US says it has no plans to besiege Iraq's Sadr City

[Barrett808]

Source: AFP

US says it has no plans to besiege Iraq's Sadr City
by Hassan Jouini

BAGHDAD (AFP) - American and Iraqi forces building a wall in Sadr City have no plans to besiege the east Baghdad Shiite bastion where they have been battling militiamen for weeks, a US general said on Thursday.

"Our purpose is to secure only the southern part of Sadr City, to prevent rockets being fired towards the Green Zone from the area," Major General Jeffery Hammond, commander of US forces in Baghdad, told a news conference.

His comments came amid angry demands in parliament by members of the political bloc of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, whose militiamen dominate Sadr City, that the "siege" of the area be lifted.

"People are dying every day because of the siege. Parliament must oppose the operation and call for it to be halted immediately," MP Falah Shanshal told the assembly.

Hammond said the aim of military operations was to prevent "criminals and terrorists" firing rockets and mortars.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080424/wl_mideast_afp/iraqunrestussadrcity

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So...get ready for the siege.

[Lerkfish]

1. which of course means we will do so.

putzes.

[TomInTib]

2. Whose theory is that?

There is a DUer who says that to understand the true intent of any statement by the US Military, all one needs to do is remove the negative words (like "no").

Therefore.... :

"US says it has no plans to besiege Iraq's Sadr City"

really means...

"US says it has plans to besiege Iraq's Sadr City"

[balantz]

3. Haven't they already been doing that for quite some time now?

I mean, the whole pitiful country is under seige!

[ConcernedCanuk]

4. And I should believe what the US says, why? - 5 years, no WMD's in Iraq.

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Well, actually there is now, with all the Depleted Uranium being spread around Iraq by the USA's war-machine.

Even Afghanistan is noting severe birth defects in areas after USA's bombings during Clinton's Administration.

Birth defects in Iraq are up 400% since Gulf War One.

Coincidence?

I think not.

It's Genocide

Depleted Uranium is the USAmerican version of German Gas Chambers,

but much deadlier.

The DU spread around by the USA will be killing for centuries.

And the PNAC gang know that.

[annabanana]

5. Yeah.. . And B*sh "had no plans" to attack Iraq. . .

They just do stuff... they NEVER have plans..