Latest Iraq bombing may have been inside job

Sunday’s suicide bombings in Baghdad which killed 155 people, wounding 500 others, may have had help from within Iraq’s security apparatus, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow reported Monday.
“This was a really well coordinated attack on an area in Baghdad that’s supposed to be well protected,” explained. “In order to reach their targets, the bombers driving these truck bombs had to pass through several checkpoints that were guarded by security forces, and those security forces were supposed to be using hand-held devices designed to detect explosives." Maddow quoted a comment from Brian Katulis, a Middle East expert at the Center for American Progress, who wrote, “You don’t want to do this kind of attack without having someone on the inside. It implies infiltration of the government. If there is an objective, it’s to send a message to whoever is in power that not everyone recognizes them as being in charge.” In August, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Sebari said he suspected infiltration in a blast that killed nearly 100 people. “According to our information, there has even been collaboration between security officers and the murderers and killers,” In April of 2007, a bomb attack against the Iraq parliament that killed eight people, including two members of parliament, was suspected to have involved insurgent sympathizers within Iraq’s security forces. The attack “reflects the fact that perhaps there are some people within the Iraqi security forces who have been infiltrated by insurgents and terrorist organizations,” then-Australian Defense Minister Brendan Nelson

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