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Iraq's Deadly Surge Claims 1,300 — Morgue Figure Eclipses Other Counts Since Shrine Attack — BAGHDAD, Feb. 27 — Grisly attacks and other sectarian violence unleashed by last week's bombing of a Shiite shrine have killed more than 1,300 Iraqis, making ...<br/><br/> <div class="category alt">Posted in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081019145738/http://gorillasguides.com/category/previous-site/" title="View all posts in Previous Site" rel="category tag">Previous Site</a><br/></div> <br clear="all"/> </div> <div class="post" id="post-70"> <h2><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081019145738/http://gorillasguides.com/2006/02/26/samarra-qui-bono/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Samarra: Qui Bono?">Samarra: Qui Bono?</a></h2> The question is Machiavelli's and is his advice to anybody who wants to know who did something in politics (including war) and why. He suggested you ask "cui bono?" - "who benefits?" I have been asking this question about the Samarra bombing and am writing a multipart part series suggesting the ...<br/><br/> <div class="category alt">Posted in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081019145738/http://gorillasguides.com/category/previous-site/" title="View all posts in Previous Site" rel="category tag">Previous Site</a><br/></div> <br clear="all"/> </div> <div class="post" id="post-69"> <h2><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081019145738/http://gorillasguides.com/2006/02/25/this-is-what-america-and-her-allies-have-done-to-iraq/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to This is what America and her allies have done to Iraq">This is what America and her allies have done to Iraq</a></h2> What's on her face is the blood of her two dead sons.What she's holding is their shoes. They were killed on February 23rd 2006 in the violence following the bombing in Samarra. Just go. Take your soldiers, your mercenaries, your "advisors," your murderers, your troops who steal while they're searching Iraqi homes, ...<br/><br/> <div class="category alt">Posted in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081019145738/http://gorillasguides.com/category/iraq/" title="View all posts in Iraq" rel="category tag">Iraq</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081019145738/http://gorillasguides.com/category/photos/" title="View all posts in Photos" rel="category tag">Photos</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081019145738/http://gorillasguides.com/category/previous-site/" title="View all posts in Previous Site" rel="category tag">Previous Site</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081019145738/http://gorillasguides.com/category/women/" title="View all posts in Women and Children" rel="category tag">Women and Children</a><br/>Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081019145738/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/salah-ad-din-governorate/" rel="tag">Salah ad Din (Governorate)</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081019145738/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/samarra/" rel="tag">Samarra</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081019145738/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/women-and-children/" rel="tag">Women and Children</a> </div> <br clear="all"/> </div> <div class="post" id="post-68"> <h2><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081019145738/http://gorillasguides.com/2006/02/24/how-is-that-other-war-coming-along-for-you-guys/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to How is that other war coming along for you guys?">How is that other war coming along for you guys?</a></h2> The war on drugs I mean, or perhaps I mean the war in Afghanistan, the one that the current American Government fucked up and are now running away from as fast as they can like the cowardly incompetents that they are. Of course that leaves us their allies to ...<br/><br/> <div class="category alt">Posted in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081019145738/http://gorillasguides.com/category/previous-site/" title="View all posts in Previous Site" rel="category tag">Previous Site</a><br/></div> <br clear="all"/> </div> <div class="post" id="post-67"> <h2><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081019145738/http://gorillasguides.com/2006/02/24/blogger-bares-rumsfelds-post-911-orders/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Blogger bares Rumsfeld’s post 9/11 orders">Blogger bares Rumsfeld’s post 9/11 orders</a></h2> "Hours after a commercial plane struck the Pentagon on September 11 2001 the US defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, was issuing rapid orders to his aides to look for evidence of Iraqi involvement, according to notes taken by one of them. "Hard to get good case. Need to move swiftly," the notes ...<br/><br/> <div class="category alt">Posted in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081019145738/http://gorillasguides.com/category/previous-site/" title="View all posts in Previous Site" rel="category tag">Previous Site</a><br/></div> <br clear="all"/> </div> <div class="post" id="post-66"> <h2><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081019145738/http://gorillasguides.com/2006/02/23/reaction-to-the-samarra-bombing/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Reaction to the Samarra Bombing">Reaction to the Samarra Bombing</a></h2> Here's a sample of the reaction to the Samarra Bombing from various (mostly Shii) message boards and fora that I've translated. There's lots more where that came from. I'll write more about this apalling event later. [ Link ] Update I'm in the process of finishing a posting on this now. However I've ...<br/><br/> <div class="category alt">Posted in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081019145738/http://gorillasguides.com/category/previous-site/" title="View all posts in Previous Site" rel="category tag">Previous Site</a><br/></div> <br clear="all"/> </div> <div class="post" id="post-65"> <h2><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081019145738/http://gorillasguides.com/2006/02/22/using-them-what-they-were-intended-for/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Using Them What They Were Intended For">Using Them What They Were Intended For</a></h2> BNP to use Prophet cartoon in campaign The British National Party is seeking to exploit controversies involving Muslims in its campaign for local authority elections in May. The extreme right-wing party, which hopes to field 1,000 candidates in England, will include in its campaign material one of the cartoons which sparked outrage ...<br/><br/> <div class="category alt">Posted in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081019145738/http://gorillasguides.com/category/previous-site/" title="View all posts in Previous Site" rel="category tag">Previous Site</a><br/></div> <br clear="all"/> </div> <div class="post" id="post-64"> <h2><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081019145738/http://gorillasguides.com/2006/02/21/mark-from-ireland-invites/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Mark from Ireland Invites">Mark from Ireland Invites</a></h2> I've been unhappy with some aspects of blogger's service not least the inability to have permanent pages, categories, and the constant outages. a further source of discontent is that some of my readers amongst them Mrs. K8 has reported that the site takes forever to load in their browsers. I've ...<br/><br/> <div class="category alt">Posted in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081019145738/http://gorillasguides.com/category/previous-site/" title="View all posts in Previous Site" rel="category tag">Previous Site</a><br/></div> <br clear="all"/> </div> <div class="post" id="post-63"> <h2><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081019145738/http://gorillasguides.com/2006/02/20/persecuting-picassos-ghost/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Persecuting Picasso’s Ghost">Persecuting Picasso’s Ghost</a></h2> It seems that SGO who is the sysop for Liberal Avenger doesn't like trolls. I'm in a Picasso sort of mood today so here's a sketch of a troll I whumped up in the style of Picasso. The loud shrieking you're now hearing is probably Pablo's ghost <br/><br/> <div class="category alt">Posted in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081019145738/http://gorillasguides.com/category/previous-site/" title="View all posts in Previous Site" rel="category tag">Previous Site</a><br/></div> <br clear="all"/> </div> <div class="post" id="post-62"> <h2><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081019145738/http://gorillasguides.com/2006/02/20/not-in-the-news-today/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Not in the news today">Not in the news today</a></h2> Reuters headline today: "Bombs kill 19 in Iraq after lull in violence" What lull? And why are the following paragraphs not a headline story in its own right? The violence reminded Iraqi politicians of the security crisis they will face after forming a new government, a process that has yet to kick off ...<br/><br/> <div class="category alt">Posted in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081019145738/http://gorillasguides.com/category/previous-site/" title="View all posts in Previous Site" rel="category tag">Previous Site</a><br/></div> <br clear="all"/> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="span-6 colborder"> <div id="sidebar1"> <ul> <li> <h2 class="alt">Categories</h2> <ul> <li class="cat-item cat-item-205"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081019145738/http://gorillasguides.com/category/analysis-briefings-commentary/" title="View all posts filed under Analysis Briefings Commentary">Analysis Briefings Commentary</a> </li> <li class="cat-item cat-item-20"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081019145738/http://gorillasguides.com/category/children/" title="View all posts filed under Children">Children</a> </li> <li class="cat-item 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Thousands of followers of anti-American cleric Moqtada al-Sadr took to the streets on Saturday in a demonstration against a pact that would allow U.S. forces to stay in Iraq for three more years.</p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081019145738/http://gorillasguides.com/wp-content/uploads/20081018_anti-sofa_demo_400x266.jpg" title="Anti-SOFA demonstration Baghdad October 18th 2008"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20081019145738im_/http://gorillasguides.com/wp-content/uploads/20081018_anti-sofa_demo_400x266.jpg" alt="Anti-SOFA demonstration Baghdad October 18th 2008"/></a>  </div> <hr/> <div id="footer"> <p>Gorilla’s Guides is proudly powered by <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081019145738/http://wordpress.org/" target="_blank">WordPress</a>. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081019145738/http://gorillasguides.com/feed/">Entries (RSS)</a> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081019145738/http://gorillasguides.com/comments/feed/">Comments (RSS)</a> |  <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081019145738/http://www.blogohblog.com/" title="Free WordPress Themes" target="_blank">Gridblog by Blog Oh Blog</a></p> </div> </div> </body> </html>