NYT: Iraqi Offensive Met by Wave of New Violence From Insurgents

[grytpype]

This new offensive in Bagdhad is facing stiff, coordinated, determined resistance from the entrenched Sunni guerillas. But don't get the wrong impression, they are just doing this to make Bush look bad. They are losing.

http://nytimes.com/2005/05/30/international/middleeast/30iraq.html?hp&ex=1117512000&en=4b17abb841822b94&ei=5094&partner=homepage

Iraqi Offensive Met by Wave of New Violence From Insurgents

By JOHN F. BURNS
Published: May 30, 2005

BAGHDAD, Iraq, May 29 - The largest Iraqi-led counterinsurgency operation since the downfall of Saddam Hussein set off a violent backlash on Sunday across Baghdad. At least 20 people were killed in the capital, 14 of them in a battle lasting several hours when insurgents initiated sustained attacks on several police stations and an army barracks.


The violence, including at least four suicide car bombings, was a bloody start to an operation that Iraq's new Shiite-majority government had presented as a new get-tough policy toward Sunni Arab insurgents, first in Baghdad and then countrywide. The government has said it will commit 40,000 uniformed Iraqis to the Baghdad operation in an effort to crush insurgents who reacted to the government's swearing-in four weeks ago with one of the war's biggest rebel surges.

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At least initially, the crackdown in Baghdad appeared to have been met by a stiff, coordinated response that brought the toll to about 700 from the intensified rebel attacks this month. The heaviest battle raged across the districts of Abu Ghraib, Amariya and Khudra on the capital's western edge.

In the space of 30 minutes in midafternoon, the insurgents answered attempts by government forces to cordon off the districts with a sequence of attacks. They appeared to catch Iraqi forces by surprise, and prompted commanders to call for backup from American troops garrisoned nearby. Iraqi witnesses said Apache attack helicopters with loaded missile racks swooped overhead as the insurgent attacks flared into protracted gun battles below.

(much more read the whole thing)

[uppityperson]

1. Another corner turned. bah

I like this picture from your sig line website. This is how you handle a horse?

[David__77]

2. Traitors...

The people of Iraq do not look kindly upon those who sell themselves in order to commit crimes in the service of foreign domination.

[lostnfound]

3. Everyday I thank God I don't have a son over there,

and I feel very sorry for those who do.

[truth2power]

4. Why do none of the supine media

remind Bush that he proclaimed two years ago that "major combat operations in Iraq are over"?

Couldn't they ask, "Mr. President, do you consider what currently is happening in Iraq to be major combat? If not, what would meet that definition, in your opinion?

Stupid sick fvcks, all of them! Media and Bush&Co. :banghead: