and the 'optimistic' news from Iraqi from your liberal press.

U.S. Losing Patience, Senators Tell Iraqis

By VANESSA ARRINGTON, Associated Press Writer1 hour, 18 minutes ago


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060326/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq&printer=1;_ylt=Ai8N_K9JYC8VS.E7l8xMJTMUewgF;_ylu=X3oDMTA3MXN1bHE0BHNlYwN0bWE-

In other violence Saturday, according to police:

• A female teacher was killed by Iraqi soldiers as she drove past their convoy in Baghdad.

• A Sunni mosque preacher was killed by gunmen when he stopped to have his car repaired in west Baghdad.

• Gunmen killed a man driving with his family and wounded his two sons in the capital.

• A bomb exploded in a traffic police hut near the Iraqi Finance Ministry in north Baghdad, killing four civilians and wounding five people, including a traffic policeman.

• Gunmen killed three people in the northern city of Mosul.

• A roadside bomb killed two people in Balabroz, 55 miles northeast of Baghdad.

• Drive-by gunmen killed the bodyguard of the head of Basra's Sunni Endowment, the organization that oversees the sect's religious property in the predominantly Shiite southern city.

We throw a temper tantrum? We nuke the place? We invade another country? :shrug:

:popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn:

Militants threat to 'watch' reporters

AN IRAQI militant group which killed an Italian reporter in 2004 said it was watching foreign journalists but would only kill those it considers to be spies for its U.S.-led enemies.

Al Jazeera television broadcast an interview overnight with a man it described as the spokesman of the Islamic Army in Iraq, who accused the United States of responsibility for the car bombs that have killed thousands of civilians since 2003.

"The security bodies of the Islamic Army ... follow them constantly or at least keep watch and occasionally a journalist or another falls into their hands," said the man, who was identified as Ibrahim al-Shemmari.

The man described Enzo Baldoni, the Italian journalist killed by his group in 2004, as a spy.

http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,54... ^1702,00.html

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I have 600 suicide bombers waiting for your soldiers
By Massoud Ansari -- The Telegraph
Sunday, March 26, 2006
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The senior Taliban commander in Afghanistan's lawless Helmand province has vowed to unleash a brigade of 600 suicide bombers against the British Army when it arrives in the area this summer.
In a rare interview given at a hideout on the Pakistani border, Mullah Razayar Noorzai said the chance to take on British troops was a "great honour". Taliban commanders had already recruited hundreds of willing martyrs for suicide operations, he claimed, aiming to repeat the notorious defeats inflicted on British troops in Afghanistan during Victorian times.
A price of $2,000 (£1,150) has also been put on the head of any captured Westerner - a bounty that threatens a re-run of the Iraq-style kidnappings and beheadings.
"We are happy that they are coming to Helmand," said Mullah Razayar, who lost a leg while fighting the Russians in the 1980s. "It is both a trial and a great honour for all Muslims. We will now get a fair chance to kill them.
"We have already prepared 600 suicide bombers alone for the Helmand, and you'll see that we will turn it into their graveyard."
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