Why is their website censoring so many pieces under the "updated" classification?
I am weary of this crap!
"Muqtada Sadr orders followers to end fighting"
"by Alexandra Zavis Los Angeles Times | March 31, 2008
BAGHDAD — Radical cleric Muqtada Sadr on Sunday ordered his followers to lay down their weapons, offering Shiite Muslims a way out of six days of fighting that has left more than 350 people dead and exposed the weakness of Iraq's government and security forces.
Sadr demanded in a declaration broadcast from mosques in his Baghdad strongholds and across southern Iraq that the government in turn stop what he described as random raids and release his followers from detention.
Prime Minister Nouri Maliki welcomed Sadr's initiative as a "step in the right direction," and Baghdad authorities said an around-the-clock curfew here was lifted in most areas this morning.
Government aides vowed Sunday to press on with efforts to clear Basra of "outlaws" who have used violence to establish power and influence in the southern oil hub.
Yeah, good thing the U.S. never uses violence to establish power and influence!!!
Maliki staked his reputation on the crackdown, which began Tuesday, vowing to remain in Basra until law and order was restored. But the campaign instead revealed the strength of Sadr's Mahdi Army militia, which fought more than 28,000 government troops to a standstill in parts of Basra and pounded Baghdad's fortified Green Zone with days of punishing rocket and mortar fire.
The government appeared to have misjudged the level of resistance it would face in Basra, or how quickly the fighting would spread, drawing in U.S. and British forces to provide air support and limited assistance on the ground.
Sadr's statement came after two senior Shiite lawmakers allied with Maliki sought a meeting with the cleric to negotiate a way out of the crisis.
Translation: SADR WON; MALIKI LOST!!!!
I'm tired of the lousy reporting, too, readers.
I'm not highlighting because the spin is so obvious these days!
"If anyone comes out a winner, it's Sadr," said Joost Hiltermann, Middle East director of the International Crisis Group. "He's coming out stronger, and Maliki looks like a lame duck."
Iraqi security and hospital officials said more than 350 people were killed as the fighting spread from Basra to parts of the capital, and other cities in the southern Shiite heartland.
And for what? For what?
Even after Sadr's declaration, residents hunkered down in their homes continued to hear fierce gunfire and explosions in central Basra and southwest of the city. A militia commander reached by phone in the city said his men would remain in the street.
Translation: Despite this announcement by Sadr, NOTHING HAS CHANGED VIA Maliki!
I'm tired of the MSM shit spin, folks!
Tired of it!!!!
"Of course we respect his eminence's initiative. However, the other side has to respect it too," said the fighter, who asked to be identified by a nickname, Abu Ahmed. "They are the ones who came to either arrest us or kill us unfairly."
The U.S. military said attacks had dropped off significantly in other parts of southern Iraq.
Think I would believe those liars about anything anymore?
That's what fighting Bush's wars of lies has done for Pentagon credibility in these parts!
That make you happy, Pentagon?
That Bush has me viewing you as a bunch of liars now?
In Baghdad, sporadic gunfire and shelling continued into the night. The military said it had killed 25 "armed criminals" in an airstrike after a patrol was ambushed in east Baghdad with roadside bombs, rocket-propelled grenades, small arms and indirect fire, a military term for rockets or mortar rounds.
It was one of at least six airstrikes in Shiite-dominated parts of the capital Sunday that killed about 50 combatants, according to Maj. Mark Cheadle, a U.S. military spokesman....
See, NOTHING HAS CHANGED!!
We are still SLAUGHTERING IRAQIS and the Zionist-controlled MSM is still COVERING UP Muslim and Arab slaughter!!!!
Sadr's order to stand down came in a nine-point declaration.
"Based on the responsibility imposed by Islamic law and to save precious Iraqi blood . . . we have decided the following: to end the armed manifestation in Basra and all over the governorates," Sadr said.
Hazim Araji, an aide to Sadr at his headquarters in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, said Mahdi Army militiamen would not hand over their weapons, as Maliki demanded last week.
But Sadr offered in the statement to help the government apprehend "wanted" individuals, and demanded in return an end to "random raids" against his followers and the extension of an amnesty to those who are not guilty of any crimes....
Maliki reiterated Sunday that the Basra crackdown was not against any specific group. But his forces have concentrated on neighborhoods under the control of Sadr's militia.
At least two other armed factions control parts of the city, one of them associated with provincial Gov. Mohammed Waeli and the other linked to the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council, a key U.S. ally and the largest party in the Shiite alliance.
Sadr's followers allege that the Supreme Council and Maliki's Islamic Dawa Party are using the crackdown to target their rivals before provincial elections slated for the fall...."
Oh, THAT is what all this is about -- KEEPING SADR from DEMOCRATICALLY WINNING POWER!!!!!
Here's the Times bit I brought down from last night:
"Cleric Suspends Battle in Basra by Shiite Militia"
".... Though fighting was reported to have died down by late afternoon in Basra, it continued in Baghdad, including heavy combat by Iraqi and American troops and aircraft in the Mahdi Army stronghold of Sadr City, casting uncertainty on the deal....
Many Iraqi politicians say that Mr. Maliki’s political capital has been severely depleted by the Basra campaign and that he is in the curious position of having to turn to Mr. Sadr, a longtime rival, for a way out....
Notice how everything Bush and the neo-con Zionists touch turns to shit?
Mr. Sadr also demanded concessions, including that the government grant a general amnesty for his followers, release all imprisoned members of the Sadrist movement who have not been convicted of crimes and bring back “the displaced people who have fled their homes as a result of military operations.”
It was not clear if the government was willing to meet those demands....
In an interview, Mahmoud al-Mashadani, the Parliament speaker and a senior Sunni politician, said, “With this statement, Sayyed Moktada al-Sadr proved that he is a good politician, working for the sake of Iraq.”
I'm getting kind of tired of the sectarian lie being pushed, readers.
This is why AmeriKa is against Sadr; he's a nationalist who wants to unify, not a divide-and-rule puupet that USrael wants!
.... Mr. Mashadani said negotiations on the statement involved senior Iraqi clerics and at least 10 senior Iraqi politicians from the main parties, including Iraq’s president, Jalal al-Talabani, a Kurd, representatives of Mr. Sadr in Najaf, and the prime minister himself....
Continuing fighting on Sunday left the ultimate significance of the statement uncertain....
Qassim Daoud, a former national security adviser who leads a secular Shiite party that has supported Mr. Maliki in the past... asked if the erosion of support for Mr. Maliki could cause his government to fall... paused and said, “Everything is possible.”
Bye-bye, Malik-eye!!
Maybe that's what the U.S. wanted, huh?
.... Just minutes after the statement, two mortar rounds struck the presidential palace in Basra.
Yeah, and WHO DOESN'T WANT a deal struck with Sadr?
What FALSE-FLAG OPERATION was this?
And earlier, American and British air and artillery strikes continued for a time in the city. For the first time, the American military said Sunday that some American Special Operations units had been fighting in the city as well.
Yup, it is all buried and dribbles out, but ANOTHER ESCALATION as the Americans and Brits get SUCKED IN!!!
This truce won't last. I'll betcha!
In and around Baghdad, which has been virtually paralyzed by fighting and protests over the last week, the clashes continued....
In Sadr City, witnesses said an American armored vehicle was blown up by a homemade bomb on Falah Street, in the center of the neighborhood.
Ali Khayon, who lives on the street, said that the blast occurred about 1:30. “The American soldiers opened fire randomly in a crazy way and shot many people,” he said.... An aircraft called in to support the soldiers killed 25 people....
American forces also conducted airstrikes in the New Baghdad neighborhood, just south of Sadr City, in Kadhimiya, in Ghazaliya in eastern Baghdad and in the northern part of the city, according to the American military. At least 21 people were killed...."
And WHO WERE THE PEOPLE OUR AIR BOMBS KILLED, shit Zionist media?
Were there any woman and children?
DID THEY HAVE FAMILIES?
The Times finished the piece by low-balling the death toll for the week (no surprise there), claiming only 150 were killed.
It says 350 in the Globe (owned by the Times) article in my paper today, shitters!!!!!
Meanwhile, I searched the web for the info provided in my Sunday local, but for some reason this quote couldn't be found:
"Iraqi police said that earlier in the day a U.S. warplane strafed a house and killed eight civilians, including two women and one child."
Yeah, you wouldn't want the American people to know we are BUTCHERING INNOCENTS over there helping out Maliki.
And how come the Sunday local carries this full article, but it deserved only a sentence from the New York Times and NOTHING in the Boston Globe?
"Turkey Says Its Planes Hit Iraq Targets"
Explain that one, MSM shit sheets!!!!
You guys suck!!!
At this point, we all know you are lying EVERY DAY, EVERY DAY about Iraq.
Minimizing the situation and distorting it with your god-awful reporting!!
I can't take it anymore!!!
Not only that, the misrepresentation in that Turkey-Kurd thing.
Never mind that the major War Dailies are hiding it, the AP articles are distorting of the situation.
Check it out...
"Turkey's military hit Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq with artillery and air strikes in a two-day operation that killed at least 15 rebels, the military said Saturday.
Turkish military shelled areas in northern Iraq on Thursday after it detected a group of Kurdish rebels preparing to attack Turkish targets from their bases in Iraq, the military said in a written statement. It said 15 rebels were killed in the shelling.
Turkish warplanes hit rebel targets in a cross-border campaign the following day, but casualty figures in that assault were unclear, the statement said.
"Some targets in the same area were hit by the air force's warplanes,'' it said. "The number of terrorists killed in this air attack could not be determined.''
A spokesman for the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, denied any rebels had been killed, saying it was a "baseless claim.''
"Turkish jet fighters launched airstrikes against sites at the al-Zab border area (for three hours) with no casualties reported,'' Haval Danas said. "The fighter jets have bombed old sites that witnessed fierce clashes before with the Turkish army and nobody was there.''
Turkey, like the European Union and the United States, considers the PKK a terrorist organization.
The Turkish statement confirmed the first cross-border action by the military since it waged an eight-day ground incursion in late February. It said it only hit confirmed rebel targets and that it did not harm civilians.
The U.S. has been sharing intelligence on the rebels with Turkey, a NATO-ally, since November.
Turkey has carried out several cross-border operations against the PKK since the parliament authorized the government last October to send troops into Iraq to fight the rebels.
Last month's operation was the only confirmed ground incursion during this period. It was also the first of its kind since the U.S.-led invasion toppled Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq in 2003.
The PKK took up arms against the government in 1984, and tens of thousands of people have been killed in the fighting."
Yeah, this ending gives you the impression that it is all relative, never telling you that MOST of the DEATHS are KURDS, simply for wanting to be free from a GENOCIDAL -- ask the Armenians, and where did that topic get buried to by the Jew press, 'eh? I'm really tired of arguing -- REGIME!!!!
And yet the Kurds -- ostensibly our friends in Iraq -- and their annihilation at the hands of the Turks gets buried in AmeriKa's MSM press.
All because they want to be FREE!
I guess that right is only reserved for Kosovo and Tibet, not Kurds, Palestinians, Georgian republics of the former Soviet Union or any other group not in favor with the Globalist-Zionist controllers.
Hey, the truth hurts! Sorry!!!
