Ironduke

US destroys cleric's Baghdad HQ

US forces killed 35 militants and destroyed an office run by radical Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr in Baghdad overnight, the US military says.
US armour levelled the cleric's stronghold in the Sadr City slum area, Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt said.

Members of the cleric's Mehdi Army militia fired grenades and small arms in running battles with US troops.

Later a convoy of US Marines entered the volatile city of Falluja for the first time in more than a month.


They were accompanied by Iraqi troops from the Falluja Brigade, who have taken over the task of patrolling the city.

The convoy is being seen as a test of the truce agreed with the insurgents at the end of April.

Sadr resistance

The death toll in Sadr City has not been confirmed by Iraqi sources.

Witnesses said earlier the cleric's office had been flattened by a bomb dropped by a US warplane - but this was denied by General Kimmitt.

In another development, two foreign workers died after gunmen fired on a vehicle in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk.

Police said a South African and Iraqi man were killed in the shooting, which occurred as they drove into the city. A New Zealander died later of his wounds.

Over the past week, the Americans have been trying to end Mr Sadr's resistance in the holy places of Karbala, Kufa and Najaf.

Mr Sadr wants an end to the US occupation and is vehemently opposed to any co-operation with the coalition.

BBC world affairs correspondent Peter Biles says Mr Sadr has a strong following among the poor in the slums of Baghdad, rather than the Shia in the south of Iraq.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3700131.stm

Confed999

Find the enemy, destroy the enemy. Keep it up guys!

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Leader

You mean they loss again. Really?

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Ray

Destroying offices won't do. Have you tried to kill rats? They escape into other little holes.

Vision,

Now don't tell me what I wrote is anti Islam. I am talking of rats.

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Leader

We killed 35 scum bags. I think that is a good days work.

Ray

It may not ahve been the right people.

I will await Semyour Hersh (spelling?) for his report.

Leader

The story is from the BBC. So if the number is biased it is biased on the low side. I doubt they would give the US credit for killing terrorist if we had killed civilians.

Ray

They are also Anglo Saxon and Blair is your favourite Poodle. BBC was sorted out by the Judicial Report by the Judge Lord Hutton who also let the Argentinian General Pinochet who committed genocide free!

That's is your sense of justice.

I hate to say it but now I can understand what is WASP.

Leader

It seems you have quoted my post accidentally since your reply has absolutely nothing to do with what I stated.

Ray

Leader,

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ChrisF202

35 Iraqi kills for no US casulties, thats a damn good ratio

Confed999

35 didn't make it to holes. They also lost a base of operations. They were forced to flee through the city. They wanted the fight, they got it, and they fled. 100 more of these would be very good.

Yes, I have killed rats. Best way I know is to drive the colony into a corner and shoot them with rat shot until the lot is hamburger. Scoop the goop with a shovel and provide a proper burial. If you can't find the colony, then the best method is snakes. Catch a ton from the local woods, put the nonvenomous snakes in your yard, and the venomous snakes in your belly. Last way, poison the s**t out of 'em. WMD all the way, for rodents and bugs anyway.

Ray

He is suing for peace indirectly. He wants a fatwa. Give it to him.

Confed999

He's a murderer and an extremeist. If he surrenders give him a fair trial, until he surrenders keep trying to kill him. People like Sadr have no place in the future of Iraq, maybe they should move to Iran.