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Politics : Apocalypse soon? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: SteveinTX who wrote (1310)	2/25/2007 5:32:43 PM
From: Bucky Katt	Respond to of 2741

Iraq crackdown 'doomed to fail' Iraqi Shiite militia leader Moqtada al-Sadr has said the US-backed security crackdown in Baghdad is doomed to fail. Mr Sadr said in a statement that no security plan would work unless Iraq's government assumed full responsibility for protecting its citizens. His comments came as a series of bomb explosions hit Baghdad. In one, at least 42 people were killed and 55 injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up at the entrance to a college in the east of the city. Earlier, at least four people were hurt in a car bombing in the city's Karrada district, and one was killed in an explosion near the Iranian embassy. The attacks came a day after Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki said sectarian killings had fallen as a result of the US-backed security surge. Mr Sadr, whose militia controls the College of Administration and Economics, where most of Sunday's deaths occurred, once again called on the Americans to withdraw from Iraq. news.bbc.co.uk