Mosul residents stock up ahead of 'decisive battle'

[maddezmom]

Source: AFP

MOSUL, Iraq (AFP) - Residents of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul are hastily stocking up with supplies ahead of what Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki says will be a "decisive battle" against Al-Qaeda, traders said on Sunday.


Maliki warned on Saturday after an emergency meeting of his war council in Mosul, the last urban stronghold of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, that a major assault on the jihadists in northern Nineveh province was imminent.

Nineveh governor Duraid Kashmoula told reporters in the provincial capital of Mosul on Saturday that the assault would start "in a few days".

The warnings come after blasts and attacks in Mosul which have killed dozens of people, including a police chief, and bombings of Baghdad markets on Friday by two mentally


Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080203/wl_mideast_afp/iraqunrestmosul_080203114234

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US, Iraqis Vow to Avenge Bombings
By KIM GAMEL

Associated Press Writer

A top U.S. commander said Saturday that two bombings carried out by women wrapped in bombs that killed nearly 100 people in Baghdad underscored that al-Qaida in Iraq remains a serious threat, but he vowed the military would "not give back any terrain" to the terror network.

Iraqis in Baghdad demanded more protection for markets, saying one of the bombers wasn't searched because she was known as local beggar and the male guards were reluctant to search women because of Islamic sensitivities.

U.S. and Iraqi officials said Saturday that pictures showed the bombers had Down syndrome and likely did not know they were being used in Friday's attacks.

more:http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2004161449_apiraq03.html?syndication=rss

[thunder rising]

1. the last urban stronghold of Al-Qaeda...until the next?

[IsItJustMe]

2. And the next, and the next, and the next. It's all a msm mind game to keep this war going. The

Iraqi people are paying one hell of a price for GW's delusions and I fear that a day of reconing is coming to this country. For the life of me, I don't understand how we can continue to borrow trillions of dollars from China to fight a war in Iraq. Something has to give somewhere.

[LynnTheDem]

3. "al Qaeda in Iraq"...

What utter total complete bullshit. Why must we continue to show the world what deeply ignorant idiots America is full of??!