Shiite Rebels from Mehdi’s Army Attacked the Prison in Amara and Released

[floda]

Amara. Shiite rebels from the Mehdi’s Army of radical clerik Muqtada Sadr have captured the central prison in the city of Amara, South Iraq, and released all prisoners, News Ru announced, referring to the Qatar information agency.
According to witnesses, the Shiite rebels opened fire at local police, guarding the building of the prison and then they entered inside.
Among the released prisoners there were detainees accused of using arms against coalition forces and the police, RIA Novosti announced.

http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?catid=138&newsid=46127&ch=0&datte=2004-08-22

[iconoclastic cat]

1. That can't be good.

Thanks for the info.

[DUreader]

2. Why not? Weren't some 90% of abu ghraib detainees innocent

It is probably a good thing

especially for the child detainees

[iconoclastic cat]

3. I was thinking about the overall trend toward chaos.

Of course, I would obviously hope that innocent people were freed. Hell, I hope that about Chicago. My worry is that Iraq is descending into anarchy, which will lead to even wider suffering by said children and innocent people.

[Aidoneus]

4. This is actually a trend *away* from chaos

"chaos" is a foreign invader marching in and acting as he pleases. The resolution of this error is when others push back.

[salib]

6. Sounds like the Bastille

Did we really want to be remembered in history as the Louis the XIVth of Iraqi Independence?

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

7. Can't you tell our new emissary ...

... to Iraq, John "in my mind, death squads didn't exist" Negroponte is on the job?

[mitchtv]

10. certainly good for the impisoned

It could backfire if many real criminals are released. I suppose "better 10 guilty freed than 1 innocent jailed." I'm sure many are patriots

[DulceDecorum]

5. Its a sad for

sodomites and other sadists in the US military.

The prisoners have left the building.

[shadu]

8. This gives me hope

The good guys seem to be gaining in strength and numbers.

[bemildred]

9. So what has happened since Thursday, August 5th?

Aside from all the dead people and rubble, nothing.

Al Sadr & his minions hold the shrine, the cemetary, and
the old town (more or less), al Sistani and his minions refuse
to accept control of the shrine from al Sadr as they have been
doing since April, and the US military continues to "surround"
the mess, expending scarce ammo, alienating and killing more
Iraqis, and making al Sadr look like a big-shot hero.

Oh, and whatever credibility Allawi once had is gone for good.
Mission accomplished.

[Aidoneus]

11. surprised there were even any guards there to be attacked

When the most recent atrocities against Najaf began, whole units of the local police--hundreds of people in all--in al-`Amarah & Maysan province went over to Jaysh al-Mahdi in protest. It is good that they freed their brothers on this occasion.

The 'Marsh Arabs' (who the invaders supposedly came to "liberate") there fought the most effective resistance to the Baathists under the Iraqi Hizballah (just as the Lebanese movement of the same name, though no connection between them, defeated the Zionists when they occupied their lands before) led by `Abd al-Karim al-Muhammadawwi (formerly of the IGC, but resigned after the horrible massacres in Fallujah and the first time the invaders went after Sadr(HA)), now they fight against another Baathist dictatorship and their US masters.

[bemildred]

13. What has Mr. al-Muhammadawwi been up to?

Doesn't seem like we hear much about him of late.

[Dhalgren]

12. Good for the Iraqis!

The Quislings always run when confronted by the resistance. The Nazis knew this in WWII and so stopped using Vichi troops fairly early in their occupation of France. If Caligula had ever read a book, he might have known this.

[Disturbed]

14. US Neo Fascists still...

believe that Iraq will be colonized. They are confident that as soon as they kill al Sadr, Iraq will submitt to the iron will of the US Govt. Pay-offs and brute force is the method being used. If al Sistani is not on the US payroll as a DUer has claimed and al Sistani issues a Fatwa that the Occupation must end, it will most likely be the end of US colonization dreams.