Irak

[Merowig]

viel Spass beim Maertyrertum....
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A journey into the epicenter of the Sadr standoff

By Scott Baldauf

NAJAF, IRAQ – Technically speaking, what we were about to do was more than risky. It was foolish. But we told ourselves that it was a risk for a cause.
Thursday, several journalists and I began organizing a delegation to enter the Imam Ali Shrine in Najaf.
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Between us and the shrine were two US military checkpoints, countless snipers, and hundreds of Mahdi Army fighters who had already committed themselves to die for their cause.
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Inside the shrine itself, there were no weapons to be seen, but there were hundreds of Mahdi Army supporters, some of them familiar faces from a demonstration one week ago in Baghdad. They were voluntary human shields, the youngest perhaps 8 years old, the oldest 70. Together, they marched around and chanted, turning an impromptu press photo op into a punk rock mosh pit.
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Stuermen oder einfach belagern ...
Die Mahdi Milz hat auch bestimmt Probleme die Leichen wegzuraeumen ...
Irgendwann mal geht denen das Wasser /Nahrung aus und Krankheiten brechen aus - dann heissts entweder einen Ausbruchversuch zu wagen oder man wird dezimiert ohne das die Amis noch gross was machen muessen....