Iraqi Police Suffer Sustained Attacks

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http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/ED1D12A2-A175-49DB-A55E-C8D0EE36FCE1.htm


Friday 11 February 2005, 0:17 Makka Time, 21:17 GMT  

Fighting south of Baghdad also wounded 65 policemen

At least 10 Iraqi policemen have been killed and up to 65 more wounded in fierce battles with anti-US fighters south of Baghdad, police sources said.

Intense and deadly skirmishes near the town of Salman Pak, about 65km southeast of Baghdad, continued for several hours on Thursday.
At one point, Salman Pak's main police station was taken over by fighters before the US military sent in helicopter gunships to attack the building. Police sources said at least 65 officers had been wounded and that 20 of the fighters had been killed. 

The fighting was so fierce that police reinforcements were unable to reach many of the wounded or recover the dead left lying in the road.

Just hours earlier, unknown assailants shot nine bullets into a representative of Grand Ayat Allah Ali al-Sistani, the spiritual leader of Iraqi Shia.





I know, it 'happens all the time', but how many are crying, and how many more are dying?

They are the 'NEW slaves'...or perhaps the 'NEW serfs'. They are offered (their, and their families) survival at the likely cost of their lives. Iraqis have few choices.... the more intelligent ones will recognize this occupation for what it is, and fight, or, at the very least, not help.
The less intelligent, and more desperate ones will do WHATEVER it takes.
..... because they do not understand that they are actively biting through their femoral artery.

Sounds .... uh, similar.