Najaf offensive suspended

[Cerridwen]

http://www.armytimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-303878.php


By Todd Pitman
Associated Press

Soldiers patrol the holy city of Najaf, Iraq. — Jim MacMillan / AP
NAJAF, Iraq — Iraqi officials and aides to a radical Shiite cleric negotiated Friday to end fighting that has raged in the holy city of Najaf for nine days, after American forces suspended an offensive against Muqtada al-Sadr’s militia, officials said. Aides said al-Sadr was injured by shrapnel, though Iraqi officials disputed that.

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With negotiations ongoing, the U.S. military said it suspended offensive operations against al-Sadr’s Mahdi Army militia, who are holed up in the city’s vast cemetery and the Imam Ali shrine, one of the holiest sites to Shiite Muslims.

Much more at link . . .

[bushisanidiot]

1. I wonder what the Iraqi Death Toll is up to in Najaf now

maybe that's why there's rioting all over the country.

[Cerridwen]

3. I haven't been able to find any

casualties counts on either side. If you see some would you post here, please.

Thanks.

[wtmusic]

2. "negotiations ongoing"?

What a bunch of crap. Negotiating with 50mm cannon until we realized what a mess we'd gotten ourselves into.

[displacedtexan]

4. We retreated? Shrapnel? Probably just a scratch!

As you can tell, I'm not in a very good mood this morning.

[DulceDecorum]

9. We will all be Sadr still

if they harm Moqtada or succeed in killing him.

The US military is trying to put a fire out,
by pouring gasoline on it,
adding dynamite,
and napalm
and C-4.

[Junkdrawer]

5. Hurricane. Olympics. nothing to see here...

move along.

[Cerridwen]

6. Wonder if they'll start up again?

The journalist was freed.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x747840

[saigon68]

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[jukes]

8. saigon

i just hate these fuckers. the lessons are all in recent memory, but they just don't care.