Monday, October 29, 2007
Another Blessed Day of My Life.
Nothing to do at home,activities are monotonous.For the whole of these week,all that i will be doing is acutally practicing mathematics,going for swimming training,and sleep.Nothing Else.Hoping that there will be a touch of fun this saturday if the party will be held that is.
Till CabalSEA comes out,i will have literally no games to play at all.Maplestory is actually a laxative of some sort;because minds are hardly used and activated throughout the period of gaming,you will soon fall into a deep sleep.Something like inducing sleep.Number One choice for those who love to waste time and think that time stops when you are playing Maple.And just as expected,when i logged into my priest acc,none of my BL was online.At least they had found out the meaning of life and quit this game which instigates stupidity to invade your mind.Btw,4th job would be out soon...for those who are at around 11x,just continue to train til 12x,since 4th job gives meaning to the game.
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Bomber in Iraq kills 27 police recruits
BAGHDAD - A suicide bomber on a bicycle blew himself up Monday in a crowd of police recruits northeast of Baghdad, killing at least 27 people — most of them struck by iron balls packed with the explosives, police and hospital officials said.
The recruits in Baqouba were waiting to be allowed inside the camp for the day's training when the suicide bomber blew himself up in their midst, according to a police officer who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.
The attack bore the hallmarks of al-Qaida in Iraq, whose militants have repeatedly targeted police and army recruits to discourage Iraqis from entering the country's nascent security forces.
Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, is the capital of Diyala province, where hundreds of Sunni Arab tribesmen and insurgents have in recent months joined the U.S. and Iraqi forces in the fight against al-Qaida. The U.S. military has been trying to extend the strategy to Shiite tribes in a bid to curb Shiite militia violence.
But the extremists have fought back.
On Sunday, 10 anti-al-Qaida tribal sheiks — seven Shiites and three Sunnis — from Diyala were kidnapped in the predominantly Shiite district of Shaab in Baghdad while driving home after a meeting with the government in the capital.
Police found the bullet-riddled body of one of the Sunni sheiks, Mishaan Hilan, about 50 yards away from where the ambush took place, an officer said, adding that the victim was identified after his mobile phone was found on him.
The U.S. military on Monday said a rogue Shiite militia leader was responsible.
A member of the Shiite Ambagyah tribe based east of Baqouba said seven of its members were among those abducted.
The kidnappers had made contact with the tribe and said they had offered to release the Shiites but the sheiks refused to leave without their two remaining Sunni colleagues because they feared it "would create more violence and revenge operations."
The tribal spokesman, who declined to be identified because of the sensitivity of the situation, said negotiations were under way to secure the release of all those abducted.
In southern Iraq, meanwhile, the U.S. military turned over security responsibilities to Iraqi authorities in the mainly Shiite province of Karbala, the eighth of the nation's 18 provinces to revert to Iraqi control.
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said the southern province of Basra's security file would be transferred to the Iraqis in mid-December. The British-led forces overseeing the area already have begun drawing down and pulled back from the center of the provincial capital to the airport on the outskirts.
"This is the proof of the strong will and resolve of the good citizens of this nation," al-Maliki said at the handover ceremony in Karbala, 50 miles south of Baghdad. "The reconstruction of Iraq does not hinge on security alone, but security is the key to everything."
A 22-year-old Sunni man from Baqouba's central Tahrir area said he was among a group of some 60 recruits when the blast struck.
Akram Salman said it must have been an inside job because the suicide bomber apparently penetrated heavy security surrounding the police camp without being searched.
He said police failed to stop the bomber when he changed course suddenly from the main road toward the recruits.
"The police are infiltrated. Many people join the police but they have affiliations with al-Qaida. These infiltrators made it easy for the bomber to attack us," he said. "There are two main checkpoints on the main road leading to the camp, it would be impossible for a man on a bicycle to pass without being properly searched."
"Al-Qaida has threatened us before and prevented us from joining the police," he said. "They slaughtered many policemen, burned their houses, killed their families and blew up their headquarters. Now, when the people have defeated al-Qaida and cooperated with the government, al-Qaida staged this operation to show their presence and to give a message that they are still in control."
Mohammed al-Kirrawi, a doctor at the Baqouba general hospital, said most of the victims were struck by iron balls packed with the explosives to achieve maximum casualties. He said the hospital lacked the necessary equipment to save many of the wounded.
"Among the wounded, there are seven in critical conditions and there is little hope that they will survive," he said.
The abducted sheiks were returning to Diyala province after attending a meeting with the Shiite-dominated government's adviser for tribal affairs to discuss coordinating efforts against al-Qaida in Iraq when they were seized, police and a relative said.
The U.S. military, citing intelligence sources, said Arkan Hasnawi, a former brigade commander in the Mahdi Army militia, was responsible for the abductions.
Radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in August ordered his Mahdi Army fighters to lay down their arms for up to six months, but thousands of followers dissatisfied with being taken out of the fight have broken off to form their own groups that the military says are being funded and armed by Iran to foment violence. Iran denies the allegations.
The military said Hasnawi's actions clear demonstrate that he has violated the cease-fire order and "joined forces with Iranian-supported special groups that are rejecting Muqtada al-Sadr's direction to embrace fellow Iraqis."
A relative of one of the abducted Shiite sheiks blamed Sunni extremists and said the attackers picked a Shiite neighborhood to "create strife between Shiite and Sunni tribes that have united against al-Qaida in the area."
But, Jassim Zeidan al-Anbaqi said, "this will not happen."
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Good night,and may God bless you with a salubrious,meaningful and successful life!
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