Gunmen stage parades in Iraqi towns

[Rose Siding]

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Al-Qaida-linked gunmen staged military-like parades yesterday in a string of towns west of Baghdad, underlining the growing confidence of Sunni insurgents in a part of Iraq where U.S. and Iraqi forces maintain a heavy counterinsurgency presence.

Like the audacious show of force by up to 60 insurgents in the city of Ramadi on Wednesday, the latest parades - including two less than a mile from U.S. military bases - were staged in support of an announcement this week by a militant Sunni Arab group that it had created an Islamic state in six of Iraq’s 18 provinces, including the capital, Baghdad.
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In Haditha, where anti-U.S. sentiment runs high since Marines allegedly killed 24 civilians to avenge the death of one of their own last fall, masked gunmen riding in at least 20 sedans and pickup trucks paraded undisturbed in the heart of the town for about 30 minutes.

The town, 140 miles northwest of Baghdad, has not had a police force for much of the past three years, and the U.S. military at a nearby base did not intervene....Shops on the street where the parade was held remained open, and none of the shoppers appeared intimidated or worried by the presence of the gunmen.

http://www.columbiatribune.com/2006/Oct/20061021News016.asp

[annabanana]

1. B*sh apologists are the "Bahdad Bob" of today..

They look increasingly foolish (if possible). Now even the rest of America can see the naked emperor

[aquart]

2. It's over. Time to pack up and go home.

[rodeodance]

4. yes. this is huge--The US has lost the war----I was thinking of this

last evening. Gave me pause.

[Ian David]

3. I was disapointed that they couldn't fly the Snoopy balloon this year. n/t

[rodeodance]

5. and this occures right under our troops noses.

[Warren Stupidity]

6. Bullshit Media System won't report until Nov 8, War Over We Lost.

They are right now ignoring the stunning collapse of our Battle of Baghdad and the now open partition of Iraq.

[thinks4herself]

7. But, but, Cheney just told Limbaugh that things were swell!

Ha! Bush is not imposing his will on the Iraqi people, and it doesn't matter if he "stays the course" for 2 more years or not. The Neocon plan is imploding right before everyone's eyes.


http://www.blackheartscrooksliars.com">Black Hearts

[dipsydoodle]

8. Was it like this ?