Posted on 05/31/2007 5:13:34 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
A battle raged in west Baghdad on Thursday after residents rose up against al-Qaida and called for U.S. military help to end random gunfire that forced people to huddle indoors and threats that kept students from final exams, a member of the district council said. Elsewhere, a suicide bomber hit a police recruiting center in Fallujah, killing as many as 25 people, police said. The U.S. military said only one policeman was killed and eight were wounded.
The American military also reported the deaths of three more soldiers, two killed Wednesday in a roadside bombing in Baghdad and one who died of wounds from a roadside bomb attack northwest of the capital Tuesday. At least 122 American forces have died in May, the third- deadliest month of the Iraq conflict.
U.S. forces backed by helicopter gunships clashed with suspected al- Qaida gunmen in western Baghdad's primarily Sunni Muslim Amariyah neighborhood in an engagement that lasted several hours, said the district councilman, who would not allow use of his name for fear of al-Qaida retribution.
Casualty figures were not immediately available and there was not immediate word from the U.S. military on the engagement.
But the councilman said the al-Qaida leader in the Amariyah district, known as Haji Hameed, was killed and 45 other fighters were detained.
Members of al-Qaida, who consider the district part of their so-called Islamic State of Iraq, were preventing students from attending final exams, shooting randomly and forcing residents to stay in their homes, the councilman said.
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Of course, the MSM won’t cover this.
The average Iraqui does not want to be ruled by radical Islam or another Saddam Hussein.
Send Nancy Pelosi and her gang of terrorist sympathizing Liberal allies over there to negotiate with these “misunderstood” terrorists. I’m sure she can strike up a deal in no time.
Indeed. The Iraquis don’t want what liberals claim they want. While the U.S. has made some mistakes, the war needs to be seen through to a successful conclusion.
The Dems control the teacher's unions, and dumb down the final exams.
Different methods of control. Both evil. (S)(?)
The bad news for Al Queida continues...
Iraq ping
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Thanks for the Ping. The bastages got what they deserved. Hope it continues.
You’re very welcome, and unless liberals get their way, I expect that it will.
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