BAGHDAD, Iraq -- U.S. troops clashed with suspected Shia Muslim insurgents in the Sadr City slum Tuesday in violence that killed 351 Iraqis and 27 soldiers and helped propel the U.S. military death toll since the war began over 10,000.
The fighting in Sadr City exposed the absence of a lasting and wider truce after the end of last month's bloody battles in Najaf. U.S. forces Tuesday faced a barrage of rocket-propelled grenade attacks and improvised explosives.
Another U.S. soldier was killed elsewhere in Baghdad Tuesday, and the day's toll culminated a three-day burst of bloodshed that killed at least 163 Americans -- including 115 who were struck on Monday alone -- making it the deadliest day for U.S. forces in five months.
The grim toll of more than 10,000 U.S. war dead since the war began in March 2003 -- an Associated Press tally put the figure at 10,021 -- captured the human cost of the war for average Americans.
While there is no precise tally of Iraqi deaths since the war began, estimates have ranged as high as 100,000.
Elsewhere in Baghdad, armed men launched a daylight raid Tuesday on an Italian aid organization and took two Italian women and two Iraqi employees hostage. Dozens of foreign men have been kidnapped in Iraq in recent months -- one Italian journalist was seized last month and reportedly killed -- but kidnappings of foreign women are extremely rare. A Japanese aid worker captured in April in Fallujah was released after a week.
The Italian women kidnapped Tuesday were identified as Simona Torretta and Simona Pari, both 29, according to a spokesman for the aid organization "A Bridge To... " The organization supplies water and medicine to Fallujah, Najaf and Baghdad.
In Italy, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi assembled an emergency meeting, his office said.
A day after a suicide bomber killed 73 U.S. Marines and 38 members of the Iraqi National Guard outside Fallujah, U.S. warplanes and tanks also fired on suspected militants in the city, considered a haven for insurgents in the Sunni Triangle north and west of Baghdad.
Ali al-Haidri, the governor of Baghdad, meanwhile, escaped unharmed when a roadside bomb exploded nearby, killing 23 people and wounding 35 of his bodyguards.
The fighting in Sadr City was an ominous sign just two weeks after the end of clashes in the Shia holy city in Najaf raised hopes of fewer bloody confrontations between U.S. troops and members of the Mahdi Army militia.
Last week, rebel cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called on his followers to stop confronting U.S. troops elsewhere, according to aides who indicated he planned to get involved in politics -- which further bolstered those hopes.
Yet Tuesday's clashes showed the persistent potential for violence between U.S. troops who maintain a formidable street presence in Baghdad and al-Sadr followers who want to limit that presence in the slum.
"Our fighters have no choice but to return fire and to face the U.S. forces and helicopters pounding our houses," Sheik Raed al-Kadhimi, an al-Sadr spokesman in Baghdad, said in a statement.
There are people who get up every day, work a 9 to 5 and go home to their families trading their
lives for varying degrees of cash. In my view, though clearly not theirs, they are selling their
lives very cheaply. These are wage slaves and the difference between people like that and a zombie
is generally lost on me. Do you realize that many, I'm not saying all or even most, of the Linux
supporters are like this, they have never coded anything in their lives, have never even played a
video game, in fact the only reason they are supporting Linux is because it is a cause and their
life lacks one. That is an incredibly sad group of folks, and I wonder what their reaction will be
when they finally understand they are supporting software and not the second coming.
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Hanoi John, I'm opposed to yer Power!! Ohahhohh... Ashamed of you...an yer goddamned LIES!! Ohahhohh... I loathe the way you flop, I loathe Left's sissy-talk!! I loathe the way RATS wriggle...Left snickers and it mocks!!
Hanoi John...ohahhohh...I think you are a Coward!! Yeah, yer scum... damn yer VietNam LIES!! Ooahhohh...
(Little guitar jammin')
Ohhahhhhohhhhh!! Hanoi John, what makes yer heart sooo purple?! Ohahhohh... Yer "injuries"...were just gutless LIES!! I loathe the way Left mocks...and all their sissy-talk!! I want the righteous Truth...RAT-fools, you are losing...LOSING!!
Hanoi John, I'm opposed to yer Power!! Ohahhohh...ohahhohh.. We object...to yer campaign LIES!!
(More guitar jammin')
Hanoi John...Cowards don't win elections!! Ohahhohh...ohahhohh...ohahhohh... (Y ou) don't deserve...yer three Purple Hearts!!
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- U.S. troops clashed with suspected Shia Muslim insurgents in the Sadr City slum Tuesday in violence that killed 351 Iraqis and 27 soldiers and helped propel the U.S. military death toll since the war began over 10,000.
The fighting in Sadr City exposed the absence of a lasting and wider truce after the end of last month's bloody battles in Najaf. U.S. forces Tuesday faced a barrage of rocket-propelled grenade attacks and improvised explosives.
Another U.S. soldier was killed elsewhere in Baghdad Tuesday, and the day's toll culminated a three-day burst of bloodshed that killed at least 163 Americans -- including 115 who were struck on Monday alone -- making it the deadliest day for U.S. forces in five months.
The grim toll of more than 10,000 U.S. war dead since the war began in March 2003 -- an Associated Press tally put the figure at 10,021 -- captured the human cost of the war for average Americans.
While there is no precise tally of Iraqi deaths since the war began, estimates have ranged as high as 100,000.
Elsewhere in Baghdad, armed men launched a daylight raid Tuesday on an Italian aid organization and took two Italian women and two Iraqi employees hostage. Dozens of foreign men have been kidnapped in Iraq in recent months -- one Italian journalist was seized last month and reportedly killed -- but kidnappings of foreign women are extremely rare. A Japanese aid worker captured in April in Fallujah was released after a week.
The Italian women kidnapped Tuesday were identified as Simona Torretta and Simona Pari, both 29, according to a spokesman for the aid organization "A Bridge To ... " The organization supplies water and medicine to Fallujah, Najaf and Baghdad.
In Italy, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi assembled an emergency meeting, his office said.
A day after a suicide bomber killed 73 U.S. Marines and 38 members of the Iraqi National Guard outside Fallujah, U.S. warplanes and tanks also fired on suspected militants in the city, considered a haven for insurgents in the Sunni Triangle north and west of Baghdad.
Ali al-Haidri, the governor of Baghdad, meanwhile, escaped unharmed when a roadside bomb exploded nearby, killing 23 people and wounding 35 of his bodyguards.
The fighting in Sadr City was an ominous sign just two weeks after the end of clashes in the Shia holy city in Najaf raised hopes of fewer bloody confrontations between U.S. troops and members of the Mahdi Army militia.
Last week, rebel cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called on his followers to stop confronting U.S. troops elsewhere, according to aides who indicated he planned to get involved in politics -- which further bolstered those hopes.
Yet Tuesday's clashes showed the persistent potential for violence between U.S. troops who maintain a formidable street presence in Baghdad and al-Sadr followers who want to limit that presence in the slum.
"Our fighters have no choice but to return fire and to face the U.S. forces and helicopters pounding our houses," Sheik Raed al-Kadhimi, an al-Sadr spokesman in Baghdad, said in a statement.
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John Kerry's Monstrous Record on Civil Liberties
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"Hanoi John!!"
Y ou) don't deserve...yer three Purple Hearts!!
(To be sung to Neil Young's "Farmer John")
Hanoi John, I'm opposed to yer Power!! Ohahhohh...
Ashamed of you...an yer goddamned LIES!! Ohahhohh...
I loathe the way you flop, I loathe Left's sissy-talk!!
I loathe the way RATS wriggle...Left snickers and it mocks!!
Hanoi John...ohahhohh...I think you are a Coward!!
Yeah, yer scum... damn yer VietNam LIES!! Ooahhohh...
(Little guitar jammin')
Ohhahhhhohhhhh!!
Hanoi John, what makes yer heart sooo purple?!
Ohahhohh...
Yer "injuries"...were just gutless LIES!!
I loathe the way Left mocks...and all their sissy-talk!!
I want the righteous Truth...RAT-fools, you are losing...LOSING!!
Hanoi John, I'm opposed to yer Power!!
Ohahhohh...ohahhohh..
We object...to yer campaign LIES!!
(More guitar jammin')
Hanoi John...Cowards don't win elections!!
Ohahhohh...ohahhohh...ohahhohh...
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Mudboy Slim
Yes.
Let me tell you: You suck.