[antimedia] antimedia: Who's responsible for the violence in Iraq?

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Posted by antimedia:
Who's responsible for the violence in Iraq?
http://www.antimedia.us/posts/1147643021.shtml


   If you read [1]this AP story you'd be hard-pressed to find out.

     A string of deadly attacks ripped through the Iraqi capital Sunday,
     killing at least 26 people and wounding nearly 70, police said. Six
     small Shiite shrines also were damaged in a series of blasts around
     Baqouba, a mixed Sunni Arab-Shiite region where sectarian tensions
     are running high.
     Other attacks elsewhere in Iraq killed 15 people, including two
     British soldiers who were killed in a roadside bombing Saturday
     night.
     Baghdad's deadliest attack Sunday involved two suicide car bombs
     that exploded near a main checkpoint on a four-lane road leading to
     the international airport, killing at least 14 Iraqis and wounding
     six. The other 12 Iraqis were killed by four roadside bombs, three
     targeting Iraqi police patrols and one that exploded in an open
     market.

   Who is doing these killings? Apparently the reporter didn't care to
   investigate and find out. Surely someone at least has suspicions about
   who's responsible?
   When reporters write about disembodied violence like this what is the
   reader supposed to think? That things are out of control. That there's
   no end to the violence? That it's out of control.
   And that's exactly what they want you think.

References

   1. http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/051406dnintiraq.3f2463b5.html