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Iraqi Jihad Update: resistance to Al-Qaeda in Baghdad and a suicide/martyrdom attack in Fallujah. By Sinan Salaheddin for Associated Press (thanks to Morgaan Sinclair):
BAGHDAD (AP) - A battle raged Thursday in west Baghdad after residents rose up against al-Qaida and called for U.S. military help to end random gunfire that forced people to huddle indoors and threats that kept students from final exams, a member of the district council said.Meanwhile, a suicide bomber hit a police recruiting center in Fallujah, killing as many as 25 people, police said - though the U.S. military said only one policeman was killed and eight were wounded. Elsewhere, three policemen and three civilians were killed and 15 civilians were wounded when a suicide truck bomber struck a communications center on the western outskirts of Ramadi, according to Anbar provincial security adviser Col. Tariq Youssef Mohammed....
U.S. forces backed by helicopter gunships clashed with suspected al-Qaida gunmen in western Baghdad's primarily Sunni Muslim Amariyah neighborhood in an engagement that lasted several hours, said the district councilman, who would not allow use of his name for fear of al-Qaida retribution....
But the councilman said the al-Qaida leader in the Amariyah district, known as Haji Hameed, was killed and 45 other fighters were detained.
Members of al-Qaida, who consider the district part of their so-called Islamic State of Iraq, were preventing students from attending final exams, shooting randomly and forcing residents to stay in their homes, the councilman said....
The Fallujah suicide bomber killed at least 10 policemen in the attack, which occurred about 11 a.m., according to a police official in the city who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release the information. The rest of the dead were civilians, many of them in line seeking jobs as policemen. He said as many as 50 were wounded.
Fallujah General Hospital had received 15 bodies and 10 wounded, according to a doctor there, who would not allow the use of his name because he feared retribution. The physician said he believed other casualties were taken to the nearby Jordanian Hospital and private clinics.
A member of the Fallujah city council, who also asked for anonymity for fear of attack by insurgents, said there were at least 20 killed and 25 injured.
Posted by Robert at May 31, 2007 3:14 PM
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Greetings:
This Iraqi Sunni Muslim conflict with Al Qaeda in Iraq has been going on and buiding for several months now without generating much mainstream media attention.
Bill Roggio at billroggio.com provides details at his Fourth Rail website.
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at May 31, 2007 3:54 PM
If this phenomenon becomes widespread, a new paradigm may emerge in Iraq - ordinary people beseiged by violent gangs, a paradigm Americans can sympathize with. That may decrease support for the "let 'em all die" school of thought. Yes, there are problems all over the world, and we can't go running everywhere there's a problem. But the world's second largest oil reserves, smack in the middle of three state sponsors of terrorism (Iran, Syria, and Saudi Arabia) - that may be a base worth holding on to. I think what Americans are really looking for is the sense that the Iraqis are not leaving the heavy lifting to us, that they are willing to fight the jihadists with real muscle and blood. Stories like this, if repeated consistently, frequently, and for long enough, may make a difference in the degree of support for the war.
Posted by: Surak at May 31, 2007 4:02 PM
..NIMBYs..
Posted by: Madduck at May 31, 2007 4:53 PM
"Stories like this, if repeated consistently, frequently, and for long enough, may make a difference in the degree of support for the war.
Posted by: Surak"
....this has been going on for a long time...only the MSM is so anti-Bush, that they have shown only the negative items...translated anything resembling a victory must not be shown, the dhimmicrats control most of the MSM and the dhimmicrats have been extremely violent in their anti-Bush hatred...
I truly believe that there are Democrats who want anything but a victory in Iraq. A victory would make Bush look good. A victory would make Democrat defeatism look bad. Job one for Democrats is most certainly not trying to salvage Iraq. Job one for Democrats most certainly is laying the groundwork for increasing the Democrat majority in in Congress, and electing Hillary in 2008....and now the dhimmicrats may have the majority and they are moving on to follow through with their defeatist agendas....
at May 31, 2007 5:09 PM
Something good may yet come of our involvement here(!). I know I am the only one saying this here (and probably the only one left saying this ANYWHERE) and I accept the reality that few people if any will agree. I am not interested in defeatism on any front not even in Iraq.
But the day may conceivably come when the people of Iraq realize that it is ISLAM that is responsible for their present nightmare scenario of ceaseless carnage and violence. And when this realization comes at long last to these people, they may decide to bid Islam 'adieu' for good.
Don't anyone bother responding that this line of thought is ridiculous. I know 99.998% of the world already thinks so and I am not going to try to change anyone's mind( as if I could anyway). If anyone posts here to tell me my point is ridiculous, they won't be telling me anything I thought about anyway.
(The next post probably will be something like "Good you think it's ridiculous, because it IS ridiculous").
Posted by: pythagoras at May 31, 2007 8:38 PM
Not an uprising at all. Merely a settling of scores, and a grab for turf, among two sets of Sunni "insurgents." Al Qaeda in Iraq, with all those foreigners, and the local Iraqi Sunnis, nostalgic for good old Saddam, and the good old Sunni Arab rule disguised as "Ba'athism" open to all (and open to all it was, as long as you, a Kurd or a Shi'a Arab or even a Christian, submitted to that disguised Sunni despotism). Akin to the turf wars between the Fast Jihadists of Hamas and the Slow Jihadists of Fatah, with the latter more worldly, wanting Western money and Western stuff right now, and willing to utter the most minimal of formulas in order to keep that Infidel manna coming.
It's the Bloods and the Crips. If the Bloods and the Crips want to kill each other, do we care? Surely all we care about is making sure that others, not in the Bloods and not in the Crips, are not accidentally hit. Otherwise, allons-y, boys.
Posted by: Hugh at May 31, 2007 10:41 PM
Oh those 72 !
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/05/31/iraq.main.ap/
Posted by: arjun.sevak at June 1, 2007 2:02 AM
Dear readers,
I am Malaysian and not a Muslim. We, as a country, have had our difficulties in the past and it will not be long, I fear, before we become an example of Afghanistan or Pakistan. I advocate this, and this is something I have been doing. I have also been advising my friends to do this: stop driving your cars. Drive smaller cars. Ride or walk when you would ordinarily drive. All our money is being used by Arabia (and gang) to push the ideology to areas and to entrench it where it is already. By and large the West gives the Arabian world the money which eventually finds its way to these organisations who then convince simple minded fools to blow themselves up for the greater cause (and in anticipation of the virgin companions). We really need to stop our dependence on oil. Just imagine if every person in the West reduces their petrol bill by even 5% per month. This is one concrete action that we can all do and achieve. And it will have the positive effect vis a vis global warming too! And perhaps make us all fitter for the trouble. Thank you for reading.
Posted by: Spartacus at June 1, 2007 12:40 PM
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