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BBC: Firefight breaks out in Nasiriya, apparently between rival Iraqi groups. More soon.
BBC TV news ^ | 4/9/03 | BBC

Posted on 04/07/2003 11:29:20 AM PDT by Smogger

Nothing on their website yet. This is on the bottom of the screen.


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: iraq; nasiriya; news; warlist
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To: shadowman99
IT IS THEREFORE in our best interest to continue to keep control of the situation rather than hand over to the UN.

That's for sure. The UN cannot be allowed to come anywhere near this. If they touch post-war Iraq, they will ruin everything we have fought for. It will be like curing someone of cancer and then allowing them to be exposed to a carcinogen again.

61 posted on 04/07/2003 4:32:00 PM PDT by laz17 (Socialism is the religion of the atheist.)
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To: Im Your Huckleberry
My favorite is two words, right after "Okay lunger, let's do it".

Reply: Say when...

That movie completely changed my opinion on Val Kilmer's acting skills.

62 posted on 04/07/2003 7:08:11 PM PDT by New Horizon
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To: laz17; antaresequity
Brilliantly said.

Credit goes to antaresequity. I thought it was brilliant, too, laz17.

IMHO, the French and the Germans have the luxury of drinking the kool-aid in their "alternative reality," in a way these Shia do not, having been persecuted and suppressed for decades by their own "government." We've been guaranteeing French and German national security for decades, via NATO. And these idiots seem to be doing everything in their power to wreck that alliance. Fine with me -- a "pox on both their houses!"

Putting the Shia of Iraq back on their feet would likely have certain quite amazing (and IMHO quite favorable) ramifications throughout the Middle East. Iraq is Shia Islam's "holy land," the birthplace of Ali who, as I recall, was Muhammed's nephew and son-in-law. Its preeminent holy city (to which pilgrims used to go, until Saddam clamped down on the sect) is Najah. To the extent that Saddam has suppressed Shia, the "holy city" effectively has shifted from Najah, to Qum in Iran -- where the Shia are far more radical, theologically and politically. Iranian-style Shia (often the excuse for "holy war" against the West) will likely lose prestige to the more "classical" form of Islam typified by Iraqi-style Shia, which is fundamentally both rational and peaceful.

This has been a brilliant campaign, both in terms of military success (so far) and, more broadly, cultural transformation in the region. Anybody who thinks that George Bush and company are stoopid war hawks just hasn't noticed what is really going on....

63 posted on 04/08/2003 6:52:43 AM PDT by betty boop (God bless America. God bless our troops.)
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To: xm177e2
If it's Shi'ites and Sunnis

Of course it's Shi'ites and Sunnies, aren't Saddams thugs almost all Sunnis, with the odd Christian thrown in?

64 posted on 04/08/2003 10:13:35 AM PDT by El Gato
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To: shadowman99
I conceded your point for the sake of argument and asked a very polite question about the anarchic status quo in Afghanistan. You, on the other hand, keep repeating your points about past events in Afghanistan and refused to answer this question. If you want to shift your gear out of neutral have a serious discussion, I am all ears.
65 posted on 04/08/2003 12:32:38 PM PDT by Captain Kirk
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To: Smogger
please, somebody, please: tell me that at least our snipers are picking off BlackPajamas!
66 posted on 04/08/2003 2:00:07 PM PDT by demosthenes the elder (The Jesuits TRAINED me - they didn't TAME me)
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To: Smogger
Any chance this was regular Iraqis going after the Ba'ath Party Thugs?
67 posted on 04/08/2003 2:01:08 PM PDT by Redleg Duke (Stir the pot...don't let anything settle to the bottom where the lawyers can feed off of it!)
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To: Smogger
Firefight breaks out in Nasiriya, apparently between rival Iraqi groups.

The Bloods and the Crips?

68 posted on 04/08/2003 2:01:14 PM PDT by A2J (Hootie should kick Burk in her booty.)
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To: New Horizon
"I'm your huckleberry"

Watched it last night. d;^)
69 posted on 04/08/2003 2:36:28 PM PDT by Chuckster
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