Seven More U.S. Troops Killed In Iraq

Four Killed By Roadside Bomb In Baghdad As Security Crackdown Continues

(AP)  Seven American troops have been killed in Iraq, including four in a single incident, the U.S. military said Sunday.

A roadside bomb killed four soldiers Saturday while they were on patrol in western Baghdad, the military said in a statement. Small arms fire followed the blast, wounding another soldier.

The attack occurred as the soldiers were conducting patrols as part of a month-old security operation to end sectarian violence in the capital, the statement said.

So far this month, the soldiers' battalion had found eight weapons caches and two roadside bombs, as well as helping to rescue a kidnap victim, the military said.

A Task Force Lightning soldier also died and five others were wounded Saturday as a result of injuries sustained in an explosion in Diyala province, northeast of Baghdad, according to a statement.

In western Anbar province, a U.S. Marine died Saturday while conducting combat operations, the military also said.

Another soldier died the same day in a non-combat related incident, the military said in another statement. The circumstances were under investigation.

The victims' names were withheld pending family notification.

The deaths raise to at least 3,216 members of the U.S. military who have died since the Iraq war started in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

In Other Developments:

A roadside bomb hit an Iraqi police convoy in eastern Baghdad, killing two policemen and wounding five others, authorities said. Two vehicles were damaged.

Later, police said a mortar round landed near a house in central Baghdad, killing a civilian and wounding another.

A car bomb killed seven Iraqis in a predominantly Shiite district of Baghdad. Police say more than two dozen others were hurt. The attack
targeted people cooking food at open-air grills in the street to
offer as charity.

Also today, gunmen opened fire on a minibus carrying civilians
northeast of Baghdad, killing seven.

In Shorja market, Baghdad's most popular central shopping district, a man tossed a grenade into a group of workers, police said. One worker was killed and another was wounded. The suspect escaped through a nearby alley, they said. The Shorja market has been bombed several times, including a large truck bomb last month. But the area was turned into a pedestrian zone after a U.S.-Iraqi security crackdown began in Baghdad on Feb. 14.

Also Sunday, an abandoned hotel exploded in an industrial area of Fallujah, 40 miles west of Baghdad. Police said insurgents had planted bombs in the three-story building and then detonated it at dawn. Half of the building was destroyed. Iraqi troops had taken over part of the building's roof as a base, police said. There were no reports of casualties.

In Diwaniyah, 80 miles south of Baghdad, fierce fighting erupted between U.S. troops and elements of the Shiite Mahdi Army, police said. There were no reports of casualties, and the U.S. military had no immediate comment.

Eleven bodies turned up in three locations outside of Baghdad. Many showed signs of torture.

The U.S. military said U.S. troops captured 12 suspected militants Sunday in raids across Iraq.

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by diplomacy3 March 19, 2007 12:21 PM EDT

It's a natural gas pipeline running from....

RandalDS. Thank you for the feedback.

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by DannyWR March 19, 2007 8:48 AM EDT

Terminate Islam. Just make Islam illegal.

The American People see just how effective their government is at conducting 'wars' on enemies.

We have a magnificent War on Drugs.

We have a fabulous War on Poverty.

How can we have a War on Terror when terror is the only thing the IRS has going for it?

No. The 'war' has to be a War on Islam.

I'm SURE that our current crop of absolute failures will be able to get the job done on that one - NOT!

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by karlimhof March 19, 2007 8:39 AM EDT

how can this bennefit aipac and israel?

i consider israel an ally, i just dont think its right to got in debt to give a wealthy nation billions, when we have soldiers dying and have went into huge debt with the both the wars????????????


Posted by usadvisor101

AIPAC showed its muscle last week - they have completely dominated OUR Congress and Pelosi, Reid, Boehner, McConnell AND the Star of the Show our VP Cheney whose speech was titled;

"US & israel : United We Stand"

Well, I'm thinking this little defenseless state of israel with her nuclear weapons and ulta modern US airforce & munitions - the size of New Jersey - refuses to give back stolen land the size of greater Manhattan to the Palestinian owners -

and we get stuck with the bills !!! and we sent our boys into harms way to "create" a new Middle East so that israel can feel comfortable?

Are we out of our minds?

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by karlimhof March 19, 2007 8:24 AM EDT

Americans, through Congress, gave their approval to fight "terrorism" in Afghanistan -

but Bush took us to Iraq to "liberate", throw out Saddam, and "install democracy".

Now we're fighting and and being killed by Sunni, Shia Iraqis, along with a very marginal (2%) Al-Qaeda -

Call it secterian strife, or civil war, the fact is Iraqis - those we "liberated" are now shooting at us!

Redeploy our troops to the borders - safeguard Iraqi territorial integrity - or get completely out. Let the Iraqis decide for themselves.

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by DannyWR March 19, 2007 7:16 AM EDT

Iraq or Afghan. either way, if you're killed - you're dead - both venues.

Why hasn't the 'brain' of terror been taken down? Most '911' attackers were Saudi. Nothing happened to Saudi - except U.S. got kicked out of there! Kicked out by Bush Buddies. Absurd. Bush is afraid of Islam. He claims enemy is not Islam. Bush is dead wrong. Islam is a killing cult. Has been for centuries. Saudi needs to be cleaned out and democratized. NOBODY is saying that. I'M saying it.

Holding Mecca/Medina hostage until Islam screams "Uncle" would be child's play except for the current U.S. military with a leadership which housed hundreds of soldiers in a single building in the citadel of carbombs - Lebanon, then ran away when the inevitable happened. They allow the terrorists to drive around Iraq/Afg. at will! They even allowed their HQ, the Pentagon, to be surrounded by an unnavigable spagetti bowl of highways that will be unusable when the terror begins in DC.

So far, the rags are winning, beating the Perfumed Princes of the Pentagon silly.

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by randalds March 19, 2007 5:58 AM EDT

@RandalDS do not compare Afghanistan with IRAQ

Posted by James_John at 02:55 AM : Mar 19, 2007

I didn't.

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by james_john-2009 March 19, 2007 5:55 AM EDT

@RandalDS do not compare Afghanistan with IRAQ

Afghanistan is kinda safe you wont hear in months any casualties.

And its not Afghanistan Invasion !

The Isaf troops their to help Afghan People!

Because Afghanistan does not have oil or anything worht of invasion.

Iraq is diffrent, USA is there for OIL! and we can call iraq war as Invasion .

Hope you jerkies sitting 13,000km away on your chair with fat tummies eating popcorn understand the diffrnces.

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by DannyWR March 19, 2007 5:11 AM EDT

U.S. commanders seem to have no care for soldier safety as they continue to send them into a meatgrinder and the dear souls are so committed to the WOT they blindly follow their orders when there are far smarter ways of dealing with the situation.

If Bush and Cheney wouldn't drive a Humvee or a Stryker down a Baghdad street why should Joe Schmo from Kokomo have to do it?

The very premis of patrolling a Baghdad street is bogus, a fool's errand.

All they are doing is cleaning out one group of maniacs to make the street safe for another.
Petraeus, smart? Pullllllleeeeeeeeeezzzzz!

Supposedly, the US troop likes his computer games. Let USA outfit Strykers for r/c and drive them by remote 'on point' down the street. Let the Stryker get blown up and then, when the attackers appear from hiding, blow THEM up.

NOBODY wants to man a traffic stop for obvious reasons. Set up stops outfitted with videocams on roadside poles that the travelers can be ordered to pickup and pass through their passenger compartments and into their trunks and under the hoods. A sump with video can take care of the undercarriage.

Make the Iraqi's responsible for knowing just who their neighbors are. Make a database of that. Then, all legit Iraqis will be known and when dead ones are ID'd their neighbors can 'pay a price' for not reporting them. If a neighbor won't participate, move him to a refugee camp. He is suspect, ipso facto.

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by randalds March 19, 2007 5:04 AM EDT

RandalDS

Could you pl.tell me where is that pipeline coming from and whether Pakistan & India have signed any agreement? Because what I know is that IPI(Iran-Pakistan-India)gas pipeline. I've just a blank on Afghan pipeline. Thank you.
Posted by diplomacy3 at 12:22 AM : Mar 19, 2007

It's a natural gas pipeline running from Turkmenistan, through Afghanistan, through Pakistan and then into India. The investments are all in place, however the resurgent Taliban may have stopped the official start on construction which was due to finally begin last year (2006). Still it's really just a matter of paying off the right warlords and construction should start by the end of the year. Though feasibility studies are finished and some construction on the path has begun, I may have given the wrong impression when I said construction has begun. Construction on the pipeline itself has not started yet, just the preparatory construction.

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by jerr11 March 19, 2007 3:23 AM EDT

Jerr, he already was called that by the lame Cindy Sheehan group a year or so ago. It didn't stick then; it won't stick now.

You see, he isn't doing the killing.

Posted by Musty2U at 06:04 PM : Mar 18, 2007


By this same logic, Hitler was not responsible for the deaths of 6 million Jews because "he didn't do the gassing."

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[diplomacy3]

It's a natural gas pipeline running from....

RandalDS. Thank you for the feedback.

[DannyWR]

Terminate Islam. Just make Islam illegal.

The American People see just how effective their government is at conducting 'wars' on enemies.

We have a magnificent War on Drugs.

We have a fabulous War on Poverty.

How can we have a War on Terror when terror is the only thing the IRS has going for it?

No. The 'war' has to be a War on Islam.

I'm SURE that our current crop of absolute failures will be able to get the job done on that one - NOT!

[karlimhof]

how can this bennefit aipac and israel?

i consider israel an ally, i just dont think its right to got in debt to give a wealthy nation billions, when we have soldiers dying and have went into huge debt with the both the wars????????????


Posted by usadvisor101

AIPAC showed its muscle last week - they have completely dominated OUR Congress and Pelosi, Reid, Boehner, McConnell AND the Star of the Show our VP Cheney whose speech was titled;

"US & israel : United We Stand"

Well, I'm thinking this little defenseless state of israel with her nuclear weapons and ulta modern US airforce & munitions - the size of New Jersey - refuses to give back stolen land the size of greater Manhattan to the Palestinian owners -

and we get stuck with the bills !!! and we sent our boys into harms way to "create" a new Middle East so that israel can feel comfortable?

Are we out of our minds?

[karlimhof]

Americans, through Congress, gave their approval to fight "terrorism" in Afghanistan -

but Bush took us to Iraq to "liberate", throw out Saddam, and "install democracy".

Now we're fighting and and being killed by Sunni, Shia Iraqis, along with a very marginal (2%) Al-Qaeda -

Call it secterian strife, or civil war, the fact is Iraqis - those we "liberated" are now shooting at us!

Redeploy our troops to the borders - safeguard Iraqi territorial integrity - or get completely out. Let the Iraqis decide for themselves.

[DannyWR]

Iraq or Afghan. either way, if you're killed - you're dead - both venues.

Why hasn't the 'brain' of terror been taken down? Most '911' attackers were Saudi. Nothing happened to Saudi - except U.S. got kicked out of there! Kicked out by Bush Buddies. Absurd. Bush is afraid of Islam. He claims enemy is not Islam. Bush is dead wrong. Islam is a killing cult. Has been for centuries. Saudi needs to be cleaned out and democratized. NOBODY is saying that. I'M saying it.

Holding Mecca/Medina hostage until Islam screams "Uncle" would be child's play except for the current U.S. military with a leadership which housed hundreds of soldiers in a single building in the citadel of carbombs - Lebanon, then ran away when the inevitable happened. They allow the terrorists to drive around Iraq/Afg. at will! They even allowed their HQ, the Pentagon, to be surrounded by an unnavigable spagetti bowl of highways that will be unusable when the terror begins in DC.

So far, the rags are winning, beating the Perfumed Princes of the Pentagon silly.

[randalds]

@RandalDS do not compare Afghanistan with IRAQ

Posted by James_John at 02:55 AM : Mar 19, 2007

I didn't.

[james_john-2009]

@RandalDS do not compare Afghanistan with IRAQ

Afghanistan is kinda safe you wont hear in months any casualties.

And its not Afghanistan Invasion !

The Isaf troops their to help Afghan People!

Because Afghanistan does not have oil or anything worht of invasion.

Iraq is diffrent, USA is there for OIL! and we can call iraq war as Invasion .

Hope you jerkies sitting 13,000km away on your chair with fat tummies eating popcorn understand the diffrnces.

[DannyWR]

U.S. commanders seem to have no care for soldier safety as they continue to send them into a meatgrinder and the dear souls are so committed to the WOT they blindly follow their orders when there are far smarter ways of dealing with the situation.

If Bush and Cheney wouldn't drive a Humvee or a Stryker down a Baghdad street why should Joe Schmo from Kokomo have to do it?

The very premis of patrolling a Baghdad street is bogus, a fool's errand.

All they are doing is cleaning out one group of maniacs to make the street safe for another.
Petraeus, smart? Pullllllleeeeeeeeeezzzzz!

Supposedly, the US troop likes his computer games. Let USA outfit Strykers for r/c and drive them by remote 'on point' down the street. Let the Stryker get blown up and then, when the attackers appear from hiding, blow THEM up.

NOBODY wants to man a traffic stop for obvious reasons. Set up stops outfitted with videocams on roadside poles that the travelers can be ordered to pickup and pass through their passenger compartments and into their trunks and under the hoods. A sump with video can take care of the undercarriage.

Make the Iraqi's responsible for knowing just who their neighbors are. Make a database of that. Then, all legit Iraqis will be known and when dead ones are ID'd their neighbors can 'pay a price' for not reporting them. If a neighbor won't participate, move him to a refugee camp. He is suspect, ipso facto.

[randalds]

RandalDS

Could you pl.tell me where is that pipeline coming from and whether Pakistan & India have signed any agreement? Because what I know is that IPI(Iran-Pakistan-India)gas pipeline. I've just a blank on Afghan pipeline. Thank you.
Posted by diplomacy3 at 12:22 AM : Mar 19, 2007

It's a natural gas pipeline running from Turkmenistan, through Afghanistan, through Pakistan and then into India. The investments are all in place, however the resurgent Taliban may have stopped the official start on construction which was due to finally begin last year (2006). Still it's really just a matter of paying off the right warlords and construction should start by the end of the year. Though feasibility studies are finished and some construction on the path has begun, I may have given the wrong impression when I said construction has begun. Construction on the pipeline itself has not started yet, just the preparatory construction.

[jerr11]

Jerr, he already was called that by the lame Cindy Sheehan group a year or so ago. It didn't stick then; it won't stick now.

You see, he isn't doing the killing.

Posted by Musty2U at 06:04 PM : Mar 18, 2007


By this same logic, Hitler was not responsible for the deaths of 6 million Jews because "he didn't do the gassing."