Here We Go... U.S. Troops Enter Shiite Stronghold Of Sadr City.

[WillyT]

Security Sweep
U.S. troops enter Shiite stronghold of Sadr City.



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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Hundreds of U.S. soldiers entered the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City on Sunday in the first major push into the area since an American-led security sweep began last month around Baghdad.

Meanwhile, the U.S. military announced three deaths on Sunday.



Soldiers conducted house-to-house searches through the densely populated grid of squat two- and three-story buildings, but met no resistance in a district firmly in the hands of the Mahdi Army militia led by the radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, said Lt. Col. David Oclander.

Maj. Gen. William Caldwell, a U.S. military spokesman, told Al-Arabiya television U.S. officials spoke daily with community leaders in Sadr City before entering the stronghold.

“If you go to Sadr City today you will see joint Iraqi and American troops cooperating with the head of the Sadr City council,” Caldwell said in comments translated into Arabic. “There is no problem between the two sides, and we are trying to set up a small security center there.”

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Link: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17450016/

It's hard out here for a pimp, et tu Gen. Caldwell???

:puke::banghead::nuke:

[wake.up.america]

1. "It's quiet, too quiet, I don't like the looks of things. They're setting up an....

ambush, Ringo. All the shutters are shut tighter than a drum. I have an eerie feeling, something goin' to happen and it won't be good. Well, whatever you do, keep a low profile and a hand close to your rifle. It don't look good."

[Monkeyman]

2. Your feeling may be right

[soothsayer]

3. or (like corner drug dealers during a sweep) they just relocate

temporarily and wait out the invasion, then they come back when the troops are gone.