Snipers back at Baghdad market after McCain visit

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Source: Reuters

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The crack of shots fired by unseen snipers echoed on Monday through Baghdad's wholesale Shorja market, a day after U.S. Senator John McCain held up his visit there as one sign of improving security in Baghdad.

The Republican presidential hopeful said his hour-long tour of the sprawling market, where 71 people were killed by a huge car bomb in February, would have been unthinkable before the seven-week-old U.S.-Iraqi crackdown in the capital.

Shoppers and merchants agreed on Monday that security had improved since the start of the operation, when the market was blocked off to prevent further such bombings, but took issue with what they considered an overly upbeat assessment by McCain.

Many still do not dare venture into the northern half of the long street, beyond a overhead pedestrian bridge, and enter what is dubbed "The sniper zone", where people are picked off by gunmen on nearby rooftops.

Merchants said the snipers, whom they claim came from the neighboring Sunni Fadhl neighborhood, killed at least one person a day on average.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSCOL25181720070402

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1. Did McCain leave his body armor for the shoppers?

He is such scum to parade in all his armor and say the surge is working!

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2. McCain is so out of touch with reality it is scarey...he is a mere

shdow of the personhe used to be before he wanted to become president at all costs!!

he has sold his soul to the devil..and that devil is neo con!!

he is worse than pathetic!!


fly

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4. He was always lying filth trash. Are you familiar with the name

Charles Keating?

[The Count]

8. true. MSM was covering for him - but not anymore (Must be dissing of C-pac)

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3. McCain Ended his campaign effectively this weekend

even repukes know he is certified batshit crazy now

[ananda]

10. certified batshit crazee is right, and..

.. that explains a lot. It's contagious.

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5. So crime went down while the soldiers were there, and back up when they left?

Who could have predicted that?

[The Count]

7. All we need is lotsa soldiers - forever and ever - see?

[jobycom]

9. Certainly, that's the only solution.

Unless you count nukes.

[The Count]

6. I don't believe it! Must be that lying media! It was so very peaceful yesterday!

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11. the horror of living like that-------year after year!