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General Kimmit has announced U.S. will now be systematically exterminating the Mahdi Army, that is 10,000 men in the lowest estimate(throw in about 10,000 give or take collateral damage)--that could be 20,0000 people, or about 7times more than those killed in the Twin Towers of people that had nothing to do with the Twin Towers---but mind you this NOT terrorism, this is democracy in action as we are a good country.
So may the Bush Enthusiastic Scum repeat
This is called democracy, it is good, we are good, we are America!



<<US vows to wipe out cleric's army


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3607177.stm
Sadr's Mehdi Army is thought to have about 10,000 members
The US military in Iraq has vowed to "destroy" the militia which backs a radical Shia cleric responsible for much of the latest wave of violence.
US-led forces are already conducting operations against Moqtada Sadr's Mehdi Army, said a US military spokesman.

More than 100 Iraqis have died in three days of clashes in areas to the west and south of the capital, Baghdad.

About 20 coalition troops have also been killed, including 12 US marines in a single attack in the town of Ramadi.


Mr Sadr's Mehdi Army was created in the summer of 2003 and is thought to have up to 10,000 members.


Other developments:


Eight Iraqis are killed in clashes with US troops during a demonstration near the northern city of Kirkuk, police say.

Ukrainian troops pull out of the southern town of Kut after clashes with Mehdi Army militants.

A US military helicopter is hit by small arms fire near the central town Baquba. The Americans say there are no reports of injuries.

At least 36 Iraqis are said to have been killed in the past 24 hours in the flashpoint town of Falluja.

Four Iraqis are reported to have been killed by US air strikes in Baghdad's Sadr City neighbourhood - up to 60 estimated to have been killed since Monday.

Precise attacks

"In the central and southern regions of Iraq, the coalition and Iraqi security forces are conducting operations to destroy the Mehdi Army," US Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt told a news conference in Baghdad.

MEHDI ARMY

Named after Mehdi - the "promised one" in Islam
Created in summer of 2003 - the first Shia militia to organise on the ground (edit:misinformation--they were in formation before the war began-WL)
Fewer than 10,000 members( edit: and 10times that not in uniforms, is likely--WL)
Ideology: defend Muslim faith(edit: can't have that!!!---wipe them out!--WL)


Mehdi Army
Profile: Radical cleric
In quotes: Moqtada Sadr
"Those attacks will be deliberate, precise and they will be successful." (edit: We kill efficiently, therefore this is NOT terrorism, this is good, clean, precise--like when Nazis cleansed a Ghetto--this is America, a great country--WL)


An arrest warrant has been issued for the cleric on charges unrelated to the current violence.

Map of recent uprisings
Mr Sadr is currently surrounded by his gunmen who appear to control the holy city of Najaf.

They also control the towns of Kufa and Kut.

US troops have kept out of those cities, but are trying to hunt down the militiamen in the mainly Shia neighbourhood of Sadr City in Baghdad.

"If he [Mr Sadr] wants to calm the situation... he can turn himself in to a local Iraqi police station and he can face justice," Gen Kimmitt said.

War footing

The action by the Shias was triggered by the closure of Mr Sadr's al-Hawza newspaper a week ago on the grounds that it was inciting violence.(edit: this is called freedom of the press.WL)

The Shia-led violence has opened a second front for US-led coalition troops who had previously been confronting mainly Sunni supporters of the former Iraqi leader, Saddam Hussein. >>