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Iraq
British forces battle Mehdi Army in Basra
2007-05-27
BAGHDAD - British forces battled Mehdi Army fighters in the southern city of Basra after their leader, Shia cleric Moqtada Al Sadr, made a rare public appearance and called on US troops to get out of Iraq. The British military said ”a number” of militia fighters were killed in an air strike overnight after Mehdi Army militia fighters attacked British troops with rocket-propelled grenades, mortars and machineguns.
The Brits do air strikes? Excellent!
The attacks were believed to be in retaliation for the killing of the top Mehdi Army commander in the city on Friday by British-backed Iraqi special forces, British military spokesman Major David Gell said in a statement.

A Reuters reporter saw eight caskets at a funeral for those killed in Basra. A hospital official said 22 others had been wounded. Residents said a helicopter had attacked a group of civilians protesting against the death of the Mehdi Army leader.
They're all civilians, of course, never a combatant amongst them. Learned that trick from Hezbollah and Hamas.
Gell said British forces had responded “robustly” to attacks on their positions, using “a number of appropriate and proportional assets ... including a low-flying aircraft”.

British troops have stepped up operations against Shia militias in Basra recently as they prepare to hand it over to Iraqi security forces. Britain is preparing to reduce its 7,000-strong force to about 5,500 within the next few weeks.
Posted by:Steve White

#6  Sure wouldn't want the job of doing the cutting. Who would you like to assign that job?

I think traditionally that was the job of the next "Occupant".
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2007-05-27 16:57  

#5  lol.
yeah mee likes.
that certainly would be alot of "little pieces" of flesh, prolly feed the fish for quite some time.
Sure wouldn't want the job of doing the cutting. Who would you like to assign that job?
Posted by: Jan from work   2007-05-27 14:35  

#4  #2: Sorry, AP, I disagree. Sadr needs to be captured, thrown into a 6x6x6 cage, and the bars welded shut.

"Crows Cage".
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2007-05-27 13:58  

#3  Well, OP, all right then....I was thinking just about economics.....
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2007-05-27 13:48  

#2  Sorry, AP, I disagree. Sadr needs to be captured, thrown into a 6x6x6 cage, and the bars welded shut. He then needs to be hung above one of the bridges in Baghdad, and crowds of people march underneath, shouting derisive and abusive epithets about him, 24/7, until he croaks. He needs to be so thoroughly humiliated that none of his followers will EVER mention their connection. When he's dead, his body needs to be chopped into little pieces and dumped into the river for the fish to eat. Vulgar jokes need to be written about him, and circulated throughout Iraq. He needs to be so thoroughly repudiated that no one, anywhere, would ever want to emulate him, even in part.
Posted by: Old Patriot   2007-05-27 13:12  

#1  Tater needs to die. Now. Please. And his stinking gang of thugs called the Mehdi army.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2007-05-27 02:49  

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