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Uprising By Shiites in Basra Underway; British Pouring Artillery into City
Sky News Live Feed ^ | 03/25/03 | TonyInOhio

Posted on 03/25/2003 9:14:57 AM PST by TonyInOhio

Just monitored on Sky News: embedded reporter says Shiites in Basra have begun, in his words, a "popular uprising" against the Saddam forces still in the city. British Army units are "pouring" artillery into the city (likely isolated areas) preparing to move in.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: antisaddam; basra; embeddedreport; iraq; roadtobaghdad; shiites; uprising; war; warlist
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To: NewYorker
Hooray for Freedom!

Hmmmm. DU Dummies have a lot of puke faces posted.
They say it's the beginning of the end.
Iraq is "fractioning", and dangerous because they all know how the Iraqi's hate the west.
(It's so anti-US over there, I had to leave. Talk about depression!)

501 posted on 03/25/2003 10:23:38 AM PST by concerned about politics (Anti-American protestors are inbread liberal Notsosmartso's.)
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To: Paradox
We should allow this massacre to happen, as far as I am concerned. It will be extremely difficult for Coalition forces to be able to separate the good guys from the bad guys here, I say we let the local populace do it for us.

I agree.

Any Baathist thugs that are captured by Allied forces and allowed to live will only be a cancer in post-war Iraq. They all need the Mussolini treament from the locals that they have terrorized all these years.

502 posted on 03/25/2003 10:23:40 AM PST by Polybius
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To: Alberta's Child
Hmm. Don't remember the dozens of American traitors who came from the U.S. but, in American uniforms, helped pave the way for the Nazis in the Battle of the Bulge?

Nahhh. Couldn't be that we are competent. Hell no. Just crushed the "invincible" Soviet Empire without, really, firing a shot; stomped the vaunted "Republican Guard" in 1991; and now are on schedule to stuff Saddam's remains into a grenade launcher---all while launching major offensives against Al-Quaeda in Afghanistan. Yep, that's surely a sign of an inept nation.

503 posted on 03/25/2003 10:23:53 AM PST by LS
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To: Jeff Head
the Shi'ites are generally more fundamental

That's interesting. What do you consider more "fundamental": Protestant or Catholic?

504 posted on 03/25/2003 10:24:00 AM PST by CrimeOf73
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To: Paradox
They will, no doubt about it...
505 posted on 03/25/2003 10:24:07 AM PST by ken5050
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To: linn37
I got hughly excited and must have replied hughly or at least twice.
506 posted on 03/25/2003 10:24:17 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Stamp out Freepathons! Stop being a Freep Loader! Become a monthly donor!)
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To: Coop
are you sure that is the correkt spelling...we need correkt spelling at all times in this forum
507 posted on 03/25/2003 10:24:38 AM PST by Fractal Trader (Free Republic Energized - - The power of Intelligence on the Internet! Checked by Correkt Spel (TM))
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To: mikegi
Hopefully, we have CIA agents stirring up trouble against Saddam in the crowds.

Or maybe the Shiits are beginning to realize the Saddams people are responsible for the innocent people being shot in Basra, not the liberators.

509 posted on 03/25/2003 10:24:40 AM PST by b4its2late (Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. - Bonaparte)
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To: Grampa Dave
One more of those and you'll be sent to the shower!
510 posted on 03/25/2003 10:25:00 AM PST by San Jacinto
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To: Our man in washington
Think we could drop ten thousand t-shirts saying "If you ain't a rebel, then you ain't shi'ite?"

Shi'ite

Shinola

Know the difference.

511 posted on 03/25/2003 10:25:10 AM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult ("Read Hillary's hips. I never had sex with that woman.")
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To: rocky88
"Lester Holt"

Not a bad guy, but can't he wipe that perpetual grin off his face?
512 posted on 03/25/2003 10:25:35 AM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: XJarhead
domino..I thought they played backgammon there..let's roll the dice!

How many dice, how many sides?

THE DIE IS CAST! IRREVOCABLY!
513 posted on 03/25/2003 10:26:04 AM PST by Fractal Trader (Free Republic Energized - - The power of Intelligence on the Internet! Checked by Correkt Spel (TM))
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To: dirtboy; LS
Note to "recent history" buffs, from another post . . .

Mrs. Wasp and I were just discussing the fact that after Gulf War I, we stood by while both the Kurds and the Shiites got such a Saddam blood baath . . .

514 posted on 03/25/2003 10:26:14 AM PST by Alberta's Child
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To: San Jacinto
I hughly sorry and not very series about my apology!
515 posted on 03/25/2003 10:26:17 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Stamp out Freepathons! Stop being a Freep Loader! Become a monthly donor!)
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To: FBD
Good thoughts. We were once friends with the Iranians. I hope that can happen again.
516 posted on 03/25/2003 10:26:40 AM PST by doug from upland (Protestors file Chapter 7 -- they are morally bankrupt)
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To: Steve_Seattle
Lester Holt was smirking the night the towers came down. I'm with you, he's a good newsman but sometimes he seems to enjoy it a little too much. Not that I mind a happy warrior. He has reason to smile now.
517 posted on 03/25/2003 10:26:53 AM PST by johnb838 (Understand the root causes of American anger)
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To: Grampa Dave
"I got hughly excited"

I'ma gonna tell yer trophy wife!!!

518 posted on 03/25/2003 10:27:25 AM PST by SierraWasp
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To: Alberta's Child
You could put it that way. The war on terrorism is a war against a group of people that hold a similar ideology. They are not a nation, or a race, or a religion.

Political organization is a passable word (although as a descriptor, it fails to connote the evil and hatred that drive its sympathizers).
519 posted on 03/25/2003 10:27:49 AM PST by P.O.E. (God Bless and keep safe our troops.)
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To: LS
"The United States has a military force that is unmatched in the history of the world. Our problem is that we don't know how to use it very well."

--- Henry Kissinger (I think)

520 posted on 03/25/2003 10:27:55 AM PST by Alberta's Child
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