Hundreds of casualties in Iraqi clashes

[leftchick]

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/76757992-F537-49F4-BA6D-0870A8BF80DF.htm


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At least 30 people have been killed and 219 wounded in clashes in the past 24 hours between US occupation forces and Shia fighters in Iraqi cities, not including Najaf where fierce fighting is going on.

The figures were provided by the Health Ministry in Baghdad on Wednesday.

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Some of the heaviest fighting occurred in Amara, 365km southeast of Baghdad, where 20 people were killed and 50 others were wounded. Fighting also killed or wounded people in Baghdad, Kut, Diwaniya and Basra.

Aljazeera has learnt that a number of explosions have been heard in different areas of Kut, where members of al-Mahdi Army have surrounded Iraqi national forces and police headquarters, particularly in the al-Hai neighbourhood.

[NMDemDist2]

1. there is a little bit of coverage on CNN between

Naomi Campbell bad girl, Scott Peterson's mistress, Kobe's $$ and LaToya Jackson's new look

:puke:

[Zynx]

2. They didn't even cover that stuff on the news.

[gristy]

3. This can't be right. I heard on NPR this morning that "just" 18

people were killed when a bomb went off in a market in Baghdad (I think it was). They didn't mention anyone else dying. So this can't be right. Can it?

[wildwww2]

4. You expected one thing to go right? With Bu$h at the helm of our country?

Since the second I heard that Scalia was stopping the Florida Supreme Court`s order to count my vote once and for all. I knew this crap and alot more was coming down the pike. It is going to get alot worse. Mark my words.
Peace
Wildman
Al Gore is My President

[spooked]

5. 350 Killed, 160 Wounded on Friday

http://www.seacoastonline.com/news/08072004/world/30860.htm

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Fighting between cleric Muqtada al Sadr’s militia and the U.S.-led military coalition continued to spread through southern and central Iraq Friday, leaving at least 350 dead and more than 160 injured in two days of battles that threatened the stability of an already fragile nation.

U.S. Marines in the southern town of Najaf confirmed that they had killed about 300 of al Sadr’s fighters since the clashes began Thursday. A commander there estimated that his men are still facing some 2,000 members of al Sadr’s Mahdi Army, named for the Shiite Muslim messiah. Three Marines have been killed there and 12 wounded.


So, the marines have 2,000 to go.

[catmandu57]

6. Things are going to hell in a handbasket

We watch the cbs evening news, and after seeing their three minute piece on Iraq I'd swear everything was peaches and cream, sweetness and light there.
People are going to have an awful damn fooling coming, when they wake up from their mainstream news coma and see what the hell is really going on.

[tabasco]

7. This morning CNN's "Baghdad Bureau Chief" ...

reported on the unraveling Iraq situation from the Iraqi city of Atlanta, Georgia. Jane Arraff, CNN's Baghdad Bureau Chief, is in Atlanta reporting on the war. This seems consistent with the whore network's failure to report the war lately. I guess they got the memo "no more bad news from Iraq." Would we see this type of unprofessionalism from the BBC ?

[leftchick]

8. That was Jane Araf...

CNN HO! I watched as she did her usual downplay of events. Like Al-Sadr has "very little support"... :puke: