Things are going so well in Baghdad that they are digging trenches around it?
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Baghdad to be ringed with trenches as hundreds more killed
by Jay Deshmukh1 hour, 28 minutes ago
Iraq has said it will ring Baghdad with trenches in a bid to restrict movements of insurgents, as more than 100 people were reported killed in sectarian attacks in the past three days.
The US military, meanwhile, announced Friday that one of its soldiers had gone missing after two others were killed in a deadly suicide car bomb attack on Thursday that also wounded 30.
The new security measures were spelled out Friday by Interior Ministry spokesman Brigadier General Abdel Karim Khalaf.
"We will surround the city with trenches," Khalaf told AFP. "The entry to the capital will be permitted through 28 roads as against 21 at the moment, but at the same time we will seal off dozens of other minor roads with access to Baghdad."
He said checkpoints will be set up on the 28 roads on which access will be allowed.
Another top security official told AFP that the plan was to "monitor who is coming into Baghdad and who is going out.
"This way we will have a better control of movements, including those of insurgents."
Baghdad has a circumference of 80 kilometres (50 miles) and observers noted that an operation of this scale would take months to complete.
The latest measure comes after insurgents and death squads continue to kill dozens of people daily despite a massive Iraq and US security plan -- Operation Together Forward -- in place since mid-June.
More than 30,000 troops are patrolling the capital's streets to restore stability.
The latest bout of communal bloodletting saw more than 100 people killed in the past three days, with their bullet-riddled corpses recovered from the streets, according to officials Friday.
Pointing a finger at Shiite death squads, Iraq's top Sunni leader Adnan al-Dulaimi said that "well-known militias" were behind the killings that he warned were propelling the country towards "disaster."
US and Iraqi security officials said most of the newly recovered corpses were shot dead execution-style, with bullets to their heads and many showing signs of torture.
Khalaf told AFP that 51 bodies had been recovered in Baghdad in the past 24 hours. He said some of them had been killed in "criminal activities."
On Thursday, police reported finding 20 corpses and on Wednesday 64 bodies were registered by the capital's morgues.
"A large portion of those are murder, execution-style type activity. It is associated with sectarian violence," US military spokesman Major General William Caldwell told reporters on Thursday.
Sunni Arab leaders have regularly charged that the sectarian killings are carried out by militias linked to Shiite political parties who dominate the parliament.
"If strong measures are not taken soon, the country is going towards disaster and no one would be saved," said Dulaimi, a lawmaker and head of the National Concord Front, Iraq's largest Sunni parliamentary bloc.
"These well-known militias are pushing the country to the edge of catastrophe," he said, referring to armed groups close to radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq.
Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister Barham Saleh also said in Washington on Thursday that militias such as those linked with Sadr were posing "serious challenge" to Iraq.
"There are discussions with Moqtada al-Sadr and other political leaders in the country that they all have to make a choice."
"Either they are part of the political process and renounce arms and integrate into the country's political system and governing institutions, or that present situation will not be acceptable," he said.
The US military said in a statement Friday that the soldier went missing when a suicide car bomber detonated his vehicle next to a "hardened structure" west of Baghdad. It did not elaborate.
"A multinational divison Baghdad soldier has been reported as Duty Status Whereabouts Unknown (missing) following an incident reported yesterday," the statement said.
Another soldier still missing since the US-led invasion is Staff Sergeant Keith Maupin, who disappeared from Abu Ghraib in 2004.
In the past two days, seven US troops have been killed across Iraq, taking the total US military death toll since the March 2003 invasion to 2,677, according to an AFP count based on Pentagon figures.
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by Jay Deshmukh1 hour, 28 minutes ago
Iraq has said it will ring Baghdad with trenches in a bid to restrict movements of insurgents, as more than 100 people were reported killed in sectarian attacks in the past three days.
The US military, meanwhile, announced Friday that one of its soldiers had gone missing after two others were killed in a deadly suicide car bomb attack on Thursday that also wounded 30.
The new security measures were spelled out Friday by Interior Ministry spokesman Brigadier General Abdel Karim Khalaf.
"We will surround the city with trenches," Khalaf told AFP. "The entry to the capital will be permitted through 28 roads as against 21 at the moment, but at the same time we will seal off dozens of other minor roads with access to Baghdad."
He said checkpoints will be set up on the 28 roads on which access will be allowed.
Another top security official told AFP that the plan was to "monitor who is coming into Baghdad and who is going out.
"This way we will have a better control of movements, including those of insurgents."
Baghdad has a circumference of 80 kilometres (50 miles) and observers noted that an operation of this scale would take months to complete.
The latest measure comes after insurgents and death squads continue to kill dozens of people daily despite a massive Iraq and US security plan -- Operation Together Forward -- in place since mid-June.
More than 30,000 troops are patrolling the capital's streets to restore stability.
The latest bout of communal bloodletting saw more than 100 people killed in the past three days, with their bullet-riddled corpses recovered from the streets, according to officials Friday.
Pointing a finger at Shiite death squads, Iraq's top Sunni leader Adnan al-Dulaimi said that "well-known militias" were behind the killings that he warned were propelling the country towards "disaster."
US and Iraqi security officials said most of the newly recovered corpses were shot dead execution-style, with bullets to their heads and many showing signs of torture.
Khalaf told AFP that 51 bodies had been recovered in Baghdad in the past 24 hours. He said some of them had been killed in "criminal activities."
On Thursday, police reported finding 20 corpses and on Wednesday 64 bodies were registered by the capital's morgues.
"A large portion of those are murder, execution-style type activity. It is associated with sectarian violence," US military spokesman Major General William Caldwell told reporters on Thursday.
Sunni Arab leaders have regularly charged that the sectarian killings are carried out by militias linked to Shiite political parties who dominate the parliament.
"If strong measures are not taken soon, the country is going towards disaster and no one would be saved," said Dulaimi, a lawmaker and head of the National Concord Front, Iraq's largest Sunni parliamentary bloc.
"These well-known militias are pushing the country to the edge of catastrophe," he said, referring to armed groups close to radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq.
Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister Barham Saleh also said in Washington on Thursday that militias such as those linked with Sadr were posing "serious challenge" to Iraq.
"There are discussions with Moqtada al-Sadr and other political leaders in the country that they all have to make a choice."
"Either they are part of the political process and renounce arms and integrate into the country's political system and governing institutions, or that present situation will not be acceptable," he said.
The US military said in a statement Friday that the soldier went missing when a suicide car bomber detonated his vehicle next to a "hardened structure" west of Baghdad. It did not elaborate.
"A multinational divison Baghdad soldier has been reported as Duty Status Whereabouts Unknown (missing) following an incident reported yesterday," the statement said.
Another soldier still missing since the US-led invasion is Staff Sergeant Keith Maupin, who disappeared from Abu Ghraib in 2004.
In the past two days, seven US troops have been killed across Iraq, taking the total US military death toll since the March 2003 invasion to 2,677, according to an AFP count based on Pentagon figures.
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My whole life
was like a picture
of a sunny day
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
― Abraham Lincoln
was like a picture
of a sunny day
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
― Abraham Lincoln
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I sure hope the relics that they find while digging up the old country end up back on ebay. My house is starting to look like the beginning of time.You've changed your place in this world!0
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Trenches ... still a basic staple of modern warfare ... Hopefully there will be barbed wire as well!0
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Who is running the show over there? Trenches? Granted, it will stop tanks... and car bombs... but what about mortar shells?
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And I think it's time we re-assess who we are keeping on our side of the fence. Are the 'new recruits' we are banking on 'standing up' Iraq, former Republican Guard or Fedayen? I mean, what happened to them? They didn't fight our Marines and Calvary... they disappeared into the civilian population. seems like there's more of a rush to increase the quantity of soldiers and disregarding the quality of them.
Do we really know who we are going to be assigning guard duty over the ammo depot inside the Green Zone?Allen Fieldhouse, home of the 2008 NCAA men's Basketball Champions! Go Jayhawks!
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Hope they find thier missing soldier.Stix and Stones may break my bones, but More than Words will never hurt me.0
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It's a good thing we didn't leave that place back in 2004... Man, that place would be a mess right now if we weren't there.Allen Fieldhouse, home of the 2008 NCAA men's Basketball Champions! Go Jayhawks!
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Cosmo wrote:It's a good thing we didn't leave that place back in 2004... Man, that place would be a mess right now if we weren't there.
Imagine the mess if you never had entered there?You've changed your place in this world!0 -
...even flow? wrote:Imagine the mess if you never had entered there?
Oh, man... the humanity.
Nuclear bombs would have blowed up over here and we'd be living under the Mushroom Cloud while Usama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein got gay married in Baghdad.Allen Fieldhouse, home of the 2008 NCAA men's Basketball Champions! Go Jayhawks!
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Cosmo wrote:...
Oh, man... the humanity.
Nuclear bombs would have blowed up over here and we'd be living under the Mushroom Cloud while Usama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein got gay married in Baghdad.
Hussein and Bin Laden.. i dont see a comparison here... were they in contact? mushroom cloud? Iraq's army doesnt have war planes...and bin laden... launching a nuke... i dont think so.
if the comparison is they are brown and lived in the middle east...than thats poor... because AL GORE and GEORGE BUSH... are very different.0 -
Cosmo wrote:...
Oh, man... the humanity.
Nuclear bombs would have blowed up over here and we'd be living under the Mushroom Cloud while Usama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein got gay married in Baghdad.
You never fail to give me a laugh. And on a Friday as I am leaving work. Beautiful.
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Come on guy, have you all not seen South Park, Saddam and Satan are the fags.Stix and Stones may break my bones, but More than Words will never hurt me.0
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macgyver06 wrote:Hussein and Bin Laden.. i dont see a comparison here... were they in contact? mushroom cloud? Iraq's army doesnt have war planes...and bin laden... launching a nuke... i dont think so.
if the comparison is they are brown and lived in the middle east...than thats poor... because AL GORE and GEORGE BUSH... are very different.
Here's a roll of duct tape and a swiss army knife MacGyver... make yourself a sense of humor.My whole life
was like a picture
of a sunny day
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
― Abraham Lincoln0 -
blackredyellow wrote:Here's a roll of duct tape and a swiss army knife MacGyver... make yourself a sense of humor.
macgyver doen't mess around!! 0 -
Better yet...why not fill the trench with water and devise a "moat protection system" that will SURELY deter violence......
You know nothing illustrates freedom better than trenches around your city......0 -
Rockin'InCanada wrote:Better yet...why not fill the trench with water and devise a "moat protection system" that will SURELY deter violence......
You know nothing illustrates freedom better than trenches around your city......
since we seem to be going backwards...can we have a princess at least?
i choose queen Rania...shes hot!0 -
Wow... I don't know anymore. Funny, we're just learning about Trench Warfare in History today.Believe me, when I was growin up, I thought the worst thing you could turn out to be was normal, So I say freaks in the most complementary way. Here's a song by a fellow freak - E.V0
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digging trenches? Now that's what you call old school.
Why don't they just do what the zionists do, build a giant wall with lasers on it? ooops I mean small fence with love beams.0 -
from what I understand, they will be filling the moat with freedom and resolve...0
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