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2008-04-11 Iraq

Fight for Sadr City a Proving Ground for Iraq Military

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2008-04-11 11:47|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top
File under: Mahdi Army

#1 This is from the NYTimes?????

It actually sounds like an enbed is writing it.

Posted by mhw 2008-04-11 12:41|| 2008-04-11 12:41|| Front Page Top

#2 not your typical NYT guy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_R._Gordon#Opinions_on_2007_troop_.27surge.27

note he WAS an embed, and I suppose he might be again.

Posted by liberalhawk 2008-04-11 14:47|| 2008-04-11 14:47|| Front Page Top

#3 There is no good liaison right now between the I.A. and the coalition forces,

That sounds like a problem.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-04-11 14:53|| 2008-04-11 14:53|| Front Page Top

#4 Nope that sounds like a solution: gives incentive to improve when you know you can't rely on the Americans to save your skin.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2008-04-11 16:22|| 2008-04-11 16:22|| Front Page Top

#5
The witnesses said U.S. aircraft had been bombarding the area for hours, and media reported rockets slamming into houses and many casualties.

Witnesses and al-Sadr's office said mosques were making loudspeaker announcements about Mehdi Army attacks on U.S. military armored vehicles.

Cheadle also said that the U.S. Air Force, operating an unmanned aerial vehicle, fired a Hellfire missile at three men setting roadside bombs, killing all three.

Earlier, al-Sadr issued remarks about the killing of Sayyed Riyadh al-Nuri, who was shot outside his house in Najaf's Adala neighborhood after returning from Friday prayers.

"The hands of the occupiers and their collaborators have treacherously reached our beloved martyr Sayyed Riyadh al-Nuri," al-Sadr wrote in a statement on the Web.

Al-Nuri is one of 17 people killed over 24 hours in airstrikes, fighting and attacks in areas wracked in recent weeks by fighting among Shiites.

Posted by 3dc 2008-04-11 21:24|| 2008-04-11 21:24|| Front Page Top

#6 It sounds like it's going about as expected, then, 3dc. Not badly at all, if a martyr was created.

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