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2004-04-27 Iraq-Jordan

U.S. forces kill dozens of Najaf cannon fodder

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Posted by Lux 2004-04-27 03:31|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Gobble gobble.

Posted by Howard UK 2004-04-27 6:15:24 AM|| 2004-04-27 6:15:24 AM|| Front Page Top

#2
U.S. forces backed by aircraft have killed dozens of Shi'ite militiamen in fierce overnight clashes near the Iraqi holy city of Najaf ....

Najaf is not a holy city. Objective journalists should not use such expresssions in their own statements.
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Posted by Mike Sylwester 2004-04-27 7:20:08 AM|| 2004-04-27 7:20:08 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 If a square inch of a building is "holy", then the press will report the entire region as "holy". Unless, of course, it's sacred to Christians or Jews, in which case they treat it like it's a bunch of crap.

Posted by Robert Crawford 2004-04-27 8:07:40 AM|| [http://www.kloognome.com] 2004-04-27 8:07:40 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Per the Rantburg post yesterday about Sadr's merchandise, it might be a good idea to allow the people of Najaf to have a few more weeks of Sadr's company. By then, they will be in a mood to elect secularists.

Posted by mhw 2004-04-27 8:14:25 AM|| 2004-04-27 8:14:25 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 So Mohammed took a dump there once. Big deal. Bring in the MOABs.

Posted by Dar 2004-04-27 8:16:10 AM|| 2004-04-27 8:16:10 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Maybe I'm nuts, but I see a gem of a tactic emerging here and up north. The enemy has no patience. If our troops hang around long enough, they'll come to us. Tease them. Taunt them. Piss them off, and they'll meet us on our ground. What's the old saw?

"They kept coming the same old way and we kept killing them the same old way."

Posted by Chuck Simmins 2004-04-27 9:20:45 AM|| [http://blog.simmins.org] 2004-04-27 9:20:45 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Mhw, at first I thought Sadr should have been crushed without mercy, now I think you are right.

Sadr embarrassed the Shia clergy by his connections to Iran, and his actions. He also showed Sistani's inability to do anything. This is all helpful in the long run.

Now, according to another article on rantburg today some Shia are killing and threatening Sadr and want him out of Najaf.

Sometimes patience has its virtues. I still think we should have wolloped Fallujah hard and fast though.

Posted by ruprecht 2004-04-27 10:46:51 AM|| 2004-04-27 10:46:51 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 See whay they call it "Spooky"? Death from above, mother&#^*$%s...

Posted by mojo 2004-04-27 10:49:53 AM|| 2004-04-27 10:49:53 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 update:

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - U.S. troops fought militiamen overnight near Najaf, killing 64 gunmen and destroying an anti-aircraft gun. An American soldier was killed Tuesday in Baghdad, raising the U.S. death toll for April to 115 - the same number lost during the entire invasion of Iraq last year.

Also Tuesday, a Red Cross team visited Saddam Hussein to see his conditions in U.S. custody, Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt said, but he refused to say where the visit took place. It was the first since the Red Cross visited the ousted Iraqi leader in February.

The battle outside Najaf was one of the heaviest with the militia as U.S. troops try to increase the pressure on gunmen loyal to radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. U.S. troops moved into a base in Najaf that Spanish troops are abandoning, but promised to stay away from the sensitive Shiite shrines at the heart of the southern city.
*snip*

Posted by Frank G 2004-04-27 12:48:01 PM|| 2004-04-27 12:48:01 PM|| Front Page Top

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