no sanctuary
An Islamist Web site carried a videotape on Tuesday purporting to show the beheading in Iraq of a man identified as an "Egyptian spy" working with U.S. forces.
But in a relief for the cash-strapped government, Iraq resumed full oil production in its southern oilfields after quickly repairing a pipeline valve blown up on Monday by saboteurs, an Iraqi oil official said.
The official said both export lines from the fields in the Basra region now were exporting. The closure of one of the pipelines on Monday sent world oil prices to fresh record highs.
The radical Shi'ite uprising in several cities across central and southern Iraq, the second in four months, has killed and wounded hundreds. Sadr's militia attacked an Iraqi police checkpoint in Najaf, killing and wounding several uniformed men, one witness said.
Clashes also broke out in a poor Shi'ite Baghdad suburb called Sadr City as fighters brazenly ignored a curfew order.
Colonel Anthony Haslam, commanding officer of the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit in Najaf, warned the militia to stop using areas around the Imam Ali Shrine, one of Shi'ite Islam's holiest sites, and the cemetery as a launch pad for attacks.
"We will not allow them to continue to desecrate this sacred site, using it as an insurgent base of operations. There will be no sanctuary for thugs and criminals in Najaf," Haslam said.
Maher Mohammad/Reuters/MyWay 10.Aug.04
Maher Mohammad, truth teller to the world!
Iraqi oil, linch-pin of the global economy!
No sanctuary for thugs and criminals in Iraq!
Send them to Abu Ghraib, Anthony!
Khaled Yacoub Oweis, a co-author of this blatant nonsense, is a talking dog for the occupying forces. Those "sacred sites" Haslam's pretending to be concerned about are sacred to the very people he's calling thugs and criminals. Haslam's acting like he personally holds them sacred. Haslam's a liar and a murderer. But he's only doing what he's told, as is Maher Mohammad.
