Epic battle for main Baghdad street heats up in 3rd week...

[bridgit]

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'Fighting for control of Haifa Street intensifies in the third week of the battle. Haifa Street in Baghdad is the major thoroughfare from Sadr city into the Green Zone.

What started as a mostly a gunfight has turned into military operation as American move in more forces to support Iraqi security forces, Iraq police and the Iraqi Army.'

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[Dangerman]

1. "Al-Qaida terrorists"

More like resistant fighters against an occupational force and the corrupt Iraqi government.

That blonde reporter can sometimes be a bitch.

[KansDem]

2. Shades of Leningrad...

...or what I imagine what Leningrad looked like from reading articles and watching documentaries. Door to door fighting in hopes of taking a single street.

Not exactly what you'd expect from a major military power fighting a "rag-tag band of insurgents..."