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US Military: Air raids hit 40 al-Qaeda targets in Baghdad (1st Lead)
Jan 10, 2008, 11:37 GMT
Baghdad - US airstrikes hit Thursday more than 40 targets of the al-Qaeda terrorist network in southern Baghdad, according to a US military statement.
Air forces dropped 40,000 pounds of explosives during the first 10 minutes of the massive raid in the Arab al-Jabor area, the military said.
The strikes provided air support to a nationwide offensive launched jointly with Iraqi forces against al-Qaeda insurgents under the codename Operation Phantom Phoenix.
No details were immediately available as to possible casualties or damage inflicted.
US soldiers along with Iraqi security forces and local citizens will continue such operations to keep pressure on al-Qaeda, the statement said.
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And what you are doing Roger is fight lies with other lies ,your indignation has led you to side with Saddam,if you back up the hyperlink you provided,is that really your intention?
The very sad thing about all wars historically is that 'civilian' casualties always far outnumber the military casualties. I only put the word in parenthesis because the fanatics on either side of warfare consider who they kill as actual enemy, not just otherwise innocent victims caught up in some deadly action. Even 'Collateral damage' can be viewed as suspected enemy, collaborators, etc. This is why it becomes acceptable to maim and kill women, children, and the elderly, all of who can be labeled enemy in warfare. The 150,000++ figure for dead civilians is at best an estimate, and does not take into account the wounded who number many more persons.
Using the same mindset as 'destroy a village in order to save it' The US proceeded to destroy a country {Iraq} in order to save it. Presumably save it from a completely mad dictator who threated to destroy the world, and, as my misinformed neice once told me several years ago- 'Don't you know he killed zillions of his own kind!' So to pull a toothless, weaponless, dirty old bum from a mud hole, Iraq had to be sacraficed with blood and 'shock and awe' warfare. What all this has to do with the original mission of getting the perpetrators of 9/11, everyone knows there is absolutely no connection.
This is why American style justice has become a mockery of what it should be in the eyes of the world. The US has accomplished nothing, and lost everything with its mis-focused war on terror directed at Iraq.
To Tonny from Belgium:
If given the choice between the current US (as occupier of Iraq) and Saddam Hussein (as an indigenous leader), Saddam Hussein wins hands-down in my book.
Look at Mubarak in Egypt (torturing and imprisoning the viable opposition), look at the House of Saud in Saudi-Arabia (drinking and whoring around, while hiding behind Wahhabi Islamism), look at Musharraf in Pakistan (a thug par excellence) -- all these 'allies' of the moronic USA are mirroring, what will soon be daily life in the US as well, deservedly so, because Americans, having had many chances, blew it big time.
If you really buy the claim, that the 'benevolent' USA just wished to bring the Iraqi people the 'blessings' of (US-style) 'democracy', you might as well join the ranks of the three 'D's and the multiple 'M's, Layla is writing about.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19033.htm
All the US greedily desires is getting control (!) of the $30 trillion undeveloped oil reserves underneath Iraq, not just to steal them (only 12% of the profit, not revenue, goes back to Iraqis), but to determine in future, who'll get energy and who won't, i.e. India and China better toe the line in the security council ... provided that the US manages to get hold of the oil, which is a huge IF, as long as some Iraqi men are alive.
The same is in store for Iran, by the way, because the US desperately needs to control the Strait of Hormuz, because then and only then can they turn ON and OFF the spigot.
The US imperial swines deserve to pay a huge price for their greed and China as well as India will be a handful, the US won't be able to handle, either ... I just hope to live long enough to see this. :o) It#s my wet dream, politically.
'If given the choice between the current US (as occupier of Iraq) and Saddam Hussein (as an indigenous leader), Saddam Hussein wins hands-down in my book.'
You are such a lying coward.
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RogèrJan 10th, 2008 - 12:41:49
Americans are a truly disgusting lot, allowing their fascistic media to rectify and spin an utterly false reality.
This is best expressed for an Iraqi woman in her 40s, who makes her case here:
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19033.htm
Watch out for language! Layla Anwar is really pissed off this time around ... and she's absolutely on target.
Americans, who are thenselves under the illusion that they are in the early stages of an election process, are meeting Layla's criteria for the label: disgusting. There is no other word for it!
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