THE US, THE UN AND IRAQ, ELEVENTH THREAD

Ican
orry if i hurt with your language.

Here's a quotation cited by Mark Twain around the turn of the 19th century. Read it and see if you don't recognize it from today's political discourse:

"Even if the war be wrong we are in it and must fight it out: we cannot retire from it without dishonor."

http://www.lewrockwell.com/reese/reese450.html

I beg you sir
i will be immensely pleased if you organize some of the members of A"K to make a three day holiday in Green zone.

I was there to know firsthand information.
I got so perturbed that I canno stay 5 days.
Ask Mysterman who was there

O Once again sir if you organize all the upholders of the destruction of Iraq in this forum, I am ready to waste my energy , money, life.
Please count me the one from Köln to meet in the green zone and not beyond.

Cowards wage war.

And brave men and woman courageously strive to defeat those cowards and end the war they are waging.

Criminals ruin the world.

Criminals do not ruin the world, unless we let them. However, they do succeed in making the world less enjoyable while they are being stopped from ruining the world.

I will post my experiences .

Thank you. I will appreciate that

Thanks
Now it 0527 Am in Köln.
Regards.
Rama

MILITANTS KILLED

The U.S. military said it killed six militants in air strikes overnight in Sadr City before the weather turned bad in the afternoon. Iraqi police and hospital sources said 10 people were killed and more than 40 wounded overnight there.

"I would like to emphasize that these are not 'violent' clashes, at least not in our definition. They are not protracted gunfights," said U.S. military spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Steven Stover. "While attacks continue there have been less."

Inside Sadr City, a Reuters reporter said the black-masked fighters who have long prowled the streets were keeping a low profile in response to Sadr's call for them to observe a truce.

"This morning, the Americans entered on foot from the Jamila area. We could have hit them, but we have orders to defend the city against the occupiers but not inside the city," said Abu Jassim, a Mehdi Army street commander. Outside Sadr City a Reuters reporter saw fighters planting a roadside bomb.

The government's confrontation with Sadr's Mehdi Army began a month ago when Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki launched a crackdown on militias in the southern city of Basra.

Despite initial setbacks, the Basra campaign has since proved largely a success, with government troops taking control of neighborhoods once regarded as militia strongholds.

In Sadr City, the cleric's main Baghdad stronghold, U.S. forces have advanced only into a small portion of the slum to put 107 millimeter missiles out of range of the Green Zone.

Fighting and air strikes in the district over the past month have killed hundreds. Food prices have skyrocketed and residents say they feel under siege. Many schools have shut.

Major-General Qassim Moussawi, Iraqi military spokesman for security in the capital, acknowledged civilian casualties were inevitable in fighting in a crowded slum.

"The area of this (Sadr) city is around 25 square kilometers (10 square miles) with an estimated population of 3 million. This means if a bullet is shot, it will hit a person," he said.

Um Aziz is an elderly woman whose three daughters and a son were killed when the roof of her house collapsed because of the force of an explosion nearby. She cursed U.S. forces.

"I don't want any reparations from the government. I want my revenge from God," she said outside her ruined home, wearing bandages from her own injuries and a broken leg.

"Let the Americans listen: If they kill all the men, we will fight them. We: the women and the children. And if they take our weapons we will fight them with stones and knives."

BAGHDAD (Agencies): Iraqi forces have taken control of the last militia stronghold of radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr in the southern city of Basra, the US military said in a statement on Saturday. It said Iraqi troops began the last stage of Operation Saulat al-Farsan (Charge of the Knights) on Friday in Basra's northern neighbourhood of Al-Huteen, a bastion of Sadr's Mahdi Army militia. The operation included clearing and searching homes in the area, it said. "Al-Huteen, part of the Five Mile Market neighbourhood of Basra, had been considered a stronghold for criminal elements of the Jaysh al-Mahdi (Mahdi Army) militia," the statement said. "But, when the soldiers.... moved into the city, the local citizens actively welcomed and cooperated with them."

On the political front, Iraq's Sunni vice president, Tariq al-Hashimi, said Saturday that his political bloc was intent on rejoining the country's Shiite-led government after an absence of nine months. He said the new Cabinet lineup would help "save Iraq."
Last week, Sunni lawmakers announced that their block would return to the government of al-Maliki. They dropped out in August, saying they were being sidelined by the dominant Shiite parties.
Their return would be a boost to al-Maliki, who is struggling to reconcile Iraq's feuding Shiite and Sunni politicians.

Read the rest of the article, its interesting because it offers the Arab perspective.

But there were no major engagements that required the intervention of US helicopter gunships, said Lt. Col. Steve Stover, military spokesman for US forces in Baghdad.

Three civilians were killed and 13 others wounded in armed clashes that erupted on Monday night in Sadr City, eastern Baghdad, between joint Iraqi-U.S. forces and gunmen, police said on Tuesday.

"Most of the wounded were civilians who are now receiving treatment at al-Imam Ali and al-Sadr hospitals," the source, who did not want to be named, told Aswat al-Iraq - Voices of Iraq - (VOI), not giving more details.

Meanwhile, a media source in Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr's office in Baghdad al-Rasafa area said an unidentified number of civilians were killed or wounded after a U.S. helicopter opened fire at several neighborhoods within Sadr City.

Baghdad: Iraqi police say that US helicopters are engaging Shiite militants in Baghdad's embattled Sadr City district.

They say two people have been killed and 12 injured in clashes between joint Iraqi-American forces and fighters of the Mahdi Army of cleric Muqtada Al Sadr.

An officer said four of the injured in the clashes early on Sunday were young children.

The sprawling district with over two million inhabitants has seen continuous clashes between Shiite militants and Iraqi and US forces in the past month.

Elsewhere in Baghdad, police say a suicide bomber blew up a security checkpoint in the eastern neighborhood of Zayouna killing two Iraqi soldiers and injuring five.

The fact is this.
2 Americans dead..
Forget about the native citizens..

Silly
barbarism
comes to mind about 11th september.
I mean 11th september took plave in the early morning.

Iraqis cover dead bodies with blankets in the ruins of a destroyed house by an alleged US air strike on Baghdad's Sadr City. At least 925 people have been killed in clashes between militiamen and security forces in Baghdad's Sadr City that began on March 25.