Five More GIs Killed In Iraq
The U.S. military announced the deaths of five more U.S. troops on another bloody Sunday in Iraq.
Three U.S. airmen and two soldiers were killed, the U.S. military said Sunday.
A car bomb in Baghdad on Sunday killed three airmen assigned to the 447th Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron's Explosive Ordnance Division, the military said in a statement. One airman was also injured in the explosion.
Also Sunday, Britain's defense ministry said a British soldier assigned to the Queen's Royal Lancers was killed in a traffic accident in Maysan province. Two other soldiers sustained minor injuries, the ministry said in a statement.
A U.S. soldier died Saturday from small arms fire in a southwestern section of Baghdad, the military said. Another American soldier died Friday from combat wounds sustained in Iraq's volatile western Anbar province.
All names were withheld pending family notification.
A barrage of mortars also killed four civilians and wounded five others in central Baghdad after a roadside bomb missed an Iraqi police patrol and killed two pedestrians, police said.
The attacks were among a spate of bombings and shootings which killed at least 14 people across Iraq on Sunday, as Iraqi troops waged a fresh battle to oust militias and pacify the capital.
The sectarian attacks continued despite the major drive to tame Baghdad. The Iraqi army reported killing 30 militants late Saturday in a Sunni insurgent stronghold in the center of the city, just to the north of the heavily fortified Green Zone.
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, speaking only hours earlier at a ceremony marking the 85th anniversary of the Iraqi army, announced his intention for the relentless and open-ended bid to crush militant fighters bedeviling Baghdad.
Hassan al-Suneid, a key aid and member of al-Maliki's Dawa Party, said the Iraqi leader had committed 20,000 soldiers to the operation that would call upon American troops and airpower only when needed.
In other developments:
Two of Saddam Hussein's top aides — Barzan Ibrahim, Saddam's half-brother and former intelligence chief, and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, former head of Iraq's Revolutionary Court — were taken from their cells and told they were going to be executed on the same day as the former Iraqi dictator and told to write out their wills, their lawyer, Issam Ghazawi, said Sunday. But the two were returned to their cells, and are being held in U.S. custody at an unspecified location in Baghdad. Although al-Bandar told Ghazawi that he "wished to have been executed with President Saddam," the lawyer is seeking to have their death sentences commuted because of "the psychological pain they endured as they waited to hang."
Treasury chief Gordon Brown, expected to succeed Tony Blair as prime minister by September, suggested Sunday that he will pursue an Iraq policy that is more independent of Washington than the current government. Brown acknowledged that mistakes were made in the aftermath of the invasion and promised to be "very frank" with President Bush. He also said that Britain is likely to scale down its commitment of troops to Iraq over the next year
Gunmen drove through a marketplace in southwestern Baghdad, spraying bullets into food and clothing stalls and killing three Sunni Muslim shopkeepers, a police officer said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media. Another drive-by shooting targeted four guards for the Iraqi Finance Ministry, killing one of them.
In Mahaweel, about 35 miles south of Baghdad, gunmen killed a Shiite cleric and his son as they were heading to a nearby Shiite shrine, police said.
Attackers shot dead a Defense Ministry employee on his way to work south of Baghdad, and a provincial councilman was injured in an assassination attempt in Hillah. Police said a parked car bomb killed a woman and wounded 13 people in an outdoor market in the same city, about 60 miles south of Baghdad.
The U.S. military announced Sunday that 88 suspects were captured in American and Iraqi raids last week, and a weapons cache used for assembling improvised explosive devices was destroyed. Sixty-nine of those suspects were released after questioning, the military said in a statement.
© 2009 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The Associated Press contributed to this report. Three U.S. airmen and two soldiers were killed, the U.S. military said Sunday.
A car bomb in Baghdad on Sunday killed three airmen assigned to the 447th Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron's Explosive Ordnance Division, the military said in a statement. One airman was also injured in the explosion.
Also Sunday, Britain's defense ministry said a British soldier assigned to the Queen's Royal Lancers was killed in a traffic accident in Maysan province. Two other soldiers sustained minor injuries, the ministry said in a statement.
A U.S. soldier died Saturday from small arms fire in a southwestern section of Baghdad, the military said. Another American soldier died Friday from combat wounds sustained in Iraq's volatile western Anbar province.
All names were withheld pending family notification.
A barrage of mortars also killed four civilians and wounded five others in central Baghdad after a roadside bomb missed an Iraqi police patrol and killed two pedestrians, police said.
The attacks were among a spate of bombings and shootings which killed at least 14 people across Iraq on Sunday, as Iraqi troops waged a fresh battle to oust militias and pacify the capital.
The sectarian attacks continued despite the major drive to tame Baghdad. The Iraqi army reported killing 30 militants late Saturday in a Sunni insurgent stronghold in the center of the city, just to the north of the heavily fortified Green Zone.
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, speaking only hours earlier at a ceremony marking the 85th anniversary of the Iraqi army, announced his intention for the relentless and open-ended bid to crush militant fighters bedeviling Baghdad.
Hassan al-Suneid, a key aid and member of al-Maliki's Dawa Party, said the Iraqi leader had committed 20,000 soldiers to the operation that would call upon American troops and airpower only when needed.
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And in San Francisco, about 1,200 peace activists gathered on the beach Saturday to spell out the word Impeach in giant letters visible from the sky. The protest occurred in the district of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Advocates of impeaching President Bush have criticized Pelosi for saying that impeachment is off the table.
"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man%u2019s oldest exercises in moral philosophy, that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."
John Kenneth Galbraith
US (Canadian born) administrator & economist (1908-2006)
"We NeoCons are fighting to keep freedom on the march around the world...and if you don't buy that one, we're just protecting ourselves against Saddam's WMDs. We're not doing it for oil and sweetheart contracts...HONEST!"
Oh No see Dumbya wants to be in charge and he'll try and do as HE PLEASES BUT no more Dictatorship for you Dumbya!
"Treasury chief Gordon Brown, expected to succeed Tony Blair as prime minister by September, suggested Sunday that he will pursue an Iraq policy that is more independent of Washington than the current government. Brown acknowledged that mistakes were made in the aftermath of the invasion and promised to be %u201Cvery frank%u201D with President Bush. He also said that Britain is likely to scale down its commitment of troops to Iraq over the next year"
Can't wait til Sept when this new guy takes over, let's see if he becomes a Bush puppet also. Sounds like NOT, this should be good. Bush can't wait to start pointing his finger and blaming the Dems for HIS failures. No doubt he will just a matter of when.
This is not just another blunder by an unbelievably intellectually challenged commander-in-chief%u2026this is treason of the most dishonorable kind. These odious creatures contrived a war that has thus far killed over 3000 Americans for the sole purpose of lining their own pockets. I call that treason%u2026Republicans call it business. These people should not be voted out of office or even impeached. They should be rounded up and dragged out into the rose garden and summarily shot. A trial is so much more than they deserve. As the presidential pardons are already in place, so odds are none of that gang of murdering NeoCons will ever be called on to account for their foul crimes.
How did the United States of America, not merely the greatest country in the world, but the greatest country in the HISTORY of the world, come to this? When did we allow ourselves to be co-opted by a gang of money-mad traitors who have besmirched our good name and how do we get rid of the ***?
I am not sorry I am not as grammatically experienced as you and this system doesn't allow edits but thanks for the encouragement.
If you know how to make edits on here, please give me the directions as I am sorry for the inconvenience,I do have some health challenges so if you didn't read the rewrite fully you'll find the reference.
But here's the deal if you have a way to bring home the Troops tomorrow then let us all know and please,please,please,please post how to do the edits but more than that the the fast track not next year not 6 mos ,not 1 month,but beginning tomorrow and I am sure you will get the Noble Prize for Peace and Man of The Year on Time.Until then don't sweat the small stuff.
And as for hands keep writing to those who still care in Congress and encouraging them to bring the troops home.
I sure hope I only hit this once.
Till then I'll be Praying for The Guys and Peace.
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LOL!!!