Iraqi boy killed, four wounded in clash with US forces in Baghdad

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Wed Aug-13-03 11:05 AM
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Iraqi boy killed, four wounded in clash with US forces in Baghdad

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20030813/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_us_clash_shiite&cid=1514&ncid=1480

BAGHDAD (AFP) - An Iraqi boy was killed and at least four people wounded, a religious leader and witnesses said, in the first clash between US forces and Shiite Muslims in Baghdad since the war to oust Saddam Hussein.

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jenk

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Wed Aug-13-03 11:07 AM
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1. it's the first, it won't be the last

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malachi

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Wed Aug-13-03 11:10 AM
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2. Misshun Akomplished

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Beetwasher

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Wed Aug-13-03 11:15 AM
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3. It's all about winning the hearts and minds!

Keep killing their children, that'll do it...

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THX1138

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Wed Aug-13-03 11:49 AM
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4. Killing Shiites now?

Children no less. Smart Chimpy. Real smart.

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catmandu57

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Wed Aug-13-03 11:56 AM
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5. Anyone see the suicide bomber report?

It was on CBS I believe, The Iraqis reportedly have 5000 suicide bombers ready to kill americans when their imans give them the word, this I think will shout go.

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pinniped

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Wed Aug-13-03 11:59 AM
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6. I saw their motivational seminar on the tube the other day.

Edited on Wed Aug-13-03 11:59 AM by sfg25

I think they are serious.

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pinniped

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Wed Aug-13-03 12:05 PM
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7. Guess freedom to fly their flag wasn't part of the deal.

Edited on Wed Aug-13-03 12:06 PM by sfg25

"Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr, and other witnesses said the violence flared in the morning after US efforts to remove a black Sadr flag from a communications tower."

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Rose Siding

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Wed Aug-13-03 12:06 PM
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8. This was all over removing a flag?!

Where is the perspective? This is so out of control.

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fizzana

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Wed Aug-13-03 12:26 PM
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9. Don't you get the feeling that the really bad stuff hasn't even

begun to happen.

The rule with foreigners occupying Afghanistan has always been that the first year is the easiest. It gets progressively worse from there. This held true for the British, for the Russians and now for the coalition.

The same will be true of Iraq. Not only will the Shiites now get involved but Iraq is drawing radical Islamic terrorists from a 3,000 mile radius and the U.S. are powerless to stop them coming in.

This is looking more and more like a game of "whack-a-mole" and there is only one result in that game. You're eventually overwhelmed.

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