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Forty-nine Iraqi "criminals" have been killed in three separate raids in Sadr City in the capital, Baghdad, the US military says.
"The operation's objective was an individual reported to be a long-time Special Groups member specialising in kidnapping operations," it said.
Iraqi sources said women and children were among those killed, but the US said it was not aware of this.
Sadr City is a stronghold of radical Shia cleric, Moqtada Sadr.
The poor district has been the scene of much fighting between militants and US forces.
'Barbaric'
US military said its troops had returned fire after coming under sustained attack from automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades from nearby buildings as they began to raid a series of buildings in the district.
Ground forces then called in air strikes.
The statement by the US military said: "Coalition forces estimate that 49 criminals were killed in three separate engagements during this operation."
Clouds of black smoke rose from Sadr City, where heavy gunfire continued on Sunday morning with US helicopters circling overhead, Reuters news agency reported.
"We were waking in the morning and all of a sudden rockets landed in the house and the children were screaming," it quoted a woman as saying.
An official loyal to Moqtada Sadr said the attack was "simply barbaric".
"Most of those killed and wounded were women, children and elderly men which shows the indiscriminate monstrosity of the attacks on this crowded area," Abdul-Mehdi al-Muteyri told Reuters news agency.
But the US military denied civilians had been killed.
"Ground forces reported they were unaware of any innocent civilians being killed as a result of this operation," its statement said.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7054968.stm
Can these guys play the media, or what? Note "criminals" in title in quotes. US forces were attacked, responded, laideth down the smack, and what's the story focus on?
[/OH? is that what the report said? Did you perhaps MISS the following partt?
(quote)US military said its troops had returned fire after coming under sustained attack from automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades from nearby buildings as they began to raid a series of buildings in the district. (unquote)
Now just WHO started the attack?
Can these guys play the media, or what? Note "criminals" in title in quotes. US forces were attacked, responded, laideth down the smack, and what's the story focus on?
[/OH? is that what the report said? Did you perhaps MISS the following partt?
(quote)US military said its troops had returned fire after coming under sustained attack from automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades from nearby buildings as they began to raid a series of buildings in the district. (unquote)
Now just WHO started the attack?
What's your point, other than trying to villify the US? Raids are done without firing a shot all the time.
Simple math: no bad guys with weapons, no coming under attack.
Actually simple garbage. NO LOGIC.Can these guys play the media, or what? Note "criminals" in title in quotes. US forces were attacked, responded, laideth down the smack, and what's the story focus on?
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What's your point, other than trying to villify the US? Raids are done without firing a shot all the time.
Simple math: no bad guys with weapons, no coming under attack.
Actually simple garbage. NO LOGIC.
No, actually simple propaganda from this administration. I believe the Iraqi government over the US reports. After all, we have liberated them. But Bush won't leave without the oil now.
No, actually simple propaganda from this administration. I believe the Iraqi government over the US reports. After all, we have liberated them. But Bush won't leave without the oil now.
Your firs sentence is nonsensical since the statement was made by the US military, not the administration.
Your second sentence proves you are not interested in the truth; rather, just throwing dirt on the administration.
Your fourth sentence is baseless speculation.
That leaves only your third sentence: "After all, we have liberated them." to have any basis in fact.
Thanks for playing. Hopefully you will have better luck in the future.
I just hope you blind fascists get your heads removed so you can enjoy America and our constitutional government once again after democrats rule, too. When we get back our nation for US, and not the corporations, we will be a strong and good nation, once again.Your firs sentence is nonsensical since the statement was made by the US military, not the administration.
This administration is the military..how many Generals has Bush gotten rid of in Iraq and DOD when they begin to criticize the Iraq fiasco?
Your second sentence proves you are not interested in the truth; rather, just throwing dirt on the administration.
Ah, the old "You hate Bush" routine. Won't and doesn't work anymore. Bush has lied to our nation time and time again. With Turkey beginning to invade Iraq, he and Cheney are still talking about invading Iran. Seems to me the lies on this administration are bigger and bigger.
Your fourth sentence is baseless speculation.
Really? Prove it wrong
That leaves only your third sentence: "After all, we have liberated them." to have any basis in fact.
Sure we did...remember our second, or was it Bush's third, reason for being in Iraq when the terrorist link and WMDs proved to be lies....to bring down Saddam and liberate the people? Geeze, for someone who criticizes what I wrote, you sure don't pay attention to anything going on over there or here , do your?
Thanks for playing. Hopefully you will have better luck in the future.
Oh, I think not only I, but the 65% who thinks Bush is a failure will have a MUCH greater future once we get rid of the neoncons from government...
Nice of you to play along....better luck next time on sounding intelligent.
I just hope you blind fascists get your heads removed so you can enjoy America and our constitutional government once again after democrats rule, too. When we get back our nation for US, and not the corporations, we will be a strong and good nation, once again.
Nice of you to play along....better luck next time on sounding intelligent.
One who can't even operate a quote function questioning MY intelligence.
It's also obvious you do not understand the simple rules of debate. It is incumbent on YOU to prove your accusation, not on me to disprove it.
When you make baseless accusations because you're nothing more than an uneducated, extremist, political hack, then yes, the accusation that you are a "Bush-hater" works just fine.
Where'd you get the 65% from? DU?
That last little paragraph is nothing more than the pure rantings of an idiot. You wish DEATH on others for not holding your political beliefs? I'll just happy if you rcomputer blows up and spares the internet world further frothing at the mouth from the likes of you.
Since I'm sure you missed it, you're out of your league. This isn't Romper Room.
No, the problem is you are trying to use calculus in place of simple math. Apparently your 1+1s equal 16 or thereabouts. And one line answers are apparently all that you can understand or handle. Your multiple line responses get all jumbled up.Actually, 1+1=2 is just too complicated for your simple mind.
Tell me, do you EVER have anything to offer a debate besides your screwy opinions as one-liners?
And you were trying to make them look like poor little innocents. It is apparent they started it. whether you will admit it or not. That isn't saying they shouldn't have started it. but a spade is a spade is a spade. If we weren't there, it wouldn't have happened.Your firs sentence is nonsensical since the statement was made by the US military, not the administration.
Your second sentence proves you are not interested in the truth; rather, just throwing dirt on the administration.
Your fourth sentence is baseless speculation.
That leaves only your third sentence: "After all, we have liberated them." to have any basis in fact.
Thanks for playing. Hopefully you will have better luck in the future.
(now is that enough lines for you, or is it more that you can handle???)
Sorry fella, but I didn't post ANY of that. Check it out.I just hope you blind fascists get your heads removed so you can enjoy America and our constitutional government once again after democrats rule, too. When we get back our nation for US, and not the corporations, we will be a strong and good nation, once again.
Nice of you to play along....better luck next time on sounding intelligent.
And you were trying to make them look like poor little innocents. It is apparent they started it. whether you will admit it or not. That isn't saying they shouldn't have started it. but a spade is a spade is a spade. If we weren't there, it wouldn't have happened.
(now is that enough lines for you, or is it more that you can handle???)
Oh, I'd love to see that link....please!!!!
Can these guys play the media, or what? Note "criminals" in title in quotes. US forces were attacked, responded, laideth down the smack, and what's the story focus on?
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What's your point, other than trying to villify the US? Raids are done without firing a shot all the time.
Simple math: no bad guys with weapons, no coming under attack.
Here's a simple solution, El.
Just imagine what a perpetually sycophantic force of Aussie Janissaries, rather than those gutless American murdering **** ingrates – not one of whom has ever died for “America’s vital interests” like your adoring “Strailyun Shmoos - Seppotamia could have bought for this amount of money!
For starters, you could bet your rock bottom U.S dollar we wouldn’t strafe your ships. And we would change racially supremacist bits of our Bible, that scorn Americans and other Goys as contemptible untermensch not much better than beasts, immediately!
As it stands, our second most unbelievably brave boys have robotically died in every avaricious and criminal American war of conquest since the Merkin Civil War – gratis! Imagine what we’d do for wages!
For this amount of money, every mighty-mouthed American male could stay at home and have his very own pet Aussie Rambo a-rapin’ and a-pillagin’ and picking on defenceless Lilliputians on his behalf.
America could become a walled continent, ala Camp Victory, keeping out those horrifying coloured hordes that every red-blooded American man so fears.
.....Geez, if only our circumcised big-nosed aborigines had written a rollicking good story about the vagina phobic, genocidal adventures of their Rainbow Serpent God, and His exclusive love for his aborigine master race. You know, something you Seppos could plagiarise and adopt to support and nourish your undue sense of superiority with.
Am I being imbalanced in thinking that the Bible is the only binding nexus between these thoroughly bleached Arabs and the New Jews? That there would be no War on T-u-u-r were it not for this Nazi nexus?
Wouldn’t it be infinitely cheaper to repatriate these serial "God-said-we’re-superior-to-you!" pests back to Poland, and all points east, where they now belong?
Why not dismantle the Wailing Wall, rebuild it in its entirety in Byelorussia, and let these inbred bastards dry hump it and fax G-d from there?
Let face it, the Kikes, s-o-o reminiscent of the Proddies and their paper Pope, claim to have held God captive in a grotty ol’ Gopher wood packing crate for centuries. Imagine how liberated He’d feel moving out of the Jerusalem projects into a brand new combination original basalt and Besser block wall - with artificial graffiti thrown in gratis!
Surely the pussy-ripping El Shaddai doesn’t give a Cafflik fuck where he’s worshipped or where his Zoot-suited admirers mail him from!
