Eclipsed from the headlines by the ongoing carnage, there is an active
civil resistance in Iraq that opposes the occupation, the torture regime
it protects, and the jihadi and Ba'athist 'resistance' alike.
Submitted by Bill Weinberg on Sat, 03/22/2008 - 02:35.
Mahdi Army fighters attacked police patrols in southern Baghdad's Shurta district March 21, further fraying a seven-month-old cease-fire called by Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. The clashes follow outbreaks of violence in the southern city of Kut, where Mahdi Army fighters battled US and Iraqi security forces. The fighting took place on the same day that Iraq marked five years since the US-led invasion. (Australian Broadcasting Corp., March 22)
The inconvenient facts and unanswered questions surrounding the attacks are legion, but the endemic sloppiness of the self-styled "researchers" is delegitimizing the entire project of critiquing the "official version." The ostentatiously named "Truth movement" is not clearing the air, but muddying the water.
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Mahdi Army clashes with US, Iraqi troops
Mahdi Army fighters attacked police patrols in southern Baghdad's Shurta district March 21, further fraying a seven-month-old cease-fire called by Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. The clashes follow outbreaks of violence in the southern city of Kut, where Mahdi Army fighters battled US and Iraqi security forces. The fighting took place on the same day that Iraq marked five years since the US-led invasion. (Australian Broadcasting Corp., March 22)