CNN:Ten militiamen killed in Baghdad

[maddezmom]

U.S. military said it is investigating

Sunday, September 25, 2005; Posted: 4:35 a.m. EDT (08:35 GMT)

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Ten Iraqi militiamen were killed early Sunday in clashes with U.S. forces in the Sadr City section of Baghdad, Iraqi police sources told CNN.

The clashes broke out between 2 a.m. and 4 a.m. Sunday between U.S. troops and the Mehdi Army over U.S. detention of a number of the organization's members, police said.

U.S. forces retreated at about 4 a.m., police said, and calm was restored.

A spokesman for the U.S. military brigade in charge of Sadr City said it was investigating reports of clashes between its soldiers and gunmen in Sadr City, but could provide no further details.

more:http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/09/25/iraq.main/index.html?section=cnn_latest

another Basra?

[rodeodance]

1. US-Shia clash erupts in Baghdad

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4279988.stm

Sunday, 25 September 2005, 11:10 GMT 12:10 UK

US-Shia clash erupts in Baghdad

Four militiamen loyal to Iraq's radical Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr have been killed in clashes with US forces in Baghdad overnight, Iraqi officials say.

It is the first such fighting since a rebellion by supporters of the cleric ended more than a year ago.

The US military confirmed it had fought "anti-Iraqi forces" in eastern Baghdad.

Meanwhile at least nine people have been killed in a bomb attack on police in Baghdad, while two died in a market bomb in Hilla, officials said.........

[xchrom]

2. more of that greeting us with flowers...

[pinniped]

3. Wouldn't that make them pro-US?

Why did they kill their allies?:crazy:

--The US military confirmed it had fought "anti-Iraqi forces" in eastern Baghdad.--

[IndianaGreen]

4. US military's press releases are as truthful as the Wehrmacht's

Referring to the Shias as "anti-Iraqi forces" is on the same level of mendacity as Hitler proclaiming that Germany was defending herself against Polish aggression in 1939.

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5. The US took a page out of Hitler's play book, 'eh?

[bemildred]

6. The occupation seems anxious to annoy al Sadr of late.

That is something of a change, I wonder what sort or
"reasoning" lies behind it.