"BAGHDAD (AFP) - - Clashes between Shiite militiamen and security forces have killed more than 900 people in Baghdad's Sadr City, Iraqi officials said Wednesday, as Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki vowed to press the offensive to its conclusion.
The latest death toll from the Sadr City fighting that began late last month is set to make April the deadliest month this year, denting US and Iraqi government claims of improved security.
"There were 925 martyrs in Sadr City and 2,605 others have been wounded," Tehseen Sheikhly, spokesman for the government's Baghdad security plan, told reporters....
The US military has lost 46 soldiers across Iraq, making it its deadliest month since last September....On Wednesday, Maliki accused the militiamen of using civilians as "human shields" while fighting the security forces.
Isn't that nice? Maliki the Zionist!!!
"Criminals and lawless gangs are using human shields in Sadr City ... They are following the steps of the Baathist regime," Maliki told a press conference.
Oh, that is just an insult to Sadr!!
And where are these people who live there supposed to go, Mala-keye!
"They are trying to gain sympathy but they are using the lies and the values of the former regime."
.... Maliki vowed to disband the Mahdi Army as well as Sunni insurgent groups, particularly Al Qaeda....
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He said with AmeriKa's hand firmly up his ass and grasping his mouth!
The statement is incredible, too, readers, because Iraqis have begun comparing MALAKI'S GOVERNMENT to Saddam's and FOUND IT WORSE!!!
"Many Iraqis have come to believe that Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is just as much a dictator as Saddam Hussein was.
"Al-Maliki is a dictator who must be removed by all means," 35-year-old Abdul-Riza Hussein, a Mehdi Army member from Sadr City in Baghdad told IPS. "He is a worse dictator than Saddam; he has killed in less than two years more than Saddam killed in 10 years."
