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April 10, 2007

Fierce Fighting in Baghdad

Omar, blogging from Baghdad, reports that heavy clashes have broken out. Helicopters and F-18s part of the fight. He also says that Muqtada al Sadr's 'million man march' had a far smaller turnout than expected:

Speaking of the Sadrists' pitiful demonstrations. His aides were hoping to gather a million marchers for yesterday but all they could manage were less than ten thousands, that's even when they bussed people from Baghdad and Basra.
The Arabic-speaking al-Alam Iranian channel claims the number was "hundreds of thousands" but that's just al-Alam, other channels and the footage we saw all put the number between 5 and 10 thousand.
I had personally been to a demonstration of 10 thousands once and what I saw yesterday was definitely smaller.

Posted by: Rusty at 09:07 AM | Comments (7) | Add Comment
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1 "...Arabic-speaking al-Alam Iranian channel..."

Is there still anyone who doesn't believe the terrorist attacks in Iraq are for the most part a proxy war being conducted by the IRGC (Mullahcracy's ideological terrorist army)?

Posted by: Garduneh Mehr at April 10, 2007 10:12 AM (j97MF)

2 Garduneh Mehr,

If anyone does then they are stupider then the rock most liberals use for a brain.

http://www.mp3.com.au/artist.asp?id=16834

Posted by: doriangrey at April 10, 2007 10:35 AM (XvkRd)

3 Rusty are there any links to other estimates of "less than ten thousands" ?
Google showed only one source saying 5-10 thousand. I am always a litlle skeptical of single source news stories.

Posted by: John Ryan at April 10, 2007 12:13 PM (TcoRJ)

4 John Ryan,

While I am sure that there are I cannot for the life of me understand why Rusty would piss on you if you were on fire let alone provide you with links to anything.

http://www.mp3.com.au/artist.asp?id=16834

Posted by: doriangrey at April 10, 2007 12:41 PM (XvkRd)

5 Funny how ABC News covered this pitiful demonstration as a 'consensus of the Iraqi people' and had a special report on it with special 'close up' shots (to make the crowd seem larger).

Yet a few years ago, wasn't there a demonstration across Iraq with numbers in the 100K - 1M 'real' people against terrorism and violence (not necessarily for the us...) which ABC News (and just about every other MSM media) totally ignored?

Posted by: CrazyFool at April 10, 2007 01:51 PM (sxki2)

6 John Ryan, Are you coming around? I can see you have doubts and need to follow your intuition.

Posted by: allahakchew at April 10, 2007 02:28 PM (BrndJ)

7 allahakchew,

Ha ha funny one, we all know that John Ryan has been suduced by the dark side... come back he will not....

http://www.mp3.com.au/artist.asp?id=16834

Posted by: doriangrey at April 11, 2007 07:44 AM (XvkRd)

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