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 [A Lie a Day] Iraqis Want The US To Cede Control: The politicians are steaming over the joint US, Iraq Army attack on a terrorist compound, or Shiite mosque complex (depending on who you ask), and they want to US to give up control of the security operation in the Baghdad area. IRAQ'S ruling parties have demanded US forces cede control of security as the government investigated a raid on a

[World Prout Assembly] Angered by Fatal Raid, Shiites Exit Unity Talks: Whichever story is true, the killings threw Iraq's delicately balanced leadership into a crisis as it struggled to contain rising sectarian violence between majority Shiites and the country's Sunni minority. Weeks of intense negotiations to form a government with the Shiite, Sunni, Kurdish and secular blocs elected to parliament in December came to a halt, as Shiite representatives Monday failed to show up for talks on forming the government.

 [liberal catnip] Bush in Iraq: The Last Throes?: Senior ministers from the three main Shia factions united yesterday to denounce an American raid on a Baghdad mosque complex in which at least 20 people died, opening the biggest rift between the US and Iraq's majority Shia community since the toppling of Saddam Hussein.

 [Eschaton] Sovereign: IRAQ'S ruling parties have demanded US forces cede control of security as the government investigated a raid on a Shiite mosque complex that ministers said involved "cold blooded" killings by US-led troops.

 [The WB42 5:30 Report With Doug Krile] War is Hell: US military says "difficult for us to consider this a place of prayer": News footage shows killing occurred in "prayer hall" with carpeted floors and religious posters on wall - "The tape showed a tangle of male bodies and spent 5.56mm bullet casings on the blood-smeared floor - the kind of ammunition used by the US military [...]"

 [The Left Coaster] Is The White House Trying To Provoke A Civil War... : A day after Iraqi Special Forces under the supervision of American advisors apparently shot up a Shia religious center in Moqtada al-Sadr’s stronghold, the Iraqi government itself is blaming us for the killings of possibly 40 worshippers, possibly execution-style. Government ministers are condemning the Americans for the killings, and Saddam’s former Number Two, a Sunni who has somehow escaped our capture for three years, has called upon neighboring Arab states to support the Sunni insurgency.

 [Dreams Into Lightning] Afternoon Roundup: Anyway, footage from the scene shows burned vehicles outside the husseiniya, empty smoke grenades and inside the place there were empty shells of BKC machine gun (the main gun mounted on most of the Iraqi army vehicles) the BKC is not a one-GI carried gun but is rather used as a supportive-fire kind of weaponry and if soldiers were to execute [unarmed] people this would not be their gun of choice because AK-47s or pistols could do the job with less noise and are much easier to carry and it makes more sense to think that this weapon was fired by the people who were hiding inside the husseiniya especially that this gun is abundant at the arsenals of militias.

 [Today in Iraq] DAILY WAR NEWS FOR MONDAY, March 27, 2006 ... : : With the US President George Bush's approval ratings hitting new lows with the bottom no where in sight, Iran about to open the first oil bourse priced in Euros on March 20th, 2006 in Teheran, the US Federal Reserve stopping to publish M3 figures (the most reliable indicator on the amount of dollars circulating in the world) only three days later from March 23, 2006 onward, the by-now-familiar pattern of bullying Iran into submission on its nuclear program well on the way, Britain saying that Iran is only months away from a nuke, US Vice President Dick Cheney and America's rep to the UNO John Bolton threatening Iran with all available means from AIPAC forum and the beleaguered Iranian ambassador retorting back with 'let the ball roll', I have distinct feeling of déjà vu.

[Journalism by Other Means] Bulls in a China Shop: Some members of the ruling Shia Islamist alliance repeated allegations - denied by US officials - that Americans and Iraqi troops under their command had tied people up at the Mustafa mosque in north-east Baghdad's Sadr City up and shot them in cold blood.

 [Sweetness & Light] AP Claims US Lying, Did Attack Shiite Mosque: Supporters of Iraqi Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr march with his portrait during a procession of the caskets bearing victims of a U.S. backed raid in a Shiite neighborhood Monday March 27, 2006 in Baghdad. At least 16 Iraqis were killed in a U.S.-backed raid in a Shiite neighborhood of the capital Sunday evening.

 [AMERICAblog: Because a great nation deserves the truth] More Progress in Iraq: Baghdad police said at least 22 were killed in the attack after gunmen fired on the joint U.S.-Iraqi patrol from a position in the neighborhood but not from the mosque. Police and representatives of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, who holds great sway among poor Shiites in the eastern section of Baghdad, said all those killed were in the complex for evening prayers and no gunmen were there.Someone isn't telling the truth.

 [Kinshasa On The Potomac] Raid In Baghdad Kills 16 Mahdi Militia: Allowing the Iraqi government to evolve into a Shi'ite only power structure, one in which supporters of illegal Shi'ite militias use there position to attack the US and, by association, those who want to see Iraq become something other than a Shi'ite religious autocracy, is asinine.

 [Riverbendblog.blogspot.com] Baghdad Burning: Meanwhile, the US was bombing the Iraqi army as it was pulling out of Kuwait and the Tawabin were killing off some of the Iraqi troops who had abandoned their tanks and artillery and were coming back on foot through the south. Many of those troops, and the civilians killed during the attacks, looting, and burning, were buried in some of the mass graves we conveniently blame solely on Saddam and the Republican Guard- but no one bothers to mention this anymore because it’s easier to blame the dictator.

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