Saturday, December 28, 2013

The Tawdry White House Occupant

BULLY BOY PRESS &     CEDRIC'S BIG MIX -- THE KOOL-AID TABLE

HE'S SUCH A TAWDRY WHORE.

THAT'S REALLY WHAT IT COMES DOWN TO.

TAPING PROMOS FOR GEORGE LOPEZ'S BASIC CABLE SHOW?

GIGGLING LIKE A STARLET ON THE TONIGHT SHOW?

THE LIST IS ENDLESS.

AND NOW IT INCLUDES THIS:




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  • WHORING FOR DOLLARS.

    HOW HE HAS CHEAPENED THE PRESIDENCY.


    FROM THE TCI WIRE:


    It's Friday in Iraq.  Last week, the ongoing protests hit the one year mark.  They've been ongoing since December 12, 2012.

    Nouri responded by (again) declaring them terrorists and announcing his planned assault on Ramadi's sit-in. Sunday,  W.G. Dunlop (AFP) reported Nouri has declared the sit-in in Ramadi is a 'terrorist' cell:


    The protest site is located in the Anbar city of Ramadi, but is nowhere near where the clashes took place.
    "I say clearly and honestly that the sit-in site in Anbar has turned into a headquarters for the leadership of Al-Qaeda," Maliki, a Shiite, said in remarks broadcast Sunday on Iraqiya state TV.

    Tuesday, December 24th, Nouri had his forces cut off roads leading out of Ramadi and to surround the protest yard.  All Iraq News reports that Nouri's forces withdrew from the protest yard but  Iraq Times noted that this was followed by an air drop of leaflets and that Nouri's forces were receiving support from the US military.  Leaflet droppings advising to protesters to leave are a lot like the 2003 pre-invasion leafleting the US government did over Iraq.

     Did that send the protesters into hiding?


    No.





    That's Samarra today.





    -بهاء احمد16عاما في الثالث متوسط-الذي -ضمن حملتها الجديدة-داخل محل يعمل فيه في .

    And that's 16-year-old  Ahmed Bahaa killed in Anbar today by Nouri's forces.

    That's what Barack's backing.  That's what the White House is giving arms for.

    The murder of Iraqis whose only crime is exercising their legal rights.


    Here's Ramadi's sit-in today.



    الموحدة في مدينة .


    Iraqi Spring MC reports helicopters were flying over the Ramadi square.

    Al Mada reports that Maliki was denounced at Anbar protests for his threats (we'll get to today's threats in a moment) and that he was denounced for his militias which are not held accountable for their terrorism.  In Samarra, Nouri was denounced for arming and paying Shi'ite militias to terrorize and kill Sunnis while at the same time Nouri insists that he's fighting terrorism.

    Only one English-language outlet reports on today's protests.  Omar al-Jaffal (Al-Monitor) files a major report which includes:


    Mohammed al-Bajari, the official spokesman for the sit-in in Fallujah, said, "The sit-ins will continue." He added, "The protesters will not leave the sit-in squares until their legitimate demands are met, oppression ends and the innocent people are released from prison."
    Bajari clarified that the protesters "will not comply with the orders of political parties or failed politicians, [nor will they respond to] threats by militias." He alluded to preparations for "civil disobedience and internationalizing the issue via international courts."
    Bajari noted, "Those present in the squares have tribal connections, which would exacerbate the crisis in the event that the protests were subjected to any attack." He stressed, "[The right to] peaceful sit-ins are guaranteed by the constitution. Citizens have the right to protest as long as the constitution guarantees this right." He also pointed out, "Any [measures that are] non-peaceful will lead to bloodshed."
    Bajari explained, "The Glory and Dignity Army was only formed in the city of Ramadi. It does not direct weapons at the army or the police, but rather at militias — which I won't name — that are trying to eliminate the sit-ins."

    Wael Grace (Al Mada) reports Nouri al-Maliki again threatened the protesters today.  He declared this will be their last Friday protest and that he will burn the tents in the protest squares down.  He declared that the protesters were guilty of sedition.  Sedition?  Nouri as William Bligh?  I can see it.  Kitabat notes that he made these remarks in a televised interview.  Kitabat also notes Nouri's been insisting 30 terrorist leaders are hiding in protest tents.  
    A number of Iraqi politicians, however, are rejecting Nouri's declarations of violence.
    National Iraqi News Agency reports that Anbar Province Governor Ahmed Khalaf al-Dulaimi declared today, "The sit-ins squares do not represent threat to the country’s security, the big danger comes from desert areas in Anbar where armed groups are concentrated and from their; they launch their terrorist attacks against innocent civilians."  Ahmed al-Alwani is an Iraqiya MP who chairs Parliament's Economic Commission. Kitabat notes that al-Alwani dismissed Nouri's charges as beig without merit or value.  He declared that peaceful protests were guaranteed in Iraq's Constitution.  Al Mada adds that Kurdistan Alliance MP Hamid Buffy said there was no legal justification for breaking up the Anbar Province protests and compared using military force to break up the protests to the slaughter in Hawija.
    That April 23rd massacre of a peaceful sit-in in Hawija  resulted from  Nouri's federal forces storming in.  Alsumaria noted Kirkuk's Department of Health (Hawija is in Kirkuk)  announced 50 activists have died and 110 were injured in the assault.   AFP reported the death toll rose to 53 dead.  UNICEF noted that the dead included 8 children (twelve more were injured).

    Nouri's a thug and he's a killer. And this is who Barack's in bed with.




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  • Friday, December 27, 2013

    Is it over?

    BULLY BOY PRESS &  CEDRIC'S BIG MIX -- THE KOOL-AID TABLE

    THE VOICE OF RUSSIA REPORTS CELEBRITY IN CHIEF BARRY O'S MARRIAGE HAS HIT THE ROCKS, THE FAN AND THE TRASH PILE.

    THOUGH THE WHITE HOUSE IS OFFICIALLY DENYING THE REPORTS, WHITE HOUSE PLUS SIZE SPOKESMODEL JAY CARNEY INSISTED TO THESE REPORTERS THAT HE WAS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY PROBLEMS BETWEEN THE FIRST COUPLE.

    "IT WASN'T ME!" CARNEY SCREAMED BEFORE JIGGLING HIS EXPANDING BELLY.  "AND THIS IS JUST TOO MUCH TURKEY AND HAM.  DON'T YOU BE SAYING THE PREZ KNOCKED ME UP!"

    ASKING THESE REPORTERS IF THEY KNEW WHERE HE COULD PURCHASE "A CHEAP, MAYBE EVEN SECOND HAND BREAST PUMP," CARNEY WALKED AWAY.

    FROM THE TCI WIRE:



    As noted this morning, misreporting took place by many outlets:


    The Voice of Russia states, ""The United States is sending dozens of missiles and surveillance drones to Iraq to help government forces combat an explosion of violence by al-Qaida-backed insurgency that is gaining territory in both western Iraq and neighboring Syria."  This is echoed by The NewsHour (PBS), "The U.S. is "quietly" sending dozens of Hellfire missiles and surveillance drones to Iraq, in hopes the government can quell an al-Qaeda insurgency."  Noah Rayman (Time magazine) parrots, "The United States is supplying Iraq with arms and surveillance technology to combat al-Qaeda-backed insurgents amid worsening violence, the New York Times reported Thursday, two years after the last American combat troops left the country."  AFP runs with, "The United States is sending Iraq dozens of missiles and surveillance drones to help it combat a recent surge in al-Qaida-backed violence, the New York Times reported Thursday.  The weapons include a shipment of 75 Hellfire missiles purchased by Iraq, which Washington delivered to the country last week, the Times reported."


    Fortunately, not all outlets have correspondents from the kiddie table.  Elise Labott and Tom Cohen (CNN) get it right regarding who is providing arms, "Two years after bringing home U.S. troops from Iraq, the Obama administration is sending Hellfire rockets and ScanEagle surveillance drones to help government forces fight al Qaeda affiliates growing in influence, a State Department official confirmed to CNN on Thursday."  Paul Richter (Los Angeles Times) also gets it right, "The Obama administration has begun sending Hellfire missiles and surveillance drone aircraft to Iraq to help the government battle an expanding threat from local Al Qaeda-affiliated militants, U.S. officials said, the first such assistance since the American withdrawal from Iraq in 2011."

    Congress wasn't notified of these arms.  The Arms Export Control Act's Section 36(b) requires that the President of the United States informs Congress in writing of all defense articles sold to foreign governments before the sale goes through.  That's the law.
    So was these sold or was this another 'gift' that the US taxpayer is paying for?
    December 12th, the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade and the Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa held a joint-hearing on Iraq.  We covered it four days later in the December 16th snapshot

    Subcommittee Chair Ted Poe: Now he wants some help once again.  He talks out of both sides of his mouth while trying to cozy up to the United States, he cozies up to the Iranians at the same time.  Prime Minister Maliki came here dragging the sack in November wanting more tax payer money.  He wanted attack helicopters and all sorts of advanced equipment.  But is that what he needs to go after al Qaeda?  Does he have other reasons for wanting that equipment?  Maliki has centralized power. alienated the Sunnis, brought back the Shi'ite hit squads.  This in part has allowed al Qaeda to return to be back in Iraq.  What Maliki needs is a new strategy to fight al Qaeda.  This includes doing a better job of reaching out to the Sunni population so that they feel that Maliki represents all Iraqis, not just one group.
    And we'll note this:

    Ranking Member Brad Sherman:  And he wants American weapons.  And his biggest argument is that we should give him American weapons because his enemies hate us.  The problem is, his friends hate us too.  And his friends in Tehran are more dangerous to us than his enemies in Falluja. Now Maliki's argument goes something like this: He holds office today solely as a result of various actions taken by the United States -- some of which were mistakes.  And so therefore he is our product and therefore we have to protect him and do whatever he wants.  And so therefore he is one of the good guys no matter who he allies himself with today.  The fact is, his allegiance to Tehran is only a little bit less than Assad's allegiance to Tehran.  But Maliki's government goes something like this: Since he has been the beneficiary of a series of American mistakes in the past, we have a legal duty to continue to make mistakes on his behalf in the future.  Uhm, if we're going to provide him with weapons, there ought to be at least four conditions.  The first is that he start trying to reach a compromise with at least some elements of the Sunni community.  He's taken provocative actions against Sunnis such as postponing elections in Sunni areas and forcing prominent Sunni politicians out of the government.  He shouldn't be seeking the best deal he can for the Shi'ite community, he should be seeking a peace that would benefit not only him but the United States.  And he needs to allow proper Sunni representation in his government.  Second, if he wants our weapons, he ought to pay for them. People involved in foreign policy seem to be so focused on foreign policy that whether we get paid for the weapons is a footnote.  The fact is Iraq has plenty of oil now, will have even more in the future.  They've to enough cash to pay for the weapons now and they can certainly borrow on the international markets and, at very minimum, they can agree to pay us later in cash or oil.  Third, he's got to stop Iranian flights over his air space into Syria.  He'll say, 'Well then give me an airforce.'  We don't have to.  All he has to do is authorize the Saudi, the Turkish or the American airforce to ensure that his air space is not used  by Iranian thugs transiting to so that they can destroy and kill as many innocent people and some non-innocent people in Syria.  And finally he's got to focus on the hostages of Camp Ashraf and the human rights of those in Camp Hurriyah also known as Camp Liberty.  These are international responsibilities that he has.  So if there is no penetrating analysis, the argument will be: 'We created him, he seems like a good guy, he's in trouble, therefore we give him weapons for free.'  That is the default position of our foreign policy
    Congress wasn't informed.  Either Barack broke the law or Iraq is being given -- by Barack with the US taxpayers footing the bill -- these weapons. There was also no public announcement.  
    Congress wasn't informed.  I have no idea why the New York Times, 'breaking' the story seems to have forgotten to contact Congress.  That's sort of a basic for a news outlet.  
    Outlets run statements like this from Australia's ABC:  "'The recent delivery of Hellfire missiles and an upcoming delivery of Scan Eagles are standard [foreign military sales] cases that we have with Iraq to strengthen their capabilities to combat this threat,' a State Department official said."
    That would say this was Iraq purchasing; however, "foreign military sales" is not said in the quote by the State Dept.  The State Dept quote is, "The recent delivery of Hellfire missiles and an upcoming delivery of Scan Eagles are standard cases that we have with Iraq to strengthen their capabilities to combat this threat."
    So it may be a gift.  We'll stay with 'gift' for now.
    What's Congress going to say about this 'gift'?
    We know what was said this month.

    Subcommittee Chair Ted Poe:  When I was in Iraq, a couple of years ago, a year and a half ago, Prime Minister, I asked him the question about the oil and how about paying for some of this nation building, military, all the things America's doing and he literally went -- was very vocal about Iraq would not pay the United States a dime for helping them liberate their country and rebuild their country.  So I think that may still be his position.
    I can't imagine that Congress will be thrilled by the 'gift.'  As RT observes, "Other plans to provide Iraq with supplies have also stalled in Congress, where a bill to lease and sell the country's Apache helicopter gunships to Baghdad is languishing among concern that Maliki would use them to bully his political rivals."
    UPI notes the 75 Hellfire Missiles arrived in Iraq last week and that "more are expected." Rethink Afghanistan puts the cost of a single Hellfire Missile at $58,000.  75 of them?  Check my math, but that comes to $3,750,000.  A nearly four million dollar 'gift' has been purchased with the American taxpayer dollars.  And that's not counting the drones.  There aren't specific numbers being reported regarding the drones, so we'll just note the US Air Force put the price of one system (4 drones and the reporting device) at $3.2 million in 2006.  We're now at the price tag of $7 million dollars.
    Taxpayer dollars, Barack's not using the family checkbook on this gift.
    Among the reasons Congress objects?
    Nouri's a thug and they know it.  Many members of Congress also have an affinity for the KRG -- the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government.  KRG President Massoud Barzani's repeatedly warned about the danger arming Nouri could result in.
    He's not the only one concerned.  US military leaders thought, with regards to the F-16s the US will provide Iraq with next year, there was an agreement in place in June that no planes would be supplied until the Iraqi military was restructured because US military intelligence raised red flags over the appointments Nouri was making -- key positions being filled by those with links to Iran.  US military leaders were disturbed by that for a number of reasons including Iraq providing Iran with technology.  Again, the White House appeared to give their word that the F-16 transfer would be slowed down so that it did not take place until after the 2014 parliamentary elections (currently scheduled for April 30th).  US military intelligence says Nouri can't win re-election as Prime Minister, he's too unpopular.  (He didn't win re-election in 2010.  His State of Law lost to Iraqiya but the White House brokered The Erbil Agreement to go around the voters and the country's Constitution and give Nouri a second term.)
    I was told this evening that the drone transfer is "outrageous."  The military officer noted the US already runs drones (US military and CIA) in Iraq and wondered why Nouri needed his own but, more to the point, why this technology was being handed over to Nouri since the same drones are used in spying on other countries? (He meant Iran.)
    There are a lot of questions to ask about this 'gift.'  

    The press seems so uninterested in any of them.






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  • Tuesday, December 24, 2013

    Do as he says, not as he does

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    CELEBRITY IN CHIEF BARRY O ENROLLED FOR OBAMACARE THIS WEEK.

    FOR GIGGLES!

    DESPITE CLAIMING AMERICA NEEDS OBAMACARE, OUR PRISSY LITTLE PUSS DOESNT PLAN TO BE INCLUDED.

    HOW DID THAT HAPPEN?

    HOW, IN THE AMERICAN DEMOCRACY, DID AN OILY POLITICIAN BECOME BETTER THAN THE AMERICAN PEOPLE?

    IF OBAMACARES IS GOOD ENOUGH TO FORCE OFF ON ALL AMERICANS, IT'S GOOD ENOUGH TO FORCE OFF ON HIM AND HIS FAMILY.


    FROM THE TCI WIRE:




    December 15th, journalist Nawras al-Nuaimi was assassinated.



    This is all the attention AFP gave her when she was killed:

    GUNMEN murdered a female TV presenter in northern Iraq on Sunday, her station and police said, making her the sixth journalist to be killed in the country since October. Nawras al-Nuaimi was shot near her home in Mosul, Al-Mosuliyah TV said, and was the fifth journalist killed in the northern city in the same period.



    Her life was worth a grand total of 55 words to AFP when she died.

    Today her life was worth over 3 times that amount to AFP (they offered 185 words).  Eight days after they report her death oh-so-briefly they're suddenly interested and more interested than the first time.

    What happened?

    AFP's Iraq reporting notoriously sexist.  It's been so bad that above the bureau chief's head at AFP, it's not even question of have-we-been-sexist because they accept that the reporting coming out of AFP has been sexist and that's one reason that changes are taking place regarding AFP's Iraq coverage.

    In "Editorial: Iraqi women" yesterday at Third, we noted, "A 19-year-old journalist is killed.  And AFP breezes past it but tries to create a mythical savior out of a (male) police officer who hugs a suicide bomber?"

    Remember that?

    That magical body that was a bomb shield?  (No, it doesn't work like that, we covered that last week.)

    They hailed the man as a hero.  AFP devoted 274 words to his death.

    But Nawras was only worth 55.

    Today she was worth 185.  Because her mother met with the killer and told the killer that he sent her daughter to "paradise."  She feels no anger or rage.  And the killer, the mother said, turned Nawras into "a bride to paradise."


    And that's why AFP can embrace Nawras.

    The dead police officer, they made him a hero, they told a Little Golden Book story of a man of action.  And Nawras?  Her life was action.  She was an Iraqi journalist in Iraq.  That's courageous.  She can go to jail, she can be killed and she has no foreign outlet behind her.

    And Nawras being a strong woman didn't interest AFP one damn bit.  Their entire output of the last three years have demonstrated that strong women don't interest them.

    But when her grieving mother made those idiotic statements (hopefully out of grief), it was a way for AFP to run over Nawras and her strength, it was a way to turn her passive.  And once they could portray her as the passive woman, they were suddenly nearly three times as interested in her death.


    'We were just reporting!'

    No, you weren't.  When you wrote about the hugging police officer, you found a lot of people to quote.  You didn't want people Nawras died and you didn't quote anyone.  A week later her mother makes some idiotic remarks and you quote that but you don't quote her co-workers.  The day Nawras died,  Mu Xuequan (Xinhua) reported:

    Nuaimi has been working as a presenter of TV programs in the local Mosuliyah channel for five years, he said, adding that she was the fourth journalist killed in Mosul since October and the 51st in Nineveh province since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.

    Nawras al-Nuaimi, 19, had worked for five years at the station.  Since she was 14.

    But AFP didn't find that impressive and wasn't interested in that or anything except now she was passive and a 'bride' in death.


    What AFP refused to do, Yasir Ghazi (New York Times) does today:


    On Dec. 15, her last day alive, Nawras al-Nuaimi left her university and headed home for a nap before going to work at a local television station. She had just become engaged, to a doctor, and friends said she was realizing her dream of becoming a television news presenter. On her way home, she was ambushed by several gunmen, who shot her in the head and chest.
    “She was on top of the world,” said a journalist friend, Mohamed, who gave only his first name because he feared he too could be killed.
    Security forces have found lists of journalists targeted for assassination during raids on militant hide-outs in Mosul, and many journalists have stopped reporting in the streets or attending news conferences. Like other reporters in Mosul, Mohamed fled to the relative safety of the nearby autonomous Kurdish region. Even there, though, in the city of Sulaimaniya, a reporter was recently killed outside his home, in front of his mother.
    Mohamed said he had warned Ms. Nuaimi not to go out alone.
    “She told me she is not doing anything wrong, why would anyone think of killing me?” he recalled in a recent telephone interview.        





    All Iraq News reports an attack on "the building of Salah-il-Din Satellite Channel and the office of the Iraqiya Satellite Channel in central Tikrit."  Ammar al-Ani (Alsumaria) reports militants stormed the station following a bombing (bombing in downtown Tikrit).  Xinhua explains, "The attack took place in the afternoon when gunmen broke into the building in central Tikrit, some 170 km north of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, after a huge explosion at the entrance of the building, the source said on condition of anonymity."
    NINA notes the Ministry of the Interior killed 4 suicide bombers.  All Iraq News notes 5 suicide bombers are dead (from detonating their own bombings), 4 guards of the building are dead and nine more injured, 9 assailants were shot dead by the security forces and 13 police officers were killed.  AFP adds 5 journalists were killed: "the chief news editor, a copy editor, a producer, a presenter and the archives manager" with five more left injured.  Of the five dead journalists, Al Jazeera notes the five were "four men and a woman."

    The Committee to Protect Journalists issued the following:


    The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns today's attack on Salah al-Din TV station headquarters in Tikrit, Iraq, which left several journalists dead. The attack comes amid a wave of targeted killings of journalists in the past few months that has made the country among the deadliest in the world for journalists. 
    "This vicious attack on a TV station plunges the Iraqi media back into the darkest days of the war which has already claimed the lives of more than 150 journalists," said CPJ's deputy director, Robert Mahoney. "Iraq has a pitiful record of prosecuting the killers of journalists. If the government fails to bring all those responsible for this latest outrage to justice, gunmen will again conclude they can kill journalists with impunity."
    It is not clear how many journalists were killed in the attack. Iraqi police told Al-Jazeera that at least five staff members--the station's chief news editor, a copy editor, a producer, a presenter, and the archives manager--were killed by gunfire or explosives.  The Associated Press reported that six channel staff members were killed but did not specify their identities. The motive for the attack was also not clear. Earlier this year, the Iraqi government suspended the licenses of 10 stations, including Salah al-Din, accusing the channels of sectarian incitement for their coverage of Sunni protests in Hawija outside of Kirkuk.

    Mohammed Tawfeeq and Joe Sterling (CNN) remind:

    Journalists haven't been immune from the terror. Before the latest violence, Irina Bokova, director-general of the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, denounced the killings of eight journalists in Iraq this year.
    "Violence against media workers undermines the ability of journalists to carry out their work freely as well as the right of citizens to receive the independent information they need," Bokova said.

    Kirkuk Now points out, "The attacks on the two media outlets came following the assassination of a female journalist in Mousl and another one in Kalar distrcit of Sulaymaniah province."  The woman the outlet's referring to is Nawras al-Nuaimi.  while the man is Kawa Garmianai.  As Kirkuk Now noted, he died December 5th, shot in front of his own home and died en route to the hospital.  He was "the editor-in-chief of Rayal Magazine, an independent monthly magazine."  On the 19th of this month, in a bombing in Baghdad's Dora district, journalist Muhanad Mohammed and his son were killed.  Friday, the International Federation of Journalists issued the following staement:
    The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has expressed its deep sadness following the death of Iraqi journalist Muhanad Mohammed in Iraq yesterday, Thursday, 19 December.
    According to media reports, Iraqi journalist Muhanad Mohammed, who worked for Sumariya TV, and his son were killed in an explosion in front of their house in the Dura area of south Baghdad yesterday, Thursday 19 December. Twenty people were killed and 40 others were injured in the explosion which is believed to have been targeting pilgrims on their way to the holy city of Karbala.
    "We express our deepest condolences to the family of the respected journalist Muhanad Mohammed and we send our sympathies and solidarity to his colleagues," said IFJ President Jim Boumelha.
    Amid the escalating violence in Iraq, the IFJ is appealing to the Iraqi government to introduce genuine measures that will bring an end to the killing of innocent journalists and ensure that those who carry out acts of violence against the media face the full weight of justice. Six journalists have been murdered in the country in the last three months.
    In October, the IFJ launched its End Impunity campaign which is calling on the governments of Iraq, Pakistan and Russia to investigate killings of journalists and bring their perpetrators to justice.
    "Our message is clear: the slaughter of journalists in Iraq must end now," continued Boumelha. "Such blatant and utterly appalling disregard for the lives of journalists quite simply cannot be tolerated.
    "We reiterate our call for the Iraqi government to set up a special task force to that has the resources to carry out thorough and independent investigations into the murder of journalists in the country. Impunity must end and those responsible must answer for their crimes."

    For more information, please contact IFJ on + 32 2 235 22 17
    The IFJ represents more than 600 000 journalists in 134 countries
    Among other outlets, Muhanad Mohammed worked for Reuters.  Reuters correspondent Serena Chaudhry has Tweeted about his passing.

  • The world lost a lovely soul today. My friend & former colleague, Muhanad Mohammed, was killed in a suicide bombing in . Devastated.


  • On Thursday, my ex- colleague Muhanad Mohammed was killed in a suicide bombing in . Help his family:
  • Reuters' Alastair Macdonald Tweeted:

  • Please think of the family of Muhaned Mohammed, a friend and former colleague, killed by a bomb in Baghdad:
  • And we noted it Friday, but Ammar Karim (AFP) remembered Muhanad Mohammed here.






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