"Fierce streetfighting at my doorstep for the last 3 hours"

[kpete]

Friday, February 24, 2006

Fierce streetfighting at my doorstep for the last 3 hours. Rumor in the neighbourhood is that men in black are trying to enter the area. Some armed kids defending the local mosque three blocks away are splattering bullets at everything that moves, and someone in the street was shouting for people to prepare for defending themselves.

There's supposed to be a curfew, but it doesn't look like it. My net connection is erratic, so I'll try to update again if possible. The news from other areas in Baghdad are horrible. I don't think it's being reported anywhere.

My father and uncle are agitatedly walking back and forth in the hallway, asking me what we should do if the mob or Interior ministry forces try to attack us in our homes? I have no answer for them.

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Other bits from here and there:
An armed group in 10 vehicles with no number plates entered the Al-Iskan Al-Sha'bi district in Dora, and attempted to enter mosque, but was turned back by the residents. Eyewitnesses claim that as many as 40 bodies and 5 burnt vehicles are still in the area. 3 attackers were also killed in Dora when they attempted to enter the Al-Kubaisi mosque.

Another group dressed in black in one Daewoo and two Opel vehicles passed the Interior ministry forces' checkpoint at Abu Dshir square, south of Dora, with no resistance and entered the Yassin mosque with explosives in tin containers. The keeper was killed and the mosque blown up.

a Shi'ite armed group carried Sheikh Ghazi Al-Zoba'i in a pickup truck around Sadr city, shouting that they have a Wahhabi terrorist with them, before he was lynched on the streets by the angry mob.

Government officials and spokespersons are deliberately suppressing any news of these ongoing attacks on Sunni neighbourhoods and mosques. The official Al-Iraqiya channel is playing a historical movie, while other channels are playing Shi'ite mourning and Quran. The Interior ministry says it only has reports of 19 mosques attacked and one cleric killed. Go figure.

http://healingiraq.blogspot.com/archives/2006_02_01_healingiraq_archive.html#114081182225025432

[SofaKingLiberal]

1. Mission Accomplished

:eyes:

[az chela]

2. Is this happening to you

Where are you ???Are you alright???Do we need to send people to you???
This is Judy,remember me???I am very worried about you

[NMDemDist2]

4. it's not kpete, it's from an Iraqi blogger (I hope) n/t

[Quakerfriend]

3. Our prayers are with you and your family kpete.

O8)

[NMDemDist2]

5. is kpete the Iraqi blogger he linked? I don't think it's kpete's house n/t

[kpete]

6. I am Not In Iraq - Thank GOD!!!

But with everything thats going on, my hearts and prayers are with the Iraqi People.
I just think we need to remember that it is OUR Government who is responsible for much of this.

the message is from:

Daily news and comments on the situation in post Saddam Iraq by an Iraqi dentist

I happen to like Dentists - I am married to one.

Kpete

[stop the bleeding]

7. saying a prayer right now n/t

[mom cat]

8. Black opps. This follows the pattern of destabilization long

advocated by the neo-cons:
""One can only hope that we turn the region into a cauldron, and faster, please. If ever there were a region that richly deserved being cauldronized, it is the Middle East today. If we wage the war effectively, we will bring down the terror regimes in Iraq, Iran, and Syria, and either bring down the Saudi monarchy or force it to abandon its global assembly line to indoctrinate young terrorists. That's our mission in the war against terror." Michael Ledeen

http://www.irmep.org/dp_world.htm
Thanks to wordie for finding this quote.

[phusion]

9. Another good Iraq blog

http://www.back-to-iraq.com/