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| Instant Replay - More Raids on Mookie's Boys From Bagdhad to Basra |
| 2007-05-27 |
| BAGHDAD - U.S. and Iraqi troops raided Sadr City on Sunday, targeting Shiite insurgent cells in the Baghdad slum for a second day, while British forces stepped up pressure on Shiite militants in the southern city of Basra. Meanwhile, in Kut, 100 miles southeast of Baghdad, 70 police officers resigned Sunday morning and handed over their weapons. Police said they cited their fears of being targeted by anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army militants. They should be targeting Mookie rather than fearing and fleeing him. Must be Democrat cops. Al-Sadr emerged from hiding on Friday with a call for Sunnis and Shiites to band together to force foreign troops out of Iraq. Sadr's Mahdi Army militia has repeatedly battled with U.S. and British troops in the streets of Sadr City and Basra. Hours after Sadr delivered a sermon in the holy Shiite city of Kufa, British and Iraqi troops killed the Mahdi Army commander in Basra in a gunfight. Militants responded with attacks on British troops and Iraqi forces there. The attacks continued late Saturday and early Sunday when British camps in the city were shelled repeatedly, British troops said in a statement. The British, meanwhile, carried out an arrest raid early Sunday when their forces were attacked with roadside bombs, rocket propelled grenades and small arms fire, the British said. The troops returned fire, killing three of their attackers. No British forces were injured. The troops also arrested four militants. I tried to calculate the casualty ratio but the display just flashes 'error' - must be Mookie's 'B' team at work, with the Iranian-trained units still hiding. In Sadr City, U.S. and Iraqi forces carried out several raids targeting insurgent cells, arresting one suspect believed to be involved in smuggling Iran high-powered, armor piercing bombs from Iran that have been used against U.S. armored vehicles, the U.S. military said. The cell also has sent Iraqi militants to Iran for training, the military said. During another raid in Sadr City, troops shot an approaching vehicle that ignored their signals to stop, the military said. No one was injured in the shooting, but the vehicle was set ablaze, the military said. It takes a real slow learner to not understand the procedure at this point - certainly way too deficient to have a Drivers License. AP Television News footage showed several cars burned and destroyed in the street, including a van that was scorched black, had its windows knocked out and its upholstery incinerated. Windows knocked out? Must have been an IED dud. The footage also showed a house that appeared to have been ransacked. The house wouldn't have gotten messed up if we hadn't had to toss it to find the trigger man. Also Sunday, gunmen in two cars threw concussion grenades at a popular market in northern Baghdad and then opened fire at shoppers, ... Brave, brave 'Lions of Islam'. ROPMA ... killing one person and injuring eight others, police said. Later, the same gunmen ambushed a minibus, killing the driver, stealing the vehicle and abducting six passengers, police said. |
| Posted by:Glenmore |
| #1 "The cell also has sent Iraqi militants to Iran for training..." It isn't really Vietnam, but at least it has Cambodia and Laos. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2007-05-27 13:10 |