It is amazing for me to cross-reference these stories, and then realize how obfuscating the New York Times really is.
Compare, reader!
And aren't the activities in the picture illegal according to Geneva?
Imagine if this were, oh, English being paraded by Iranians.
There would be screaming headlines, wouldn't there?
"US, Iraqi forces round up militia suspects; Residents help to secure area, leaders say" by Steven R. Hurst/Associated Press October 21, 2007
BAGHDAD - US and Iraqi forces, backed by Polish Army helicopters, swept through Shi'ite militia strongholds south of Baghdad yesterday, rounding up dozens of militants and killing two.
Iraqi police said 30 suspected fighters linked to Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army were grabbed in a predawn house-to-house search by US and Iraqi forces in two eastern neighborhoods in Diwaniyah, 80 miles south of Baghdad.
[From one "enemy" to the next!
Isn't this GREAT, America?!]
US commanders have reported significant inroads against both Shi'ite militias and Al Qaeda in Iraq fighters. They credit local residents, emboldened against the terror tactics of both Al Qaeda and Shi'ite militants, with much of the success.
[Sick of the lies, yet, readers?]
The residents have bought into a trend that started in Iraq's western Anbar Province, where Sunni tribesmen rose up against Al Qaeda and have methodically hunted them down in conjunction with US forces.
[All so the Republicans can claim victory for the '08 campaign?
Sure is what this PILE of BULLSHIT SMELLS LIKE!!!!!!]
South of the capital, Shi'ite militiamen are facing the same onslaught in communities where they have terrorized co-religionists.
[Yeah, the people living there are terrorists!
The kicking down doors in pre-dawn raids and the air attacks are just big, wet, smooches!!!!
It's our way of telling the Iraqis WE LOVE THEM!!!! (Puke!)]
On Diwaniyah's east side, US-led ground forces backed by two Polish Army helicopters came under fire from machine guns and an antitank grenade launcher, the military said.
Coalition forces reported no casualties but said two militants were killed in the sweep. The statement reporting the operation said the Polish helicopters were called in after ground forces were attacked with three roadside bombs and small-arms fire.
Police also clashed with gunmen in the Shi'ite holy city of Karbala, 50 miles south of Baghdad, during a raid in which they detained a Sadrist leader, local authorities said without identifying the suspect.
Late yesterday, a mortar shell crashed near the Shi'ite shrine to Imam Al-Abbas in the city center, killing one person and wounding two.
[WTF?? Operations everywhere?
I thought Iraq was "getting secure." ]
To the north of Diwaniyah, police broke into the house of a leading Al Qaeda member in a village near Hillah. They captured Raed al-Alwani, who was wanted in the slayings of more than 100 Iraqis, according to a police officer in the region.
[Here is another one!!
Since we are making such strides, we can COME HOME, right?
Oh, we have to stay and keep on succeeding, I see!]
In all, at least 26 people were reported killed or found dead in attacks nationwide.
[How did the New York Times miss all this?!]
Near Baghdad, a roadside bomb hit a minibus of Shi'ite civilians traveling to visit relatives south of the capital. Three passengers died and nine were wounded, police said.
[That's the only attack the shit0eating Times' week-ender got!]
The US military said it killed one Al Qaeda leader and detained three other members of the group yesterday morning during raids in the dangerous Dora neighborhood of south Baghdad.
It also announced capturing what it termed four high-ranking militia leaders during Oct. 12-14 operations in near Iskandariyah, 30 miles from the capital. Use of the word militia indicated the men were rogue members of the Mahdi Army.
[Look at this!! Surge success EVERYWHERE!!!]
In the far north of Iraq, where Turkey is threatening to invade the autonomous Kurdish region to attack guerrilla camps of the separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party, rebel leader Murat Karayilan threatened to strike back by blowing up an oil pipeline running into Turkey.
"When Turkey starts a military operation against our bases, we will defend ourselves by targeting economic sites and one of our options is to hit the oil pipeline going from Kurdistan to Turkey," Karayilan said.
An estimated 15,000 Kurds, meanwhile, packed the streets of the border city of Zakho in northern Iraq to protest the Turkish threat and to warn they would defend their territory."
[Yeah, and I just heard that Turkey suffered an"ambush" by Kurds!
Ah, the WIDENING of WAR!!!!
Just great!
Bush, you have ruined this world you fucking mass-murdering failure!]
