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The view from Iraq

Over at Healing Iraq Zeyad has a long report on the insurrection and a message for America:

Sadr's aide and head of his office in Najaf, Qays Al-Khaz'ali, has declared the latest looting and killing spree going on in several Iraqi southern cities as an Intifada against the occupation. Speaking on behalf of Muqtada, he stated that they will certainly not calm down any soon because the Quran orders them not to[.]

Anyway, it seems that fighting is ongoing in Sadr city, northeast of Baghdad. A total of 110 Iraqis and 19 coalition soldiers killed in the last 12 hours according to Al-Jazeera, which I have never witnessed being any more hateful and provocative until this day. They keep displaying headlines like 'Occupation forces target more women and children in Sadr city' or 'Resistance in Fallujah forces occupation forces to withdraw from locations'.

No one knows where it is all heading. If this uprising is not crushed immediately and those militia not captured then there is no hope at all. If you even consider negotiations or appeasement, then we are all doomed.

As they say, read the whole thing.

UPDATE: And Salem Pax is blogging once again. He seems to have rediscovered the reasons why the US is in Iraq:

You have to be careful about what you say about al-Sadir. Their hands reach every where and you don't want to be on their shit list. Every body, even the GC is very careful how they formulate their sentences and how they describe Sadir's Militias. They are thugs, thugs thugs. There you have it.

And then there's this thorough dissing of al Jazeera over at Hammorabi:

While writing these lines I am watching the fu*king TV of Al Jazeera which inflame the situation as if the whole world going into a 4th world war! They send the Wahabi journalist Ahmed Mansor who is a very poisonous man. He broadcast from Fullojah and he just injected his poison describing GWB to face the same fate of his father. The other one interviewed is a retired general from Egypt who is another poison injector. We always pointed out and again we repeat here that the Arab Al Jazeera and Al Arabyiah are poisnous channels have a negative influence on the Iraqi ordinary man and unfortunately no one applied any pressure on them or the government which support them. They need a serious and real warning or better shut them off.

Posted by Kevin Murphy at April 7, 2004 06:21 PM | TrackBack