About bloody time.
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Citizen Uprisings Reported in Baghdad and Basra
Monday, April 07, 2003
Iraqi civilians are rising up against Saddam Hussein's militia in Baghdad and Basra, the country's two largest cities, according to various news reports.
Sources in Baghdad were reporting citizen uprisings against the Fedayeen Saddam, Kuwait News Agency said Monday.
"Major bloody confrontations are currently taking place between the residents of Baghdad and the regime's militia, killing dozens of Saddam's loyalists and forcing many of their leaders to leave their positions and change into civilian clothes," sources inside the city told KUNA.
And Iranian media reported that 35 Iraqi soldiers had been killed in three areas of the capital where civilians have been rising up against the military.
Neither a Fox News contributor in Baghdad nor U.S. Central Command could confirm the reports.
In southern Iraq, the Associated Press reported that civilians turned on Saddam's loyalists in Basra, attacking militiamen and looting a state bank as British troops moved to take control of the nation's second-largest city.
Several militiamen were seen being killed by throngs of civilians, and a British soldier was told that civilians had killed a policeman who worked on their street corner, according to British press pool reports.
Senior Defense Department officials told Fox News that "we know very little" about the reports. "We can say as a general principal that Iraqis are coming forward" throughout the country to fight the regime, but as for Baghdad specifically, "we have very little significant information."
The uprisings came as coalition forces continued their aerial assault on Baghdad Monday afternoon, hours after U.S. troops barreled through the heart of the Iraqi capital just after dawn in a dramatic show of force designed to prove the coalition can enter the city with impunity.
At about 8 p.m. (noon EDT), a large explosion rocked the center of the city. It was not immediately known whether the blast was from Iraqi artillery attacking coalition snipers in the area, or an air attack from coalition bombers.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,83384,00.html
Citizen Uprisings Reported in Baghdad and Basra
Monday, April 07, 2003
Iraqi civilians are rising up against Saddam Hussein's militia in Baghdad and Basra, the country's two largest cities, according to various news reports.
Sources in Baghdad were reporting citizen uprisings against the Fedayeen Saddam, Kuwait News Agency said Monday.
"Major bloody confrontations are currently taking place between the residents of Baghdad and the regime's militia, killing dozens of Saddam's loyalists and forcing many of their leaders to leave their positions and change into civilian clothes," sources inside the city told KUNA.
And Iranian media reported that 35 Iraqi soldiers had been killed in three areas of the capital where civilians have been rising up against the military.
Neither a Fox News contributor in Baghdad nor U.S. Central Command could confirm the reports.
In southern Iraq, the Associated Press reported that civilians turned on Saddam's loyalists in Basra, attacking militiamen and looting a state bank as British troops moved to take control of the nation's second-largest city.
Several militiamen were seen being killed by throngs of civilians, and a British soldier was told that civilians had killed a policeman who worked on their street corner, according to British press pool reports.
Senior Defense Department officials told Fox News that "we know very little" about the reports. "We can say as a general principal that Iraqis are coming forward" throughout the country to fight the regime, but as for Baghdad specifically, "we have very little significant information."
The uprisings came as coalition forces continued their aerial assault on Baghdad Monday afternoon, hours after U.S. troops barreled through the heart of the Iraqi capital just after dawn in a dramatic show of force designed to prove the coalition can enter the city with impunity.
At about 8 p.m. (noon EDT), a large explosion rocked the center of the city. It was not immediately known whether the blast was from Iraqi artillery attacking coalition snipers in the area, or an air attack from coalition bombers.
