al-Sadr is Back and the US Bombs the Crap out of Sadr Slum in Baghdad

[leftchick]

Coincidence? I think not. Regardless of what the US military says I think the US is pissed off at his demand, again, for the US to get the fuck out. So they bomb his people. Prepare for many more months of this shit.




raq's Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr speaks in Kufa, near Najaf, 160 km (100 miles) south of Baghdad May 25, 2007. Powerful anti-American Shi'ite cleric al-Sadr appeared in public for the first time in months on Friday and again demanded that U.S. troops get out of Iraq. REUTERS/Ali Abu Shish (IRAQ)



A general view of a burned marketplace after an airstrike by the U.S forces in Baghdad's eastern district of Sadr city, early Friday,May 25, 2007. US forces said in a statement that the airstrike was made to support, a joint Iraqi and American ground force who came under attack during door-to-door searches in the area.(AP Photo/Karim Kadim)



Iraqi children carry a sofa from building debris after an airstrike by the U.S forces in Baghdad's eastern district of Sadr city, early Friday,May 25, 2007. US forces said in a statement that the airstrike was to support, a joint Iraqi and American ground force who came under attack during door-to-door searches in the area. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)



An Iraqi boy walks by the ruins after an airstrike by the U.S forces in Baghdad's eastern district of Sadr city, early Friday,May 25, 2007. US forces said in a statement that the airstrike was made to support, a joint Iraqi and American ground force who came under attack during door-to-door searches in the area. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

[mmonk]

1. Expect this to accelerate vigorously.

This is what yesterday's vote is to insure through the summer.

[MrPrax]

2. Looks like the Occupied Territories...

...funny it is the occupied territories.

So why again are the US/UK doing this? Is AQ hiding out there or something? Is there some strategic significance to killing poor people in a slum?

Since democrats as well as republicans have given Bush the blank check and extra troops he wanted, can anyone enlighten us to what the 'mission' is now exactly?

It really is looking like Nazism now?

[Horse with no Name]

3. It's genocide PLUS poor bad luck

that the Iraqis live atop our oil.

[Zywiec]

4. See, now there's no more doors

It will make the door-to-door searches much easier.

:nuke:

[leftchick]

5. more airstrikes today killing civilians

An Iraqi man passes next to bombed cars after an attack by U.S. warplanes and helicopter, in Sadr City district of Baghdad on Saturday, May 26, 2007. The U.S. airstrike hit a gas station causing widespread damage to 10 vehicles killing three people and wounding eight civilians, the police said. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

The AP finally makes the air strike al-sadr connection....

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070526/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_070525152086


BAGHDAD - A day after radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr resurfaced to end nearly four months in hiding and demand U.S. troops leave Iraq, American forces raided his Sadr City stronghold and killed five suspected militia fighters in air strikes Saturday.


U.S. and Iraqi forces called in the air strikes after a raid in which they captured a "suspected terrorist cell leader," the U.S. military said in statement.

The statement claimed the captured man was "the suspected leader in a secret cell terrorist network known for facilitating the transport of weapons and explosively formed penetrators, or EFPs, from
Iran to Iraq, as well as bringing militants from Iraq to Iran for terrorist training."

EFP's are deadly roadside bombs that hurl a fist-size slug of molten copper that penetrates armor, a weapon that has been highly effective against American forces over the past year.

The militia fighters were killed in air strikes on nine cars that were seen positioning themselves to attack American forces after the raid, the military said.

Al-Sadr's reappearance in the fourth month of the U.S.-Iraqi security crackdown on Baghdad and environs was expected to complicate the mission to crack down on violence and broker political compromise in the country.