Baghdad street becomes new Fallujah

[sabra]

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21038060-2703,00.html

Baghdad street becomes new Fallujah

US and Iraqi troops, backed by American F-15 jet fighters and Apache attack helicopters, fought suspected insurgents for at least 12 hours in one of Baghdad's most dangerous neighbourhoods in what may be a preview of expanded US operations in Iraq.

US and Iraqi officials said the assault on the Haifa Street neighbourhood rooted out an insurgent cell that controlled the area, but residents from the predominantly Sunni Muslim area and Sunni leaders said the American forces had been duped by Iraq's Shia-dominated security forces into participating in a plan to drive Sunnis from the area.

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The Association of Muslim Scholars called the assault "a bloody sectarian massacre."

Muthana Harith al-Thari, a spokesman for the association, went on al-Jazeera television and read the names of 12 men who were killed.

"All of their guilt was that they defended their neighbourhood," he said. "The American president said in 2003, `Mission accomplished.' Now in 2007 he uses jetfighters a few meters from the Green Zone. This is defeat."

[Doctor_J]

1. Whoa. Muslim Scholars tossing "Mission Accomplished" in Chimp's

face. Things are bad. I wonder how drugged-up Smirk is these days.

[Igel]

8. The Ass. of Muslim Scholars

knows how to play the game.

I'm not going to assume that the other team's coaches' half-time speeches are the truth, and their predictions valid. And that's just with football. Given the stakes in Iraq, I'm even less likely to assume that these particular coaches are dead-on accurate.

They have a stake in the game and are therefore biased; they have been wrong in the past; and, if nothing else, they deserve little respect for the Salafist hate that they spew. (Along with other stuff, usually while watching the righteous beheadings of polytheist Muslims.)

They form a collective Goebbels in traditional Iraqi rural garb.

They should be called the mushrikoun that they are.

[saigon68]

10. The Chimp looks like he's drinking again

[Monkeyman]

2. Destroy destroy

More money for Cheney

[stillcool]

3. Is there no one on the planet who...

can stop this shit?

[Contrite]

5. It's up to us

Kennedy says if Congress votes "no" to escalation and Bush vetoes we must make ourselves heard

Sign Kennedy's petition

[stillcool]

7. I already did...

unfortunately even if that should work, it doesn't change the fact that the U.S. is creating mass-murder throughout the world.

[Contrite]

9. I know

but at least it's something

[brokensymmetry]

4. Winning hearts and minds, are we?

No...wait...that was what we did in Vietnam,
wasn't it?

I wonder why that came to mind? Hmm...

[NJCher]

6. insane

This is not only insane, it is heartbreaking. Imagine--not just our own soldiers--but the hardships of those in Baghdad. And from the sounds of this article, the U.S. doesn't even know who it's fighting.

There is only one solution to this: get out now. Just stop the American aggression.



Cher