Free Republic 3rd Qtr 2025 Fundraising Target: $81,000 Receipts & Pledges to-date: $12,863
15%  
Woo hoo!! And now less than $100 to reach 16%!! Thank you all very much!! God bless.

Keyword: freeperdenial

Brevity: Headers | « Text »
  • Shiites March In Baghdad for pro-Hezbollah rally

    08/04/2006 10:37:56 AM PDT · by jamese777 · 73 replies · 950+ views
    The International Herald Tribune ^ | 8/4/06 | The Associate Press
    Shiites march in Baghdad for pro-Hezbollah rally The Associated Press Published: August 4, 2006 BAGHDAD, Iraq Hundreds of thousands of Shiites chanting "Death to Israel" and "Death to America" marched through the streets of Baghdad's biggest Shiite district Friday in a massive show of support for Hezbollah in its battle against Israel. The demonstration was the biggest in the Middle East in support of Hezbollah since Israel launched its attacks against the guerrillas in Lebanon on July 12. The protest was organized by radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, whose political movement built around the Mahdi Army militia has been modeled...
  • Iraqi civil war has already begun, U.S. troops say (AP Barfer)

    08/04/2006 10:33:27 PM PDT · by pissant · 83 replies · 1,428+ views
    AP ^ | 8/4/06 | Tom Lasseter
    BAGHDAD, Iraq - While American politicians and generals in Washington debate the possibility of civil war in Iraq, U.S. officers and enlisted men who patrol Baghdad daily say it has already begun. Army troops in and around Baghdad interviewed in the last week cite a long list of evidence that the center of the nation is coming undone: Villages have been abandoned by Sunni and Shiite Muslims; Sunni insurgents have killed thousands of Shiites in car bombings and assassinations; Shiite militia death squads have tortured and killed hundreds, if not thousands, of Sunnis; and when night falls, neighborhoods become open...