Warplanes pound Iraq's holy city From correspondents in Najaf

[bemildred]

Seems like deja vu all over again.

US warplanes spearheaded a massive two-pronged
assault to crush a Shiite Muslim uprising in Iraq's
city of Najaf.

Jets screeched overhead as massive explosions and
tank and machine-gun fire boomed through the city
and smoke engulfed its historic centre, home to the
Imam Ali shrine, revered by Shiites all over the
world.

Thousands of US forces, backed by Iraqi police and
national guard, mounted a pincer movement to trap
Moqtada Sadr's fighters in the heart of the city,
before going on to raid the militia leader's empty
home.

Iraqi and US troops sealed approaches to the
mausoleum, as hundreds of terrified residents, urged
on by attacking forces and the city's mosques, fled
through the dusty streets.

NEWS.COM.AU

[Flagg]

1. "Warplanes pound Iraq's holy city "

Democracy, repuke's style.

[demoman123]

2. I thought Najaf was "pacified."

But I guess Sadr's people only left the shrine, not the town. If the US is bombing Najaf, then the city is completely out of control.

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[buycitgo]

5. you might think about pursuing a new "hobby"

quod erat demonstradum moranis

EDIT:

that was quick....did somebody drop dime, or what?

I wish posts like that could remain, in order to show the deep-seated ignorance/MI that characterizes so many of the freeper ilk

its hobby, BTW, was listed as 'philosophy'

[Kathy in Cambridge]

8. If pishposh has a difficult time with critical thinking

how can you expect her to understand latin?

[TahitiNut]

10. "philosophy"?

They think that's a guy named Phil lying on the sofa.
Sorta like the Truman Show. :silly:

[Kathy in Cambridge]

12. It was also from the cradle of freeper civilization: Dallas, TX

:eyes:

[TahitiNut]

15. Oxymoron Alert! - "freeper civilization"

:silly:

[Kathy in Cambridge]

16. Woops!

Maybe Freepdom is a better term...

[G_j]

6. yet the people they are fighting

were Saddam's bitter enemies.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

7. Don't you have ANYTHING better to do on your weekend off?

than try to convince more well-informed people that your ignorant talking points justify Bush's foreign policy? To you your president, I think your in need of more 'edjamacation' to hone your critical thinking skills.

[wrang_wrang]

4. Perpetual war for perpetual profits

Killing and subjugating nationalistic Iraqis to ensure Exxon's profitability is a wise investment of US national resources.
-RNC platform

[leftchick]

9. This whole article should be recited on every evening news channel...

So AmeriKans will get a clue about the "New Iraq"...
Freedom bush* style!

<snip>
A British soldier was later killed in the city when his patrol was struck by a homemade bomb - the second British soldier to die in 72 hours in Iraq.

Further north, in Kut, which fell briefly to the Mehdi Army in Sadr's spring uprising against the US-led occupation, heavy overnight US bombing killed 84 people and wounded 176, medics said.

US planes pounded the southern Al-Shakia district, a densely populated Mehdi Army stronghold, but medics said many of the dead were women and children.

The bombs also flattened the local office of Sadr's movement, which a partisan said was empty at the time.

"We never expected to see so many bodies. Our hospital beds are full and many wounded are still lying in the corridor," said doctor Khader Fadal Arar.

[G_j]

11. it gets worse by the day

what did the Iraqi people ever do to deserve such suffering?
We barely know what is happening there now.

[paulk]

13. this isn't LBN

the article clearly references events from last month.

[karlrschneider]

19. Are sure about that?...it's datelined 9/6.........

I'm not saying you are wrong about last month (it does sound familiar) but I didn't see any other dates in the piece...

[paulk]

21. I haven't found this story anywhere else, including Al-Jazeera

and much of what the article is talking about already happened. I don't understand the dateline either - but if an attack of this size was happening, it would be all over the news.

[bemildred]

23. I put it up because of the dateline.

I have questions about it too, might well be a botch of some sort.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

14. Christ, by the time we get through "liberating" Iraq, there won't be

anyone or anything left.

This is really making me sick.

[Disturbed]

17. Winning hearts and minds.

is shitcanned. The new strategy is "Bomb them back into the stone age." Iraq will bow to US colonization or nothing will be left except the oil fields.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

22. See Philippines circa 1900. That time it was Dole et al... EOM

[0007]

18. Bring the troops home immediately!

"We are ready to fight until the last drop of blood if this is what the Americans want," said Sheikh Ali al-Sumeisim."

Early on Thursday, Najaf deputy governor Jawdat Kadam Najem al-Kuraishi and half of the 30-member provincial council resigned in protest against US "terrorist operations" and the "hasty US invasion" of Najaf.

[Karenina]

20. Can ANYONE explain to me

why the Amis cannot simply leave this city in peace? :freak: :shrug: :freak:

[ze_dscherman]

24. This is definitely old news!

Please read the article carefully. It even states that al-Sistani is still in Britain.

This "news" need not be discussed further

[LynnTheDem]

25. And to think...

Only a short while ago, bushCartel were saying we had to invade and liberate Iraq, especially the Shi'ites, from this news in 1991...

"Saddam's thugs spearheaded a massive two-pronged
assault to crush a Shiite Muslim uprising in Iraq's
city of Najaf."