Iraq PM: Militants have 72 hours to surrender

cnn ^ | 3/26/08 | cnn

[Flavius]

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Iraq's prime minister Wednesday gave Shiite militants battling security forces in Basra a 72-hour deadline to surrender as the death toll from two days of fighting that threatens to undo efforts to stabilize Iraq neared 50.

[stocksthatgoup]

It is good to see the Iraqi government taking a strong stand

[Psalm 73]

Wasn't it just three years ago when the Mahdi militia took massive casualties when they chose to go toe-to-toe with American units on the ground?
Is this a case of short memory or just insanity??

[DB]

You don’t see Sadr on the front lines...

[deuteronlmy232]

Wasn't it just three years ago when the Mahdi militia took massive casualties when they chose to go toe-to-toe with(*politically correct) American units on the ground?

And now they shall go toe to toe with politically incorrect forces. Should be interesting and perhaps, if they can ditch their politically correct advisers, deadly and final.

*I added the politically correct

[VanShuyten]

If we were smart, someone would figure out how to get his body there. ...Not an American, of course, but someone.