US air strike targets Baghdad Shia bastion - We will keep bombing them until they love us

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http://www.khaleejtimes.ae/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/focusoniraq/2007/April/focusoniraq_April2.xml§ion=focusoniraq&col=

1 April 2007

BAGHDAD - Two militants were arrested in Baghdad’s Shia enclave of Sadr City after it was targeted in a US air strike, the American military said on Sunday.

The strike was carried out during Saturday’s raid as Iraqi and US troops came under fire in the Shia bastion, which is a stronghold of the Mahdi Army militia loyal to radical anti-US cleric Moqtada Al Sadr.

“As ground forces approached the targeted area, they began receiving fire. Ground forces called for air support and coalition aircraft delivered munitions, suppressing enemy fire,” the military said.

“No one was wounded during the raid. One building received minor damage during the air strike,” it said, adding that “two suspected terrorists were detained” in the raid.

[Botany]

1. “As ground forces approached the targeted area, they began receiving fire."

So the locals who live there are fighting back? Wow, who could have seen
that coming?

[azurnoir]

2. We stopped being "liberators"

long ago, no matter how the government wants to frame it we are at war with the Iraqi people.