The attacks took place in the Sinjar district 70 miles west of Mosul and targeted houses of the Yazidi, a 350,000-strong secretive community whose beliefs are a mixture of Zotroastrian and Manichean beliefs predating Islam and Christianity.

Dhakil Qassim, the mayor of Sinjar said that al Qaida in Iraq were behind the bombings citing Kurdish government intelligence reports. The Sinjar area is largely under Kurdish control and is claimed as part of the historic Kurdish homeland from which Saddam Hussein sought to drive them.

"This is a terrorist act and the people targeted are poor Yazidis who have nothing to do with the armed conflict," Mr Qassim said. "Al Qaida fighters are very active in this area near the Syrian border."
Suicide bombers kill 175 in northern Iraq - Independent Online Edition > Middle East

The EXACT reason why we need to stay.......isn't the main reason for our presence in the middle east because of Al-Quida?

Why not put up the facts with the doom and gloom? LOL....eg...I know.....Al-CIAduh.....LOL

Have a good one!:s4: