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Italian Troops Greet Berlusconi, Demolish Sadr HQ, Ice 15 Jihadis
Good news from AFP, no less. Maybe a non-jihad mole has infiltrated their staff.Italian soldiers of the US-led coalition destroyed the office of radical Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr in Nasiriyah, a day after Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi visited the contingent. Residents said the Italians used explosive charges to level the building at dawn in the wake of bloody clashes between Sadrâs banned Mehdi Army militia and coalition forces. American sappers used a Cat D-9 to demolish the Sadr office in Mosul the other day, I guess we could say it was "Corried." There was no immediate reaction from Sadr loyalists in the town where Italian soldiers have increased patrols. These two things may not be coincidence. Berlusconi, a close Washington ally, spent several hours here on a surprise morale-boosting visit to his troops Saturday, telling them their presence was proof that "Italy is a nation capable of carrying through the world the values of justice and civilization." The more I hear about Berlusconi, the better I like him. He has some serious cojones for showing up right in the middle of the hot zone during the jihadi uprising. Tuesday, fighting between Italian troops and Sadr militiamen left 15 Iraqis dead and 37 wounded. A dozen Italians were slightly injured. The toll of jihadis this week has been enormous, possibly the biggest rat-kill since the height of the Afghan campaign. The media have reported the numbers, but they receive little emphasis in the rush to conform to the freshly minted Tet2 meme. Last November, 19 Italian paramilitary officers, soldiers and civilians died here in a truck-bomb attack that also killed nine Iraqis. Payback continues, with exhorbitant interest. Italy maintains a 3,000-strong battalion in Iraq. The Italians are hanging tough in Iraq, in defiance of their huge and powerful communist party and its moonbat allies. Italy did the same during the Cold War, despite an even larger fifth column in those days and a chaotic political system. Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2004-04-12 |
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