H8tank Posted May 8, 2007 Share Posted May 8, 2007 http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0503/p01s04-wome.html Ramadi, Iraq - Amid fields of wheat and barley, dozens of armed men emerged along a dirt road leading to the fiefdom of the Bu-Fahed tribe in Hamdhiyah, an idyllic corner of restive Anbar Province, just north of Ramadi. "Welcome to our proud sheikhs. Down with terror," read banners on the road. Dozens of sheikhs and tribal elders in flowing gold-trimmed camel-hair cloaks, many clutching colorful worry beads, streamed into a conference hall. Each was frisked by tribesmen to guard against suicide bombs. The meeting looked to be a typical gathering, but its true purpose was for top sheikhs to issue an ultimatum: quit supporting Al Qaeda and turn in relatives belonging to the group. Like dominoes, tribes reeling from a campaign of killing and intimidation by Al Qaeda have been joining, one by one, the US-led fight against Al Qaeda in Iraq in this Sunni Arab province. Last month, US Gen. David Petraeus told Congress that violence was down significantly here and that the tribes were key to the transformation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evil_gop_liars Posted May 9, 2007 Share Posted May 9, 2007 Can we go home now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuke'em ttg Posted May 9, 2007 Share Posted May 9, 2007 No sh!t........the kid that helped me out last summer leaves the 24th and is f'n fired up to go...... .......Support our Troops....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rbmcdonald Posted May 9, 2007 Share Posted May 9, 2007 I don't know, maybe the same reason they are not covering the fact that the US is building an Embasy in Iraq that is bigger than Vatican City (you know the independet country in the middle of Italy, that has it's own diplomatic corp). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polksalet Posted May 9, 2007 Share Posted May 9, 2007 I don't know, maybe the same reason they are not covering the fact that the US is building an Embasy in Iraq that is bigger than Vatican City (you know the independet country in the middle of Italy, that has it's own diplomatic corp). really? link? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randall Posted May 9, 2007 Share Posted May 9, 2007 really? link? You don't know about the embassy? The press does cover Ramadi and Al Qaeda some but 92% of those fighting us over there are iraqis. The 104-acre complex — the size of about 80 football fields — will include two office buildings, one of them designed for future use as a school, six apartment buildings, a gym, a pool, a food court and its own power generation and water-treatment plants. The average Baghdad home has electricity only four hours a day, according to Bowen's office. http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/20...s-embassy_x.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WaterMan Posted May 9, 2007 Share Posted May 9, 2007 They could have just used a building they didn't blow up yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DemonKnight Posted May 9, 2007 Share Posted May 9, 2007 They could have just used a building they didn't blow up yet. How would that help Haliburton? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polksalet Posted May 9, 2007 Share Posted May 9, 2007 I didn't realize it was only 100 acres, carry on. I thought the vatican city was a couple thousand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H8tank Posted June 1, 2007 Author Share Posted June 1, 2007 How many of you heard this on the news? BAGHDAD - U.S. troops battled al-Qaida in west Baghdad on Thursday after Sunni Arab residents challenged the militants and called for American help to end furious gunfire that kept students from final exams and forced people in the neighborhood to huddle indoors. The fight reflects a trend that U.S. and Iraqi officials have been trumpeting recently to the west in Anbar province, once considered the heartland of the Sunni insurgency. Many Sunni tribes in the province have banded together to fight al-Qaida http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070531/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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