Sudden Quiet in Karbala Is Puzzling to U.S. Forces
KARBALA, Iraq, May 22 -- The streets of Karbala, a town hotly contested in recent weeks by American forces and Shiite Muslim rebels, were so strangely quiet just past midnight Saturday that U.S. solders on patrol in a Bradley Fighting Vehicle were almost disappointed. (snip)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46445-2004May21.html
This kind of info and the info about Muslim gathering today...Makes me wonder if they know something is about to happen. I hope not.
A soldier on patrol Friday who declined to let his name be published said the withdrawal from the Mukhaiyam mosque perplexed U.S. troops. They fought to win the mosque, losing three comrades. "It's hard for us to figure out why we took it in the first place if we were just going to let it go before finishing off Mookie," the soldier said, using the infantrymen's nickname for Sadr.
Ebola virus discovered in Sudan
May 21, 2004 (AXcess News/VOA) Yambio Sudan - Experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) are in southern Sudan investigating 15 cases of an Ebola-like hemorrhagic fever that has claimed at least four lives. There are fears the disease could spread into neighboring Uganda.
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http://www.axcessnews.com/worldnews_052104.shtml