Posted on 05/19/2008 9:52:46 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Shiite militants and U.S.-backed Iraqi forces -- two sides that agreed to a cease-fire last week -- fought overnight in Sadr City, killing four people and wounding 38, Interior Ministry and hospital officials said Sunday.
An Iraqi soldier checks a car for explosives at a checkpoint in Sadr City on Saturday.
A spokesman for radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr said the fighting does not mean an end to the newly negotiated peace agreement.
Neither side agreed on what caused the fighting in the stronghold of al-Sadr's Mehdi Army militia.
Major Gen. Qassim Atta, a Baghdad security plan spokesman, said "outlaw groups" using various weapons attacked Iraqi army checkpoints in the heart of Sadr City, a densely populated Shiite neighborhood in Baghdad. Iraqi forces returned fire, he said.
Al-Sadr spokesman Sheikh Salah al-Obeidi dismissed Atta's account, claiming that Iraqi security forces provoked people in an outdoor market by cursing at them. Iraqi forces were the only shooters, al-Obeidi said.
The incident killed seven Iraqis, including three children, al-Obeidi said.
Atta did not provide casualty figures.
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Funny way to have a cease Fire....
LWJ Blog:
I think it is working exactly the al-Sadr is planning it. Get the good guys to stop shooting so he can move his pieces to new positions. It's all a game for him. Just like any game, if you show your opponent too much mercy, you will lose, and we are showing too much mercy. That fool should have been set to his virgins 3 years ago.
Nation Building can’t succeed, until you first have Nation Destruction...
Clearly - we haven’t killed enough of these militant Islamists or properly impressed them with our ability to destroy any Jihad.......while delivering GREAT pain and suffering to Jihad supporting “civilians”.
To date — there have been insufficient negative consequences to deter continued Jihad...
Jihad must be meet by a sufficiently punishing response from those the Jihad is directed against.....
Would it be oversimplification, to say:
Hezbollah = Iran
al Qaeda = Saudi Arabia
Neither of these two centers of militant Islam and sponsors of exported terrorism — can be considered long term friends of the WEST, without a MAJOR change in leadership and modification of militant Islam’s stated goals...
Both are leaches on the body of civilization — sucking sustenance and weakening the “host countries” until weakened enough to cause collapse...
Given the ungodly wealth of the oil rich Islamic republics......no Muslim should be entitled to welfare payments from host countries, while they still maintain allegiance to a religion that calls for our destruction....
F’em......
Hezbollah = Iran
That is a definite yes...
However this
al Qaeda = Saudi Arabia
Is much more problematic as al Queda is wanting to over throw the Saudi Royal Family....
The link between al Qaeda and “Saudi Arabia” is clear, direct and undeniable...
I haven't forgotten that 15 of the 19 hijackers on 9/11 terrorists were Saudi Arabians......and all were al Qaeda.
The stinking corpse of al Qaeda is firmly hung around the necks of Saudi Arabia — INCLUDING members of the Saudi “Royal” Family....
I would spill no tears if they were all murdered in their beds......by al Qaeda or their abused maid from the Philippines..
As far as I am concerned every element of this Satanic Cult are as dangerous as any other given the tools and latitude to do damage to western civilization. It’s almost like some debate on who was worse between the Germans and Japanese some sixty five years ago.
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