Anti-American Sentiment Grows in Iraq Holy City

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=reutersEdge&storyID=5302298

NAJAF, Iraq (Reuters) - Thousands of leaflets urging Najaf's residents to hand in their weapons litter the street near a U.S. tank parked by the governor's office.

Almost all of them have been ripped up.

"People read the leaflet and get annoyed and then deliberately tear it," said Ahmed Mussawi, a tea boy standing opposite the fortified offices, where flyers not caught on the razor wire flutter in the air.

U.S. troops have been able to move more freely in the holy city's main streets since radical cleric Moqtada al- Sadr's truce offer last week led to a reduction in violence after almost two months of clashes that killed hundreds of Iraqis.

Fighting has taken its toll on the once thriving city, scaring away hundreds of thousands of Shi'ite pilgrims from nearby Iran and elsewhere who flocked to its shrines, the most sacred in Shia Islam.

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"We are getting hurt from both sides but the Americans are foreign occupiers and the Mehdi Army remain our people," said Ali Ghuraifi, whose house was damaged by a stray mortar round fired by the Shi'ite rebels.

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NOT.

Love for those besieging and attacking them?

KICK THEIR ASS, TAKE THEIR GAS.

YOUR kids are there kicking in doors, terrorizing children, shooting to kill anything that moves, stealing anything of value, TORTURING those they round up...

Too many of you are fine with this equation but..

Karma is a BITCH.

...next time some more of our buildings get knocked down over here again. Pathetic.

Don