The Guardian: Under US noses, brutal insurgents rule Sunni citadel

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From The Guardian Unlimited (London)
Dated Monday August 22

Under US noses, brutal insurgents rule Sunni citadel
Guardian gains rare access to Iraqi town and finds it fully in control of 'mujahideen'
By Omer Mahdi in Haditha and Rory Carroll in Baghdad

The executions are carried out at dawn on Haqlania bridge, the entrance to Haditha. A small crowd usually turns up to watch even though the killings are filmed and made available on DVD in the market the same afternoon.

One of last week's victims was a young man in a black tracksuit. Like the others he was left on his belly by the blue iron railings at the bridge's southern end. His severed head rested on his back, facing Baghdad. Children cheered when they heard that the next day's spectacle would be a double bill: two decapitations. A man named Watban and his brother had been found guilty of spying.

With so many alleged American agents dying here Haqlania bridge was renamed Agents' bridge. Then a local wag dubbed it Agents' fridge, evoking a mortuary, and that name has stuck.

A three-day visit by a reporter working for the Guardian last week established what neither the Iraqi government nor the US military has admitted: Haditha, a farming town of 90,000 people by the Euphrates river, is an insurgent citadel.

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Democracy is on the march, they keep saying.

[Warren Stupidity]

1. 2.5 years later SNAFU, no FUBAR, no...

total cluster fuck, no mongolian cluster fuck, no its a Total Goat Fuck! Yes, that describes the situation.

Oh by the way, gas is 2.60+.

Thank you pResident Bu$h.

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2. As Kunstler Says - We Live In A Clusterfuck Nation

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