Scores of people were left killed or wounded and bodies littered the streets of two crowded urban neighborhoods in central Baghdad following a major battle between US occupation forces and city residents Tuesday.
The fighting erupted in the predominantly Sunni Fadhil and Sheikh Omar neighborhoods after what appeared to be deliberate provocation by US-backed Iraqi troops.
According to residents of the area reached by the New York Times, the battle erupted early Tuesday morning after the US and Iraqi puppet forces cordoned off an area and began house-to-houses searches.
“The Iraqi Army raided a mosque and killed two men in front of other worshipers at the early morning prayers”, the Times reported. It quoted Qais Ahhmed, a laborer who lives close to the mosque, as saying that one of those executed was the muezzin, the person chosen to lead the call to prayer.
“Then the locals took their guns and went out to fight the Iraqi Army and the police in reaction to these executions”, Ahmed added.
It was at that point that US troops joined the battle, calling in helicopter gunships to launch air strikes on the neighborhood.
The episode, which has all the earmarks of a deliberate provocation aimed at drawing out opponents of the American occupation in order to slaughter them, provides a revealing glimpse into the reality of the so-called “surge” ordered by the Bush administration. Touted by the White House and the Pentagon as an effort to provide “security” for the residents of Baghdad, the escalation of some 30,000 more troops is, in reality, a last-ditch effort to drown the growing popular resistance to US domination in blood. (Please read:)
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/apr2007/bagh-a12.shtml
Please also see:
FIRST-EVER DOCUMENTS RELEASED
ON CIVILIAN DEATHS CAUSED BY US FORCES
Victims advocacy group says amends to war victims prove lacking
http://www.civicworldwide.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=191&Itemid=58
US to Seal, Gate Baghdad Districts
http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?c=Article_C&cid=1176271702278&pagename=Zone-English-News/NWELayout
The Iraqi resistance only exists to end the occupation
Haifa Zangana The Guardian
The escalating attacks are not usually aimed at civilians, but are a direct response to the brutal actions of US-led troops.
http://www.uruknet.de/?s1=1&p=32058&s2=12
The fighting erupted in the predominantly Sunni Fadhil and Sheikh Omar neighborhoods after what appeared to be deliberate provocation by US-backed Iraqi troops.
According to residents of the area reached by the New York Times, the battle erupted early Tuesday morning after the US and Iraqi puppet forces cordoned off an area and began house-to-houses searches.
“The Iraqi Army raided a mosque and killed two men in front of other worshipers at the early morning prayers”, the Times reported. It quoted Qais Ahhmed, a laborer who lives close to the mosque, as saying that one of those executed was the muezzin, the person chosen to lead the call to prayer.
“Then the locals took their guns and went out to fight the Iraqi Army and the police in reaction to these executions”, Ahmed added.
It was at that point that US troops joined the battle, calling in helicopter gunships to launch air strikes on the neighborhood.
The episode, which has all the earmarks of a deliberate provocation aimed at drawing out opponents of the American occupation in order to slaughter them, provides a revealing glimpse into the reality of the so-called “surge” ordered by the Bush administration. Touted by the White House and the Pentagon as an effort to provide “security” for the residents of Baghdad, the escalation of some 30,000 more troops is, in reality, a last-ditch effort to drown the growing popular resistance to US domination in blood. (Please read:)
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/apr2007/bagh-a12.shtml
Please also see:
FIRST-EVER DOCUMENTS RELEASED
ON CIVILIAN DEATHS CAUSED BY US FORCES
Victims advocacy group says amends to war victims prove lacking
http://www.civicworldwide.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=191&Itemid=58
US to Seal, Gate Baghdad Districts
http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?c=Article_C&cid=1176271702278&pagename=Zone-English-News/NWELayout
The Iraqi resistance only exists to end the occupation
Haifa Zangana The Guardian
The escalating attacks are not usually aimed at civilians, but are a direct response to the brutal actions of US-led troops.
http://www.uruknet.de/?s1=1&p=32058&s2=12