Monday, April 05, 2004
Iraq clusterfuck escalating
Not good....
Eesh. I wonder what the plan is, here? (And, at this point, I'd really like to hear what Kerry has to say.)
Meanwhile, US Apache helicopters sprayed fire on the private army of radical Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr during fierce battles on the western Baghdad district of Al-Showla, witnesses and an AFP correspondent said.
"Two Apaches opened fire on armed members of the Mehdi Army," said Showla resident Abbas Amid.
The fighting erupted when five trucks of US soldiers and the Iraqi Civil Defence Corps (ICDC) tried to enter the district and were attacked by Sadr supporters, Amid said.
Coming under fire, the ICDC, a paramilitary force trained by the Americans, turned on the US soldiers and started to shoot at them, according to Amid.
(via iafrica.com from Atrios)
Eesh. I wonder what the plan is, here? (And, at this point, I'd really like to hear what Kerry has to say.)
