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| 2005-03-22 |
| EFL Baghdad Residents Kill Three Militants 58 minutes ago Middle East - AP By TRACI CARL, Associated Press Writer BAGHDAD, Iraq - Shopkeepers and residents on one of Baghdad's main streets pulled out their own guns Tuesday and killed three insurgents when hooded men began shooting at passers-by, giving a rare victory to civilians increasingly frustrated by the violence bleeding Iraq (news - web sites). The clash in the capital's southern Doura neighborhood erupted when militants in three cars sprayed bullets at shoppers. Three people — a man, a woman and a child — were wounded. The motive was unclear, but there have been previous attacks in the ethnically mixed neighborhood. With no evidence at all, this off-hand comment suggests that the lefty catch-all "ethnic tension" may be responsible and that Iraqis may not be fed up with insurgent vermin after all. To MSM droids the world is a movie and terrorists, like other criminals, have the James Dean role. Earlier in the day, gunmen in the same quarter killed a policeman as he drove to work, police Lt. Col. Hafidh Al-Ghrayri said. A forceful citizen response is rare, but not unheard of in a country where conflict has become commonplace and the law allows each home to have a weapon. Early this month, police said townsmen in Wihda, 25 miles south of Baghdad, attacked a group of militants believed planning to raid the town and killed seven. Tuesday's gunbattle came as seven-member U.S. congressional delegation paid a one-day visit to Baghdad, and the man expected to serve as the next prime minister, Shiite politician Ibrahim al-Jaafari, reportedly told the group he is in no hurry for U.S. troops to leave Iraq. Sen. Barbara Boxer (news, bio, voting record), a Democrat from California who strongly opposed the war, said al-Jaafari didn't seem as "upbeat as our people, who seem to be very excited about the quality of the Iraqi police force." Don't tell Box-o-rocks about the dead terrorists, she'll make a speech labeling them as "children" and deploring their deaths at the hands of gun-crazed shopper-vigilantes. |
| Posted by:Atomic Conspiracy |
| #3 Wonder how many drive-bys happened in old California while Ms. Boxer was wasting everyone's time visiting? These may have been insurgents. These may also have been the local version of the Bloods and Crips. The insurgency has lost so much energy [and attention] that the ability to separate the two may be upon us. |
| Posted by: Hupising Cliting6229 2005-03-22 9:17:05 PM |
| #2 It bodes equally well for Iraq and has been long in coming. Faster please. |
| Posted by: AzCat 2005-03-22 7:51:56 PM |
| #1 Fundamentally, Democracy is about the power of The People. This is a rather direct expression of what that really means. This bodes rather ill for the Jihadis. |
| Posted by: Dishman 2005-03-22 7:26:21 PM |