Posted on 03/28/2008 8:17:28 AM PDT by maquiladora
BAGHDAD, March 28 (UPI) -- U.S. military troops fought militia in Sadr City, the huge Shiite stronghold in Baghdad, while Iraqi forces held the area's outskirts, officials said.
The clashes Thursday indicate U.S. forces were drawn more deeply into a broad offensive Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki undertook in the southern city of Basra earlier against rouge militias, The Washington Post reported Friday.
The Mehdi Army of cleric Moqtada Sadr, a Shiite rival of Maliki, seems to have absorbed the brunt of the attacks in Basra, and fighting has spread to other southern cities and parts of Baghdad, the Post said.
Maliki implemented the offensive without consulting his U.S. allies, White House officials said. With little U.S. presence in the south and British forces in Basra confined to an air base outside the city, one administration official told the Post, "(We) can't quite decipher" what's happening.
Three rival Shiite groups have been trying to position themselves in Basra to dominate recently approved provincial elections.
In Baghdad, Post reporters said they saw four U.S. Stryker armored vehicles in Sadr City and heard the noise of American weapons and Mehdi Army's AK-47s and rocket-propelled grenades.
Keep up the good work guys!
I am so proud of our Military!
Is fat boy still in Iran?
vaudine
I look at everything now as sort of “Post D-day”. The bad guys only get weaker even though they may try to ramp it up in a few places. And in each case it only weakens them more. And the bigger the fight, the more it weakens them.
We will win this, unless they are able to set off a nuke.
If they do, then we will REALLY win this.
That has to be a major buzz kill for your average Jihadi.
Maybe not the smartest move but he's the duly elected guy and he gets to call the shots. Funny but the Iraqis are doing more and more to take over and no one wants to talk about it. Press reports continue to talk about insurgents instead of saying that the Iraqi government is taking steps to address a real problem in the country as any sovereign nation will do.
I thought the Troops were gonna stay out of this one and let the Iraqi military call in Air strikes and handle this one themselves..??
Post D-Day included the Hedgerows, Market Garden and the Battle of the Bulge. Although the end was not in doubt, there was and is a lot of hard fighting left.
My guess is our troops are taking limited steps to secure supply lines to critical parts of the city.
Yikes, this is scary, because this is truly drawing us directly into Iraqi civil war territory.
Part of me hates hearing this, but knowing what our guys can do, the militia is really screwed now. Pray for our troops.
>>Post D-Day included the Hedgerows, Market Garden and the Battle of the Bulge. Although the end was not in doubt, there was and is a lot of hard fighting left.<<
Exactly! That was my point. ;)
I actually own “A Bridge Too Far”.
Hard to believe that we had screwups like Market Garden or the Bulge AND STILL WON! According to the modern media, that’s not possible.
I’d appreciate a prayer for my son and all our troops in Iraq at this moment.
It’s nothing new for US forces to conduct ops in Sadr city. The only extraordinary thing US forces did was fire a couple missiles that killed 4 terrorist in Basra. The media is now trying to make it seem the Iraqis have lost control and the Americans are picking up the pieces.
More propaganda from the enemy MSM.
It’s not a true civil war when one side is financed, supported, directed and encouraged by a foreign country that wants to take over the country where the fighting is taking place. If the South had won the War Between the States France would not have moved in and taken over the new country of South USA.
What “civil war”? This is Iraqi forces with minimal US help killing Iranian Proxy Terrorist.
Market Garden also left paratroopers exposed with no support. Part of that was planning, part of it was circumstances. When the enemy does what you don’t think they can do, it’s called an intelligence failure. We overcame those and other missteps and won the war. This should be no different. Thank God we didn’t have the modern media in WWII, we might not have won.
It’s the Iranian dogs and their Sadrs Slaves, in Sadr City that are attacking the Green Zone. Of couese we’re going to take the lead...Lots of dead Iranian cleric/dogs coming right up!
Not really.
“...against rouge militias...”
Dang fags are everywhere!
“drawn deeper into” (implying ‘the quagmire’) seems to be the theme that all the press services are playing now. Geez, do these guys hang out at the same bar or what? Exactly the same headline from Reuters today.
The reality is that the US has air and armor to punch into tough areas, and Iraq doesn’t. That puts us in the lead.
Just the fact that they are cleaning out Sadr City is amazing. NO ONE predicted that this would happen with the current Iraq government.
It is because the Germans were already done-for. It was ours to lose at that point. And we would have nad to REALLY screw up to lose. Theoretically, the case could be made that if we had moved slower we would not have killed so many of our guys. But of course that is debatable.
Prayers said, May he stay safe.
Not in Iran they’re not! >Bo)
Geez, do these guys hang out at the same bar or what?
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Yep! ‘The Baghdad Prosthetics’ hotel lobby bar.
little round ones... >Bo)
Thank you.
we did not attach Sadr in the initial phases because he pulled a Clinton and chose not to fight...when he popped up his head and Hit the Green Zone it became personal again...and as I love to say...Hell is pleasant compared to the US Dogs of WAR!
I not killing Sadr brings him to his senses like Qaddafi in Libya
PS I is my opinion, that if the Battle of the Bulge had not happened, Patton's Third Army would have been stalled at the Rhine long enough th Give Germany and the other conquered countries to Russia by default...
America's communist would not have allowed defeat of Russia politically here in the US...McCarthy new the Truth about the Traitors in the US Government...
Turbo
No, thank YOU - to your son..
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