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Titolo: Attacco USA alla citta' sunnita di Ramadi - The Independent

3 mesi dopo Falluja, aridanghete!
Am.
American troops prepare for assault on Sunni stronghold
By Kim Sengupta and David Enders in Baghdad
21 February 2005
American and Iraqi government forces have surrounded the city of Ramadi 
in preparation for an expected full-scale attack on the city, which has 
in effect slipped into the hands of insurgents.
The operation, with US Marines forming the main attack force, comes less 
than three months after the massive and controversial assault on 
Fallujah and follows a pledge by Washington to pacify the remaining 
rebel strongholds.
The people of Ramadi, 70 miles west of Baghdad and adjacent to Fallujah, 
have been placed under a curfew during the operation, codenamed River 
Blitz. According to the US military, the operation is at the orders of 
the Iraqi interim authority and follows suicide bombings and other 
attacks on Shia Muslims marking the festival of Ashura. At least 50 
people were killed in two days. The US and the Iraqi interim government 
have blamed the blasts on the Sunni resistance and in particular the 
group led by the Jordanian-born militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
Meanwhile, al-Jazeera television aired a videotape yesterday purporting 
to show al-Qaida's deputy chief, Ayman al-Zawahri, denouncing US calls 
for reform in the region and urging the West to respect the Islamic 
world. He said in the video tape that "reform is based on American 
detention camps like Bagram, Kandahar, Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib".
As American soldiers massed around Ramadi, reports emerged from the US 
that diplomats and intelligence officers have been conducting secret 
talks with insurgents on ways to end the rebellion. Time magazine 
reported the clandestine negotiations, citing Pentagon and other sources.
Maj-Gen Richard Natonski, commander of the 1st Marine Division, said the 
Ramadi operation was necessary to protect ordinary Sunnis. "Operation 
River Blitz is designed to target insurgents and terrorists who have 
attempted to destabilise the Anbar province. We were asked by the Iraqi 
government to increase our security operations in the city to locate, 
isolate and defeat anti-Iraqi forces and terrorists," he said.
Maj-Gen Natonski described the militants in Ramadi as "intent on 
preventing a peaceful [post-election] transition of power between the 
interim Iraqi government and the Iraqi transitional government". As well 
as putting a security cordon around the city, the operation will involve 
more intense patrols of towns and cities along the Euphrates, which 
flows through the city.
Tribal leaders from the Sunni Arab minority were scrambling yesterday to 
demand a say in that new government. "We made a big mistake when we 
didn't vote," said Sheikh Hathal Younis Yahiya, 49, a representative for 
northern Nineveh.
Shias too are less than happy with the direction talks to form a 
government are taking. "The people of Iraq do not want to be separate," 
said Sheikh Jewad al-Khalasy, a Shia cleric who runs a religious college 
in Khadmiya, a north Baghdad neighbourhood. The Karbala resident Abdel 
Amir Mohamed said: "We just want our marjaiya [religious authorities] to 
be safe."
Only 2 per cent of voters in Anbar province took part in the polls. 
Ramadi, with 300,000 residents, has long been a focal point for the 
Iraqi resistance.
  
21 February 2005 07:47

loro comportamenti!
Eccome se e' possibile.  Se nessuno lo fa e' perche' sanno che le
chiacchere valgono zero in tribunale.
-Stefano

 21 February 2005
cut
Ahimé...ci risiamo!
Questo accade sempre perché nonostante le denunce che varie organizzazioni
hanno fatto sulle violazioni del Dir. Umanitario, non ne è seguito, come al
solito, nulla di nulla; non è possibile neanche fare un processo agli USA
riguardo a questi loro comportamenti!
Si dovrebbe almeno mobilitare l'opinione pubblica, ma i media dicono poco e
niente.
Tra l'altro, facci caso, in concomitanza a questa notizia che hai postato
tu, c'è l'altra di Pomero riguardo al ritiro dei giornalisti - anche se
riguarda solo l'Italia - perché la zona è diventata troppo pericolosa....Non
vorrei che alla fine la cosa diventi generalizzata per tutti i Paesi, in
modo tale da non lasciare testimoni sul campo a raccontare una verità
diversa dal freddo comunicato stampa militare: "Abbiamo risposto al fuoco
dei cecchini"...Già le notizie mi sembrano abbastanza "imbavagliate" di per
sé!
Ciao

 sé!
Be', guardando la cosa con assoluto cinismo, mi dico che gli sciiti 
dovranno decidere quanto desiderano  tranvare i sunniti o liberarsi 
degli americani. Mi sembra che per ora desiderano entrambi, ma visto la 
situazione si accontentanto di far tranvare i sunniti (e gli jihadisti).
Quanto puo' durare? Bisognerebbe capire quanto i paesi dell'area, 
sunniti a parte l'Iran, sono capaci tollerarlo.
Per ora, immagino, aumenteranno l'infiltrazione di guerriglieri e di 
armi.
Am.

 Am.
Ciao

 operazione...sarò ripetitiva ma....
Embe', si dice agli abitanti c'avete 5 giorni per evacuare, eppoi come 
cojo, cojo. Se la nonna non se ne vuole andare, peggio per lei. Si 
ritorna dopo due mesi, e non e' rimasto niente, o la meta' della casa, 
la meta' della pompa di benzina, ecc.
Stupisce che Al Zwahiri parli di Guantanamo come democrazia, forse ne ha 
paura. Dovrebbe piuttosto parlare di Falluja, ma cosi' porterebbe anche 
la sua parte di colpa.
Am.