Rising up against insurgent leader Abu Musab Zarqawi, Iraqi Sunni Muslims in Ramadi fought with grenade launchers and automatic weapons Saturday to defend their Shiite neighbors against a bid to drive them from the western city, Sunni leaders and Shiite residents said. The fighting came as the U.S. military announced the deaths of six American soldiers.
Dozens of Sunni members of the Dulaimi tribe established cordons around Shiite homes, and Sunni men battled followers of Zarqawi, a Jordanian, for an hour Saturday morning. The clashes killed five of Zarqawi's guerrillas and two tribal fighters, residents and hospital workers said. Zarqawi loyalists pulled out of two contested neighborhoods in pickup trucks stripped of license plates, witnesses said.
"We have had enough of his nonsense," said Sheik Ahmad Khanjar, leader of the Albu Ali clan, referring to Zarqawi. "We don't accept that a non-Iraqi should try to enforce his control over Iraqis, regardless of their sect -- whether Sunnis, Shiites, Arabs or Kurds.''
Zarq...you're daze are numbered m*ther f*cker
Posted by Captain America 2005-08-14 01:44||
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#2 I guess the "insurgency" isn't "raging" in Ramadi quite the way most media reports would leave most people to believe. Imagine.
Meanwhile, there's a reason Mosul's been seeing less and less, and less and less ambitious, enemy activity. Unemployment hasn't changed. Sunni Arab harassment of Kurds hasn't changed. Certain people were killed or captured. In Samarra things have gone the other way -- again not due to economic conditions. I fear that 90% of so-called counter-insurgency doctrine and thinking is bunk: force, killing, intimidation, and keeping the initiative are still the requirements for success. In the Iraqi context, the soft side is of trivial importance.
Posted by Verlaine in Iraq 2005-08-14 03:42||
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#3 Ahmad sounds like he has a little Rantburger in him. I'll bet he didn't really say "nonsense." Maybe the reporter knows how sensitive some of the marshalls get about use of the vernacular.
Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-08-14 11:59||
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#4 Fu*k you Zarqawi.
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