U.S. Forces Retake Shi'ite Town (Kut) in Iraq - Reuters

VolcanoJen

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Fri Apr-09-04 03:20 AM
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U.S. Forces Retake Shi'ite Town (Kut) in Iraq - Reuters

http://wireservice.wired.com/wired/story.asp?section=Breaking&storyId=848642

Friday, April 09, 2004 3:30 a.m. ET

KUT, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S.-led troops retook control of the eastern Iraqi town of Kut on Friday, witnesses said, two days after Ukrainian forces withdrew from the city center after clashes with Shi'ite militiamen.

Residents said American soldiers were in control of the center of the town, 170 km (105 miles) southeast of Baghdad, and convoys of U.S. armored vehicles were seen on roads to the area.

Reuters television pictures showed the Kut office of radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr in ruins after coming under attack.

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aneerkoinos

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Fri Apr-09-04 04:12 AM
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1. Mahdi army ordered not to fight

Sadr is following Sistani's fatwa to abstain from violence. Will Bremer also obey?

http://www.juancole.com/

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zwielicht

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Fri Apr-09-04 05:33 AM
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4. that's good news

Edited on Fri Apr-09-04 05:38 AM by zwielicht

more here: http://healingiraq.blogspot.com/

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Cessna Invesco Palin

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Fri Apr-09-04 04:35 AM
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2. ?

What the hell just happened? Stand-down in Fallujah, and now this.

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JCMach1

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Fri Apr-09-04 04:44 AM
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3. Not really taken...

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Fri Apr-09-04 05:33 AM
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5. More edgy nervous war talk as more are about to die

Propaganda flies wildly - junior and his crime cabal tries to impose it's will on a nation that it does not understand, much like the way he imposed his tax cuts to aid the wealthy.

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