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posted by Sander : 15:37 [print]

Sjiïtisch gebied	Soennitisch gebied
28-04-2004
The U.S.-led civil administration in Iraq closed the Baghdad newspaper Al Hawsa for 60 days, accusing its publishers of inciting violence against coalition troops. The paper is published by followers of prominent Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.
31-04-2004
Several thousand Iraqis protested the closure of a newspaper Sunday, chanting anti-U.S. slogans and burning American flags outside the newspaper's office in Baghdad.	In a scene reminiscent of Somalia, frenzied crowds dragged the burned, mutilated bodies of four American contractors through the streets of a town west of Baghdad on Wednesday and strung two of them up from a bridge after rebels ambushed their SUVs.
01-04-2004
	The top U.S. administrator in Iraq said Thursday that the deaths and mutilation of four American contractors in Fallujah "will not go unpunished," and a U.S. general vowed an "overwhelming" response.
02-04-2004
Mustafa al-Yacoubi, a senior aide to al-Sadr, was arrested in connection with the murder of Abdel-Majid al-Khoei, a rival Shiite cleric.
03-04-2004
(...) about 3,000 people demonstrated in the holy city of Najaf, south of Baghdad, to protest the earlier detention of Mustafa al-Yacoubi, a senior al-Sadr aide. Other movement officials reported the arrest, but the U.S. military could not confirm his detention.
04-04-2004
At least 50 Iraqis, ten US troops and one Salvadoran soldier died in one of the worst days of violence in Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein.
05-04-2004
U.S. helicopters blasted targets in Baghdad Monday as a showdown intensified with radical Shi'ite militiamen challenging America's postwar blueprint for Iraq.	Hundreds of U.S. and Iraqi troops in tanks, trucks and other vehicles surrounded the turbulent city of Fallujah on Monday ahead of a major operation against insurgents following the grisly slayings of four American security contractors last week.

UPDATE: N.i.e.t. g.o.e.d.

"Two Apaches opened fire on armed members of the Mehdi Army," said Showla resident Abbas Amid.

The fighting erupted when five trucks of US soldiers and the Iraqi Civil Defense Corps (ICDC) tried to enter the district and were attacked by Sadr supporters, Amid said.

Coming under fire, the ICDC, a paramilitary force trained by the Americans, turned on the US soldiers and started to shoot at them, according to Amid.

The soldiers fled their vehicles and headed for cover and then began to battle both the Mehdi Army and the ICDC members, he said. Their vehicles were set ablaze.

Nogmaals: Toen de Iraakse troepen - door de Amerikanen getraind - onder vuur kwamen door het verzet, keerden ze zich tegen de Amerikanen! De laatste tijd kwam er redelijk wat goed nieuws uit Irak, maar dit... is niet goed.

maandag, april 05, 2004