It will be interesting to see if it makes the Times' report in the states.
Nope!
Case closed, readers!
"Baghdad anniversary clampdown fails to stop violence"
by Ahmed Rasheed and Wisam Mohammedednesday, April 9, 2008
BAGHDAD: At least a dozen people were killed in Baghdad's Shi'ite slum of Sadr City on Wednesday, despite vehicle bans aimed at preventing unrest from spreading on the fifth anniversary of the fall of Baghdad.
Police said six people died in clashes overnight, and an explosion in the morning hit a funeral in the slum, killing six more and wounding 14 people.
Dr Qasim al-Mudalla told Reuters 11 bodies and 54 wounded had been brought to the Imam Ali hospital he manages in Sadr City, where U.S. and Iraqi forces have battled militia loyal to cleric Moqtada al-Sadr since Sunday. The dead included four children and two women, he said.
"What are they doing? The floor of the hospital is covered with the blood of children. What is the world doing? They have seen the blood of our children and are doing nothing," he said.
Except the blogs screaming, and me crying and raging.
But I'm about exhausted on that, too, can't you tell?
Because the GOD-AWFUL SLAUGHTER JUST GOES ON and ON!!!
Also see: Occupation Iraq: Ungrateful Iraqis
Other parts of Baghdad were quiet, with streets clear of traffic because of a one-day vehicle ban in the capital for the anniversary. Shops, government offices, schools and universities were shut as a result. Residents were allowed out only on foot.
Sadr had called a mass demonstration against the United States for the anniversary, but postponed it saying he feared for his followers' safety.
Many Iraqis spoke bitterly about the anniversary of the day U.S. troops rolled into the capital, deposing Saddam Hussein.
Retired army officer Salim Hussein said the past five years had yielded nothing but "blood, bombs, curfews and in-fighting".
"The government is totally incapable of providing security," he said, walking near the square where U.S. forces toppled Saddam's statue on April 9, 2003.
President Jalal Talabani, however, hailed the anniversary in a televised address as a day to be celebrated.
"April 9 will enter history as the day the most arrogant dictatorship Mesopotamia has ever witnessed was deposed, the fall of a political regime that ... left behind mass graves that contained hundred thousands of innocents," he said.
Yeah, to be replaced by one FAR WORSE!!
Bush's "LIBERATION" has cost 2 MILLION by now!!!!
U.S. DEATHS
Sadr City has been the focus this week of clashes between Sadr's Mehdi Army and U.S. and Iraqi government troops, after the government launched a crackdown on the militia last month in the southern city of Basra.
U.S. forces announced two more soldiers' deaths, raising the toll to 13 since an upsurge of fighting began on Sunday.
Military spokesman Major Mark Cheadle said U.S. forces had launched an airstrike from a drone, firing a missile that killed two gunmen in Sadr City before dawn.
The Iraqi parliament's Human Rights Committee warned in a statement of a "tragic situation" in the slum, where food and medicine are running short after a two-week blockade.
Rockets or mortars, which U.S. forces say are mainly fired from Sadr City, hit the Green Zone compound in the city centre, but the U.S. embassy said there were no reports of injuries.
Which means those ones that hit the Sadr City market place and burned up 100 shops must have been from our side, right?
Vehicle bans were also imposed in Samarra and Tikrit, Saddam Hussein's hometown. In Falluja, where members of Saddam's Sunni Arab minority rose up twice against U.S. forces in 2004, several hundred protesters marched calling for American forces to leave.
Isn't it bad enough that the U.S. used chemical weapons in Fallujah in 2004?
The top two U.S. officials in Iraq were due to appear later on Wednesday at a second day of congressional hearings in Washington, which have given the U.S. presidential candidates a chance to express their opposing views on the conflict.
Military commander General David Petraeus and ambassador Ryan Crocker told members of Congress that Iraq had made progress over the past year, but the improvements were fragile.
Petraeus advised against committing to a timetable to reduce troops after forces sent last year return home in July.
His testimony suggests more than 100,000 U.S. troops will still be in Iraq when the next U.S. president succeeds George W. Bush in January. Bush is to make a speech on Iraq on Thursday.
Republican Senator John McCain opposes a timetable for withdrawal. The two Democratic candidates, senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, both want one to be set.
Tens of thousands of Iraqis and more than 4,000 U.S. troops have died in the five-year war. Two million Iraqis have fled the country and about as many are displaced within Iraq.
For 10-year-old Ammar Karim, taking advantage of the vehicle ban to play soccer with other boys in the middle of central Baghdad's normally traffic-clogged Karrada Street, the anniversary had a simpler meaning: a chance to play.
"I like this government because we have a lot of curfews. It is the only time we can go out and play football. I wish we could have curfews all the time, because otherwise my family keeps me locked in the house."
That's what is known as BUSH'S FREEDOM, folks!
Here is the account the Boston Globe provides:
"23 more killed, 83 hurt in Sadr City clashes"
How about those boys who are crying waiting to see if America killed their loved ones?
How would you feel, readers, if your children and loved ones were murdered by a foreign occupier?
It's an update of the above IHT piece.
Once again, AmeriKa's Zionist-controlled War Dailies are CENSORED!
Man, is AmeriKa ever fed shit by its print press, readers!
"Twenty-three people were killed and 83 injured in Baghdad's Shi'ite slum of Sadr City yesterday....
Up to 73 people have died in Sadr City since Sunday.... US forces announced yesterday that four more American soldiers had died, raising the toll to 15 since the upsurge of fighting began Sunday.
Rockets or mortars, which US forces say are mainly fired from Sadr City, hit the Green Zone compound but caused no injuries, the US embassy said.
The Iraqi parliament's Human Rights Committee warned in a prepared statement of a "tragic situation" in Sadr City, where food and medicine are now running short after a two-week blockade.... "
All a CONSEQUENCE of the U.S. ASSAULT!!
But progress is being made!
If I ever have to hear that again, I'm going to vomit!!!
