Iraqi police reportedly enter Najaf shrine; Shiite militiamen have left

MSNBC ^ | 8/20/2004 | MSNBC

[Smogger]

BREAKING: Iraqi police reportedly enter Najaf shrine; Shiite militiamen have left

[Dog]

I just got in and am not up to speed yet..

[finnman69]

OK, and police in the US freak when kids point waterguns at them. These idiots will hopefully have a short lifespan.

[finnman69]

What a brave solider trying to draw out snipers. I hope the bad guys here dont use RPGs.

[Gucho]

"what is happening with this story? where is Sadr?"

Looks like escape and evasion - another time/another place :(

[AMNZ]

Who lied to us this time! Bet they were never there. No smoke, no gun. Must be W's fault.

[oceanview]

this story is getting zero press coverage - even here on FR, everyone is obsessed with the swift vets!

[TexKat]

this story is getting zero press coverage - even here on FR, everyone is obsessed with the swift vets!

Sad, but true.

[beachn4fun]

Ain't that the truth!

[kingh99]

These Hezbollah guys are getting their asses handed to them so they are getting their misdirected words flying everywhere and this is for one reason and one reason only, buy enough time for safe passage of the highest ranking officers still trapped in the mosque.

This reminds me of the beginning of a very silly, occassionally funny movie, Scary Movie 3. Remember when the friend of the girl playing the naomi watts character kept faking her death. Each succeeding fake out she would take a little longer to make sure she got the reaction of concern from her friend before saying gotcha. And her friend, because it's human nature, kept getting fooled. Same deal here.

If we are really letting the enemy string this out in order to get people out, what a crappy way to execute a war. All because of this building. By god, any arrangement has to include sufficient security to prohibit this from happening again. This Shrine needs to be like Pennsylvania Avenue. It has as much political meaning, sad to say but undeniably true.

[Gucho]

"this story is getting zero press coverage - even here on FR, everyone is obsessed with the swift vets!"

Nothing more boring than Kerry reminding us he was a hero on the swift boat.
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[oceanview]

thanks.

that article makes it sound like no one knows what is going on right now.

[No Surrender No Retreat]

Unfortunately, they will live to fight us another day. I wonder how many lines in the sand is enough?

[Uncle Jaque]

I wish I could believe that our guys were all that well organized.

But I've been in the Army, and have buddies over there now.

So dream on, eh?

Looks like Tora Bora all over again, eh?

Interesting how some of these Mooslims are with us, and some are agin' us... but they all sort of look out for one another first, don't they?

[Uncle Jaque]

Re:

" How much you want to bet that next month Al Sadr's gang will be back in that shrine?"

A whole MONTH, eh?

Took yer optimism pills this mornin', didn't ye, Mate? };^{)~

UJ

[Gucho]

"Take yer optimism pills this mornin', didn't ye, Mate? };^{)~

UJ"

NOBODY said it would be easy uncle j.

[Uncle Jaque]

The Chappie on the right:



Needs a REAL RIFLE!!!

Now THESE blokes:



HAVE a REAL RIFLE (a Dragunov 7.62 X 54MM-R by the looks of it, with some pretty good Russian glass).

Fortunatley for US, neither of them have much of a clue how to assume a proper shooting position, and are taking wild potshots at best with perfectly good sniper rifles.

Now if Hero "A" had Dragunov "B", some serious Jihaddi butt would be getting kicked out to a thousand yards or so, much further out than that pathetic little plastic and aluminum popgun can even annoy an enemy.

But then said Hero would be getting court-martialed for posessing (much less using) an "unauthourized weapon".

"If it makes sense, it's against regulations!; If it works, don't get caught doing it!"

Ahh; the Army! How I don't miss it! C|B^*

[Uncle Jaque]

These guys



Really look like they're fixin' to "surrender", don't they?

Hmmmm; Do they know something we don't?

[Gucho]

What years were you in uncle J. if I may ask?

[PattonReincarnated]

One other thing - disarm the explosives Sadr's group reportedly rigged up around the structure.

Disarm? better yet, accidently detonate the explosives and swipe the pedophile prophet worshiping mosque off the face of the earth.

[Uncle Jaque]

"Olive branch", eh?

Every time these towelheads hand US an olive branch, the other end is attached to the detonator of a damned IED!

I've got a suggestion as to where they can put their "olive branch".

Wanna guess?