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2005-03-23 -Short Attention Span Theater-

NYT reluctantly begins to acknowledge Iraqi freedom

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Posted by illeagle 2005-03-23 09:46|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

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Ordinary Iraqis rarely strike back at the insurgents who terrorize their country. But just before noon today, a carpenter named Dhia saw a troop of masked gunmen with grenades coming towards his shop and decided he had had enough.

As the gunmen emerged from their cars, Dhia and his young relatives shouldered their own AK-47's and opened fire, police and witnesses said. In the fierce gun battle that followed, three of the insurgents were killed, and the rest fled just after the police arrived. Two of Dhia's young nephews and a bystander were injured, the police said.

"We attacked them before they attacked us," Dhia, 35, his face still contorted with rage and excitement, said in a brief exchange at his shop a few hours after the battle. He did not give his last name. "We killed three of those who call themselves the mujahedeen. I am waiting for the rest of them to come and we will show them."

Bravo, Bravo!

Posted by Ptah 2005-03-23 12:21:27 PM|| [http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2005-03-23 12:21:27 PM|| Front Page Top

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