[tubebender]

Thanks for the ping and please keep them coming...

[tubebender]

Ping...

[HiJinx]

Ummm...do we have a civilian (contractor) fighting alongside us, or is that one of our journalists...or what? An 'operator'?

[malia]

Please add me to your ping list. Thank you for all you have done! Mary

[Cindy]

FYI LINK - Long Thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1112511/posts

"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

[sheik yerbouty]

"Die jihadist, die!"

[roamincadillac]

A little gratitude would be nice. Obviously, these thugs don't remember what life was like 13 months ago. They were all cowering in their mud huts, worrying that the Ba'athists were coming for them in the middle of the night. This fat b***ard al-Sadr has been livin' in the lap of luxury while his mindless followers were worring about Saddam and the kids. I'ts about time these alledged coalition-supporting Iraqis voiced their displeasure about these worthless insurgents, since I keep hearing about the 80% of the population that are glad we're there. And of course, some of our more gutless fellow Americans are losing heart again, already. Yet again, al Quaeda possibly influencing a national election. Well, W's heart was in the right place, anyhow. Those subhuman Iraqis are thumbing their noses at him now. Yep, glad to be of service again.

[Slip18]

Just found out from my sister that my nephew is in Fallujah right now. He is in the Marines. He was in Iraq early last year, and came home to a new son.

Here's his photo from last year thanks to the Orange County, CA, Register, who has kept the photo in its archives.

Prayers, please.

[EggsAckley]

There is something almost "3-D" about this pic. Very strange.

[csvset]

Diogenesis, although these pics aren't from Iraq, they do pertain to the WoT;hope you don't mind.

= = = Manila = = =

Former Abu Sayyaf hostage Angie Montealegre slaps Abdusaid Sanjeng Lim after identifying him as one of her abductors during a news conference at the police headquarters in Manila on Tuesday. Lim and five other suspected Abu Sayyaf members, revealed that they were involved in a plot to mount bomb attacks in Manila. The suspected Muslim militants were arrested in Metro Manila last week. -- REUTERS

= = = Jakarta = = =

Muhammad Rais, at a detention house in South Jakarta, will be tried on Friday for his part in collecting explosives used in the 2003 Marriott Hotel bombings in Bali. He could face execution by a firing squad if convicted. Meanwhile, Australian computer experts are helping Indonesian police to access protected files on a laptop belonging to a suspected bomb-maker, police revealed on Tuesday. -- AFP

[Arpege92]

After seeing the murder of those four Americans in Fallujah, I told my hubby that I wish I could join the military. I'd have no problem what so ever going over to Iraq and hunt down those animals who are responsible and hold them accountable.

I'm the mother of a twelve year old boy, and I'm too old to join up anyway, but I would if I could!!!!!

[freemama]

Thank you.

[potlatch]

Ping!!!

[Happy2BMe]

Thanks for the ping, Potlatch.

These pics all say but one thing:

Kill The Infidel Amercians!

Onward Muslim Soldiers Ping -

[nutmeg]

Wow, scary stuff over there... Thanks for another amazing thread, Dio.

God Bless our Brave Troops!

[faithincowboys]

napalm and gunship rounds should fix the Sadr and Fallujah animals. Let's get tough and make these people die already!

I want predators overhead. I want all out destruction on these bastards.

[Fledermaus]

Total waste of time and not worth one American life.

Simple solution: Give notice; carpet bomb it all to hell; bulldoze it over and rebuild.

[John Lenin]

The 2nd war is underway.

[faithincowboys]

Do these dirty animals have night vision goggles?

I can't tell you how over these people I am --their argument for continuing to breathe is pretty damn weak.

[Valin]

Wednesday, April 07, 2004
Lunch Invitation

Living the same natural life in Baghdad today, all I could find different is its less crowded and less traffic jam. Maybe because it’s about the end of the week or because the people of the Sadir city are staying home because of the coalition and IPs groups are inspecting and searching for weapons house by house there and in Adhamiya city.

But in the rest of Baghdad we didn’t hear any fighting noise, and the tiles worker who works in my house and lives in Sadir city and was absent for two days showed today and he said that he stayed home for two days to avoid being suspected as Sadir follower and being arrested for that, and when it was more normal he came to work.

For me I was invited today for lunch by an American unit (FOB Thunder) who is about to leave Iraq bake to its base and transferring authority to another unit (1st cavilary)….. I wish that the media was there to cover the event and I am sure they all (the media I mean) were busy covering some exaggerated bad news in another place in Iraq. Any way I can tell you some details about it:

The invitation included the staff and solders of the two units, some contractors who are involved in rebuilding the area under the authority of that unit, the local council members of the area, and many ICDC officers, IP officers and many other Iraqi people. The leaders of the old and new units gave speeches and they were very intimate, also speeches were given by the local council members. One of them was the head of the Iraqi tribes association and the other was the mosque Imam of the area, and they talked about the solid friendship between them and the staff and solders of the old unit and wished it will be the same with the new one, and appreciated the help given to the area people and by the coalition forces. It was a very important event to be put on TV to the entire world to let know that good relationship is really established between Iraqis and coalition forces and the bright side of the situation in Iraq is not covered by the media for reasons of their on.

I am really sorry I cant put real names and places its to early for that but I am telling what I saw with my own eyes and part of what I saw today was tears of many people who made friends and were afraid they may not see each other again.

God bless all people who are doing their job and duties to rebuild Iraq and helping Iraqis.


// posted by Firas @ 6:59 AM
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Tuesday, April 06, 2004
Still Normal
It is seven o’clock Baghdad time now and its more normal than yesterday, I didn’t see any clashes, but many of my friends heard shooting and helicopters yesterday night near Sadir city and Adhamiya city….. The Sadir city people says it was calm and the coalition forces started to search the houses for weapons and arresting those who are stocking some at home.
Many Iraqi people started criticizing Muqtada today for the nonsense actions he’s taking…….I still think that the main problem was in Faloja and its being taking care of……..Back to you tomorrow.


// posted by Firas @ 8:06 AM
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Monday, April 05, 2004
Here is What I saw

As an Iraqi in Baghdad in such day I should say something about what’s going on. But I’m not going to analyze anything…..I’m going to give facts I saw and heard today and things I know about.

I started my day by attending my house building site and I talked to the ceramic worker who lives in Sader city, asked him about his friend the tiles worker who couldn’t come to work today because he lives in the same place, may be because the streets were closed.

And when I asked the man about what happened yesterday he said:

“It was bad yesterday, The Sader city people occupied all the police stations and burned one or two hummers, and they are all armed and on the houses roofs waiting to fight. But this morning the Americans entered the city without any fight with tanks as big as my house. They are ignorant people want to fight America. Master our problem is ignorance”

That was the words of a simple man from Sader city, after that we shouldn’t say they are all bad. Because if they were at work yesterday they wouldn’t be in the protest and clashes happened and this man and his friend is my evidence for that. That’s a fact we should admit, if they got a job and paid to be in it they will forget all about…….………whatever you want them to forget about, and I Am saying this because I’m familiar with it.

I left the man working to attend the bank for some business and in my way I saw:

Communication workers trying to fix phone cable….Two buses full of university students about to go to a picnic…..Traffic Police trying to enforce more order in the streets…….Teen girls walking to school……….Gardeners taking care of public squares……….Many building workers working in Mamon communication tower….People shopping.

And many other normal people and normal daily life actions. And it wasn’t in one place; it was in Bayaa area, Mansor area, Dora area, Karada area, and these about 25 % of Baghdad….. And in office there were nobody is absent they all came to work and they are from all over Baghdad. And we made many joke about what happened and we were sorry it happened.

All what we heard about the clashes was from TV (Arabiya & Jazira). I am not saying it didn’t happen, but it was exaggerated. As I said I don’t want to analyze anything yet but I wanted to tell you about what I saw.

http://www.iraq-iraqis.blogspot.com/