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To: Uncle Ike

And then, there’s this.....

U.S. forces raid al-Sadr’s stronghold
AP via Yahoo ^ | 5/26/07 | sinan salheddin

Posted on 05/26/2007 5:00:02 AM CDT by advance_copy

BAGHDAD - A day after radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr resurfaced to end nearly four months in hiding and demand U.S. troops leave Iraq, American forces raided his Sadr City stronghold and killed five suspected militia fighters in air strikes Saturday.

U.S. and Iraqi forces called in the air strikes after a raid in which they captured a “suspected terrorist cell leader,” the U.S. military said in statement.

The statement claimed the captured man was “the suspected leader in a secret cell terrorist network known for facilitating the transport of weapons and explosively formed penetrators, or EFPs, from Iran to Iraq, as well as bringing militants from Iraq to Iran for terrorist training.”

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Think somebody was just waiting for Mookie to resurface???


3,344 posted on 05/26/2007 3:02:36 AM PDT by Uncle Ike (We has met the enemy, and he is us........)
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To: Uncle Ike

Funny we both caught that at the same time.


3,346 posted on 05/26/2007 3:06:33 AM PDT by WorkerbeeCitizen (I Relieve Myself In Islam's General Direction While I Deny Global Warming.)
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