IN THIS ARTICLE (READ LINK), THE US SAYS IT'S "INSURGENTS" AND THE SADR GOVERNEMENT, POINTS ONLY TO CIVIL WAR BETWEEN
TWO RIVAL SIDES (SHIITES AND SUNNIS)........WHOSE TELLING THE TRUTH?
I THINK IT'S WHAT SEN. KERRY & GEN. MURTHA SAID 2 YEARS AGO, IT'S AN ALL OUT CIVIL WAR........ONLY BEING CURTAILED, BECAUSE OF THE U.S. PRESENCE...BUT IT WILL BE WORSE (WHEN THEY ARE THEN "ALLOWED" TO FIGHT EACH OTHER IN THE STREETS........AFTER THE SO-CALLED PULLOUT) OCCURS NEXT YEAR OR 2010.
I ALSO THINK THAT THE SPOKESWOMAN, (PEGGY WHATSHERNAME) IS COVERING FOR THE BUSH ADM. TO NOT CALL IT WHAT IT IS!!
ALWAYS BLAMING, SO-CALLED "INSURGENTS" ......WHEN IT 'S A CIVIL WAR ONGOING.
The insurgents are actually citizens of Iraq...they are referring to.
It's like calling the North Vietnamese "insurgents" when they were fighting their own brethern, the South Vietnamese and the Americans or The French before them.
The insurgents are willing to desecrate a place of worship by using it to attack soldiers to further their agenda," said Maj. Peggy Kageleiry, a U.S. military spokeswoman in northern Iraq.
U.S. commanders describe Mosul as the last major urban center with a significant Al Qaeda presence since the terror network has been driven from its strongholds in the capital and Anbar province.
The U.S. military has said Iraqi security forces will take the lead in Mosul - a major test of Washington's plan to, at an undetermined date, shrink the American force and leave it as backup for Iraqi security forces.
The Iraqi Red Crescent Organization, meanwhile, gave a higher death toll than Iraqi officials from Wednesday's devastating house explosion. The U.S. military said the cause of the blast has yet to be determined, although Iraqi officials were quick to blame Al Qaeda.
Bolstering that claim, a suicide attacker killed a top police official and two other officers as they toured the wreckage the next day.
The relief organization said more than 60 people were killed and 280 wounded based on estimates from relatives who buried victims without officially registering them. Iraqi officials in Mosul maintain that nearly 40 were killed and more than 200 wounded.
The U.S.-led security crackdown, along with a Sunni revolt against Al Qaeda in Iraq and a cease-fire order by radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr have been credited with a dramatic drop in attacks in the capital.
However, influential members of al-Sadr's movement said Monday they have urged the anti-U.S. Shiite cleric to follow through with threats not to extend the cease-fire when it expires next month, a move that could jeopardize the recent security gains.
The Sadrists are angry over the insistence of U.S. and Iraqi forces on continuing to hunt down so-called rogue fighters who ignored the six-month order, which was issued in August. Al-Sadr's followers claim this is a pretext to crack down on their movement.
The maverick cleric announced earlier this month that he would not renew the order unless the Iraqi government purges "criminal gangs" operating within security forces he claims are targeting his followers.
That was a reference to rival Shiite militiamen from the Badr Brigade who have infiltrated security forces participating in the ongoing crackdown against breakaway militia cells the U.S. has said were linked to Iran.
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