U.S. troops clash with Shiite militiamen

[ProSense]

U.S. troops clash with Shiite militiamen

1 hour, 15 minutes ago

BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. troops clashed with Shiite militiamen south of Baghdad on Saturday in a three-hour gunbattle in which 15 gunmen and an Iraqi soldier were killed, U.S. officials and Iraqis said.

Dozens were wounded in the firefight in Musayyib, about 40 miles south of Baghdad. It appeared the battle was part of a systematic campaign against the militia of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, blamed for much of the sectarian violence sweeping the country.

Sheik Jalil al-Nouri, an aide to al-Sadr, said U.S. troops attacked the cleric's local office in Musayyib and killed 14 of his followers. A U.S. statement said 15 gunmen and one Iraqi soldier were killed but made no mention of the Mahdi militia.

According to the U.S. account, the firefight began when gunmen attacked a U.S.-Iraqi patrol with rocket-propelled grenades and small-arms fire near a Shiite mosque. One militiaman was killed in the initial exchange of fire.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060723/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_clash

[TomInTib]

1. Fan, meet s**t.

the world is burning.

I am saying an encircling action with a kinetic nucleus around the "Green Zone" (and where did that term come from?) within the next 6 weeks.

[GreenTea]

2. So what are they doing there, and being targets?

Except occupying, (holding the oil fields for corporate profit) and it will go on & on.

SURPORT OUR TROOPS,

NOT THE OCCUPATION,

BRING THEM HOME, NOW!

PLEASE!