Mortars create chaos at Iraqi conference

[kentuck]

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/F1B16803-3C3D-4533-83E2-5BAD21E22E11.htm

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Mortar bombs have claimed at least one life in Baghdad's Green Zone, shaking the building where the Iraqi National Conference is under way.

Moments after the blasts, organisers of the conference on Sunday screamed at participants to get away from the windows of the convention centre.

The Health Ministry said 17 were also wounded when one mortar fell in the Allawi district near Haifa Street, one of the areas included in a government curfew imposed as a security measure because of the conference.

A US soldier at the scene confirmed that "a few rounds of mortars" were fired on Haifa Street, where clashes had also broken out between US soldiers and insurgents in the street. "The firing is sporadic but quite regular," he said.

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[jmcgowanjm]

1. Getting harder to show live from Baghdad w/o columns of smoke

Jaysh al-Mahdi seizes control of an-Nasiriyah.

Al-Khafaji said he expected fighting to escalate in all
the southern provinces of Iraq in response to the events
in an-Najaf. He said that the Jaysh al-Mahdi might carry out
its earlier threat to blow up the oil pipeline network, and that
the militia in an-Nasiriyah had in fact cut off electricity and
oil supply to Baghdad from the pumping and generating
stations there.

http://iraqwar.mirror-world.ru/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=19056

"I want to make sure anybody (in Fallujah carrying a weapon)
no matter what they are wearing is no longer a good guy,"
Toolan (Col. John Toolan, commander of the 1st
Marine regimental Combat Team) told the
commanders. "Everyone who wants to fight for the new Iraq,
join us. If not, we'll see you inside the city."

United Press International

[ColdWarZoomie]

2. Interesting How...

...the old PNAC and AEI arguments comparing Iraq with post-WWII Germany and Japan success stories, and even our own "growing pains" during our constitutional convention, are no longer vomited over the airwaves.

Rather, the rats are just hunkering down hoping Bush somehow pulls a miracle out of his ass.

[mike1963]

3. "...sporadic but quite regular" ?? Is that a hand-me-down from Rummy?

:eyes:

[dArKeR]

4. Not on CBSWHORE and MSWHORE has a non-headline story. Enough

evidence to RICO the Media?

MSWHORE http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5711764/ (Associated Press) doesn't even mention the walkout. Amazing what Democracy/Free Press can do to create an illusion!