Islamic State Rebels Take Back 2nd Baghdad Hood, Raise Flag

[Michael Tee]

http://news.antiwar.com/2010/08/03/militants-seize-another-baghdad-neighborhood-raise-islamic-state-flag/

This time it was Mansur.  "Take back" might not accurately describe the situation - - Mansur is the ethnically cleansed, formerly Sunni district taken over by Shi'ite militia.  Now the Sunni have it back - - not the secular, socialistic Sunni of the Saddam era, but the al-Qaeda-affiliated Sunni, religious fanatics just as ignorant and brutal as the fucking Shi'ite militia.  Still, they're not  US puppets, so they're some kind of improvement.  In Vietnam the whole thing went native about two years after the US pulled out.  I'm wondering if the Iraqis even have the two years.

[BT]

176 people wounded or killed. Would have been better off attending a wedding.

[Michael Tee]

Depends on what point in the festivities they serve the cake at.

[BT]

of course, the choice of caterers is important too