On Aug 29, 2006, at 8:35 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> Now, the media's portrayal of Iraq has changed, in accordance with the
> change in US strategy on the Middle East, and the main problem in Iraq
> is made out to be not Sunni guerrillas and terrorists but Shi'i
> militias.
So was this battle just an invention of the capitalist hyena press, or does it not really matter much?
<http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/29/world/middleeast/29iraq.html? _r=1&ref=world&oref=slogin> Radical Militia and Iraqi Army in Fierce Battle
By DAMIEN CAVE and EDWARD WONG Published: August 29, 2006 BAGHDAD, Iraq, Aug. 28 — At least 20 gunmen and 8 civilians were killed Monday when the Iraqi Army battled fiercely for hours with members of a militia loyal to Moktada al-Sadr, the radical Shiite cleric, in Diwaniya, Iraqi officials said.
The violence, which one Iraqi general said included militiamen executing Iraqi soldiers in a public square, amounted to the most brazen clashes in recent memory between Iraqi government forces and Mr. Sadr’s militia.
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