Najaf Cemetery Becomes Killing Field

[Rose Siding]

by Todd Pittman (who must've worked very hard to get this story- there are numerous battle field recounts)

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A Bradley positioned in the road starting pumping thunderous rounds from its 25 mm cannon, and gunners perched on four machine-gun mounted Humvees began shooting.

A three-man team led by Dewilde ran up the steps of a mausoleum whose square, walled-in concrete roof provided ideal cover. They laid rifles across the upper edge of the wall and began shooting.

"Welcome to the Bronx," joked McFall.

The military has divided the cemetery, one of the largest in the Muslim world, into zones named after Manhattan boroughs.

Tense and sweating, two soldiers started to sing as they looked for targets.

"One little, two little, three little Indians!"

Dewilde cut them off. "Shut-up!"

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-iraq-the-bronx,0,3350903.story?coll=sns-ap-nationworld-headlines

[amber dog democrat]

1. More than 10.000 are demonstrating against Alawi and the US

The ceasefiires only hold for so long. We never really had control of Iraq, and niether can we defeat the rebellions militarily. We just don't want to admint it yet.

[DoYouEverWonder]

2. So is Manhattan

the upscale section?

[Moderator]

3. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=748846