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Tuesday, January 18, 2005
Good news (comparatively)
Compared to this:Raids launched to curb pre-election violence
The Mosul area has emerged as a major flashpoint between U.S. and Iraqi forces and the insurgents, raising fears the election cannot be held in much of the city.
This is good news:
U.S. and Iraqi officials are scrambling to recruit new police and election workers in Mosul after thousands of them resigned in the face of rebel intimidation. Similar mass resignations are believed to have occurred in other Sunni Muslim areas of northern, central and western Iraq.
About 300 followers of radical Shiite Muslim cleric Muqtada al-Sadr began a three-day sit-in in front of the Oil Ministry in Baghdad to protest gasoline shortages. About a dozen entered the ministry and complained to Minister Thamir Ghadbhan, asking why U.S. troops have fuel for their vehicles and Iraqis do not.
A peaceful sit-in to protest gasoline shortages? The folks at Frontpagemag might want to sic the dogs on the protesters, but seems to me that non-violent protest is the only good news out of Iraq in a long, long time.
