330 KILLED, 1621 INJURED IN SADR CITY CLASHES IN THREE WEEKS

The Bush administration and FOX NEWS keep telling the American public that things are improving in Iraq, however in the past three weeks over 300 Iraqis have been KILLED and another 1600 injured.

The success of the "surge" is a myth perpetrated by the Pentagon, the Bush administration and FOX NEWS.

The only success of the "surge" came in Al Anbar Province and that had NOTHING to do with the US military, but was brought about when tribal leaders decided they had seen enough violence and ran Al Qaeda out of the province.

Baghdad, Apr17, (VOI)-At least 300 individuals were killed and 1621injured during the clashes that erupted in the Shiite slum of Sadr city over the last three weeks, a Medic source said on Thursday."300 persons were killed and 1621 injured during the heavy fighting and airstrikes that have taken place in Sadr city since March25," a medical source told Aswat al-Iraq –Voices of Iraq- (VOI).

Baghdad - Voices of Iraq Thursday , 17 /04 /2008 Time 10:10:38
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Sadr city along with major southern cities saw fierce clashes and heavy fighting between Iraqi government security forces and Mahdi army militias loyal to the Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr over the last weeks.

The clashes started after Iraqi government announcement of a major crackdown in the southern port city of Basra, which militiamen of Muqtada al-Sadr considered it as an attempt to weaken their movement before the provincial elections due in October.

The source pointed out "the toll gives the figures of casualties from Sadr city received in two hospitals inside the slum and also al-Kindi hospital in central Baghdad.".He noted "ambulances were denied access first due to the security procedures, but now they flew into the neighborhood after recording the name of the driver and the plate number.".

Baghdad security plan authorities decided to lift the vehicle ban imposed over Sadr city last Saturday after securing the outlets of the sprawling slum, giving access for vehicles of aid, ambulances and food stuffs to enter the violence-racketed neighborhood.