tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8852689.post3736072317201652358..comments2007-11-30T10:39:22.575-08:00Gateway Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17121297616038595622noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8852689.post-59778089733136532122007-11-30T10:39:00.000-08:002007-11-30T10:39:00.000-08:002007-11-30T10:39:00.000-08:00Why can't two men in love get married?Da Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16650266575562746588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8852689.post-1880805686119648982007-11-30T07:11:00.000-08:002007-11-30T07:11:00.000-08:002007-11-30T07:11:00.000-08:00Interesting how the Sunnis have stepped up to defend themselves...<BR/><BR/>How many of you have seen this story in the MSM sphere?<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/focusoniraq/2007/November/focusoniraq_November70.xml&section=focusoniraq" REL="nofollow"><STRONG>Qaeda chased from last Baghdad bastion</STRONG></A><BR/><BR/>16 November 2007<BR/><BR/>BAGHDAD - An armed Sunni group has ended Al-Qaeda’s tight two-year grip on north Baghdad’s volatile Adhamiyah neighbourhood and is now in control, an AFP correspondent witnessed on Friday.<BR/><BR/>A local militia calling itself the “revolutionaries of Adhamiyah” took over the Sunni district on the east bank of the Tigris on November 10 in a swift and audacious raid that sent Al-Qaeda fleeing from its last stronghold in Baghdad.<BR/><BR/>On Friday, members of the “revolutionaries of Adhamiyah” controlled main roads into the neighbourhood as well the square housing the famous Abu Hanifa mosque where Saddam Hussein made his last public appearance before fleeing Baghdad in 2003 as US-led forces invaded the country.<BR/><BR/>A Sunni bastion encircled by Shiite districts, Adhamiyah had been one of the most dangerous areas of Baghdad, under the tight control of Al Qaeda “emirs”.<BR/><BR/>The AFP correspondent said the neighbourhood was calm with the streets taken over by men wearing dark grey shirts and toting light weapons, Kalashnikovs and machine guns.<BR/><BR/>There was no sign of any Iraqi police or soldiers as militiamen, most of them in their early twenties, manned makeshift checkpoints, demanding at gunpoint identification from all motorists and passersby.<BR/><BR/>They were operating without hindrance by the US military, who were patrolling the streets in armoured vehicles. (<I>there is more</I>)juandoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01656743466655157652noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8852689.post-60021376535904289342007-11-30T07:08:00.000-08:002007-11-30T07:08:00.000-08:002007-11-30T07:08:00.000-08:00their honeymoon may happen in jail, and not the good way.The Spookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18405431362186557247noreply@blogger.com