AP: 34 killed in clashes in southern Iraq

[Eugene]

Posted on Mon, Aug. 28, 2006

34 killed in clashes in southern Iraq
Associated Press

DIWANIYAH, Iraq - Clashes between members of a powerful Shiite militia
and U.S. and Iraqi troops left at least 34 people dead and 70 injured
in the southern city of Diwaniyah, officials said Monday.

The fighting broke out at about 11 p.m. Sunday when Iraqi soldiers
conducted raids in three neighborhoods in the city of to flush out
the militiamen and seize weapons, said army Capt. Fatik Aied.

The fighting continued Monday as U.S. forces came to the Iraqi army's aid,
he said. The Mahdi Army militiamen, local to anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada al-Sadr,
were using rocket propelled grenades and automatic assault rifles.

-snip-

Diwaniyah, 80 miles south of Baghdad, is a Shiite-dominated city where the
influence of Mahdi Army has been gradually increasing. It already runs a
virtual parallel government in Sadr City, a slum in eastern Baghdad.

-snip-

Full article: http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/special_packages/iraq/15379963.htm

[rfranklin]

1. Things are geting better all the time....

That's what the Bush junta keeps telling us. And stop saying there's a civil war!

[saigon68]

6. "BRING EM ON" shouted the AWOL CHIMPANZEE

[marmar]

2. C'est la guerre civil...

What a mess. :cry:

[ChairmanAgnostic]

3. the same day that Rummie's talking heads

announce that their latest invasion of Baghdad successfully cut down on violence in Iraq.

[marmar]

4. Rumsfeld is a sociopathic animal....

He needs to be strapped down in a room with four white walls and a light beaming in his face. He's f..king crazy.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

5. yesterday

while he was checking out the idiot-based, Alaskan anti- missile missile system (that has no satellites, no working radar, no computer code, no way of determining whether a target is real or imaginary, no early launch detection system, no mid-range detection system, and no working terminal phase tracking system,
he was asked whether the untested, untried and unworkable defense system would work against NK missiles. His answer?
"I want to see it happen."

I hope he referred to a successful stop (despite the above) and NOT to a successful launch by NK.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

7. BBC Radio reporter claimed that Mahdi's were better armed than

US forces.