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Freeze on Shi'ite crackdown



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PRIME minister Nouri al-Maliki ordered a nationwide freeze on raids against Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army only one day after promising to expand the crackdown to Baghdad.
The statement came less than 24 hours after al-Maliki, right, told reporters he intended to launch security operations against Mahdi Army strongholds in Baghdad, including Sadr City, home to some 2.5 million Shi'ites and the militia's largest base.

The decision comes after a week in which 1,000 members of the Iraqi Army deserted rather than continue an offensive against the Mahdi Army in Basra. An estimated 700 people were killed and more than 1,500 were wounded in fighting that erupted after the Basra crackdown.





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  • Last Updated: 05 April 2008 8:09 PM
  • Source: Scotland On Sunday
  • Location: Scotland
  • Related Topics: Iraq
 
1

American,

07/04/2008 01:36:45
No wonder why progress is so slow over there.
2

Lynne,

Palm Beach Gardens 07/04/2008 02:46:40
I agree...do it, finish it, or don't start it.
3

Foulkes Off the CyberNat,

Edinburgh 13/04/2008 10:11:00
An estimated 700 people were killed and more than 1,500 were wounded in fighting that erupted after the Basra crackdown.

Hey Daithi
Did somebody no argue the other day that the surge was supposed to decrease the casualty rate in Iraq???
Have you found out what a surge is and what its supposed to do yet??

4

Foulkes Off the CyberNat,

13/04/2008 12:58:14
Interesting wee comment on the other page 7 UK soldiers killed by the same rifle

SEVEN British soldiers were shot in Basra last year by the same sniper rifle, the Ministry of Defence said last night.

The soldiers were picked off on the streets of the southern Iraqi city over several months.

A spokesman for the MoD said Rifleman Aaron Lincoln, 18, Kingsman Danny Wilson, 28, Kingsman Alan Jones, 20, Corporal Rodney Wilson, 30, Rifleman Paul Donnachie, 18, and two others who have not yet been named, were all killed by the same weapon.

But the MoD spokesman said he could not verify that a single gunman was responsible for the killing.

Earlier yesterday, an inquest into the death of Rifleman Lincoln of the 2nd Battalion, The Rifles, heard that he died from a single bullet wound while he was on patrol on 2 April, 2007.

The court heard that the American-made high velocity bullet penetrated his protective glasses and helmet.

Ann Kiernan, a ballistics expert of LGC Forensics, told the inquest in Spennymoor, Co Durham: "There had been six incidents from March to June where projectiles had all been discharged from the same rifle," she said. She added that the bullets were manufactured in the US by Lake City Arsenal.

Conspiricy theorists can have a field day with a story like that.

 

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