BAGHDAD, March 15, 2007
4 U.S. Soldiers Killed In Roadside Bombing
Also, Suicide Bomber Targets Iraqi Official In Baghdad, Killing 8
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Iraqi soldiers celebrate next to a wrecked car that was driven by a suicide bomber in Baghdad's Yarmuk neighborhood, March 15, 2007. (Getty Images/Ahmad Al-Rubaye)
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An Iraqi woman and her granddaughter stand on the doortsteps of their home at the site of a car bomb attack in Iskandaria, March 15, 2007. (Getty Images/Majid Saeedi)
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A U.S. soldier keeps watch in the Shiite enclave of Sadr City in Baghdad on March 15, 2007. (AP Photo/Adil al-Khazali)
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The radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, gestures while delivering a Friday sermon in Iraq in this 2006 file photo. (AP Photo/Alaa Al-Marjani)
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A woman passes by a wreck of a car destroyed in a suicide car bomb attack in Baghdad, March 14, 2007. (AP Photo/Asaad Mouhsin)
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The attack began when one bomb went off as a U.S. unit was returning from a search operation in the mostly Shiite area, the military said. Moments later, a second bomb exploded, killing and wounding the soldiers.
A demolition team that searched the site after the attack found an explosively formed projectile, a type of high-tech bomb which the U.S. military believes comes from Iran. The device was detonated by the team.
Earlier Thursday, the military said a U.S. soldier was killed the day before in combat in Anbar province, west of Baghdad.
In addition, a Marine assigned to Multi National Force-West also died Wednesday in a non-combat related incident in Anbar, the military said in a separate statement. It did not give more details, saying the incident is under investigation.
Earlier Thursday, a suicide car bomber apparently targeting a senior city official sent a ball of fire tearing through a busy square in a mainly Shiite area in Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least eight people.
The driver detonated his explosives as a convoy carrying the head of the Baghdad city council, Sabir al-Issawi, was passing an Iraqi military checkpoint in the central Karradah neighborhood. The council chief was unharmed, but three of his bodyguards were wounded, his deputy, Naeem al-Qabi said.
Nobody claimed responsibility for the attack, but suicide car bombings are the hallmark of Sunni insurgent groups, particularly al Qaeda in Iraq. It was the second devastating blast to hit the thriving commercial district in four days. An explosives-laden car rammed a flatbed truck packed with Shiite pilgrims there on Sunday, killing 32 people.
In other developments:
Qassim Ismail, who owns a kiosk that sells cigarettes and soft drinks, was wounded by shrapnel Thursday and knocked unconscious.
"I have been working in this place for four years and have witnessed many explosions ... but I can't leave my work because I have family and live nearby," he said from his hospital bed.
The attack was a fresh example of what the U.S. military is now calling its biggest challenge in cracking down on the sectarian violence in Baghdad — car bombs, which killed at least 14 people in and around the city on Thursday.
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- DITCH MITCH McCONNEL AND LINDSY GRAHAM THEY ARE IN THE POCKET OF AIPAC!
HERE ARE THE SENATORS UP FOR REELECTION IN 08 WRITE THEM OR QUIT COMPLAINING! ASK THEM WHO IS PAYING THEIR SALARIES? 50 YEARS OF SACRIFICE IS ENOUGH! We cannot want peace in the Middle East more than those who live there! Follow the money see how many Congressmen are influenced by AIPAC money and how they are voting on Iraq!
http://www.aipac.org/forms/join_aipacClubs.htm
Alexander, Lamar- (R - TN)
Allard, Wayne- (R - CO)
Baucus, Max- (D - MT)
Biden, Joseph R., Jr.- (D - DE)
Chambliss, Saxby- (R - GA)
Cochran, Thad- (R - MS)
Coleman, Norm- (R - MN)
Collins, Susan M.- (R - ME)
Cornyn, John- (R - TX)
Craig, Larry E.- (R - ID)
Dole, Elizabeth- (R - NC)
Durbin, Richard- (D - IL)
Enzi, Michael B.- (R - WY)
Graham, Lindsey- (R - SC)
Hagel, Chuck- (R - NE)
Harkin, Tom- (D - IA)
Inhofe, James M.- (R - OK)
Johnson, Tim- (D - SD)
Kerry, John F.- (D - MA)
Landrieu, Mary L.- (D - LA)
Lautenberg, Frank R.- (D - NJ)
Levin, Carl- (D - MI)
McConnell, Mitch- (R - KY)
Pryor, Mark L.- (D - AR)
Reed, Jack- (D - RI)
Roberts, Pat- (R - KS)
Rockefeller, John D., IV- (D - WV)
Sessions, Jeff- (R - AL)
Smith, Gordon H.- (R - OR)
Stevens, Ted- (R - AK)
Sununu, John E.- (R - NH)
Warner, John- (R - VA)
If you think Americas sacrifice is worth it contact your ELECTED OFFICIAL and tell them http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/
The House Speakers email address: AmericanVoices@mail.house.gov - Reply to this comment
- "Normally the Iraqis know the drill ... if something happens ... get down, hands up ... They started to take off, so I shot at them," Wuterich says
If that is "standard operating procedure" of American armed forces - well, then, we're no better than the israelis killing "rock throwers". - Reply to this comment
- Go crawl into a corner until November of next year when you pull the lever for Hillary or Obama. That is what you really want to do.
Newsflash.....if either of those two get the Dem. nomination, they will get beat, just like '00 and '04
YOUR RIGHT .... they better find more voteable canidates. cause those two will lose.
Posted by usadvisor101
And which republican will beat either of them? Rudy, the male *** whose law firm runs a lobby for Chavez, McCain the 70 year old has-been who enjoys falling asleep while he decomposes, or Romney... member of the most bizzare cult on earth who believes 'in his heart' that scripture was revealed to the 'prophet' Joe Smith by a 'talking salamander'?
ROFLMAO!!! - Reply to this comment
- This man appears to be yet another broken-minded, double-brainwashed victim of the Bush crusade.
God help America.
Posted by feelfree1 at 12:44 AM : Mar 16, 2007
In this case it's not just Bush. Basic Training is not as much a physical conditioning and it is a mental one. I went through it 17 and I know that if, at the end of the training, my sergeant pointed a finger at someone and ordered me to fire I would have. It eats into you. Nearly 40 years later and I can recall almost every detail of the training. I know all of my sergeants names and what they looked like. I still remember my Fight number and my Training Squadron number. I can still do facing movements. It really is a form of brainwashing. - Reply to this comment
- badaxmofo another cockroach
on Rove's payroll to publish on here to stir the pot. Get off your butt and go join the Marines and stop wasting time on here and put some action into your fecal paranoids Rovian ideas. - Reply to this comment
- Re:
"In other developments:
"Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich, who is charged with killing 18 civilians in Iraq, said that he%u2019s sorry about the deaths but would make the same decision again today. The Iraqis, including women and children, died when Wuterich and his men reacted to an attack that killed a comrade in Haditha."
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What Sgt. Frank Wuterich appears to be stating here, is that he is 'real sorry' about needlessly executing 18 innocent civilians, but if one of his buddies gets blown up by another unrelated roadside bomb, he would once again, recklessly and disgracefully execute another 18 innocent civilians.
This man appears to be yet another broken-minded, double-brainwashed victim of the Bush crusade.
God help America. - Reply to this comment
- I'm sure everyone has heard/read this by now, but our beloved Vice-President's corporation (Halliburton) is moving its headquarters to Dubai.
".....money trumps peace, sometimes."
- George W. Bush
"Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war."
- Donald Rumsfeld - Reply to this comment
- The slaughter continues. The bodies of dead American soldiers continue to pile up.
Meanwhile, the Bush twins are living it up, Dad and Mom are enjoying the good life in Crawford and DC, and uncle ******** Cheney is laughing all the way to the bank with his Halliburton buddies.
Of course they don't want to "cut and run." They're all making a killing from this war! - Reply to this comment
- The pro war, pro nazi loving GOPigs offer no plans for america except chaos, anarchy, hypocrisy, lies, inbreeding, and pure ignorance. Tonites posts support these allegations. I can assure you that all the GOPigs have left in America is a stangelhold on fascism, permeating with cronyism and dissinforamtion throughout the original confederate states of the south, now the only remaining remnants of America hater's left in the USA. Secede, white southern trash, SECEDE TOMORROW!
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- Four more dead US troops. 3,200 total. 800 killed "contractors" you never hear about.
Americal is NOT at War. Our troops are at War. America is at the Mall. Wealthy Americans are spending their massive tax cuts on Hummers and McMansions, while we get stuck with massive national debt. Taxpayers pay $600 Biilion (so far) for this obscene War. How much went to Haliburton? Blackwater? The War Corporations? Who sacrifices? Who Profits?
Bush and Cheney deliberately LIED us into this disaster. If you haven't figured that out then you either haven't done your homework or you are in a state of denial ('Good German' style).
Bush and Cheney belong in JAIL! - Reply to this comment
- I think that the security sweep is starting to work and it has definitely flushed a majority of theses terrorists out of Baghdad where they obviously wnated to be. It is going to be a slow process but it is working. It is also encouraging to see there are so many more Iraqi's volunteering and that they are carrying out more missions.
To be a liberal....
You have to believe that hunters don't care about nature, but urban activists who have never been outside of San Francisco do. - Reply to this comment
- US Troops in Iraq? All to protect the fleecing of Iraqi oil reserves by Exxon, BP, Shell, and Halliburton. GOPigs!
Posted by condumism at 08:41 PM : Mar 15, 2007
No you jacka$$... Their oil is going to help rebuild the infrastructure of their country. Listen....do the rest of the people who want to work for a living in this country a favor. Go crawl into a corner until November of next year when you pull the lever for Hillary or Obama. That is what you really want to do.
Newsflash.....if either of those two get the Dem. nomination, they will get beat, just like '00 and '04.
You may be a liberal if you think that with just one more year on wlefare, that drugaddict on the street will finally kick their drug habit and "straighten up". - Reply to this comment
- All Iraqi's now targeting US troops. Great war strategy, GOPigs!
Posted by condumism at 08:27 PM : Mar 15, 2007
Ok...could you tell me exactly where you gleaned that information from this story. It says clearly that Al-Queda personell are targeting civilians in markets. Get your facts straight. Or is your thing that you wish to push your liberal point of view and don't really care about the facts? - Reply to this comment
- US Troops in Iraq? All to protect the fleecing of Iraqi oil reserves by Exxon, BP, Shell, and Halliburton. GOPigs!
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- All Iraqi's now targeting US troops. Great war strategy, GOPigs!
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- "The measure being considered by the Senate would pull troops out of Iraq over the next 12 months. The White House warns it would "hobble" American commanders and "substantially endanger" the U.S. objective of a democratic Iraq."
Right, because we're six months away from victory (01/03). Six months away from victory (07/03). Six months away from victory (01/04). Six months away from victory (07/04)....
I don't know which is worse, the Bush administration for completely disregarding reality, or those who parrot the administration's propaganda. - Reply to this comment
- Tucker, XOM is not in business to fill your tank for free.
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- what is the objective in Iraq?
Posted by baldfrog at 05:37 PM : Mar 15, 2007
The objective was for ExxonMobil to gain control of Iraq's oil & gas fields. And, to be able to justify the highest profits for any corporation in history.
The more instability in the Middle East, the higher ExxonMobil's (and other war profiteers, most of whom support Bush) profits.
Mission accomplished. ExxonMobil is now the wealthiest and most profitable corporation world-wide.
You would think ExxonMobil would at least offer all US taxpayers at least one free tank of gasoline in recognition of our financial support for their hostile takeover of Iraq's oil & gas fields. - Reply to this comment
- Randal is the one that needs starved out for his troll-count
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- what is the objective in Iraq? or is it just more bush el ca-ca de toro!
the cleansed that Mayan temple at least they knew what the hell is going on.thank God for that.
These Republican Freaks are some of the most Spiritually sick creeps to ever inhabit the earth. Use the Force Luke!And the cockroaches shall survive.Is Rove a Roach? - Reply to this comment
