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conjur

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Plans for us to start coming home in December, 2005?


US hoping to start its withdrawal from Iraq in December
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/05/02/wirq02.xml
The American military has set a target of December for handing over responsibility for security to Iraqi army and police units, says a classified document being circulated among senior officers.

It is the first time that a date has been put forward for the phasing back of US involvement in controlling the insurgency that has raged for more than two years.

The proposal envisages that after the planned election of a five-year parliament in December the American military would withdraw from patrolling, starting a gradual pull-out from the country. America and Britain have declined to detail an exit strategy in public for fear of encouraging insurgents and being seen to cut and run.

However, the deadline illustrates American confidence that the development of Iraq's security forces is proceeding as planned
Not so sure they'll be able to keep that deadline. At least not in numbers they are probably hoping for. Esp. since Iraqi security forces are dying by the dozens and some are still deserting their posts.

The government confirmed the widely held belief that the security situation had markedly worsened this month. Nearly 570 Iraqis have been killed, a 48 per cent rise on March, and 668 wounded.

Civilians made up the vast majority of the dead, with 98 policemen and 41 soldiers among those killed. The interior and defence ministries put insurgent losses at 64.


But, there is hope:
US military confidence in the security forces has grown in recent months, with Iraqi army and police units conducting several independent operations that resulted in the capture of large rebel cells and the discovery of several significant weapons caches.
 
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Originally posted by: conjur
Please take the back-and-forth bickering elsewhere.

TLC, if you want to focus on the "happy talk" then create a new thread. I've recommended to several people to start a thread on the good news out of Iraq.

How many do we see in P&N? ZERO.
We generally see ZERO because when they are posted, and a few have been in the past, they get dumped on by the usual suspects who redirect the subject to the insurgency, Abu Ghraib, Bush's follies, etc. And in those cases I don't remember seeing you or any of the other self-appointed mods in here suggesting to those same suspects they start another thread focusing on the bad things happening.

Of course, you probably don't have to say that because there are hundreds of such threads anway. Do you understand what I'm saying?

Now, back on-topic:
Yes. Back to the 'regurgitating news we've already read' thread.
 

BBond

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I've not heard the U.S. MSM mention a very important anniversary that just passed on May 1st.

Don't we celebrate anniversaries anymore?

Two Years Ago: Bush Declares "Major Combat Operations" Over

Sunday marked the second-year-anniversary of President Bush's Mission Accomplished speech. On May 1, 2003 Bush said "Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the Battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed." Since then, nearly 1,600 coalition troops and tens of thousands of Iraqis have been killed. Agence France Press is reporting 567 Iraqis were killed last month alone. This marks an increase of almost 50 percent over the number killed in March.

Happy anniversary, George.


 

conjur

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http://www.missionnotaccomplished.us/
On May 2, 2003, George Bush made his infamous ?Mission Accomplished? proclamation from the deck of a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier, asserting that all was rosy in Iraq ? if you ignored, that is, the tragedy of the deaths of American troops and those of the ?Coalition of the Willing,? and the loss of the lives of thousands of Iraqi men, women, and children ? noncombatants, for the most part.

On May 2, 2005, We the People have a plan to remember that day, and to keep remembering it until we bring home our troops and begin to repair our damaged relationship with the rest of the world.

So great is the magnitude of such an undertaking that many Americans have given in to despair, and many say that it is not possible to rouse the American public to needed action to take back our country. There is a historical event, however, which invites our consideration with regard to coordinating such a movement.

During the Pueblo Revolt in Northern New Mexico, in 1688, the organizers of that action against the Spanish managed to coordinate an uprising among all the various and remote pueblos in the area by sending out runners with knotted ropes, each knot denoting the passage of a day until the grand day for the uprising arrived.
The knotted rope on this page is a call for your participation in an event of great importance for our country:

May 2, 2005,
A National Day of Remembrance, Renewal, and Redemption


This day will mark a sabbatical from jobs, shopping, television, reading newspapers, purchasing stuff on the internet. No Walmart shopping, no eating at McDonalds, in fact, no shopping at all, except for absolute necessities. We buy our food at a local farm stand, cook it at home, and ask our neighbors over. While we are relaxing and remembering the significance of this day, we are not participating in supporting the corporate structure which feeds the regime currently occupying the White House. What a subversive concept!

We will use this day to visit Veterans' Hospitals, take flowers, gifts, carrot cake, poetry to the people who have given their health and future wellbeing, in many cases, to what they believed was a good cause but turned out to be a lie. Even those who do not see it that way deserve our compassion, our love, and our practical assistance.

We will travel in groups, by bus, bicycle, whatever means is most "restful" (i.e., contributes the least to corporate interests), take our children out of school for this enriching experience, and remember our own humanity in the process. And with thousands of us visiting Veterans' Hospitals, we can bring into the light what this administration is keeping in the dark ? the plight of our returning Iraq war veterans, as well as that of those who have served in prior wars.

We are not counseling violence or protest marches (although those can be beneficial). We simply intend to take time off for relaxation, as frequently as necessary, to nurture ourselves and our country back to health. Gandhi had very good luck with teaching the people of India to stay at home and relax! The end result was no small thing. And the more relaxed we are, the less we are supporting that which is bringing down our democracy.

A poet wrote these compelling words: "Things are in the saddle, and ride mankind."

We the People must understand that we are in the saddle, and we are ready to ride. We are ready for an end to wars and lies and fear.

To return to the symbolism of New Mexico: There is a mythical figure here known as Kokopelli, about whom there are many and varied legends. He is a seducer; he plays his flute and leads those who follow into a new reality.

The time for our new reality is now. We will not fund death, whether from war or neglect of our people by an avaricious and uncaring government.

Join us on May 2, 2005 in a nationwide action to remember our true values, and to change the course of our Ship of State.
 

Deptacon

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Originally posted by: BBond
Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken
Originally posted by: BBond
Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken
Originally posted by: BBond
The truth hurts, doesn't it Chicken?
As you seemingly fail to recognize truth, how would you even know if it does or not?

In your case I'd have to believe that ts cluelessness that hurts. Though you probably wouldn't recognize that if it jumped out of your skull and slapped you dead in the face either.

The truth is jumping out of this thread and slapping you dead in the face.

But apparently, "You can't handle the truth"

:)
Your idea is truth comes from Hollywood?

Laff.

Figures.

My idea of truth comes from the news links posted in this thread. Not from the mouth of a liar like Bush.

no your idea of truth is links to liberal editorals, grassroots left wigin pages, and other dem supporting websites... thats like a republican linking to everything hannity and swift vets for truth...
 

Hecubus2000

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Originally posted by: Deptacon
Originally posted by: BBond
Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken
Originally posted by: BBond
Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken
Originally posted by: BBond
The truth hurts, doesn't it Chicken?
As you seemingly fail to recognize truth, how would you even know if it does or not?

In your case I'd have to believe that ts cluelessness that hurts. Though you probably wouldn't recognize that if it jumped out of your skull and slapped you dead in the face either.

The truth is jumping out of this thread and slapping you dead in the face.

But apparently, "You can't handle the truth"

:)
Your idea is truth comes from Hollywood?

Laff.

Figures.

My idea of truth comes from the news links posted in this thread. Not from the mouth of a liar like Bush.

no your idea of truth is links to liberal editorals, grassroots left wigin pages, and other dem supporting websites... thats like a republican linking to everything hannity and swift vets for truth...

LOL
 

conjur

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One U.S. soldier killed by roadside bomb in Iraq
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L03518346.htm


12 killed in fight with U.S.-led forces in Iraq
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L0347404.htm


EYEWITNESS: Iraq?s children die of curable kala azar
http://www.alertnet.org/thefacts/reliefresources/111468530463.htm
In the 1970s and 1980s, Iraq had an excellent health care system. Since then disastrous domestic policies, as well as western policies toward Iraq, have done a thorough job of destroying that system. Iraq, which possesses the second largest oil reserves in the world, now finds its health care on the level of a third world country.

Nowhere is this more evident than in the resurgence of infectious diseases which had been considered eliminated a decade ago.

Thousands of Iraqi children have died in recent years of kala azar, a tropical illness which occurs in the poorest areas of the world and which, unless treated, inevitably leads to death.

In the past Iraq conducted intensive insect eradication campaigns to eliminate kala azar. But with the deterioration of the country?s infrastructure and the lack of insecticides, which Iraq was forbidden to import under U.N.-imposed sanctions, this was no longer possible.
That's part of the 100,000 reported by The Lancet. 1991 Gulf War, subsequent US/UN sanctions, and the 2003 invasion of Iraq have rendered Iraq all but incapable of caring for its own properly.
 

Votingisanillusion

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If you remember well, at the end of the massacre of millions of innocent vietnamese human beings by the fascist US murderers, the Pentagon revised the number of US deaths. Upwards.
A very good reason to read the information from the iraqi resistance about the war against the fascist invaders who already killed 100000 innocent iraqi human beings. Good news: the number of dead US invaders will be revised upwards at the end of this criminal invasion!

http://www.uruknet.info/?l=i&p=-6&size=1&hd=0

Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Sunday, 1 May 2005
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. http://www.freearabvoice.org

Sunday, 1 May 2005.


Al-Anbar Province.

Al-Qa?im.


Seventeen Americans killed in Saturday night fighting in al-Qa?im, puppet spokesman admits.

Fighting that broke out Saturday night in al-Qa?im between Iraqi Resistance forces and US occupation troops in the city on the Syrian border left 17 US troops dead and five more wounded.

The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam in the city reported informed sources in the Iraqi puppet military as saying that the fighting also left three US Humvees destroyed and two Bradley armored vehicles disabled.

The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam in al-Qa?im met with Lieutenant Colonel Hamzah al-Jawwari of the joint operations command in the city who confirmed the casualty toll of 17 Americans dead and five more wounded in addition to the vehicles destroyed.

The Lieutenant Colonel also claimed that the US forces had taken 21 Resistance fighters prisoner and killed more than 25 Resistance fighters in the combat itself that lasted from about 9pm Saturday night until midnight.

But the Resistance denied those claims of the puppet spokesman, saying that it had killed more than 17 US troops and wounded dozens more, while mosques in the city observed mourning for five members of the Resistance, one of them a fraternal Arab fighter, a youth with Yemeni citizenship.

For its part the Resistance organization, the Base Qa?idah of the Jihad in the Land of the Two Rivers, which is led by Jordanian Islamic militant Abu Mus?ab az-Zarqawi, issued a communiqué on Sunday, a copy of which was obtained by the correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam, in which it said that its fighters had attained their objectives in the fighting Saturday night, and threatened that the battle was only the beginning o the end of the US occupation of Iraq.


Ar-Ramadi.


Resistance kills 21 US troops, shoots down Apache helicopter in Saturday night fighting dubbed the Battle of the Free People of Iraq.

In the course of fighting that raged in ar-Ramadi on Saturday night between US aggressor troops and the Iraqi Resistance, Resistance forces shot down one US Apache helicopter over the city.

The Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent reported sources in the Iraqi Resistance as saying that they fired a Strela rocket that struck the helicopter directly and blew it up in the air.

Other fighting in the city left more than 21 US troops dead and destroyed a US armored vehicle and two Humvees, according to the same sources.

Meanwhile, ar-Ramadi Mosque at the dawn prayer announced over its loudspeakers that three members of the Iraqi Resistance had been martyred in fighting Saturday to the south of the city.

For its part the First Army of Muhammad Resistance organization issued a communiqué, a copy of which was obtained by the Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent, in which the group took responsibility for the shooting down of the US helicopter and the fighting on Saturday which the organization called the ?Battle of the Free People of Iraq.?


Al-Khalidiyah.


Resistance sharpshooter kills US Marine in al-Khalidiyah Sunday morning.

An Iraqi Resistance sharpshooter killed one US soldier in al-Khalidiyah, west of al-Fallujah on Sunday morning. The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam in al-Khalidiyah reported an official source in the puppet police as saying that one American Marine had been killed by a sharpshooter?s bullet. The sharpshooter had been positioned atop a high building in the city where he fired a shot that struck the American Marine in the temple, killing him instantly.

For its part, the US military admitted the attack in a communiqué issued on Sunday morning.


Al-Habbaniyah.


Resistance bombards US al-Habbaniyah base Sunday afternoon.

Iraqi Resistance forces pounded the US base ? called ?as-Saqr the Falcon Base? in al-Habbaniyah with six mortar shells at 3pm Sunday afternoon local time. Residents of the nearby al-Fallahat area who witnessed the attack said that six explosions shook the area and sent plumes of smoke rising over the facility. Afterwards, helicopters were seen flying at low altitude over the base and the vicinity, searching for the Resistance attackers, but with no success.


Al-Haqlaniyah.


Situation deteriorates after US siege for one week cuts off water, food, electricity from population.

US forces backed by puppet so-called ?Iraqi national guards? continue to blockade the town of al-Haqlaniyah in al-Anbar Province where they have been now for one week, according to a report by a Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent in Iraq.

Witnesses report that the humanitarian and sanitary situation in the city is badly deteriorating, as western and Iraqi puppet media ignore the situation and keep silent.

Witnesses said that the US forces deliberately have cut off all electricity and water supplies from the encircled town, and have prevented the residents from entering or leaving. Movement inside the town has stopped and the markets closed down, further preventing the supply of food to the population. Occupation forces and their stooges closed shops, wrecked their contents, and stole money and valuables.

Witnesses report that the health situation is bad as people cannot get out to hospitals except with great difficulty. Schools have closed even though it is final exam time for the end of the year.

The residents say that the occupation troops even invaded the mosques where they smashed doors and wrecked the contents in addition to violating their sanctity. Many residents have also been arrested in a campaign of searches and raids carried out by the Americans and their puppets.


Al-Karmah.


US siege of al-Karmah in second day.

US occupation forces imposed a total blockade on the town of al-Karmah, west of Baghdad on Saturday, 30 April closing all entrances and exits. Since then no one had been allowed in or out ? other than the US aggressor troops how have launched a broad campaign of raids throughout all the city?s neighborhoods.

A correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam in Iraq reported witnesses from the city as saying that it has become extremely difficult to move about, since the city is cut off from the outside world by a large deployment of US forces along all major arteries. The city?s daily life has been paralyzed and residents find themselves in an unenviable situation.

The US siege of al-Krmah is part of a series of campaigns of lock-downs and raids that the US has launched in many places in the country, including al-Haqlaniyah and Abu Ghurayb.


Baghdad.


Resistance car bomber kills 11 US troops in base in ar-Rustamiyah in Baghdad early Sunday.

An Iraqi Resistance martyrdom fighter drove an explosives-laden car into a US base in ar-Rustamiyah, south of Baghdad at about 7am local time Sunday morning.

The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam who arrived on the scene shortly thereafter said that sources in the puppet police and Iraqi puppet army said that the Resistance fighter stormed through the main gate of the American base, set up in what was the Iraqi Military Academy before the American occupation. The attacker drove towards a grouop of US soldiers and detonated his vehicle among them despite the heavy gunfire that they directed at his onrushing car.

The Iraqi puppet security sources told Mafkarat al-Islam that the result of the bombing was that 11 US troops were killed and a number more were wounded.


Resistance organization proclaims start of new campaign in Iraq.

The Resistance organization, the Base Qa?idah of the Jihad in the Land of the Two Rivers issued a communiqué saying that what it called the Battles of the Martyr Muhammad Jasim Abu al-Harith al-?Isawi had begun. The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam in Baghdad obtained a copy of the communiqué, which was posted on mosque doors in the occupied Iraqi capital and in other provinces, indicating that the group, led by Jordanian Islamic activist Abu Mus?ab az-Zarqawi had distributed it very widely.

The communiqué called on Iraqi civilians to stay away from American forces and military columns, and also to steer clear of gatherings of Iraqi puppet so-called ?national guards?

The communiqué praised the organization?s Resistance fighters and said that ?yesterday there were the battles of the Martyr, the Lion of the Land of the Two Rivers Abu Anas ash-Shami, then the commander and martyr by the grace of God the Exalted, ?Umar Hadid, and today we declare the start of the battles of the Lion of the Oneness of God, Abu al-Harith al-?Isawi in all regions of Iraq. And we will wage our battles until the cross disappears from the land of Iraq.?

The correspondent reported that Iraqi puppet security forces and the US occupation troops issued a general call to arms after finding copies of that communiqué throughout the country. The Americans and their stooges have therefore deployed throughout the streets and lanes of Baghdad and other cities in occupied Iraq.


Resistance martyrdom car bomber kills nine US troops Sunday morning in ad-Durah.

In a dispatch posted at 10:45am Sunday morning Mecca time Mafkarat al-Islam reported that a short while before an Iraqi Resistance car bomb exploded by a column of US Humvees at the western entrance to the southern Baghdad suburb of ad-Durah. The correspondent in ad-Durah reported witnesses as saying that the blast destroyed two Humvees and killed nine US troops instantly.

The correspondent received confirmation of that report from a first lieutenant in the puppet police of ad-Durah ? who asked not to be identified.

The Resistance organization the Base Qa ?idah of the Jihad in the Land of the Two Rivers announced its responsibility for the attack that took place at 9am Sunday morning, local time. The communiqué said that a Resistance martyrdom fighter drove an explosives-packed car into the US column sowing death and destruction among the invaders.


Resistance car bomb kills four US troops in Abu Ghurayb.

In a dispatch posted at 1:45pm Mecca time Sunday afternoon, the correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam in Abu Ghurayb reported that four US troops were killed and two more wounded when an Iraqi Resistance car bomb exploded at 1pm, local time by a passing column of American soldiers.

Witnesses told the correspondent that the car bomb was parked by the side of the old road that links Abu Ghurayb with al-Fallujah and that it explodes when a column of five armored vehicles and two Humvees was passing, destroying one armored vehicle.


Board of Muslim ?Ulama? denounces puppet police murder of Sunni Shaykh in Diyala Province on Friday.

The Board of Muslim ?Ulama?, the highest religious authority for Sunni Muslims in Iraq issued a statement denouncing the Iraqi puppet police for assassinating Shaykh ?Abd ar-Razzaq Rashid ad-Dulaymi in Diyala Province on Friday.

Mafkarat al-Islam reported witnesses as saying that on Friday, the puppet police had encircled the al-Aqsa Mosque in the al-Katun area of the province where he was the imam and preacher. Shaykh ad-Dulaymi entered, delivered the sermon and led the congregational prayer service, undeterred by the fact that the mosque had been surrounded by security men and that there were spies among the congregation as well.

When the service ended the heavily armed security forces rushed the mosque, but Shaykh ad-Dulaymi came out to them, and addressed them, saying, ?If you want to take me, then come and get me.? Thus challenged, the security forces fell back. A short while later, however, fearful that the security forces might attack and kill and wound the worshippers still inside the mosque, the Shaykh went out to the security forces to turn himself over to them to prevent them from harming or killing any of the worshippers. When he got close to one of their cars, the puppet security men opened fire on him.

The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported that numerous eyewitnesses said that the puppet police fired on the Shaykh again and he fell to the ground unconscious. Afterwards, the puppet security forces tried to claim that the Shaykh had killed himself.

In its statement, issued Saturday, the Board of Muslim ?Ulama? said that the puppet police had killed Shaykh ad-Dulaymi and then falsely claimed that he had killed himself. The Board noted that this latest police murder appeared to open a new page in dangerous excesses and violations of the rights and freedom of the Iraqi people. The Board held the puppet regime responsible for the killing and for the abuse and torture inflicted on prisoners in the occupied country?s prisons.


Babil Province.

Al-Yusufiyah.


?Dozens? of US dead and wounded in lethal Resistance rocket attack on US base early Sunday.

Iraqi Resistance forces bombarded the US base in al-Yusufiyah, south of Baghdad, Sunday morning. The American base occupies what were previously storage areas of the Iraqi Army prior to the US invasion of the country.

The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam in al-Yusufiyah reported witnesses as saying that at 5:30am Sunday morning the Resistance fired more than 16 rockets into the US base, inflicting great damage inside the facility.

Captain Karim Khamis of the puppet army who works on the base said that the attack inflicted heavy casualties of ?dozens? of Americans.

?We entered the base,? he told Mafkarat al-Islam, ?after receiving orders from the puppet ?ministry of defense? to see the extent of the casualties and to render assistance. We found that there had been great destruction and there were dozens of dead and wounded.?

The buildings inside the base that were destroyed in the Resistance rocket attack were high enough so that local residents could see them behind the walls of the facility. But after the attack, most parts of those buildings had been destroyed.

In his dispatch posted at 10:11am Sunday morning Mecca time the correspondent reported that US forces were still lifting rubble and digging out bodies of troops who appeared to have been killed in their sleep during the bombardment.


Al-Mahmudiyah.


Resistance martyrdom car bomber kills six US troops in al-Mahmudiyah Sunday afternoon.

An Iraqi Resistance martyrdom fighter drove an explosives-packed Honda car into a column of six US personnel carriers on the highway in al-Mahmudiyah, southeast of Baghdad at 4pm local time Sunday afternoon. Residents of the city told Mafkarat al-Islam that the car accelerated to high speed and slammed into the front of the US column where it exploded, totally destroying one of the personnel carriers and killing six US troops and wounding three more.


Diyala Province.

Ba?qubah.


Three US troops killed in Sunday morning roadside bomb attack.

In a dispatch posted at 11:40am Sunday morning Mecca time, Mafkarat al-Islam reported witnesses as saying that an Iraqi Resistance roadside bomb exploded by a US foot patrol in the al-Mu?allimin neighborhood of Ba?qubah, killing three US troops and seriously wounding a fourth. US forces completely encircled the area of the attack, closing the street leading to the road where the bomb went off. The Americans evacuated their dead and wounded in a Humvee to the US base west of Ba?qubah.


Diyala.


Three US troops killed in roadside car bombing in Diyala Sunday.

In a bulletin posted at 5:20pm Mecca time Sunday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that an Iraqi Resistance car bomb exploded by a column of four US armored vehicles in the city of Diyala, northeast of Baghdad. Witnesses in the city reported that the Toyta Supra car bomb was parked by the side of the main road in the al-Amir neighborhood in the middle of the city. It blew up by the US armored column, destroying one armored vehicle and killing three US troops and wounding two more.


Salah ad-Din Province.

Ad-Dulu?iyah.


Resistance roadside bomb kills two US troops in ad-Dulu?iyah Sunday afternoon.

An Iraqi Resistance roadside bomb exploded by a US patrol on a side road in the town of ad-Dulu?iyah at 3pm Sunday afternoon, local time. The blast destroyed one Humvee and killed two US troops and wounded two more, Mafkarat al-Islam reported a source in the local puppet police as saying.


Tikrit.


US arrests Tikrit woman claiming she prepared car bombs for Resistance. Tribes threaten retaliation against Americans for holding her.

US forces on Saturday arrested an Iraqi woman who lives in Tikrit along with three of her brothers from their home in the al-Arba?in neighborhood in the city. A correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported witnesses as saying that US troops brought more than 10 armored vehicles into the neighborhood and closed the road on which the woman, who is 40 years of age, lives with her three younger brothers.

The Baghdad correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported that on Sunday the Americans acknowledged the arrest, justifying it by saying that she is accused of preparing booby-trapped cars along with her brothers in their house and providing them to martyrdom fighters so that they can carry out operations against the US occupation troops.

Relatives and neighbors of the woman denied the American claims categorically in an interview with the Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent. The Iraqi tribes in Tikrit, for their part warned that ?a real disaster? as they put it will befall the occupation forces, meaning that they will join the Resistance, if the Americans continue to hold the woman.


Ninwa Province.

Mosul.


Resistance blasts US al-Ghazlani base late Sunday morning.

In a bulletin posted at 11:05am Mecca time Sunday morning, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that at that moment the Iraqi Resistance was pounding the US al-Ghazlani base ? the largest American base in northern Iraq ? with mortar shells and Katyusha rockets.

The correspondent in Mosul reported that sirens could be heard wailing inside the base as he wrote his report, and that at that moment more than 20 rockets and shells had blasted into the American facility, all of them striking within the base. At the time of writing it was impossible to determine the extent of US losses or even to contact any puppet officials in relation to the on-going bombardment.


Resistance roadside bomb kills three US troops in Mosul Sunday afternoon.

An Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by a joint US-Iraqi puppet force patrol in the city of Mosul on Sunday afternoon. A source in the Iraqi puppet forces told the correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam in the city that the bomb was planted by the side of the main road in the al-Hudaba? neighborhood in the middle of the city and that it blew up as the joint patrol was passing at 3pm local time Sunday afternoon.

The blast destroyed one US Humvee and set a puppet force pickup ablaze. Three US troops were killed and three more of them wounded. One Iraqi puppet soldier also died in the attack.


Tall ?Afar.


Resistance martyrdom car bomber blasts funeral of traitor collaborator.

An Iraqi Resistance car bomb exploded in the northern Iraqi city of Tall ?Afar on Sunday killing at least 25 persons and wounding 50 more attending the funeral of a Kurdish collaborator executed by the Iraqi Resistance on Saturday.

A spokesman for the Kurdish chauvinist collaborationist so-called Kurdistan Democratic Party said that the blast targeted the funeral of a Kurdish collaborator official in northern Iraq, according to a BBC report. The collaborator spokesman said that a Resistance martyrdom fighter drove into the crowd attending the funeral of the Kurdish collaborator who was liquidated on Saturday in a Resistance attack.

The collaborator spokesman said that US forces and Iraqi puppet forces together with ambulances raced to the scene of Sunday?s car bombing to haul out bodies and help the wounded. He said, however, that Resistance fighters had closed the road and that gunfire broke out in a battle with Resistance fighters.


Al-Basrah Province.

Al-Basrah.


Sunnis of al-Basrah denounce arrests of community members.

The Sunnis of al-Basrah issued a statement on Sunday denouncing the arrest of 46 members of their community by puppet authorities. Most of those arrested were from the Abu al-Khasib area of the southern Iraqi city.

Iraqi puppet so-called ?national guards? and puppet police arrested Shaykh Kamal Faysal as-Salim, the first supervisor of education in al-Basrah Province and a member of the Board of Muslim ?Ulama? Scholars, the highest Sunni religious authority in Iraq, at 12 midnight Saturday-Sunday night, in one of the latest such arrests of prominent Sunnis.

Sources:

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BBond

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Just an FYI for everyone who has been cooperative enough to keep all of the "bad news" coming out of Iraq in this one thread.

Iraq news is going back on the front page.

There are members posting the same crap in threads on the front page every day. I see no reason to segragate actual events in Iraq in one thread if other members can't do the same with the outright nonsense they're posting. If we continue to be cooperative the only goal we're accomplishing is handing control of the debate to people who are obsessed with gay males and AIDS, abortion (why wasn't a single thread requested for THAT debate?), or whose finger is in the chili.

Our cooperation is having the same effect on P&N that we're seeing in the MSM. Genuine news is supplanted by Michael Jackson and the runaway bride.

Let this thread die and post the news from Iraq as you find it on the front page in separate threads where it belongs. Otherwise everyone who visits P&N will have the same false impression of news that the American public has.

See you on the front page. ;)

 

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Ahh yes, the inability of the U.S to lead a post combat war :).

The biggest mistake by far that we made after taking over Iraq was disbanding the 250,000 man Iraqi army.

You can thank Paul Bremer for that. It was a stupid move for several reasons.

1. You have 250,000 people not being paid anymore (even though it was little)
2. You have 250,000 pissed off people because they are not paid anymore.
3. You have a 250,000 recruiting pool for the terrorists.

But wait there is more!

After the U.S disbanded the army, and said 'oh crap we made a mistake!' they tried to reinlist them. Here is the catch though:

If you wanted to reinlist, you had to reinslist as a private. How do you think that made the generals, captains, and lieutenants feel? I am sure they were happy!

So guess what? We didn't get anywhere near the 250,000 back.

We fought probably the best/fastest war we have ever seen, but we are probably doing the worst job possible as occupants of Iraq.
 

conjur

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http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/headline/world/3167401
Later today, a suicide car bomber attacked an Iraqi army checkpoint in Baghdad, killing at least nine soldiers and wounding 16, police said. The U.S. military said as many as 15 soldiers were killed.

The attack happened about 9 p.m. in the southern neighborhood of Doura, police Maj. Mousa Abdul Karim said. Ten civilians were among the wounded, he said.

Getting pretty damned bloody in Iraq.
 

conjur

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Turkey massing troops along Kurdish areas of Iraq border
http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/05/front2453493.9868055554.html
LONDON ? Turkey was said to have massed troops along its southern border with Iraq.

Kurdish opposition sources said thousands of Turkish troops have been gathering in positions near the Iraqi border. They said the Turkish military formation was taking place in the Kurdish areas of southeastern Turkey.

The Turkish troops deployed near the Iraqi border were identified as units of two commando brigades, Bolu and Kayseri. The sources said the commando forces were seen in the Cukurca district of Hakkari.

The sources said more than 10,000 troops have been deployed in Cukurca.

They said information on the troop concentrations was relayed by the Turkish Gendarmerie Command to forces in the district.

"It was learned that these preparations are being carried out within the framework of an operation against south Kurdistan [northern Iraq]," the Kurdish television Roj, based in Copenhagen, reported on April 26.

On May 1, the Kurdish Workers Party claimed responsibility for an explosion in the western Turkish resort town of Kusdasi in which a police officer was killed. The Kurdish Liberation Hawks, a PKK wing, saying it also planted bombs in Istanbul, warned Westerners to leave Turkey.

Ankara has long warned that it would not tolerate the presence of the PKK in northern Iraq. About 5,000 PKK fighters were said to have been operating along the northern border and operatives were sent to Turkey for insurgency attacks.


''It is apparent that the issue of security has become a matter of concern for Iraq's neighbors," Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul said.

"More and more terrorist activities are being carried out by a narrower group."

Roj said many of the Kurds in the area have sold their livestock and left the Cukurca district. The television said residents in Cukurca have demanded the withdrawal of military units.

The television said the Bolu Commando Brigade, deployed in the Lice district of Diyarbakir, has been preparing to launch attacks in northern Iraq. Roj cited such Iraqi targets as Akdag, Andok, Dorse, Saggoze and Senyayla regions.

Kurdish sources said the Turkish military build-up could be connected to setbacks for ethnic Turks in northern Iraq. The sources said Turkmen groups have been racked by discord and defections that have divided the pro-Ankara movement.

The PKK presence in northern Iraq was a major issue on the agenda of a meeting by foreign ministers of Iraq and its neighbors in Istanbul on Monday. Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said the government in Baghdad was not ready to confront the Kurdish insurgents.

"Iraq will need more time before it can deal with the presence of militants of the terrorist PKK taking shelter in the north of the country," Zebari said. "It's not only the PKK. There are militants from Iranian dissident groups. These were groups that Saddam Hussein welcomed."
Oh boy. I wonder how many Iraqi security forces are trained enough to handle this or if our troops will be stretched even thinner yet to to handle this situation.
 

Deptacon

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Originally posted by: conjur
Turkey massing troops along Kurdish areas of Iraq border
http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/05/front2453493.9868055554.html
LONDON ? Turkey was said to have massed troops along its southern border with Iraq.

Kurdish opposition sources said thousands of Turkish troops have been gathering in positions near the Iraqi border. They said the Turkish military formation was taking place in the Kurdish areas of southeastern Turkey.

The Turkish troops deployed near the Iraqi border were identified as units of two commando brigades, Bolu and Kayseri. The sources said the commando forces were seen in the Cukurca district of Hakkari.

The sources said more than 10,000 troops have been deployed in Cukurca.

They said information on the troop concentrations was relayed by the Turkish Gendarmerie Command to forces in the district.

"It was learned that these preparations are being carried out within the framework of an operation against south Kurdistan [northern Iraq]," the Kurdish television Roj, based in Copenhagen, reported on April 26.

On May 1, the Kurdish Workers Party claimed responsibility for an explosion in the western Turkish resort town of Kusdasi in which a police officer was killed. The Kurdish Liberation Hawks, a PKK wing, saying it also planted bombs in Istanbul, warned Westerners to leave Turkey.

Ankara has long warned that it would not tolerate the presence of the PKK in northern Iraq. About 5,000 PKK fighters were said to have been operating along the northern border and operatives were sent to Turkey for insurgency attacks.


''It is apparent that the issue of security has become a matter of concern for Iraq's neighbors," Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul said.

"More and more terrorist activities are being carried out by a narrower group."

Roj said many of the Kurds in the area have sold their livestock and left the Cukurca district. The television said residents in Cukurca have demanded the withdrawal of military units.

The television said the Bolu Commando Brigade, deployed in the Lice district of Diyarbakir, has been preparing to launch attacks in northern Iraq. Roj cited such Iraqi targets as Akdag, Andok, Dorse, Saggoze and Senyayla regions.

Kurdish sources said the Turkish military build-up could be connected to setbacks for ethnic Turks in northern Iraq. The sources said Turkmen groups have been racked by discord and defections that have divided the pro-Ankara movement.

The PKK presence in northern Iraq was a major issue on the agenda of a meeting by foreign ministers of Iraq and its neighbors in Istanbul on Monday. Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said the government in Baghdad was not ready to confront the Kurdish insurgents.

"Iraq will need more time before it can deal with the presence of militants of the terrorist PKK taking shelter in the north of the country," Zebari said. "It's not only the PKK. There are militants from Iranian dissident groups. These were groups that Saddam Hussein welcomed."
Oh boy. I wonder how many Iraqi security forces are trained enough to handle this or if our troops will be stretched even thinner yet to to handle this situation.

i think michael moore covered this kind of thing...ITS CALL FEAR MONGORING!!!! GOOO CONJUR!!!!
 

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Originally posted by: BBond
Does anyone remember the report that came out a few months ago which stated that the "insurgency" in Iraq is fueled by the U.S. military presence?

I wonder when Bush is going to get a chance to read it. Or rather, when Kindasleazy and Andy Card get a chance to read it and tell Bush what it says. :roll:
Consider what happens if we unilateraly withdraw?

 

Deptacon

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Originally posted by: EagleKeeper
Originally posted by: BBond
Does anyone remember the report that came out a few months ago which stated that the "insurgency" in Iraq is fueled by the U.S. military presence?

I wonder when Bush is going to get a chance to read it. Or rather, when Kindasleazy and Andy Card get a chance to read it and tell Bush what it says. :roll:
Consider what happens if we unilateraly withdraw?

dude, your wasting your time the age of full thinking ideological liberalism is over, now its just a bunch of govt hate mongoering zombies....you wont get through

 

BBond

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Originally posted by: Deptacon
Originally posted by: EagleKeeper
Originally posted by: BBond
Does anyone remember the report that came out a few months ago which stated that the "insurgency" in Iraq is fueled by the U.S. military presence?

I wonder when Bush is going to get a chance to read it. Or rather, when Kindasleazy and Andy Card get a chance to read it and tell Bush what it says. :roll:
Consider what happens if we unilateraly withdraw?

dude, your wasting your time the age of full thinking ideological liberalism is over, now its just a bunch of govt hate mongoering zombies....you wont get through

Says the guy whose only interest is to keep the carnage going so he can earn a few filthy lucre.

 

Deptacon

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Originally posted by: BBond
Originally posted by: Deptacon
Originally posted by: EagleKeeper
Originally posted by: BBond
Does anyone remember the report that came out a few months ago which stated that the "insurgency" in Iraq is fueled by the U.S. military presence?

I wonder when Bush is going to get a chance to read it. Or rather, when Kindasleazy and Andy Card get a chance to read it and tell Bush what it says. :roll:
Consider what happens if we unilateraly withdraw?

dude, your wasting your time the age of full thinking ideological liberalism is over, now its just a bunch of govt hate mongoering zombies....you wont get through

Says the guy whose only interest is to keep the carnage going so he can earn a few filthy lucre.

good god, you guys are priceless....oh the carnage!!!! these people are blowing up there own people! i mean they arent even really attacking us anymore, they are attacking iraqis, and the iraqis are sick of it too...and you dont even care, you say fvck em....its freaking rediclous

keep it up though guys, you guys are doing wonders for your party..... people love voting for pessismicism (spelling, i know)

 

conjur

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Originally posted by: EagleKeeper
Originally posted by: BBond
Does anyone remember the report that came out a few months ago which stated that the "insurgency" in Iraq is fueled by the U.S. military presence?

I wonder when Bush is going to get a chance to read it. Or rather, when Kindasleazy and Andy Card get a chance to read it and tell Bush what it says. :roll:
Consider what happens if we unilateraly withdraw?
What's that? Iraq becomes fully sovereign?
 

Deptacon

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Originally posted by: conjur
Originally posted by: EagleKeeper
Originally posted by: BBond
Does anyone remember the report that came out a few months ago which stated that the "insurgency" in Iraq is fueled by the U.S. military presence?

I wonder when Bush is going to get a chance to read it. Or rather, when Kindasleazy and Andy Card get a chance to read it and tell Bush what it says. :roll:
Consider what happens if we unilateraly withdraw?
What's that? Iraq becomes fully sovereign?

leave early and the sovereingty doesnt hold and the wackso take control...and they we are at square 1 again
 

conjur

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But 155,000 security forces are trained.

"We're winning."

"We're really making good progress."



Are you saying those were...<gasp>...lies?
 

Deptacon

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Originally posted by: conjur
But 155,000 security forces are trained.

"We're winning."

"We're really making good progress."



Are you saying those were...<gasp>...lies?

um no, difference between progress and compelete, did you study those 2 words in grammer school?????

we arent ready to pull out yet...you guys have the patetience of a pot head in line for fast food....man
 

conjur

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"Mission accomplished"

"Insurgency is weakening"

?We took away their options and relegated them to drive-by shootings, ineffective indirect fire, and a few suicide attacks?

"We feel right now that we have, as I mentioned, broken the back of the insurgency."

Shall I go on?
 

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Good news from the Resistance to the fascist US serial killers!
http://www.uruknet.info/?l=i&p=-6&size=1&hd=0

Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Tuesday, 3 May 2005
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. http://www.freearabvoice.org

Tuesday, 3 May 2005.


Al-Anbar Province.

Al-Fallujah.


Resistance ambush leaves 11 US troops dead.

In a dispatch posted at 4:38pm Tuesday afternoon, Mecca time, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that a short while before, Iraqi Resistance forces had attacked US occupation troops in the al-Andalus neighborhood of western al-Fallujah, killing 11 American soldiers.

The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported Lieutenant Colonel Lu?ay Ahmad if the Iraqi puppet army as saying that four Resistance fighters armed with anti-personnel pipe rockets and RPG7 rocket-propelled grenades attacked a US patrol in the al-Andalus neighborhood in the area locals refer to as ?the area between the two bridges.?

The puppet officer confirmed that 11 US troops were killed in the engagement and said that the Resistance fighters disappeared into the narrow lanes and alleys after their attack.

Local witnesses told the correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam that at that moment the US occupation forces were encircling the area and that they had imposed a curfew and had begun raiding and searching houses.

The Tuesday attack was the most powerful such ambush since the end of the Battle of al-Fallujah in late January. US forces acknowledged that the attack took place in a statement that omitted all details, as is the standard secretive American practice.


Baghdad.


Four US troops killed in ad-Durah late Tuesday morning.

An Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by a US patrol in the southern Baghdad suburb of ad-Durah at 11am local time Tuesday. Witnesses told Mafkarat al-Islam that the blast destroyed an American Humvee and killed four US troops and wounded a fifth.

After the attack, US forces encircled the area and closed roads for a whole hour until they finished evacuating their dead. The US military acknowledged the attack in an announcement broadcast on US propaganda TV station ?al-Hurrah,? but omitted information on the number of casualties caused by the blast.


Iraqi Resistance guns down guard from prison where President Saddam Hussein is being held.

In a dispatch posted at 12:20pm Mecca time Tuesday, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that Captain Husayn ?Ali, a guard at the US prison holding Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, was liquidated in a Resistance attack in the al-Karradah district of Baghdad.

The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported witnesses as saying that four masked Resistance fighters got out of an Opel car and ran towards the black Jeep Cherokee in which the guard was riding, unleashing a hail of gunfire on the vehicle. The attack left four men dead at the scene. Then the Resistance attackers quickly left the scene on foot since returning to their car had become impossible when puppet troops deployed in the area responded to the sound of gunfire. Witnesses told the correspondent that the Resistance fighters ran towards Abu Nuwas Street that runs parallel to the Tigris River.

Major Hatim al-Bajari of the puppet security forces confirmed the identity of one of the dead men as Hasan ?Ali, a guard at the prison where the Americans are holding the Iraqi President, and who appeared on television leading Saddam Hussein in chains into a courtroom several months ago. Later an official spokesman of the puppet regime who was speaking to reporters in the Convention Center in the US occupation headquarters area around the Republican Palace ? called the ?green zone? by the invaders ? acknowledged that the man killed in the attack was ?one of the guards at the special prisons? at Saddam International Airport where the Americans now have a headquarters.

Nevertheless, the puppet regime tried to play down the killing by not issuing any official statement over the Arab or international media.

Husayn ?Ali is the third person connected with the imprisonment of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to be eliminated by the Iraqi Resistance in the last month and a half. The first was a judge who was entrusted with issuing an ?order of execution? on the President, and the second was a guard who was killed in the ad-Durah area of Baghdad.


Three Zionist officials to visit Iraq in coming days, Hebrew radio reports.

Zionist occupation radio in occupied Palestine announced in a report in Hebrew on Tuesday that three high-ranking officials of the ?Israeli? tourism ministry will be visiting occupied Iraq in the next few days.

The ?Israeli? radio report, which did not name the officials concerned, said that they would be visiting places associated with ?righteous Jewish holy men? in Iraq. The Zionist officials are to visit what they consider ?Jewish? archaeological sites in the city of Mosul in particular.

According to the Hebrew-language broadcast, the Zionist officials will enter Iraq using Turkish passports and no US forces will accompany them during their trip in Iraq.

Mafkarat al-Islam, which reported the ?Israeli? radio broadcast, noted that the Iraqi Resistance has already killed numerous Zionist Mossad agents in Iraq and that it is known that most Zionist government officials are also officers in the Mossad secret police.


US loses communication with two fighter airplanes in Iraq.

In a dispatch posted at 11:27am Tuesday, Mecca time, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that al-Jazeera satellite TV had just issued a bulletin saying that the US military had announced the discovery of the body of one of the pilots with whom communication was lost the day before. Sources in the Pentagon said that the two planes collided in the air. The US denied any involvement of Resistance fire in the crashes.

The US said, however, that the F/A-18 fighter airplanes were on a mission to back up Marines in an unnamed location in occupied Iraq when they collided.

Earlier the US military announced that it had lost communication with two US F/A-18 Hornet fighter planes that were flying over occupied Iraq.

A spokesman for the US military in Iraq said that communications had been lost with the two US Navy planes on Monday evening, claiming that ?there was no indication basically of hostile attack? on the planes at the time they lost contact with them.

A US military communiqué quoted by al-Jazeerah satellite TV reported that at that time nothing was known about the fate of the crews. The US military said that the planes had taken off from the USS Carl Vinson, but said nothing about the nature of their mission. The American NBC TV network reported Monday evening that it was possible that the two airplanes had collided.


Babil Province.

Al-Latifiyah.


Resistance bombards US base in al-Latifiyah Tuesday morning.

Iraqi Resistance forces bombarded the US base in the city of al-Latifiyah ? which was set up in a former Iraqi Army facility ? with 13 Grad rockets at about 9:30am Tuesday morning local time. The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam in the city reported a source in the puppet police as saying that the attack killed eight Americans and wounded more than 15. The correspondent reported seeing clouds of smoke rising over the base and hearing the sound of warning sirens inside. Four US helicopters prowled the skies above the area and then landed in the base, apparently to evacuated dead and wounded as is frequently done after bombardments.


Salah ad-Din Province.

Bayji.


Resistance fighters ambush US column, killing seven wounding five early Tuesday.

Colonel ?Aziz Mukhallaf of the puppet so-called Iraqi commandos told Mafkarat al-Islam that Iraqi Resistance forces armed with C5K shoulder-fired pipe rockets attacked a patrol of three US Humvees and an armored personnel carrier (APC) at the oil junction in the middle of Bayji at 6am Tuesday morning local time, destroying the APC and killing the seven American troops who were aboard it. A Humvee was also partly disabled, he said.

The Resistance fighters then left the area before the Americans or their puppet forces were able to get to the area.

The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported seeing American troops pulling seven corpses of their men out and evacuating five others who were wounded severely. Two trucks hauled away the wrecked American vehicles.

The Islamic Army in Iraq announced its responsibility for the attack in a communiqué a copy of which was obtained by Mafkarat al-Islam.


At-Tarimiyah.


Puppet ?human rights ministry? documents cases of US soldiers raping Iraqi boys.

The puppet so-called ?minister of human rights? in the US-installed ?Iraqi regime? on Tuesday lifted the veil on a report that states that a number of US occupation troops raped Iraqi youths ranging in age from 15 to 17 years in the city of at-Tarimiyah, north of Baghdad in February. The report was released in a press conference in Baghdad attended by a correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam.

The report quoted Dr. ?Umar ad-Dulyami, one of the officials in the puppet ministry, as saying that seven families of youths came forward with complaints to the puppet ?Iraqi? government, but that they were ignored.

Dr. ad-Dulaymi said that four of the boys were killed by the occupation soldiers after they were raped, noting that that finding was based on a forensic examination of the bodies in at-Tarimiyah Government Hospital.

A spokesman for the puppet ministry told Mafkarat al-Islam that there were dozens of such cases in which US troops raped Iraqi boys and youths. He said that one case had been registered in Baghdad, in which he said that a number of US soldiers led a boy away as he was coming out of school. They took him to their armored vehicle and raped him inside.


Al-Basrah Province.

Al-Basrah.


Resistance bomb in Shi?i district kills four Badr Brigade gunmen.

An Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded on a road in the al-Qurnah area of northern al-Basrah as a white patrol car full of Badr Brigade Shi?i chauvinist collaborator gunmen was passing. The blast destroyed the car and killed four Badr Brigade gunmen, two of them commanders in the collaborationist militia.

US and Iraqi puppet forces surrounded the scene of the attack for two full hours after the attack, but launched no house raids or inspections in the area because the district is entirely Shi?i.


Sunni official in al-Basrah school system receives sectarian death threat.

In another example of the rampant sectarianism being promoted by the Badr Brigades and other Shi?i chauvinist parties in the American-backed puppet regime, a Shi?i chauvinist group calling itself ?the Islamic Committee to Battle Wahhabi Sunnis? sent a threatening letter to Dr. ?Abdalla as-Salman, the city school system?s Educational Supervisor.

The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam in al-Basrah reported that the educational supervisory institutions are some of the most influential parts of the school system, in particular because they deal with Islamic education.

In its threatening letter the Shi ? chauvinist committee said that they were monitoring all the Sunnis and Wahhabis and ?reminded? as-Salman of the assassination of school supervisor ?Abd ar-Rahman al-Qarih nearly one month ago and the arrest of school supervisor Kamal Faysal by the puppet regime.

The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam noted that ?Abdallah as-Salman was never a member of the Baath Party, and in fact opposed the Baath in some instances.


Sources:

http://www.islammemo.cc/news/one_news.asp?IDnews=64343
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http://www.islammemo.cc/news/one_news.asp?IDnews=64328
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http://www.islammemo.cc/news/one_news.asp?IDnews=64304
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http://www.islammemo.cc/news/one_news.asp?IDnews=64288
http://www.islammemo.cc/news/one_news.asp?IDnews=64282
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http://www.islammemo.cc/news/one_news.asp?IDnews=64275
http://www.islammemo.cc/news/one_news.asp?IDnews=64273
http://www.islammemo.cc/news/one_news.asp?IDnews=64265
http://www.islammemo.cc/news/one_news.asp?IDnews=64263
http://www.islammemo.cc/news/one_news.asp?IDnews=64250


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Deptacon

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Originally posted by: conjur
"Mission accomplished"

"Insurgency is weakening"

?We took away their options and relegated them to drive-by shootings, ineffective indirect fire, and a few suicide attacks?

"We feel right now that we have, as I mentioned, broken the back of the insurgency."

Shall I go on?

Mission accomplished...MAJOR COMBAT objectives....you undersntad the difference in military combat manueavers, and then switching to police and clean up???? thats what that means......

and whoever posted that post above mine, i am not reading all that.....damnn
 

conjur

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I do. The Propagandist doesn't. They never planned for the post-invasion phase. They were expecting flowers and kisses. Where's Bush Square? Perle said it would be built and named after GW by the end of 2003. We past that some time ago.


But, the time for us to leave is now. We are fueling the fires of hatred in Iraq.