Updated:2007-04-12 13:51:53 Bomb Rocks Iraqi Parliament, Killing Eight Another Attack Fells Historic Bridge in Baghdad By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA AP BAGHDAD (April 12) - A suicide bomber blew himself up in the Iraqi parliament cafeteria Thursday, killing at least eight people, including three lawmakers, and wounding dozens in a stunning assault in the heart of the heavily fortified, U.S.-protected Green Zone. Jump Below: Watch Raw Video of Attack A news video camera captured the moment of the blast: a flash and an orange ball of fire causing a startled parliament member who was being interviewed to duck, and then the smoky, dust-filled aftermath of confusion and shouting. The video was shot by Alhurra, a U.S. government-funded Arab-language channel. The blast came hours after a suicide truck bomb exploded on a major bridge in Baghdad , collapsing the steel structure and sending cars tumbling into the Tigris River, police and witnesses said. At least 10 people were killed. The parliament bombing was believed to be the deadliest attack in the Green Zone, the enclave that houses Iraq 's leadership as well as the U.S. Embassy, and is secured by American and Iraqi checkpoints. Security officials at parliament, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release the information, said they believed the bomber was a bodyguard of a Sunni member of parliament who was not among the dead. They would not name the member of parliament. The officials also said two satchel bombs were found near the cafeteria. A U.S. bomb squad took the explosives away and detonated them without incident. President Bush strongly condemned the attack, saying: "My message to the Iraqi government is `We stand with you.'" Maj. Gen. William Caldwell told The Associated Press that eight people were killed in the attack, which witness accounts indicated was carried out by a suicide bomber. Iraqi officials said the bomber struck the cafeteria while several lawmakers were eating lunch, and at least three of them, two Sunnis and a Shiite , were killed. State television said 30 people were wounded. "We don't know at this point who it was. We do know in the past that suicide vests have been used predominantly by al-Qaida," Caldwell said. Government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh suggested that those behind the attack might work in the building. "There are some groups that work in politics during the day and do things other than politics at night," he told Alhurra. The Alhurra video showed the blast, with startled lawmaker Jalaluddin al-Saghir, who is also a Muslim imam, ducking for cover. It then showed the immediate aftermath: People screamed for help in a smoky hallway, with one man was slumped over, covered in dust, motionless. A woman kneeled over what appeared to be a wounded or dead man near a table. The camera then focused on a bloody, severed leg. TV cameras and videotapes belonging to a crew sending footage to Western networks were confiscated and apparently handed over to U.S. authorities. After the blast, security guards sealed the building and no one, including lawmakers, was allowed to enter or leave. A spokesman for the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad said no Americans were hurt. The bombing came amid the two-month-old security crackdown in Baghdad, which has sought to restore stability in the capital so that the government of Iraq can take key political steps by June 30 or face a withdrawal of American support. "We know that there is a security problem in Baghdad," added Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice , speaking at the State Department. "This is still early in the process and I don't think anyone expected that there wouldn't be counter-efforts by terrorists to undermine the security presence." One of the dead lawmakers was Mohammed Awad, a member of the Sunni National Dialogue Front, said party leader Saleh al-Mutlaq. A female Sunni lawmaker from the same list was wounded, he said. Another was Taha al-Liheibi, of the Sunni Accordance Front, said Mohammed Abu Bakr, who heads the legislature's media department. A third dead legislator was Niamah al-Mayahi, a member of the Shiite United Iraqi Alliance bloc, said Saleh al-Aujaili, a fellow member. Abu Bakr and other lawmakers said they saw the suspected bomber's body amid the ghastly scene. "I saw two legs in the middle of the cafeteria and none of those killed or wounded lost their legs, which means they must be the legs of the suicide attacker," he said. Earlier in the day, security officials used dogs to check people entering the building in a rare precaution, apparently concerned that an attack might take place. A security scanner for pedestrians at the entrance to the Green Zone near the parliament building was not working Thursday, Abu Bakr said. People were searched only by hand and had to pass through metal detectors, he said. The brazen bombing was the clearest evidence yet that militants can penetrate even the most secure locations. Masses of U.S. and Iraqi soldiers are on the streets in the ninth week of a security crackdown in the capital and security measures inside the Green Zone have been significantly hardened. The U.S. military reported April 1 that two suicide vests were found in the Green Zone, also home to the U.S. Embassy and the Iraqi government. A rocket attack last month killed two Americans, a soldier and a contractor. A few days earlier, a rocket landed within 100 yards of a building where U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was holding a news conference. No one was hurt. Khalaf al-Ilyan, one of the three leaders of the Iraqi Accordance Front, which holds 44 seats, said the attack was "aimed at everyone, all parties, our parliament in general being a symbol and a representative of all segments of Iraqi society." Al-Ilyan, who is in Jordan recovering from knee surgery, said the blast also "underlines the failure of the government's security plan." "The plan is 100 percent a failure. It's a complete flop. The explosion means that instability and lack of security has reached the Green Zone, which the government boasts is heavily fortified," he said. Hadi al-Amiri, head of the parliament's security and defense committee, said the blast shook the building just after legislators ended their main meeting, and broke into smaller committees. "A few brothers (fellow lawmakers) happened to be in the cafeteria at the time of the explosion," al-Amiri told Al-Arabiya television. "But had they been able to place this bomb inside the meeting hall, it would have been a catastrophe." Al-Amiri said Iraqi forces are in charge of security in the building, and that explosives could have been smuggled in amid restaurant supplies. Attacks in the Green Zone are rare. The worst previous known assault occurred Oct. 14, 2004, when a blast at a market and a popular cafe killed six people, the first bombing in the sprawling region. On Nov. 25, 2004, a mortar attack inside the zone killed four employees of a British security firm and wounded at least 12. On Jan. 29, 2005, insurgents hit the U.S. Embassy compound with a rocket, killing two Americans, a civilian and a sailor, on the eve of landmark elections. Four other Americans were wounded. In addition to killing 10 people, Thursday's bombing of the al-Sarafiya bridge wounded 26, hospital officials said, and police were trying to rescue as many as 20 people whose cars plummeted off the span. Waves lapped against twisted girders as patrol boats searched for survivors and U.S. helicopters flew overhead. Scuba divers donned flippers and waded in from the riverbanks. Farhan al-Sudani, a 34-year-old Shiite businessman who lives near the bridge, said the blast woke him at dawn. "A huge explosion shook our house and I thought it would demolish our house. Me and my wife jumped immediately from our bed, grabbed our three kids and took them outside," he said. The al-Sarafiya bridge connected two northern Baghdad neighborhoods, Waziriyah, a mostly Sunni enclave, and Utafiyah, a Shiite area. Police blamed the attack on a suicide truck bomber. AP Television News video showed the bridge broken in two places, perhaps the result of two blasts. The al-Sarafiya bridge is believed to be at least 75 years old, built by the British in the early part of the 20th century. "It is one of Baghdad's monuments. This is really damaging for Iraq. We are losing a lot of our history every day," said Ahmed Abdul-Karim, who lives nearby. The al-Sarafiya bridge has a duplicate in Fallujah that was built later and made infamous in March 2004 when angry mobs hung the charred bodies of U.S. contractors from its girders. The destroyed span "is linked to Baghdad's modern history, it is one of our famous monuments," said Haider Ghazala, a 52-year-old Iraqi architect. "Attacking this bridge affects the morale of Iraqis and especially Baghdad residents who feel proud of this bridge. They (insurgents) want to demolish everything that connects the people with this land," he said. Before the bridge was destroyed, nine spans over the Tigris linked western and eastern Baghdad. The river now serves as a de facto dividing line between the mostly Shiite east and the largely Sunni west of the city, a reality of more than a year of sectarian fighting that has forced Sunnis to flee neighborhoods where they were a minority and likewise for Shiites. Baghdad's neighborhoods had been very mixed before the war but hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced since then as militants from both Muslim sects have sought to cleanse their neighborhoods of rivals. There have been unconfirmed reports for months that Sunni insurgents and al-Qaida in Iraq were planning a campaign to blow up the bridges. Also Thursday, the U.S. military said its troops killed two suspected insurgents and captured 17 in raids across the country. http://news.aol.com/topnews/articles/_a/bomb-rocks-iraqi-parliament-killing/20070412050609990001?ncid=NWS00010000000001

Anaconda About two weeks ago, I indicated that the reduction in the size of the Green Zone in Baghdad would eventually result in devastating attacks within the Green Zone. This happened on this day, April 12, 2007, killing at least one Iraqi lawmaker and injuring others. More catastrophic attacks are yet to come in the Green Zone. This is clear indication that all of the American military power cannot protect those within the most “secure” area in Iraq. Essentially, the longer the American troops remain in Iraq the more impossible it is going to be for them to leave Iraq alive. This situation is like an anaconda wrapping its body around the prey. The bombing of the bridge spanning the Tigres River was only a part of the constriction which is beginning to speed up. Ali Yussef, AFP / Getty Images U.S. soldiers secure the area after a bomber blew up a truck on Baghdad's al-Sarrafiyah bridge. At least 10 people were killed. Hardened Heart So it is that the “heart of Pharoah”, i.e., President George Bush, “has been hardened” and he will not bring the American troops out of Iraq. The Iraqis, in a majority, will soon turn against the American military in Iraq but not until most of the escape routes have been sealed off. From African to “Negro” Many of you have a pretty good knowledge of the history of Africans in America. Then some of you know very little about the history of Africans in America but may know much about the history and legacy of colonialism in Africa. When the Investor Class’s institution of slavery was threatened, there were those Africans, though enslaved, came to the aid of the oppressors, their slave “masters”. The empire of slavery, as it was known at that time, was collapsing. Many, among a stolen and enslaved people, had no idea what they would do with what was said to be freedom. Thousands wondered around looking for family members who were sold as cattle to the highest bidder. They wanted to continue embracing that which they knew, that which they and their parents were born into and most passed away in. These “Negroes” would even pray to the image of a white god to protect and bless the oppressor, thinking the oppressor would be benevolent. Surely they were, in part, acting out the Christian teachings to “pray for those who spitefully misuse you…..” They were as sheep being led to the slaughter house. This was the narrow understanding of many of the Africans, now turned “Negro”. This manner of thinking was certainly beneficial to the oppressor. The same is true with regards to millions of Africans and the debilitating affect of European colonialism. There are countless examples of this from Kenya to Nigeria. It is not rare to hear an African woman’s family praising her if a White man comes home with her or marries her. It was as if she had won the lottery. That is a topic for a later date. However, I must first deal with the zeal of the “Black Republicans”. This zeal has everything to do with the signs of an empire that is in advance decay and decline. It is, the fall of the American empire, with some “House Negroes” trying to save the “master” and it includes members of Republican and Democratic parties. Wisdom teaches to remove ones self from the coming judgment as a result of the deeds of the “master”, the oppressor, the assassin, the thief, the deceiver. Black Republicans Many Blacks who believe in “Wall Street” and worships the Investor Class will often become Republicans. They see personal financial gain as being more certain by becoming Republican. Frankly, such is silly. Being a member of a “club” does not assure prosperity, especially if you are of African descent. There are exceptions, if you are very brilliant and/or willing to sell your soul, or persistent. This is true of African Americans and many of the new immigrants from Nigeria and other African countries that have immersed themselves into an “elitist” mindset. This mindset teaches them to disassociate themselves from the Black masses, from Blackness and enrich the Investor Class and get a little “gold” for themselves for their obedience to the “king”. Prosperity begins and ends within the mind. Prosperity is not the latest multi-level marketing get rich scheme. In fact, most of them are shake downs of most of the Blacks who participate in them with the Investor Class being at the top. It is foolish to paint the “Black Republican” with a broad brush, just as it would be to paint the 90+ percent of Black Democrats with a broad brush. However, one cannot ignore the reality that any who defends the deadly military policies of the Bush Administration must be questioned and taken to task. Below is one position with regards to Speaker of the House, Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Syria. You will notice how confrontational and heated this position is as well as who they are partnering with: IT'S AN OUTRAGE!! In a display of complete arrogance and disrespect, Democrat Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, a white woman, figuratively slapped the face of Dr. Condoleezza Rice, our Secretary of State and a black woman, when Pelosi went to Syria in violation of the Logan Act, a felony, and met with Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad. Even the left-wing newspaper, "The Washington Post," condemned Pelosi in a strongly-worded April 5th editorial titled Nancy Pelosi's foolish shuttle diplomacy where the editors called Pelosi's meeting "counterproductive" and "foolish."  That harsh description of Pelosi's trip to the Middle East is well-deserved considering that the Dictator Bashir al-Assad is a sponsor of terrorist organizations responsible for the death of American soldiers and thousands of men, women, and children. Dangerous is how Pelosi's foolhardiness is being characterized in a recently released television ad on national cable networks by the RJC which is rightly upset about Pelosi's meeting with  Dictator Bashir al-Assad and saying "the road to peace leads through Damascus."  "The Washington Post" called Pelosi's statement "ludicrous" and further wrote: "Mr. Assad is a corrupt thug."  "The American people deserve better from their elected representatives in Congress than this attempt to undermine President Bush's foreign policy, which had the effect of weakening our national security," said RJC Executive Director Matthew Brooks in a press release. "Speaker Pelosi's actions and statements in Syria were irresponsible, dangerous, and wrong." © National Black Republican Association, 2007. All Rights Reserved. The NBRA need to show the evidence where the government of Sudan is responsible for the deaths of American soldiers. Prove to others that the military actions of President Bush have not caused far more deaths and destruction of a country than the squabbles in Sudan. They need to provide all of the information regarding their claim. Otherwise, in the CART Analysis it is categorized as PROPAGANDA. Black men and women who promote the agenda of the “king” with that which cannot be substantiated is a big reason Blacks have not collectively progressed but digressed over the last 35 years. How have President Bush’s policies and wars been anything but “counter-productive”? The results indicate his decisions were “foolish”. There are those who claim his policies have protected America from additional attacks within the continental United States. Thinking persons would say that this cannot be proven. Any day now an attack could be carried out inside America, just as the heart of the, supposedly, secure Green Zone of Iraq was penetrated. Who and what was protecting America from such attacks for hundreds of years? There is no certain protection from a determined foe. The CIA called it “Blow back”, that is, America’s ugly doings around the world coming back to pierce its own head. It is bitter and sweet coming from the same stream. It is healing with one hand while slaughtering with the other. It is the confusion of double-standards. It is saying one thing but doing the opposite. All of these are signs of a nation in decay. Pelosi’s trip to Syria has nothing to do with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Pelosi cannot make foreign policy by traveling to Syria. She certainly can and did shine a light on the failed foreign policy of President Bush. This is the reason some are mentally disjointed about her trip to Syria and other nations. Those nations realize that President Bush is weak and diminishing in power and the political party of Pelosi is the new player with a certainty that the next president will be a Democrat, most likely Barack Obama. Perhaps those nations need a little “White” female persuasion, a little different “sugar”. Just as Colin Powell was placed into a no-win situation when he was Secretary of State, so too is the case with Rice. The Bush policy and approach has been wrong from the beginning. It is a foundation built upon shifting sands. If the Logan Act has been violated then prosecute Pelosi. We all know it’s not going to happen but is simply something for “talking heads” to scream and attempt to keep people distracted from the fact that Iraq was and continues to be a grand mistake and failure. It is a massive distraction from the financial collapse of America. Blacks in America must focus on building solidarity and then build it within various African nations. The heart of the Green Zone was bombed. Where is the lying Senator John McCain on this? Two weeks earlier he was in Baghdad talking about how peaceful and safe it was. We know that was all propaganda. The pounding of Lebanon by Israel was another fatal mistake. America’s instigation and involvement in the genocidal military adventure in Somalia is yet another grand failure with Jendayi Frazer being the “Negro” overseer of this. The continuous talk of invading Sudan with American troops, as proposed by Senator Joe Biden would be another fatal mistake. President Al-Bashir of Sudan must be admired for standing up against the thugs within the British and American governments. Black Republicans and Democrats alike need to absolve themselves of the greed which permeates the Economic Predators of the Investor Class. Come off of the “plantation”. It is wise to learn how to serve and not serve ones self to the loot that the Investor Class conspires to acquire more of. There are no major newspapers that can truly be called conservative or liberal. Their positions change with the wind….. whatever brings in the biggest load of dollars is often what is written. The American Army has strongly stated that it is “broken”. Military men and women have now had their combat time extended to 15 months when it was 7 months for some and 12 months for others. This is not good for morale, no matter how much extra money or bonuses these soldiers receive. Matthew Brooks Executive Director Matthew Brooks serves as Executive Director of both the Republican Jewish Coalition, an organization dedicated to enhancing ties between the Jewish community and the Republican Party, and the Jewish Policy Center, a think-tank that examines public policy from a Jewish perspective. Matt began his political career as State Chairman of the Massachusetts College Republicans while still an undergraduate at Brandeis University in Waltham, MA. Matt managed the Jack Kemp for President campaign in Massachusetts, as well as directed projects in New Hampshire and New England. Matt became the Political Director of the Republican Jewish Coalition in 1988. Taking a leave of absence from the RJC, Matt served as the National Field Director for Victory ‘88 Jewish Campaign Committee, designing and implementing campaign strategy on behalf of the Bush-Quayle ‘88 campaign. Matt was appointed Executive Director of the RJC in 1990. In addition to his duties leading the RJC, Matt also serves as the organization’s principal spokesman. In this role Matt has been a frequent guest on CNN, Fox News, MSNBC and has been quoted extensively in publications such as the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal and other major newspapers. Matt has a B.A. in Political Science from Brandeis University. He received an MBA at Georgetown University in March 1996. Matt resides in Virginia with his wife, Deborah, and two children. Many of those among this group are the biggest thieves of African resources. This can only imply the guilty are not true friends of the Black Universe. Protecting Condi from Wolfowitz and His High Paid Sweetheart ………Ms Riza had been a high-ranking communications employee at the bank working in the Middle East section. When Mr Wolfowitz took over at the Bank in mid-2005, Ms Riza - then a World Bank employee for eight years - was transferred to work for the US state department, to avoid any conflict of interest. But rapid rises in her tax-free World Bank salary to about $193,000 - more than the $186,000 Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice receives before tax - have aroused ire among other Bank employees. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6550995.stm The Ashkenazim must first come clean on their leaders who were the first to utter and write the words that Africans are ordained to be slaves to Whites, especially to their clan. Also, all that Africans own do not belong to Africans but belongs to them. These were the teachings of their renown Rabbi Rashi of France. “Black Republicans” must answer the question, are they the progeny of those Blacks who enslaved other Blacks? This applies to Black Democrats as well. With the typical Black Republican, those who are their closest associates certainly number high among the progeny of those who traded, enslaved, flayed, burned, hanged, and lynched Blacks. Because these sins have been reshuffled and concealed a little better but is yet happening, there is no integrity or balance in such alliances. Standing with President Bush is like standing next to toxic plutonium. Yet, there are those among us who believe the food is at the “king’s” table and will sit at that table at any cost. The empire is no more and this reality has ushered in the Pale Horse, the often hidden hand that kills, not heal.