The attacks within the Green Zone began long ago. They have progressed to the point whereby the 'Unity Government' is now vulnerable to their abilities. It's over in Iraq, it has been for a long time (click link above).The circumstances in Iraq are taking on the 'infrastructure' that Bush surplanted to facilitate nation building as he wanted it. The attacks at the parliament were possible because they were allowed or conducted by the security forces that were supposed to stop such an assault. The Unity Government is a puppet of the Bush White House and the Iraqi people are stopping it's ability to meet and conduct business they see as adverse to their priorities.Two MPs killed in Iraq BAGHDAD -- A suicide bomber blew himself up in the Iraqi parliament canteen inside Baghdad's Green Zone Thursday, killing two MPs in a major breach of security in the country's most heavily guarded site. The bombing, which wounded about 20 people including MPs, occurred despite a massive joint US-Iraqi security crackdown launched in the capital two months ago and came just hours after an attack on a Baghdad bridge that left 10 dead. Attacks in the Green Zone are relatively rare although seven were people were killed in a bombing there in 2004 claimed by Al Qaeda in Iraq. A security official said that Thursday's attack was carried out by a suicide bomber wearing an explosive belt, adding that blood and pieces of flesh were scattered across the cafeteria. A security source named one of the dead MPs as Mohammed Awad, a member of the National Dialogue Front, a Sunni Arab party that has 11 seats in the 275-member parliament. The second killed was a member of the Kurdish Alliance, the second biggest grouping in parliament after the main Shiite Muslim alliance, the source said. About 10 security officials and 10 lawmakers were also wounded in the explosion that ripped through the canteen toward the end of lunch. About seven hours earlier, a suicide bomber blew up a truck on a major bridge across the Tigris River in Baghdad, killing 10 people and sending cars plunging from the wrecked structure into the waters below. Access to the Green Zone - also home to the Iraqi government and foreign embassies - is strictly controlled with access restricted to visitors carrying picture identity cards and required to pass through multiple checkpoints and metal detectors. Insurgents have, however, managed to fire projectiles such as rockets and mortar rounds into the compound from outside its heavily guarded walls. In October 2004, at least seven people were killed including two American civilians in bomb attacks in the Green Zone claimed by the then leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq Abu Mussab Al Zarqawi who was slain in June last year. Although American and Iraqi officials have reported a reduction in execution-style killings since launching a huge security crackdown in Baghdad two months ago, they have admitted that car bombings remain a curse. "Regardless of the numbers of those who have been unfortunately killed or injured, [the latest casualties] do reflect the gravity of the problems that Iraq is facing," former Iraqi prime minister Ayad Allawi told Al Jazeera television's international channel. Another 10 people were killed and 26 wounded in Thursday's truck bombing on Sarafiyah bridge, one of the oldest in the Iraqi capital, which collapsed under the force of the blast, a security official said. River police were seen racing to the scene on patrol boats and divers donned oxygen cylinders to search the murky waters for survivors. Officials said that four cars tumbled off the bridge that connects the Shiite Atafiyah neighborhood on the western bank of the Tigris to the Sunni district of Waziriyah on the east. A witness, who gave his name only as Jawad, said that he was on the bridge trying to fix a puncture to his vehicle loaded with cooking gas when he saw a man park a truck nearby and run off. "I saw the man get out of the vehicle and run away toward Waziriyah. I was astonished and told an army patrol," he said. The witness said that Iraqi soldiers sealed off the bridge before the truck exploded, perhaps explaining why the death toll was not higher. Security officials, however, said that it was a suicide truck bomb. On Wednesday, US military spokesman Major General William Caldwell admitted that the overall Iraqi death toll had risen by 10 percent between February and March. According to Iraqi security officials, more than 2,000 Iraqis were killed in March alone, 15 percent more than in February. And in a sign that the American military is straining to meet its commitments, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said that soldiers will see their tours of duty in Iraq extended by three months. Gates acknowledged that US forces are stretched with the foreign deployments, however. "There's no question about that." The new measure allows the army to maintain the surge in Iraq "probably at least" until April 2008, he said. On Wednesday, the US military also charged that Shiite Iran was supporting Sunni extremist groups known to trigger high-profile vehicle bombs against civilians and security forces. Washington has regularly charged that Shiite Iran was funding and training Iraq's Shiite militias but Wednesday's accusation that the former foe of Iraq was also aiding Sunni groups was a first.continued below
Emergency services look for survivors next to a collapsed bridge in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, April 12, 2007. A suicide truck bomb exploded on a major al-Sarafiya bridge in Baghdad early Thursday, collapsing the steel structure and sending cars toppling into the Tigris river below, police and witnesses said.The media is reporting the Defense Department is extending troop deployments by three months in Iraq. To begin there isn't enough money in the military budget for that, additionally, the military personnel are hopping mad. What I heard in Jacksonville, North Carolina is that the actual plan is for an 18 month deployment and not 15.Bush isn't intersted in competent government, he is only interested in government spending to support the priorities of his party. So far, he states he will veto the measures passed in the House and Senate to bring the USA involvement to a close in Iraq as well as a bill that would liberate Stem Cell Research.When are the Democrats going to learn, in order to do the country's business the way the country wants it done they first have to impeach a man and his vice president whom facilitated his party to use the White House Staff under Rove to advance party directives in firing US Attorneys?What effect does genetic research have for women? Bush's priorities are mired in party rhetoric and electon strategies and not the best interest of the citizens of the USA.Genes control chemotherapy impact Scientists have identified key genes which appear to control the impact of chemotherapy on cancer cells. Researchers from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Centre systematically blocked the function of individual genes to test their effect. The Nature study found in 87 cases blocking the gene seemed to boost the impact of chemotherapy. This could be useful to allow lower chemotherapy doses to be used to reduce side effects for patients.
The researchers used small molecules, called small interfering RNAs, to block the activity of individual genes. RNA plays a crucial role in converting the genetic DNA code into proteins - but interfering sabotages the process. After each gene was blocked the researchers tested the survival rate of cancer cells cultured with the chemotherapy drug paclitaxel. Genome-wide screen The advantage of the technique is that huge numbers of genes can be tested quickly, as no prior knowledge of the genes involved is required.
The North Carolina State Attorney General's office forgot one thing. The young lady involved in these circumstances was waltzed through charges she believed constituted at the very least 'bad behavior' at a Frat Party while a former prosecutor ran for office. The young lady whom offered her services for entertainment and income to support herself through college never expected "The Duke Angels" to be verbally abusive or ridiculing of her and that is also a part of this issue. While North Carolina doesn't see a 'stripper' as someone who should complain at 'bad behavior' or ethnic or gender slurs, the reality is there, and the women that strip for a living WHILE ENTERTAINING men such as these have their own right to self esteem and appreciation. I am confident at the center of this issue lies the question, "But will it hold up in court?" The answer was obviously, no.But, what remains to be appreciated is that she was regarded as an object and not an entertainer. The Duke Angels may wash up well but they ain't angels by any stretch of the imagination. When it comes to having women come forward to report mistreatment by others when it results in a sexual nature is nearly impossible and now that the victim of this fiasco is pushed aside to make way for the victory, once again, of the media that protects male virginity the thought that rape victims will come forward and be believed is getting more impossible. At least when it makes headlines.In knowing women of rape that have seen their attacker found 'innocent' there is always this 'after effect' to that innocence. Left behind after the charges are dropped or by some chance it actually made it to court is the reality of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. For a lifetime after the rape, which actually did happen, is a victim that suffers with relived scenarios, sleeplessness, psychotic fears and a medical regime to chock a horse. On more than one occassion in life, I have meet women whom were sincerely raped, left with the permanent scars while their attackers were never charged or found innocent. There is something very wrong with the way evidence in rape cases are weighted to lead to conviction and something extremely wrong in the way the media vindicates the most guilty of men to exonerate the rest when charged 'as a big mistake.'Women don't realize how compromised they are in a day to day basis when issues like this manifest. We are all sexual creatures and enjoy that aspect of our lives. When by some chance the 'innocense' of that sexuality is violated and exploited in what some might believe are subtle ways we all suffer at the hand of the truly innocent. The truly innocent are the women never recognized as the most damaged in our society. The truly raped, abused and assaulted whereby their attackers walk away laughing. American society has among it the victims of rape that battle everyday with a syndrome that permanently affects their lives. That should be enough to realize even after decades of suffering they are carrying the 'real evidence' if only someone had listened.
