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| Iraq |
| West Baghdad Residents Rise Up Against al-Qaida |
| 2007-05-31 |
| A battle raged in west Baghdad on Thursday after residents rose up against al-Qaida and called for U.S. military help to end random gunfire that forced people to huddle indoors and threats that kept students from final exams, a member of the district council said. U.S. forces backed by helicopter gunships clashed with suspected al- Qaida gunmen in western Baghdad's primarily Sunni Muslim Amariyah neighborhood in an engagement that lasted several hours, said the district councilman, who would not allow use of his name for fear of al-Qaida retribution. Casualty figures were not immediately available and there was not immediate word from the U.S. military on the engagement. But the councilman said the al-Qaida leader in the Amariyah district, known as Haji Hameed, was killed and 45 other fighters were detained. Members of al-Qaida, who consider the district part of their so-called Islamic State of Iraq, were preventing students from attending final exams, shooting randomly and forcing residents to stay in their homes, the councilman said. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #4 Whores and drug dealers would be a step up... Touché. Even they are less deserving of death than the terrorist insurgents. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-05-31 20:30 |
| #3 Whores and drug dealers would be a step up... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2007-05-31 19:53 |
| #2 While dead al Qaeda are always welcome, this really doesn't mean a whole lot. There is still no sign of Sunni and Shiite terrorists being offed by the locals. This is like a neighborhood banding together to run out a belligerent drunk but not touching the whores or drug dealers. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-05-31 19:43 |
| #1 Good. The faster this vermin is removed, the faster the Iraqis can go about their lives in a normal fashion. And the faster our boys can come home without a Dhimocrat defeat. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2007-05-31 15:29 |