Police flee as Saddam loyalists fuel city revolt

[DoYouEverWonder]

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=450367

06 October 2003

Iraqis shouting pro-Saddam Hussein slogans have staged an uprising in the important oil refining city of Baiji, burning down the mayor's office, fighting with American troops and forcing local police to flee.

About a thousand people, some holding pictures of Saddam Hussein, were in a stand-off with American troops last night, with tanks surrounding the police station in the city, 160 miles north of Baghdad.

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The crowds were particularly enraged, according to one report, by a rumour that the oil being taken by the Turkish truck drivers was to be sold in Israel. But there is no doubt that people in Baiji are more willing to express their support for Saddam Hussein than demonstrators in Ramadi and Fallujah, the Euphrates river towns where there have been repeated attacks on American troops.

The atmosphere in Baiji yesterday evening was still very tense. Iraqi truck drivers said they were frightened of driving through in case they were mistakenly identified as Turkish. "No one is in control. It is anarchy there,'' said one man on the outskirts of the city.



(I bet Bremmer still thinks things are going great in Iraq.)

[Spazito]

1. Geez, it is going from bad to worse there....

and the Bush admin message is "things are getting better"?

[Ediacara]

2. I guess "greeting us with flowers and hugs"

means different things to different people....

[DuctapeFatwa]

3. It's not a rumor, the oil will be pumped to Haifa

This was arranged some time ago.

[goforit]

4. WOW!!!...........Rummy's strategy of CHAOS rules!!!

Who wuda thunk it?

[gristy]

5. People who have such a stake invested in things going RIGHT in Iraq

will naturally be blind to things NOT going right in Iraq. This includes many repukes and, of course, the entire BFEE. This blindness makes them particularly ineffective at solving the problems in Iraq today.

We don't want any more Iraq's. We want our boys home and the killing to stop. So we tend to focus on the many horrible events that are contributing to the disaster there. Just as the right can and must ignore the carnage, we see it in especially sharp relief.

[expatriot]

6. just think if an israeli-arab war broke out... our boys would be screwed.

there would be a HUGE uprising all across iraq.

[ConcernedCanuk]

7. Sorry to say - ur boys ARE screwed

- with Bu$hco in control

- the USA is OUT of control

Just my Humble Canuk Opinion

[expatriot]

10. agreed... but think how much MORE screwed they'd be if war broke out b/t..

Israel and arab neighbors.... wowzers.

[ConcernedCanuk]

12. but think how much MORE screwed they'd be if war broke out b/t

hmm

- hasn't war ALREADY broken out ??

- I'm not sure what b/t means

- and Isreal has over 200 nukes

- Arabia has none

- and the USA is sitting in Iraq on their North border

- This is NOT by accident -


Just My Humble Canadian Opinion

[Lorien]

11. Um, both boys and girls over there

let's not forget the women in uniform lost for BFEE enrichment (one just last week)!

[ConcernedCanuk]

13. __ Sorry - I agree - and Jessica is not forgotten -

My hat goes off even higher for the women that Bush dragged into this invasion -

[The_Casual_Observer]

8. Bremer is going to find himself out of a job

"(I bet Bremmer still thinks things are going great in Iraq.)"

Any day now he will be wrappin it up & turning in the keys to the washroom. I don't think we will be seeing David Kay anymore either.

All this reminds people that Saddam is still out there someplace. A civil war can't be far behind.

[dArKeR]

9. Pro Saddam loyalist or Starving Citizens? Bush never could be trusted to

tell the truth. Why should we now believe the media after all the lies they've knowingly told to support this war?