Shellfire and Damnation: The Never-Ending Shock and Awe Barrage of Baghdad

Chris Floyd, Empire Burlesque

...The U.S. military in Iraq launched an artillery barrage in southern Baghdad on Sunday against suspected insurgent targets, with two dozen loud explosions shaking the southern outskirts of the capital….The Iraqi police said the artillery was being fired from the U.S. Forward Operating Base Falcon in southern Baghdad into the al-Buaitha neighbourhood of Dora, a volatile district that is a Sunni insurgent stronghold. Think of it: launching artillery shells into residential areas of a city that you supposedly conquered – sorry, "liberated" – four years ago. And in fact, the only thing that made this assault newsworthy, according to Reuters, was that it happened in broad daylight: " Artillery blasts have been heard in the evenings but they are rare in the daytime," the story noted...

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