Sadr City

The following is the longest list of ONE DAY violence in Iraq we have EVER posted since starting this blog three months ago. How anyone in their right mind can say things are getting better in Iraq boggles the mind. NEW DEATHS AND INJURIES TO U.S. TROOPS REPORTED HERE: The DoD is reporting a new death previously unreported by the military. Pfc. Antione V. Robinson of injuries sustained when the vehicle he was repairing collapsed in Nawa, Afghanistan, on Wednesday, March 19th. No other details...Read Full Story

Baghdad and Sadr City are exploding with violence and all across Iraq the chaos and mayhem continues and STILL the media in the United States prefers to write about the possibility that Hezbollah will be attacking Israel. Who the hell cares? We don't have a single soldier in Israel. Let them fight their own battles. Our 160,000 troops are in Iraq and 30,000 in Afghanistan and not ISRAEL. Just watch how the US media now turns all their attention to what is taking place in Lebanon and Israel...Read Full Story

As further proof that the U.S. occupation forces in Iraq either do not have the situation under control and/or that the U.S. leadership of the occupation force cares nothing for LGBT lives, reports out of Baghdad indicate that at the urging of Islamic clerics gays are being hunted down and murdered. Meanwhile the allegedly pro-U.S. puppet government in Afghanistan is allowing sharia law to be implemented so as to strip women of legal rights and protections. Frankly, if this is how the...Read Full Story

On one of his first days in America, Hussein Albayati visited the Statue of Liberty. He'd seen photos, of course, but he wanted a firsthand look, so shortly after the former Iraqi translator arrived in this country, he made the trek with a friend, also an Iraqi. "It was really an experience I'll never forget," he says. "Maybe some Americans don't recognize how important this symbol is for people who live under dictatorships." It was the start of Albayati's remarkable journey. He moved from...Read Full Story

A parliamentary committee on Sunday criticized police for raiding an exhibition featuring a cartoon lampooning Iraq's prime minister. Last Thursday, police raided a cartoon exhibition in the Shiite holy city of Karbala and seized a drawing depicting Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki with a long nose trying to repair a car labeled "sectarian distribution of jobs," according to lawmaker Mufid al-Jazairie. Al-Jazaire, who is chairman of the parliamentary education committee, said the raid was a...Read Full Story

U.S. occupation forces have killed more than 800 people, most of them innocent civilians, in their three-week long military campaign to subdue the Mahdi Army in Sadr City, the leader of Sadr movement in Baghdad said. By Laith Jawad http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?fname=news\2008-04-24\kurd.htm Sheikh Salaman al-fariji said the troops have also injured more than 1,800 people and caused large-scale destruction of private property and the city’s rickety infrastructure. Fariji made the...Read Full Story

Three near-simultaneous car bombs rocked crowded market places in eastern Baghdad's impoverished Sadr City district on Wednesday, killing at least 16 people and wounding 45, Iraqi officials said. The blasts near three separate markets in the sprawling Shiite district came during late afternoon rush hour when workers and schoolchildren usually do their shopping before heading home, an interior ministry official said. The bombings occurred within minutes of each other, suggesting they had been...Read Full Story

NEW: U.S. soldier killed in small-arms attack; U.S. death toll at 4,047 Fighting in Shiite neighborhood leaves main market in ruins, agency says Hospitals in area run out of anesthesia and dressing supplies Red Cross supplies 10,000 liters of drinking water daily to Sadr City http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/04/23/iraq.main/index.html BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Weeks of fighting in Baghdad's Sadr City neighborhood have destroyed the main market and isolated civilians from supplies of food and...Read Full Story

At least 41 people were killed and more than 60 wounded in three near-simultaneous car bombs in market places in Baghdad's Sadr city on Wednesday, interior and defence ministry officials said. The blasts near three separate markets in the sprawling Shiite district came during late afternoon rush hour when workers and schoolchildren usually do their shopping before heading home, an interior ministry official said. The bombings occurred within minutes of each other, suggesting they had been...Read Full Story

More indications Iraq is well on the way to an all out CIVIL WAR. Sadr militia seizes parts of S.Iraq town-police 25 Mar 2008 12:26:20 GMT 25 Mar 2008 12:26:20 GMTSource: Reuters http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L25698078.htm (KUT, Iraq, March 25 (Reuters) - Armed followers of Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr seized control of five districts in the southern Iraqi town of Kut on Tuesday, police sources said. The sources said Sadr's Mehdi Army militia were in control of the Jihad, Shuhada...Read Full Story