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U.S. troops raid al-Sadr’s Baghdad stronghold
AP vis MSNBC.com ^ | May 26, 2007 | Unattributed

Posted on 05/26/2007 7:08:22 AM PDT by gpapa

Edited on 05/26/2007 7:56:57 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]

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.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alsadar; bagdad; iraq; war

1 posted on 05/26/2007 7:08:24 AM PDT by gpapa
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Related...

http://exposingtheleft.blogspot.com/2007/05/head-of-al-sadrs-army-killed-in.html


2 posted on 05/26/2007 7:10:32 AM PDT by traderrob6
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duplicate thread - AP news - See the following for initial posts:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1840097/posts


3 posted on 05/26/2007 7:23:51 AM PDT by bobsunshine
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The proper reply to al-Sadr’s spiel against the Iraqi government and our troops is a cruise missile.


4 posted on 05/26/2007 7:52:20 AM PDT by George W. Bush
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To: gpapa

Woohoo


5 posted on 05/26/2007 7:54:27 AM PDT by ChadGore (VISUALIZE 62,041,268 Bush fans. We Vote.)
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AP PhotoU.S. forces raid al-Sadr's stronghold
Radical Shiite cleric TERRORIST Mookie de Durka Durka Durka delivers his sermon before 6,000 worshippers in holy Shiite city of Kufa 160 kilometers (100 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq on Friday, May 25, 2007. Al-Sadr appeared in public for the first time in months on Friday, delivering a fiery anti-American sermon to thousands of followers and demanding U.S. troops leave Iraq. (AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani)

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6 posted on 05/26/2007 8:00:02 AM PDT by ChadGore (VISUALIZE 62,041,268 Bush fans. We Vote.)
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7 posted on 05/26/2007 8:51:56 AM PDT by Gritty (Leaving Fallujah or reprieving Sadr was nearly fatal to the notion of Western lethality-VD Hanson)
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Doesn’t Bush understand that if he blows Al Sadr’s brains out he will gain huge momentum in his battles with Congress, as well as providing a nice morale boost to the troops?


8 posted on 05/26/2007 12:38:26 PM PDT by montag813
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