Masked gunmen on streets of western Baghdad

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/FRI040413.htm

BAGHDAD, Nov 10 (Reuters) - Several masked men with rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles blocked a bridge and a main road in western Baghdad on Wednesday, residents said.

Clashes erupted, they said, but no details were available.

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[fryguy]

1. wait, they're supposed to be in Falluja

could it be that the insurgents left and moved to a different part of the country? well that makes the whole rid-the-country-of-conflict-by-taking-Falluja strategy pointless.....thank god we have such leadership in the "war on terror"

[Webster Green]

2. Whack-a-mole

Quagmire

[maddezmom]

3. Iraqi PM closes Baghdad international airport for another 24 hours

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=4&u=/afp/20041110/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_us_baghdad_air_041110145823

[cubsfan forever]

4. Gee, you don't suppose that

the reason "we" hold 70% of Fallujah has anything to do with the fact that THE "INSURGENTS" WERE ALREADY GONE, do you? /sarcasm



Professor 2

[Barrett808]

5. Nailing Jell-o to a wall in Fallujah

Idiots.

[maddezmom]

6. 4 Iraqi's dead

Around 50 men armed with automatic weapons and rocket launchers moved into the eastern Qadissiyah neighbourhood, while similar raids occured in the east, said an AFP correspondent in the city, 370 kilometres (230 miles) north of Baghdad.


In the main street, where the police station is located, the militants set up road blocks and began searching passers-by, he added.


Clashes between police and rebels left three people dead and four wounded, said Aref Abdel Karim, who is based at the main city hospital.


An Iraqi national guard was also shot dead in the street.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20041110/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_clashes&cid=1514&ncid=1480

[jukes]

7. it doesn't sound

like we're much in control of anything if groups can setup roadblocks & challenge points in the country's capitol city.

draft by march, you think?

[NNN0LHI]

9. WP guy was on MSNBC earlier and said attacks by the Iraqis...

...were up to 130 yesterday from the normal 80 per day. Which only shows the Iraqis are getting more desperate of coarse.

Don

[lebkuchen]

12. What better way to flaunt martial law than to wear a mask

and carry around an RPG launcher.

[AZCat]

10. It's not a "draft"...

It's a "jobs program".

[daleo]

11. At least they haven't set up roadblocks in the Green Zone

Yet.

[Javaman]

8. Stinking pile of a war