5 Killed After U.S. Raid in Sadr City
May 26th, 2007 . by TexasFredBAGHDAD (AP) – A day after radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr resurfaced to end nearly four months in hiding and demand U.S. troops leave Iraq, American forces raided his Sadr City stronghold and killed five suspected militia fighters in air strikes Saturday.
U.S. and Iraqi forces called in the air strikes after a raid in which they captured a “suspected terrorist cell leader,” the U.S. military said in statement.
Does anyone else see a bit of coincidence here?? We hit Sadr City the day after al-Sadr resurfaces?? Why haven’t we been hitting Sadr City?? It’s a snakes den, it needs to be cleaned out and I somehow have a strange feeling concerning the overall timing of some of this…
The statement claimed the captured man was “the suspected leader in a secret cell terrorist network known for facilitating the transport of weapons and explosively formed penetrators, or EFPs, from Iran to Iraq, as well as bringing militants from Iraq to Iran for terrorist training.”
I guess this last paragraph illustrates why we can’t secure the U.S. border with Mexico, I mean, we’re involved in a WAR in Iraq and we can’t seal their border with Iran, we don’t stand a chance here do we??
The militia fighters were killed in air strikes on nine cars that were seen positioning themselves to attack American forces after the raid, the military said.
An Iraqi police official said the attack occurred at 2 a.m. and that U.S. jets and helicopters hit the Habibiyah district in Sadr City, killing three civilians and wounding eight.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not allowed to release the information, said 10 cars lined up to buy gasoline were destroyed. The police report did not mention the capture of an alleged terrorist or the killing of any militia fighters.
Before this is over we’ll have bombed an orphanage, 3 elementary schools, 2 mosques and a pet shelter, and you know what, if we did, I’m OK with that, this is a war, it’s not going to be surgically precise and it’s not going to be pretty, Sadr City is a place that needs to be wiped off the face of the earth, and Mookie al-Sadr along with it…
There is only one thing wrong with the actions our troops took on in this mission, they weren’t allowed to do MORE…
Hours after the cleric spoke in at a key Shiite shrine in Kufa, about 100 miles south of Baghdad, the notorious leader of al-Sadr’s Mahdi Army militia in the city of Basra was killed in a shootout as British and Iraq troops tried to arrest him, police and the British military said, further inflaming tensions in the Shiite areas of southern Iraq.
“Further inflaming tensions”?? Do you suppose tensions would increase if we took a real war to these insurgents and terrorists?? To hell with a surge, the surge is a joke, a move of desperation designed by the president to try and salvage a bit of clout for the RNC in the upcoming elections, we either need to mount an all out offensive and get this terrorist/insurgency BS under control or we need to admit that we’re just passing time, losing troops and wasting money as we accomplish next to nothing…
There is only one way to WIN a war, and that is to engage the enemy and kill them, as many of them as it takes to force them to submit and to surrender unconditionally, anything less isn’t war, it’s an exercise in futility, if Bush wanted to win in Iraq all he’d have to do is say ‘Sic em boys’ and our troops would take the entire place apart, but that won’t happen, all we’re going to do is see is a few more stories like this where we take out 5 or 6 terrorists as the Iraqi officials and the MSM point out how many civilians were killed in the process…
The ‘Debacle in Iraq’ has turned into that exercise in futility…
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5 Killed After U.S. Raid in Sadr City
I hope by the end of this week-end I can tell 50 Iraqi’s that their loved ones died for a good cause, make that 100.
- China will soon over take the USA as most powerful.
- Iran developing a Nuclear Bomb.
- North Korea has the bomb.
- Taliban regrouping.
- Largest Poppy yield in history.
- We could be attacked at any moment.
All this while we get Fucked in Iraq. The World is watching us go down the drain and they’re just waiting for the right time.
I’m just about ready to turn the news off for good and when they (enemy) show up at my front door, I’ll thank Mr. Bush for all he has done and go down fighting.
Just another reason why the hell we should go back to using Napalm.
Ranando, I can report on about 42 Iraqis that were rescued, lived and were returned to their families this week. I agree with about everything you’re saying here – because that’s IS the way it feels right now. In the end, I really do believe we will prevail, unless the Democrats take the WH. I think the troops are making a difference, but we hear little of it. Without the internet to hear their stories, I don’t know what we’d do.
Fred, as to M. al-Sadr: I don’t know how he ever got out of Sadr City a few years aback. Since he did, I guess we must move on, but I also don’t understand why his “caravan” (motorcycle I think I read), wasn’t bombed when he spoke in Kufa a day or so ago.
Reports are that when he fled Sadr City he had followers numbered in the low, single-digit thousands. Now they say, he has 40,000 followers. I don’t believe it. The people didn’t like him when he ran, and I think most don’t want him back. Well, so much for what I think, huh.
Best to you on this Memorial Day Fred,
Maggie
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