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2007-04-27 Iraq
Our city has become a dead city.
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Posted by 3dc 2007-04-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Refugees from Baquba city who have found shelter in Damascus describe their hometown as a "dead city" where armed men roam the streets and al-Qaeda reigns.

Welcome to the Wonderful World of Islamic Terrorism™ you stupid shits. Maybe you should have devoted more time to blowing away the real enemy instead of thwarting the Coalition's efforts. You get what you deserve. Let me know when you get up the courage to begin tearing al Qaeda a new one. Then, I'll applaud.
Posted by Zenster">Zenster  2007-04-27 00:11||   2007-04-27 00:11|| Front Page Top

#2 Hey, Zen, tell us how you really feel! ;-)
Posted by twobyfour 2007-04-27 00:22||   2007-04-27 00:22|| Front Page Top

#3 Babuqa is only 30 miles from the Iranian border and 20 miles from the reportedly IRG controlled salient of Iraqi territory between Kurdistan and Iran. Curious that.
Posted by phil_b 2007-04-27 01:14||   2007-04-27 01:14|| Front Page Top

#4 Consider FOX NEWS > USA > Several individuals in major US City arrested for manufacturing up to 70 IED-type explosives similar to what insurgents use agz US milfors in Iraq.
Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-04-27 02:41||   2007-04-27 02:41|| Front Page Top

#5 A glimpse of the MME' future.
Posted by gromgoru 2007-04-27 05:36||   2007-04-27 05:36|| Front Page Top

#6 Wasn't this one of the first areas given over to Iraqi administration a few years ago? Too soon, it would seem. Harbinger of what the Dems want for the whole country?

Haven't we been reading recently about Coalition brigade(s) deployed to Diyala, even at the expense of the Baghdad 'surge', to address the status of Baquba as the new refuge of AQ? With more on the way? It is the logical place for AQ 'leadership' to go - and likely the focus of Iranian support to the Sunni side of the AIF (Basra/Najaf for the Shia side).

If this article is largely correct, the 'good' guys have already left. So we should pull our forces out, block the exits, and fumigate the place with a powerful pesticide.
Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore  2007-04-27 07:51||   2007-04-27 07:51|| Front Page Top

#7 Yeah, self-described refugees in Damascus giving po-faced the sky-is-falling-in-Baquba interviews to international media are unimpeachable witnesses to be accepted without the slightest sodium uptake.

Or, you know, not. The whole article reeks of "look how successful we those nasty al-Queda boys are in Town X".

Not that it might not be true. But the slant is definitely towards insurgent propaganda. Bragging about how impossible they've made the situation through "refugee" cutouts. Who refuse to give their real names, despite having fled to Damascus. What, you aren't safe in Assad's capital? Whyever not?
Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H.  2007-04-27 08:53|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]  2007-04-27 08:53|| Front Page Top

#8 Now that the city is "dead" and only terrorists are there, how about several MOABs and fuel air explosives to finish off the job?
Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader  2007-04-27 09:13||   2007-04-27 09:13|| Front Page Top

#9 Raze the city and remove the scum that are there.
Posted by JohnQC 2007-04-27 09:36||   2007-04-27 09:36|| Front Page Top

#10 This article reminds me of the stories coming out of Falluja before the Marines went in. Funny how where ever Al Qaeda takes over, these stories follow them. Could it be these guys aren't the nicest people to be around?

Al
Posted by Frozen Al 2007-04-27 09:56||   2007-04-27 09:56|| Front Page Top

#11 Could it be these guys aren't the nicest people to be around?

Not according to Harry Reid and his ilk.
Posted by JohnQC 2007-04-27 10:43||   2007-04-27 10:43|| Front Page Top

#12 I agree with those above, if this town is truly so deserted, this would be the perfect time and place to finally get all Medieval. Rubblize the whole damn town and send photos of it to our next hot-spot.
Posted by Zenster">Zenster  2007-04-27 10:57||   2007-04-27 10:57|| Front Page Top

#13 But first seal off all escape routes and sewer pipes.
Posted by wxjames 2007-04-27 12:58||   2007-04-27 12:58|| Front Page Top

#14 This description of an empty town is consistent with what Michael Yon wrote in his latest dispatch. Seems like all of the Sunni-dominated areas have to go through this pain before realizing that Al Q means only death.
Posted by remoteman 2007-04-27 15:43||   2007-04-27 15:43|| Front Page Top

#15 Not according to Harry Reid and his ilk.

Harry never said they were nice. He said they wupped our collective butt
Posted by kelly 2007-04-27 18:28||   2007-04-27 18:28|| Front Page Top

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