US strike takes out suspected militant hideout in Sadr City ("command-control center" near hospital)

AP on Yahoo ^ | 5/3/08 | Bradley Brooks - ap

[dixiechick2000]

I love them!

Toys for Tots and the Salvation Army are the two receivers of my love.

Thank you for the very public reminder.

Plus, I like that Marines not only fix hearts, they break hearts, too. lol

What an awesome group of men!

[Soliton]

Yeah, these full of Shiite types love to hide near schools and hospitals. Be prepared for Karim Kadeem to come up with another picture of a dead 3 year old being pulled from the rubble.

[james500]

“Dr. Ali Bustan al-Fartusee, director general of Baghdad’s health directorate, told the AP that 23 civilians were wounded in the strike.”

The sober-minded Dr. Ali gets quoted in this article by AFP’s Jacques Charmelot :
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080503/wl_afp/iraqunrestussadrcity_080503175855

“Medical staff and other hospital workers were livid.

“They (the Americans) will say it was a weapons cache” that was hit, said the head of the Baghdad health department, Dr Ali Bistan, who arrived to assess the damage.

“But in fact they want to destroy the infrastructure of the country.”

He charged that the attack was aimed at preventing doctors and medicines from reaching the hospital which is in an area that has seen increased clashes between American troops and militiamen loyal to Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.”

[SunkenCiv]

thanks Ernest! Another “what’s that noise?” moment for some terrorists.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2010941/posts?page=10#10

[SunkenCiv]

related:

GMLRS strike knocks out Special Groups command center in Sadr City [Bip!]
The Long War Journal | 5/3/2008 | Bill Roggio
Posted on 05/03/2008 2:28:14 PM PDT by Tennessean4Bush
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2010820/posts

[Bringbackthedraft]

At least 4,071 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count...................... The AP just loves tallying our loses. I wonder where they were when we were engaged at Antietam? Did they ever tally the murders that occur in our major cities on a daily basis? It seems like the AP employs someone to add the loses on a daily basis. Kinda ghoulish if you ask me. I picture a staff that actually cheers when the American loses are reported as high.

[BOBTHENAILER]

Good shootin’ boys.

[Marine_Uncle]

Meanwhile the fat one lays around in his villa outside Qom and pounds down lamb chops. Let the folks of Sadr City experience just how hard things are going to get the longer they follow this nitwit.