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Attempted coup d'etat underway in Iraq right now
Instapundit ^
| April 05, 2004
Posted on 04/05/2004 2:10:36 PM PDT by John Jorsett
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To: Glenn
How can he blog without power?The telephone system typically works even when electrical power is out (telephone central offices have enormous backup batteries and/or generators). If he's using a laptop on battery power, that would explain it.
To: nuconvert
you win "most vague post of the day" award.
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posted on
04/05/2004 2:21:36 PM PDT
by
isom35
To: livius
bmp
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posted on
04/05/2004 2:21:40 PM PDT
by
shield
(The Greatest Scientific Discoveries of the Century Reveal God!!!! by Dr. H. Ross, Astrophysicist)
To: John Jorsett
To: Itzlzha
I totally agree with you.
Its time to take off the gloves and go prehistoric on these idiots.
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posted on
04/05/2004 2:22:48 PM PDT
by
judicial meanz
(If liberals are as compassionate as they say they are, why is there a culture war?)
To: rogueleader
"Keep a sharp watch on the Iranian, Syrian, and Saudi borders.
This could be a larger conspiracy. "
You inferring their armies coming across the borders???
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posted on
04/05/2004 2:23:26 PM PDT
by
Getsmart64
(LANTIRN - Designed to kill, maim, and destroy ....America's enemies...)
To: John Jorsett
coup d'etat?
A bit melodramatic. More like the last gasp of the Saddam loyalists and various other Mafia like groups.
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posted on
04/05/2004 2:23:33 PM PDT
by
TheDon
(John Kerry, self proclaimed war criminal, Democratic Presidential nominee)
To: John Jorsett
Second front in Iraq: Shiite revolt
Monday, the US issued a warrant for Sadr's arrest.
By Dan Murphy | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
SADR CITY, IRAQ – As US marines enveloped the restive Sunni Triangle city of Fallujah to respond to the murder and mutilation of four US contractors there last week, a new and potentially more dangerous front was opening in the south - with members of Iraq's Shiite majority.
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http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0406/p01s04-woiq.html
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posted on
04/05/2004 2:23:40 PM PDT
by
KQQL
(@)
To: isom35
Why, thank you.
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posted on
04/05/2004 2:23:43 PM PDT
by
nuconvert
("America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins." ( President Bush 3-20-04))
To: John Jorsett
I should also add that a lot of the Iraqis who could do so got themselves generators during the rein of Saddam, since electricity wasn't the most reliable thing during those times. He might be one of those folks.
To: John Jorsett
Japanese press reported in the Japanese language on the internet (I read it earlier and could not believe my eyes) that 'Iraqi insurgents' have actually
succeeded in capturing the city hall of Basra, in the south.
Whether that can be confirmed or not is out of my paygrade, but I am getting some international press "chatter", such as this article in this thread, that some provocative things are starting to go down. Might tie in with the cancellation of Bremer's DC trip just now, and the discussion to up US troop presence ASAP that was out earlier this a.m.
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posted on
04/05/2004 2:24:09 PM PDT
by
AmericanInTokyo
(Another vote here for Bush, only IF Congress ends up defeating his illegal immigration amnesty law)
To: TheDon
>>A bit melodramatic. More like the last gasp of the Saddam loyalists and various other Mafia like groups.<<
That's my take on it as well.
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posted on
04/05/2004 2:24:16 PM PDT
by
RobRoy
(Science is about "how." Christianity is about "why.")
To: John Jorsett; Ragtime Cowgirl; NormsRevenge; Dog; Cap Huff; Grampa Dave; blam; Calpernia
Foxnews just gave an update on Fallujah, said they were bringing an AC130 Gunship, that should be spectacular
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posted on
04/05/2004 2:24:38 PM PDT
by
Ernest_at_the_Beach
(The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got!!!!)
To: John Jorsett
and you wondered why the Arab States meeting mysteriously broke down a couple weeks ago? I bet Iran has a big part in this, along with S.A.
if the South goes, then we should just give the Kurds the north (and let them lay waste to Fallujah) and get the flock out!
To: John Jorsett
No coverage of this on the cable news stations....
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posted on
04/05/2004 2:24:51 PM PDT
by
HairOfTheDog
(Free pints in the Hobbit Hole for all monthly donors during the 'thon!)
To: John Jorsett
The Military should have finished the war before rushing for a political settlement.
It sounds like the starting of civil war to see which thugs gain power.
I keep thinking this is rapidly turning into a Somalia-type situation run by thugs and warlords and factions.
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posted on
04/05/2004 2:24:55 PM PDT
by
TomGuy
(Clintonites have such good hind-sight because they had their heads up their hind-ends 8 years.)
To: John Jorsett
A coup d'etat is taking place in Iraq a the moment. Al-Shu'la, Al-Hurria, Thawra (Sadr city), and Kadhimiya (all Shi'ite neighbourhoods in Baghdad) have been declared liberated from occupation. Looting has already started at some places downtown, a friend of mine just returned from Sadun street and he says Al-Mahdi militiamen are breaking stores and clinics open and also at Tahrir square just across the river from the Green Zone. Wow, isn't that "liberation" from the Great Satan just grand?
To: John Jorsett
What a bunch of kooks. A coup?! HA!
Like this band of ragged rabble can wrestle away power from the mighty United States of America!
Go ahead... make my day.
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posted on
04/05/2004 2:26:18 PM PDT
by
Lunatic Fringe
(John F-ing Kerry??? NO... F-ING... WAY!!!)
To: rogueleader
I didn't get passed the first paragraph. AL Sadr does NOT have that kind of support. B S
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posted on
04/05/2004 2:26:45 PM PDT
by
nuconvert
("America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins." ( President Bush 3-20-04))
To: TomGuy
Well, there goes (probably) June 30th.
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posted on
04/05/2004 2:26:59 PM PDT
by
AmericanInTokyo
(Another vote here for Bush, only IF Congress ends up defeating his illegal immigration amnesty law)
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