http://www.truthusa.com/IRAN.html
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You’re WHERE with WHOM?!!!
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1993532/posts
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19 Tense Hours in Sadr City Alongside the Mahdi Army
washington post ^ | March 29, 2008 | By Sudarsan Raghavan
Posted on 03/29/2008 4:32:03 AM PDT by Flavius
BAGHDAD, March 28 — The gunfire struck like thunderclaps, building to a steady rhythm. American soldiers in a Stryker armored vehicle fired away from one end of the block. At the other end, two groups of Shiite militiamen pounded back with heavy machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades. American helicopters circled above in the blue afternoon sky.
As a heavy barrage erupted outside his parents’ house, Abu Mustafa al-Thahabi, a political and military adviser to the Mahdi Army of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, rushed through the purple gate and took shelter behind the thick walls. He had just spoken with a fighter by cellphone. “I told him not to use that weapon. It’s not effective,” he said, referring to a rocket-propelled grenade. “I told him to use the IED, the Iranian one,” he added, using the shorthand for an improvised explosive device. “This is more effective.”
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No, I didn’t read the entire story.
Just considering the source (WaPo) and trying very, very, VERY hard not to be real cynical, I’d guess that the entire article:
1) Was written from the POV of the Mahdi Army.
2) Supported those same Iranian-backed thugs so completely, it might as well have been written and published in Tehran.
3) Probably would have almost broken into cheers if one of the American troops had been injured, or (even better, in their perspective) killed.
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Don’t mind me....I’ve got a “thing” about WaPo doing stuff like this that goes back 40 years. Now, the dirtbags are doing the same crap to my kids and grandkids.
GRRRRRRRR