Mortar Barrage Kills 27 in Kufa Mosque

[southernleftylady]

KUFA, Iraq - A mortar barrage slammed into a mosque filled with Iraqis preparing to march on the embattled city of Najaf, killing 27 people and wounding 63 here Thursday, hours before the nation's top Shiite cleric arrived at the gates of the holy city in a massive convoy hoping to end three weeks of fighting.
"We are now in Najaf," said Hamed al-Khafaf, an assistant to the Grand Ayatollah Ali Husseini al-Sistani.

In Kufa, Najaf's twin city, unidentified gunmen opened fire from an Iraqi National Guard base on thousands of Shiite Muslim marchers heading to Najaf, killing at least three and wounding 46, witnesses said.

Fierce clashes also continued Thursday in Najaf with U.S. warplanes bombing suspected positions of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army militia and explosions booming across the city.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040826/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq&cid=540&ncid=716

[DoYouEverWonder]

1. Americans

"DO NOT ENTER" - GOD

[daleo]

2. More of Negroponte's antics?

Ever since the handover of power from Bremer to Negroponte, there seems to have been more and more of this sort of thing.