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Iraq | |
IranÂ’s consulate in Basra comes under attack | |
2006-09-20 | |
Baghdad, Sep. 19 – Iran’s consulate in the southern Iraqi city of Basra came under attack Tuesday morning. The consulate compound came under mortar fire, reports said.
On June 14, some 500 Iraqis attacked Iran's consulate in Basra, torching parts of the compound. The protest followed a similar one days earlier outside the Iranian consulate in the holy city of Karbala. The participants in both demonstrations were supporters of prominent Iraqi Shiite Ayatollah Mahmoud al-Hassani, an outspoken critic of Iranian meddling in Iraq. | |
Posted by:Steve White |
#12 Would have been nice if we had black ops ready to go and someone took out Sadr in a way that the Iranians got credit. |
Posted by: rjschwarz 2006-09-20 16:59 |
#11 I'm blushing, here. I still owe all y'all my report on al-Andalus. Stay tuned. |
Posted by: Seafarious 2006-09-20 14:07 |
#10 Off Topic Alert: WELCOME BACK SEAFARIOUS! |
Posted by: Zenster 2006-09-20 13:59 |
#9 (or more likely borrowed) From the Indians. |
Posted by: flyover 2006-09-20 13:50 |
#8 The Arabs invented (or more likely borrowed) the concept of zero but haven't quite glommed onto azimuth yet... |
Posted by: Seafarious 2006-09-20 13:43 |
#7 The problem is, the average Iraqi doesn't have that firm a grip on math, especially geometry and trigonometry. They have no basis on which to build an understanding of trajectories. In most cases this is a good thing... |
Posted by: Old Patriot 2006-09-20 13:38 |
#6 My heart pumps piss. |
Posted by: Zenster 2006-09-20 12:18 |
#5 No one was injured Do they need American advisors? |
Posted by: plainslow 2006-09-20 11:51 |
#4 very interesting |
Posted by: liberalhawk 2006-09-20 11:36 |
#3 "Sargeant, we still got those old Iraqi mortars lying around?" "Hundreds of em, LT. What ya got in mind?" |
Posted by: Steve 2006-09-20 11:00 |
#2 Oh irony, how delicious you are. Or, as I would tell the liberals. "Cause, meet effect." |
Posted by: DarthVader 2006-09-20 09:31 |
#1 No one was injured TOO BAD!! |
Posted by: ARMYGUY 2006-09-20 09:18 |