police station, where his license had been forwarded, and that he should go quickly. “The driver did leave in a hurry, but was soon alarmed with a feeling that his car was driving as if carrying a heavy load, and he also became suspicious of a low flying helicopter that kept hovering overhead, as if trailing him. He stopped the car and inspected it carefully. He found nearly 100 kilograms of explosives hidden in the back seat and along the two back doors. The only feasible explanation for this incident is that the car was indeed booby trapped by the Americans and intended for the al-Khadimiya Shiite district of Baghdad. The helicopter was monitoring his movement and witnessing the anticipated ‘hideous attack by foreign elements.”

    http://go2.wordpress.com/?id=725X1342&site=ther...

    Xe (Formerly Blackwater) must love working in Iraq - all those merc initiations must be fun. In fact Xe likes it so much they get prosspects looking to murder for really big merc bucks in US Army Intelligence to make sure they stay - and all they have to do is plant bombs in cars and murder a few Iraqi!

    "Weeks after the initial incident involving the British SAS soldiers in Basra, in October of 2005, it was reported that Americans were “captured in the act of setting off a car bomb in Baghdad,” as, “A number of Iraqis apprehended two Americans disguised in Arab dress as they tried to blow up a booby-trapped car in the middle of a residential area in western Baghdad on Tuesday. … Residents of western Baghdad’s al-Ghazaliyah district [said] the people had apprehended the Americans as they left their Caprice car near a residential neighborhood in al-Ghazaliyah on Tuesday afternoon. Local people found they looked suspicious so they detained the men before they could get away. That was when they discovered that they were Americans and called the … police.” However, “the Iraq police arrived at approximately the same time as allied military forces – and the two men were removed from Iraq custody and whisked away before any questioning could take place.”
    http://go2.wordpress.com/?id=725X1342&site=ther...

    Chutzpa, like genocide, is an acquired taste!

    In May of 2007, an Iraqi who formerly collaborated with US forces in Iraq for two and a half years stated that, “I was a soldier in the Iraqi army in the war of 1991 and during the withdrawal from Kuwait I decided to seek asylum in Saudi Arabia along with dozens of others like me. That was how began the process whereby I was recruited into the American forces, for there were US military committees that chose a number of Iraqis who were willing to volunteer to join them and be transported to America. I was one of those.” He spoke out about how after the 2003 invasion, he was returned to Iraq to “carry out specific tasks assigned him by the US agencies.” Among those tasks, he was put “in charge of a group of a unit that carried out assassinations in the streets of Baghdad.”

    http://go2.wordpress.com/?id=725X1342&site=ther...

    Rachel, You got some `splaining to do. Write this down: "Salvador Option".
  • dennycrane
    That whole fucking mess over there is an "inside" job. Hell, we have people who set fires so they get paid to put them out. Isn't that how "war" works? Cause an "incident", so you can react to it, and send someone the bill.
  • airjackie
    I have to admit the Iraq Goverment are smart it's a way of keep getting US taxpayers money and it just might work. Even Afghanistan is asking for more money using what Bush/Cheney gave Iraq. Iraq soldiers got paid 200 a month they went on strike and Bush gave them 3000 dollars a month. Now Karzai who has been stealing from day one is asking the US to do the same for the Afghanistan soldiers. No one bother to tell them we're in a Recession. Bush and Cheney are still laughing as they have their puppets in place to keep this going until our US Economy is destroyed. Everyone country has conflict and bombing yet Iraq and Afghanistan used these actions to continue getting US tax money. You have to admit a the Middle East sees how Americans are willing to give Bush the War Criminal money while he makes joke and muss speaks the english language and people pay to hear that stupidity. Cheney has a billionair who made his money from the illegal drug sold in the US to campain for Liz Cheney. None of the Law Makers in the Branches of Government have followed the US Constitution and it works because 98 per cent of the American people don't know what the Constitution says. Most like Fox News is giving the public the make up information. Law Makers rushed back to pass the bailout and their big raise in salary but can't seem to have time for Health Care/Unemployment. The joke is still on the American people and Obama/Biden can't go it alone they need all the American people to stop this crime wave.
  • We would not have illegally invaded Iraq in the first place,
    (since Iraq had nothing to do with 9-11), If Bush and Cheney had not used their WMD Lies to con Congress into allowing it. Later the WMD Lies were exposed as false so Bush and Cheney tortured to get false intel to cover up the WMD Lies. And our Democrats Failed To impeach as they are now Failing To Prosecute these Serious Federal Crimes.

    We voters have a heavy responsibility. To protect our grandchildren's future security
    WE Must force our Democrats to Prosecute! Now!

    Please
    SIGN the PETITION
    demanding prosecution at
    http://ANGRYVOTERS.org

    .
  • socialismorbust
    I signed this, yet another worthless petition, but we should have learned by now that the people have no influence over the policies of crime and greed in this country.
  • philedrifter
    That's true. I signed it too but I don't expect anything to come from it. The bankers own the government. We're living under the illusion of a democracy.

    Bush Family's Partnership with Killers of Americans: http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/10_09...

    250+ 9/11 Smoking Guns:
    http://thewebfairy.com/killtown/911smokingguns....
  • Also see these:

    U.S. suspects 'inside job' in Samara mosque bombing
    http://www.rawstory.com/news/2007/U.S._suspects...

    Were British Special Forces Soldiers Planting Bombs in Basra?
    Suspicions Strengthened by Earlier Reports
    http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=...

    Does Maddow figure it's politically correct to report on evidence of an inside job, as long as it's a country that's now effectively part of the 3rd world? The govt of Iraq is a US puppet- if Maddow will explore evidence in this case, she ought to look into 9/11

    Complete 9/11 Timeline
    http://www.historycommons.org/project.jsp?proje...
  • socialismorbust
    GET THE FUCK OUT NOW!!! Geezus kryst, what is it going to take?! How much more evidence is needed that the U.S. has, nor NEVER HAD, any fucking business meddling except oil and Wanker Bush's need for revenge on Saddam.
  • huffblows
    These are the evil twins to our Tea Baggers, we have a lot of thumpers in our government as well, that dislike government... go figure?
  • Satan
    "Eight more US troops dead in Afghan war's blackest month" - I'd disallow commenting with a piece of crap lie of a artical title like that too if I was cowering in fear while spreading lies and propaganda.

    "BLACKEST MONTH" - This implies that one U.S. soldier, typically a douchebag that signed up to murder people legally, is somehow inherently better than the civilians and insurgents he or she helps murder.

    Tell us Raw, what was the worst month for civilians in Afghanistan and can we get a comparison on that? Oh yeah, the military doesn't even keep track (another way of saying they don't keep records for very long, a lesson learned from the mistakes of the Nazi's)

    Insurgents, how dare they fight a foreign invasion. The word conjures up a boogie man when all to often it way just some kid over the age of 14 that got wasted by some asshole serving his own desire to murder while pretending he's defending our freedoms.

    The fucking moronic troops haven't done shit in over half a century that any Americans freedom hinged upon. Driving people to suicide isn't exactly fighting for anyones freedom, is it?

    Blackest month, lol, blackest lies is more like it.

    I reject the notion that being a human being need be a team sport, Raw Story can root foor their team and mourn for their "losses" all they wan't, it's what makes this crap propaganda.
  • billofatlier
    youtube: "Islamic State of Iraq"
  • Truthandaction
    Sometimes I wonder if there could be contract people still marching to Cheney's orders.
  • valletta
    Or...google "strategy of tension"
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