Old Weird Ward
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Friday, February 04, 2005
- - - - - Iraqis Fight Back Against....Insurgents? - - - - -
Why don't I think this excerpt will become a full story, standing on it's own?
The Iraqi police have investigated a case in the village of al-Mudhariya, which is just south of Baghdad. The villagers there say that before the election insurgents came and warned them that if they voted in last weekend's election, they would pay.
Now the people of this mixed village of Sunni and Shia Muslims, they ignored the threat and they did turn out to vote.
We understand that last night the insurgents came back to punish the people of al-Mudhariya, but instead of metering out that punishment the villagers fought back and they killed five of the insurgents and wounded eight. They then burnt the insurgents' car. So the people of that village have certainly had enough of the insurgents.
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Because the guts of this story are buried in the rest of the "story" HERE.
It's my opinion that the story, as a stand-alone, should start out something like this:
In a village to the south of Baghdad, a village of Sunni and Shia living next door to each other, determined that they WERE going to vote, and the "insurgents" were not going to stop them...
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So, Mr/Ms AP/CNN/ABC/REUTERS/NBC/BBC/CBS...how's about it?
Hmmm?
MY admiration goes to the good people of al-Mudhariya. These folks are definitely alright by me!
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