Iraq on Friday

[brettdale]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060318/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

BAGHDAD, Iraq - The Muslim pilgrims' road to the holy city of Karbala was a highway of bullets and bombs for Shiites on Friday. Drive-by shootings and roadside and bus bombs killed or wounded 19 people, ratcheting up the sectarian tensions gripping Iraq.


Security forces, including U.S. armored reinforcements, girded for more bloodshed leading up to Monday's Shiite holiday. And north of Baghdad, in the Sunni Triangle, a two-day-old operation involving 1,500 U.S. and Iraqi troops swept through an area near Samarra in search of insurgents.

It was in Samarra that the insurgent bombing of a Shiite shrine last month ignited days of violence between Shiite and Sunni Muslims. More than 500 people died.

Authorities had feared new attacks as tens of thousands of Shiites, many dressed in black and carrying religious banners, converge on Karbala, 50 miles south of the capital, for Monday's 40th and final day of mourning for Imam Hussein, the Prophet Muhammad's grandson.

[Trajan]

1. You know ? ... WTF is this whole 'Operation Swarmer' about ?

WHY are they doing this NOW, when the rest of the country is falling into civil war ?

What is needed (if it were possible) is SECURITY on the streets, all over, not a pretend, photo-op show of force in one pinpoint location ....

Are the idiots running the Pentagon completely bonkers ? ...

They are ....

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. jr is still on "on the hunt" for "insurgents" . You know what happens

when jr is "on the hunt", he doesn't find anything.

[Carla in Ca]

4. lol...like not being able to find oil...in Texas!

It is now being referred to as Operation: Overblown. Soldiers ate some bread baked by a woman at a farm and then left. What do you think that photo-op cost us?

[flordehinojos]

3. why is the lady in blue covering up her ears? and who is the other lady in

in your picture? is one a republican and the other a democrat? is one pro-bush carnage and the other is not? which of the two is on which side?