IRAQ: 'No Plan' 'Caught in Hell'

By Grant Swank on Aug 07, 2006
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’There’s no plan; we are constantly reacting,’ said a senior American military official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. ‘I have absolutely no idea what we’re going to do.’

According to Tom Lasseter of McClatchy Newspapers: ‘There’s one street that’s the dividing line. They shoot mortars across the line and abduct people back and forth,’ said 1st Lt. Brian Johnson, a 4th Infantry Division platoon leader from Houston. Johnson, 24, was describing the nightly violence that pits Sunni gunmen from Baghdad’s Ghazaliyah neighborhood against Shiite gunmen from the nearby Shula district.

“Bodies of captured Sunni and Shiite fighters will turn up in the morning, dropped in canals and left on the side of the road.
“’We’ve seen some that have been executed on site, with bullet holes in the ground; the rest were tortured and executed somewhere else and dumped,’ Johnson said.”

Troops refer to the war as a “religious war.” It’s all about factions with Islam. Muslim sectors hate one another. They slaughter one another, both in the name of Allah.

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