Muslim Meat Grinder at work in Iraq

The swearing in of the Shiite-Kurdish Govt led by shiite Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari and Kurdish President Talabani the important milestone in passing of power from the Sunni dominated Baath party has been reached. And in their own way the Insurgents have celebrated this event with their fireworks. They stepped up their attacks adding grist for the mill of the Muslim Meat grinder, as it does its bone-crunching routine that is now almost a daily affair with headlines like "50 dead, 150 injured in suicide bomber attack".

The Shiite Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari hoped to include members of the Sunni minority, which dominated under Saddam Hussein, in his government. But members of his Shiite-dominated alliance have blocked candidates with links to Saddam's regime, which brutally repressed Shiites and Kurds.

After months of wrangling, the 37-member Cabinet included just four Sunni ministers in relatively minor posts. Bickering continues over seven positions, including the oil and defense ministries, which remain in temporary hands.

The latest Insurgent attack outside a Iraqi army recruitment center, killed at least 20 people in three separate attacks targeting Iraqi security forces in Baghdad on Thursday, including one by a man who set off hidden explosives while waiting in line outside an army recruitment center, police said.

The recruitment center, which has been hit by insurgent attacks before, is surrounded by a cement wall topped with barbed wire. It is located on the site of a former Iraqi army airfield.

"While we were standing in a line, a man walked past, right up to the heavily guarded entrance gate, as if he wanted to ask the guards a question," said Anwar Wasfi, who was standing toward the end of the line of recruits.

"Suddenly, an explosion occurred, and I was knocked over," Wasfi said during an interview at Yarmuq Hospital, where he was being treated for leg and arm wounds.

A similar attack Wednesday by a suicide bomber standing in a line outside a police recruitment center in the northern Kurdish city of Irbil killed 60 and wounded 150.

The attacks are part of an escalation of violence aimed at destabilizing Iraq's new democratic government. The insurgents often target Iraqi security forces, which are being recruited and trained by the U.S.-led coalition as part of its eventual exit strategy.

The only positive side to this morbid bloodletting is that one set of murderers are set against the other. Since all of them take their inspiration from the Instruction Manual of Terrorism - the Quran. The violence will not ebb, even after (and if) the American marines leave. The feeling of enmity among the Muslims runs very deep in their veins, drilled as it is into them by the bloodthirsty injunction of the Quran to kill, murder, behead, slaughter.

Here is one extract from the Quran: "Slay the idolaters (The non-Muslims) wherever you find them, and take them, and confine them, and lie in wait for them at every place of ambush" (Repentance, IX: 5)

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