surge update - Crucial Iraqi Oil Pipeline Blown Up

[spanone]

(CBS/AP) A bomb blast destroyed an oil pipeline in the southern Iraqi city of Basra Thursday and rockets continued falling on the U.S.-controlled Green Zone in Baghdad, as suspected Shiite militants continued to defy an order by the country's prime minister to surrender.

Despite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's ultimatum for militia members to lay down their arms and sign an agreement to abandon violence by Friday, government troops in Basra were having trouble making inroads into neighborhoods that the radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army has controlled for years.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/27/iraq/printable3971693.shtml#ccmm

[bdamomma]

1. oh watch cheney having a big one on this.

[Lasher]

7. Nah, he'd say it's a sign of progress.

Besides, he's busy stirring up a war with Iran before January.

[wtmusic]

2. "Sign an agreement to abandon violence"?

That would be funny if it wasn't so sad.

[democrat_patriot]

3. So?

eom.

[Strelnikov_]

4. The beginning of 'The Outlaw Josey Wales' comes to mind . . .

'lay down their arms . . sign an agreement'

[madmom]

5. who blew it up.. Haliburton?

[gasperc]

6. more peace and tranquilty

wow, Bush is delusional

[w8liftinglady]

8. did you know there is an Iraq Pipeline watch group?

http://www.iags.org/iraqpipelinewatch.htm