U.S. and Iran: Basra Team-Up?
The U.S. now finds itself on the same "team" with the Iranian government.
http://tinyurl.com/2nnkn4
Iraq implodes as Shia fights Shia
Mr Sadr's followers believe the government is trying to eliminate them before elections in southern Iraq later this year, which they are expected to win.
http://tinyurl.com/2pbn5t
US Bombs Basra
U.S. forces intervened in the battle in the southern city of Basra by dropping two bombs on militia positions overnight.
http://tinyurl.com/ysrcah
U.S. Troops Engage In Sadr City Offensive
The clashes Thursday indicate U.S. forces were drawn more deeply into a broad offensive Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki undertook in the southern city of Basra earlier against rouge militias, The Washington Post reported Friday.
http://www.postchronicle.com/news/breakingnews/article_212138764.shtml
From his office in clouded cuckoo land: Bush: Iraq is returning to normal
President Bush, saying that "normalcy is returning back to Iraq," argued Thursday that last year's U.S. troop "surge" has improved Iraq's security to the point where political and economic progress are blossoming as well.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/31825.html
Baghdad Trembles as Basra Bleeds
Against the dull thud-boom of rocket hits and ascending plumes of black smoke, Baghdad's fortified Green Zone rumbled with running soldiers and intermittent cries of "duck and take cover!"
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1726055,00.html?xid=rss-world
Mortars Strike U.S. Embassy in Baghdad
ABC News video.
http://tinyurl.com/ywl6ob
From Information Clearing House
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Fighting Spreads Across Iraq
The Washington Post's Sholnn Freeman reports: "American aircraft struck militia targets in Basra on Friday, the first time that airpower has been called in to aid a faltering ground offensive there against armed groups that operate outside government control."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032908A.shtml
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Basra Assault Exposes Fraud of "National Reconciliation" in Iraq
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/03/29/7959/
The Lessons of Basra
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/03/31/7996/
http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Shia
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Basra
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sadr
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=reconciliation
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=clouded+cuckoo+land
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=troop+surge
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Baghdad+embassy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+Naiman
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+Dreyfuss
http://tinyurl.com/2nnkn4
Iraq implodes as Shia fights Shia
Mr Sadr's followers believe the government is trying to eliminate them before elections in southern Iraq later this year, which they are expected to win.
http://tinyurl.com/2pbn5t
US Bombs Basra
U.S. forces intervened in the battle in the southern city of Basra by dropping two bombs on militia positions overnight.
http://tinyurl.com/ysrcah
U.S. Troops Engage In Sadr City Offensive
The clashes Thursday indicate U.S. forces were drawn more deeply into a broad offensive Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki undertook in the southern city of Basra earlier against rouge militias, The Washington Post reported Friday.
http://www.postchronicle.com/news/breakingnews/article_212138764.shtml
From his office in clouded cuckoo land: Bush: Iraq is returning to normal
President Bush, saying that "normalcy is returning back to Iraq," argued Thursday that last year's U.S. troop "surge" has improved Iraq's security to the point where political and economic progress are blossoming as well.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/31825.html
Baghdad Trembles as Basra Bleeds
Against the dull thud-boom of rocket hits and ascending plumes of black smoke, Baghdad's fortified Green Zone rumbled with running soldiers and intermittent cries of "duck and take cover!"
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1726055,00.html?xid=rss-world
Mortars Strike U.S. Embassy in Baghdad
ABC News video.
http://tinyurl.com/ywl6ob
From Information Clearing House
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Fighting Spreads Across Iraq
The Washington Post's Sholnn Freeman reports: "American aircraft struck militia targets in Basra on Friday, the first time that airpower has been called in to aid a faltering ground offensive there against armed groups that operate outside government control."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032908A.shtml
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Basra Assault Exposes Fraud of "National Reconciliation" in Iraq
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/03/29/7959/
The Lessons of Basra
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/03/31/7996/
http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Shia
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Basra
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sadr
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=reconciliation
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=clouded+cuckoo+land
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=troop+surge
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Baghdad+embassy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+Naiman
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+Dreyfuss
rudkla - 28. Mär, 09:30
