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Heavy Fighting in AR Ramadi Iraq~~~ Sadr's fighters have attacked US Forces.
Fox News

Posted on 04/06/2004 11:53:54 AM PDT by Dog

Just broke on Fox


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: almadhi; alsadr; iraq; mahdiarmy; ramadi; religionofpieces; sadr
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To: MplsSteve
Does Debka have a track record of getting things wrong?

Hit and miss, I think. Though they have been ahead of the curve on several occassions...

561 posted on 04/06/2004 1:38:54 PM PDT by b4its2late (I'm not insensitive, I just don't care.)
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To: Miss Marple

He doesn't look like he has slept too well lately.
562 posted on 04/06/2004 1:38:59 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: USVet6792Retired
Right oN!

Its a good thing .... reduce the numbers of the bad guys////

quick as possible of course!!
563 posted on 04/06/2004 1:39:20 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got!!!!)
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To: MplsSteve
Does Debka have a track record of getting things wrong?

LOL!! My Debka epiphany came when they reported on the 600,000 man Chinese army in the Sudan....

564 posted on 04/06/2004 1:39:49 PM PDT by r9etb
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To: livius
Some folks just didn't learn the lesson centuries ago. Guess they'll have to be taught it again.

No Prisoners. No Retreat. Total Victory. Scorched Earth. Fallujah delendra est.


565 posted on 04/06/2004 1:39:56 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (Another vote here for Bush, only IF Congress ends up defeating his illegal immigration amnesty law)
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To: livius
Teddy must've been drunk. Or maybe it was one of the few times he wasn't.......
566 posted on 04/06/2004 1:40:07 PM PDT by b4its2late (I'm not insensitive, I just don't care.)
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To: kcvl
Looks like an anti-dentite to me.....
567 posted on 04/06/2004 1:40:11 PM PDT by Toespi (,)
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To: TexKat
100 enemy fighters. Fighting is so bad that our guys had to call for the administrative individuals for assistance. "There are US casulties and US deaths. The enemies appear to be very well trained and the operation appears to be very well trained.

US military on the ground reported that they have killed approximately 80 of the enemy, but they just keep coming. The enemy has stated that this is jihad, holy war."

Didn't these quotes come from a couple of soldiers and were not official reports coming out of Ramadi??...that's what it sounded like to me...yeah...Bret also mentioned....I think he said Sadr....declaring it a jihad...guess Sadr figures his people are losing and has to call a jihad hoping the civilian populace would rise up....we'll see if they do....


568 posted on 04/06/2004 1:40:13 PM PDT by Getsmart64 (LANTIRN - Designed to kill, maim, and destroy ....America's enemies...)
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To: b4its2late
Does Debka have a track record of getting things wrong?

Is the Pope Catholic?

Is the sky blue?

Is Kerry French?

569 posted on 04/06/2004 1:40:32 PM PDT by bcoffey (There are 10 types of people: those who understand binary and those who don't.)
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To: Solson
That point does seem to be totally missed by many...including FReepers. The troop commitment is for at least 100,000 for the long term. We're not going anywhere at all. That said, we will still transition on June 30.

Whole lot of room to improve reading comprehension. You are right, political transistion does not equal military pull-out. But then, you're taking away the deceiver's ammo.

Dear God, please put your protective arms around our troops and give them the sense and strength to get through these difficult battles.

570 posted on 04/06/2004 1:40:41 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: kcvl
I just noticed on the calender ... Today is the first day of Passover
571 posted on 04/06/2004 1:40:59 PM PDT by Mo1 (Make Michael Moore cry.... DONATE MONTHLY!!!)
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To: kcvl
He doesn't look like he has slept too well lately.

Or missed to many pork rind and vienna sausage dinners, either.

572 posted on 04/06/2004 1:41:02 PM PDT by San Jacinto (Now is the right time for another campaign contribution to Bush/Cheney '04)
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To: Getsmart64
Wednesday, Apr. 7, 2004.

Shiite Cleric Defiant as Battles Rage

By Hamza Hendawi
The Associated Press NAJAF, Iraq -- A radical Shiite cleric sought by U.S. forces said Tuesday he is willing to die resisting any attempt to capture him, while battles between gunmen and coalition forces in Shiite cities in the south killed at least 15 Iraqis and wounded dozens.

Muqtada al-Sadr called on his followers to "defend their rights" against U.S.-led forces, as his aides said he had moved from the fortress-like mosque where he had been holed up to his office in this holy Shiite city.

"America has shown its evil intentions, and the proud Iraqi people cannot accept it. They must defend their rights by any means they see fit," al-Sadr said in a statement released by his office.

The United States declared him an "outlaw" after his militiamen battled coalition troops Sunday in Baghdad and outside Najaf in fights that killed 61 people -- including eight U.S. soldiers.

U.S. officials announced an arrest warrant against al-Sadr on Monday, suggesting they would move soon to detain him. The 30-year-old cleric has been a sharp critic of the U.S. occupation and has built up a private militia, the al-Mahdi Army, that U.S. officials say they want to dismantle.

Three U.S. soldiers were killed in attacks Monday and Tuesday in a northern Baghdad neighborhood near an area that saw clashes Monday between al-Sadr militiamen and U.S. troops, the military said -- though it was not immediately clear whether they were killed by al-Sadr supporters.

Gunmen battled Italian forces in Nasiriyah in fighting Tuesday that killed 15 Iraqis and wounded 35 others, Paola Della Casa, a spokeswoman for the U.S.-led coalition in Nasiriyah, told the Apcom news agency in Rome. The Defense Ministry said 12 Iralians were wounded. Al-Sadr supporters clashed Tuesday with British troops in Amarah, where hospital officials reported 42 wounded and an unknown number of deaths. Bulgarian forces also came under fire in Karbala.

Since Sunday, al-Sadr was in the main mosque in the city of Kufa, south of Baghdad, protected by armed militiamen. But a top aide, Sheik Qays al-Khazali, said Tuesday that al-Sadr had moved to his main office in nearby Najaf.

On Tuesday, dozens of heavily armed militiamen were outside the Najaf office, located in a small alley near Shiite Islam's holiest site, the golden-domed shrine of Imam Ali. The black-garbed gunmen, some carrying rocket-propelled grenade launchers, crowded the narrow alley and roamed nearby streets. There was no way to confirm reports al-Sadr was inside.

Asked whether al-Sadr will resist if U.S. forces come to arrest him, al-Khazali replied, "God forbid if this happens, al-Sayed will win martyrdom" -- referring to al-Sadr by an Arabic title meaning "master." Al-Khaz'ali quoted al-Sadr as saying, "My fate will be either assassination or arrest."

One Ukrainian soldier was killed and five wounded in clashes with militants in the Iraqi city of Kut, the Defense Ministry said Tuesday.


573 posted on 04/06/2004 1:41:17 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: CatoRenasci
yes, many American confound the early years of the war under Westmoreland with the later years under Abrams. It was really going quite well. There is also a tendency to think that the "embassy" withdrawal was a withdrawal of combat units. It was not, they were long out of country. Incidentally, Those films of helicopters being rolled of the deck are exaggerated. they were not that many, and some were actually blown off. It amazes me the myth that persist about that conflict.
574 posted on 04/06/2004 1:41:19 PM PDT by CasearianDaoist
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To: bcoffey
LOL, but on occasion, they have been correct....
575 posted on 04/06/2004 1:41:36 PM PDT by b4its2late (I'm not insensitive, I just don't care.)
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To: Mo1
Today is the first day of Passover

Well, OK then -- let's paint the door frames with salamikaze blood and be done with it.

576 posted on 04/06/2004 1:42:10 PM PDT by r9etb
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To: Cboldt
Amen
577 posted on 04/06/2004 1:43:14 PM PDT by MEG33 (John Kerry's been AWOL for two decades on issues of National Security!)
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To: Dog Gone
"That CNN channel [International] makes the American version seem rightwing."

I'd have gone nuts if it were not for FR.
578 posted on 04/06/2004 1:43:43 PM PDT by Cap Huff
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To: kcvl

579 posted on 04/06/2004 1:43:49 PM PDT by Aeronaut (How many liberals does it take to change a light bulb? None - they like being in the dark.)
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To: kcvl
He looks like Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico (who looks like Horatio Sanz of SNL).
580 posted on 04/06/2004 1:43:49 PM PDT by mabelkitty (A tuning, a Vote in the topic package to the starting US presidency election fight)
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