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Wednesday, March 26 2008, 11:45 AM Dozens killed in Iraqi clashes Iraq's prime minister on Wednesday gave gunmen in the southern oil port of Basra three days to surrender their weapons and renounce violence as clashes erupted for a second day. 7 News Stories, 7 Liberal Blogs, 3 Conservative Blogs Post A Comment
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Finding God in a Dog Basra Erupts Again Fighting between Sadr's militias and the puppet government has erupted again.Iraq's prime minister on Wednesday gave gunmen in the southern oil port of Basra a three-day deadline to surrender their weapons and renounce violence as clashes between Shiite m
Informed Comment Dozens Dead In Basra Clashes; Mahdi Army Occupies Kut There was heavy fighting Wednesday and Thursday morning in the Jumhuriya district of the southern oil port of Basra. That is a stronghold of the Mahdi Army militia of Muqtada al-Sadr, now under assault by the Iraqi military, with rocket propelled grenad
The Carpetbagger Report Bush?s Heads-i-win-tails-you-lose Argument In Iraq We’ve been dealing with this kind of argument for a little too long now. When conditions in Iraq deteriorate, the Bush administration says, “We can’t withdraw U.S. troops now; this is when they’re needed most.” When violence
AntiWar.com Wednesday: 47 Iraqis Killed; 308 Iraqis, 3 Us Civilians Wounded Excerpt: As clashes continue today in southern Iraq and Baghdad, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has given the Mahdi Army three days to surrender and turn over their weapons. Overall, 47 Iraqis were killed and 308 more were wounded throughout Iraq. Three A
The Carpetbagger Report Wednesday?s Mini-report Today’s edition of quick hits. * Iraq’s most intense fighting in several months: “Amid heavy clashes between government forces and Shiite Muslim militants in Baghdad and the southern port city of Basra, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Mal
Oliver Willis Just Repeat: The Surge Is Working, The Surge Is Working Wheeeeee! Iraq?s prime minister vowed Thursday to fight ?until the end? against Shiite militias in Basra despite protests by tens of thousands of followers of a radical cleric in Baghdad and deadly clashes across the capital and the oil-rich south. Mounti
Finding God in a Dog Meanwhile In Iraq.. Fighting in Basra stalls while the government forces regroup. Sadr's people are apparently not willing to give up the ghost so easily. Sadr's people in Baghdad are hitting the Green Zone with rockets and mortar fire in retaliation. Neither side is backing
From The Right
Patterico's Pontifications Is This The Final Showdown With Al-sadr? [Guest post by DRJ] Monday in Iraq, al-Sadr called for nationwide civil disobedience that was viewed by some of his followers as a call to end the cease-fire. Al-Sadr’s action may have been a response to recent Iraqi government crackdowns on corrup
politburo diktat 2.0 My Forecast: We Will Capture Basra I make this forecast with 100% certainty. We 1 will capture Basra. Maliki Gives Shiite Militias 72 Hours to Halt Fighting A day after launching a huge operation that ignited heavy fighting in two of Iraq?s largest cities, Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Mali
Outside The Beltway | OTB Basra Mess Proves Surge success The Mahdi Army controls Basra and four days of intense fighting there has been punctuated with the bombing of one of Iraq’s two main oil pipelines. U.S. officials are painting this is a success story. The Pentagon on Wednesday said an erupti