Doug Henwood Talks

On Aug 29, 2006, at 8:35 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:

Now, the media’s portrayal of Iraq has changed, in accordance with the change in US strategy on the Middle East, and the main problem in Iraq is made out to be not Sunni guerrillas and terrorists but Shi’i militias.

So was this battle just an invention of the capitalist hyena press,
or does it not really matter much?

Radical Militia and Iraqi Army in Fierce Battle

By DAMIEN CAVE and EDWARD WONG Published: August 29, 2006 BAGHDAD, Iraq, Aug. 28 — At least 20 gunmen and 8 civilians were
killed Monday when the Iraqi Army battled fiercely for hours with
members of a militia loyal to Moktada al-Sadr, the radical Shiite
cleric, in Diwaniya, Iraqi officials said.

The violence, which one Iraqi general said included militiamen
executing Iraqi soldiers in a public square, amounted to the most
brazen clashes in recent memory between Iraqi government forces and
Mr. Sadr’s militia.

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