Samarra

mimo2005 · 02-16-2006, 09:05 AM

I found this great article dealing with the situation in the sunni insurgent stronghold of Samarra:

Quote:

American units in Iraq usually fire warning shots. The Rakkasans don't.
A few days later, Call said his brigade command had told him, "The Rakkasans don't do warning shots." A warning shot in the vernacular of the Rakkasans, Call said, was a bullet that hit one Iraqi man while others could see.
"That's how you warn his buddy, is to pop him in the face with a kill shot?" Call said incredulously. "But what about when his buddy comes back with another guy ... that and the other 15 guys in his family who you've made terrorists?"
Looking at the man splayed on the ground, Call turned to his medic, Specialist Patrick McCreery, and asked, "What the f--- was he doing?"
McCreery didn't answer. The man's internal organs were hanging out of his side, and his blood was pouring across the ground. He was conscious and groaning. His eyelids hung halfway closed.
"What ... did they shoot him with?" McCreery asked, sweat beginning to show on his brow. "Did someone call a ... ambulance?"
The call to prayer was starting at a mosque down the street. The words "Allahu Akbar" - God is great - wafted down from a minaret's speakers.
The man looked up at the sky as he heard the words. He repeated the phrase "Ya Allah. Ya Allah. Ya Allah." Oh God. Oh God. Oh God.
He looked at McCreery and raised his finger toward the house in front of him.
"This my house," he said in broken English.
McCreery reached down. With his hands cupped, he shoved the man's organs back into his body and held them in place as Call unwrapped a bandage to put around the hole.
"He's fading, he's fading," McCreery shouted.
Looking into the dying man's eyes, the medic said, "Haji, haji, look at me," using the honorific title reserved for older Muslim men who presumably have gone on Hajj - pilgrimage - to Mecca.
"Why? Why?" asked the man, his eyes beginning to close.
"Haji, I don't know," said McCreery, sweat pouring down his face

http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwash...d/13880387.htm

mimo2005 · 02-23-2006, 10:15 AM

Sunnis vs shiites vs alqaeda

Violence spreads after mosque bombing

http://www.denverpost.com/ci_3538961?source=rss

Violence After Mosque Attack Kills 111

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060223/...kxBHNlYwN0bQ--

The hardline Sunni clerical Association of Muslim Scholars said 168 Sunni mosques were attacked, 10 imams killed and 15 abducted in revenge attacks.
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNew...tories&s_name=

ps : i ve seen so many videos lately circulating in the web , things are getting very nasty in iraq .

mimo2005 · 02-23-2006, 10:29 AM

So begins the descent into full scale civil war.

Dozens of Sunni mosques have been targeted in revenge and at least 10 Sunnis killed.

About 3,000 people demonstrated in the Shia city of Kut, chanting anti-American and anti-Israeli slogans and burning US and Israeli flags.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/mid...st/4740010.stm

02-23-2006, 10:15 AM	#2 (permalink)
mimo2005 Manager, The Relaxation Room/Analyst, Security Team Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 10,745 OS: xp	Samara again ! Sunnis vs shiites vs alqaeda Violence spreads after mosque bombing http://www.denverpost.com/ci_3538961?source=rss Violence After Mosque Attack Kills 111 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060223/...kxBHNlYwN0bQ-- The hardline Sunni clerical Association of Muslim Scholars said 168 Sunni mosques were attacked, 10 imams killed and 15 abducted in revenge attacks. http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNew...tories&s_name= ps : i ve seen so many videos lately circulating in the web , things are getting very nasty in iraq . __________________ TSF has outgrown its server, again. Please help "Gutta cavat lapidem, non vi sed saepe cadendo"

02-23-2006, 10:29 AM	#3 (permalink)
mimo2005 Manager, The Relaxation Room/Analyst, Security Team Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 10,745 OS: xp	So begins the descent into full scale civil war. Dozens of Sunni mosques have been targeted in revenge and at least 10 Sunnis killed. About 3,000 people demonstrated in the Shia city of Kut, chanting anti-American and anti-Israeli slogans and burning US and Israeli flags. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/mid...st/4740010.stm __________________ TSF has outgrown its server, again. Please help "Gutta cavat lapidem, non vi sed saepe cadendo"