BAGHDAD, April 5, 2007
As Brits Return From Iran, 4 Die In Iraq
Soldiers Killed By Roadside Bomb On Day 15 Troops Arrived Home After 13 Days In Captivity
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An Iraqi holds a British soldier's helmet after a roadside bomb killed four soliders on patrol in Basra, April 5, 2007. (AP)
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U.S. troops patrol a market in Abu Ghraib district of Baghdad, April 5, 2007. (AP)
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Workers try to fix damage to an oil pipeline caused by planted explosives near the city of Safwan, April 5, 2007. (AP)
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A car burns after a car bombing near a Sunni Muslim television station in Baghdad, April 5, 2007. (AP Photo/Asaad Mouhsin)
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The four British deaths — the biggest loss of life for British forces in more than four months — came as 15 British sailors and marines arrived home 13 days after they were seized by Iran off the Iraqi coast and held captive.
"Just as we rejoice at the return of our 15 service personnel, so today we are also grieving and mourning for the loss of our soldiers in Basra," Blair said.
In other developments:
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"It is far too early to say that the particular terrorist act that killed our forces was an act committed by terrorists that were backed by any elements of the Iranian regime," he said. "But the general picture, as I said before, is that there are elements at least of the Iranian regime that are backing, financing, arming, supporting terrorism in Iraq."
The British patrol struck a roadside bomb and was hit by small-arms fire about 2 a.m. in the Hayaniyah district in western Basra, 340 miles southeast of Baghdad, British military spokeswoman Capt. Katie Brown said.
A Kuwaiti civilian interpreter was also killed and a British soldier was seriously wounded, Brown said.
The explosion left a crater three feet deep. Hours after the attack, the helmet of a British soldier lay in the street alongside dozens of spent shells.
Police said the British patrol was en route from detaining 1st Lt. Haidar al-Jazaeri of the Interior Ministry's Major Crimes unit. The police would not say why al-Jazaeri had been detained.
The deaths raised to 140 the number of British forces who have died in Iraq since the March 2003 invasion, with 109 killed in combat.
Four British forces were killed Nov. 12 in an attack on a Multinational Forces boat patrol on the Shatt Al-Arab waterway in Basra, Iraq's second-largest city. Ten Britons died in the Jan. 30, 2006, crash of a Hercules transport plane north of Baghdad.
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- All you folks, who want to wage wars on every country with a President who loses them - - - ENLIST DO YOUR DUTY
Posted by j-whitman at 07:41 PM : Apr 05, 2007
They won't. The biggest war cheerleaders are always the biggest gutless yellow-bellied cowards, like Bush and Cheney. It's no surprise that their most blindly devoted followers here are just as gutless, just as yellow-bellied and just as big of cowards as they are. - Reply to this comment
- Only Ronald Dumsfeld or John McCain%u2019s BS Express would paint a rosy picture of Iraq now. Its like Forrest Gump would say - stupid is as stupid does. When we elect an intellectual midget like Bush we get a stupid war based on lies that goes on and on with no end in sight. If Congress had any gonads they would impeach Bush and Cheney and try them as war criminals.
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See in the picture the Iraqi holding the british helmet he is laughing. This is why we need to get the h*ll out of there.- Reply to this comment
- Or is this just OK with Congress?
Posted by inventagod at 06:20 PM : Apr 05, 2007
The democrats do not have enough votes to overturn the bush veto next election we can get the rest of the rubber stamps out of Washington. - Reply to this comment
- See the surge work.
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- Want to live under FEAR ?? - Put another republican in office.
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- "Want terrorist attacks? Vote LIB!"
Posted by mbcsmith at 04:42 PM : Apr 05, 2007
That line worked like a charm in 2004.
It won't work in 2008. That's a promise.
The American people have wised up a lot in the last 3 years. The negative poll numbers for this administration have hardened, unlike those of Reagan and Clinton in their second terms.
It's all over.
"Want terrorist attacks? Vote LIB!" -- That dog won't hunt anymore. All it can do now is roll over and play dead. - Reply to this comment
- All you folks, who want to wage wars on every country with a President who loses them - - - ENLIST DO YOUR DUTY
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- Radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr on Wednesday fired two senior members of his movement after they met with the top U.S. military officer in Iraq, a lawmaker close to the anti-American cleric said.
Too bad Bush fire Blinky Pelosi for the SAME thing!
Posted by badaxmofo at 07:31 PM : Apr 05, 2007
Typical right wing idea. Doesn't understand how the electoral process works (not surprising as Bush and most of his blind followers would fail a basic civics test with worlds first negative grade). Let me explain it in words you'll understand. Bush no hire her. Bush no can fire her. People vote for her. Not Bush. So Bush no can fire her.
Simple enough? If not go on down to your learning place tomorrow (you know. The one room building where your pappy drops you on the way to the fields) and ask your School Marm to explain it to you. - Reply to this comment
- Four more troops killed in Iraq protecting the Bu$h Oil Reserve today, and this does not even make the headlines in brain-dead America.
What the heck will it take for US voters to realize they have been CONNED by the slickest bunch of lying politicians to have ever rolled into Washington?
Or is this just OK with Congress? - Reply to this comment
- Groans, Blair sounds like a sound bite of Bush.
Both these idiots will go down in the history books as the incompetent screwups they are.
Posted by clestes at 05:53 PM : Apr 05, 2007
they will go down in history as taking the fight to the fascist nazi islamic muslims......
just like thomas jefferson did and theodore roosevelt did........
the war that fascist nazi Islamic muslims started and continues on yet today%u2026%u2026
The Truth about Islamic Crusades and Imperialism
Historical facts say that Islam has been imperialistic%u2014and would still like to be, if only for religious reasons. Many Muslim clerics, scholars, and activists, for example, would like to impose Islamic law around the world. Historical facts say that Islam, including Muhammad, launched their own Crusades against Christianity long before the European Crusades.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2005/11/the_truth_about_islamic_crusad.html
http://www.americanthinker.com/2004/08/the_muslim_crusades.html - Reply to this comment
- Groans, Blair sounds like a sound bite of Bush.
Both these idiots will go down in the history books as the incompetent screwups they are. - Reply to this comment
- The DS stands for Di*k Small. Your overcompensation betrays your inadequacies where it really counts. Please don't respond to any of my comments as your LIB SPEW has become quite tiresome.
Posted by mbcsmith at 05:01 PM : Apr 05, 2007
Why is it that when this right wing loonies like this get angry the always start asking about your di*ck size? Every time without fail the di*ck is the first thing they try to change the subject to. Only thing I can figure is this guy must be another republican Ted Haggard and that it's getting a little claustrophobic in his closet. Come on mbcsmith! Come out of the closet! I have several g*ay friends and they always felt better after they came out and I'm sure you will to. It's really for your own good and mental well being you know. - Reply to this comment
- Like being ruled by a fascist neo-Nazi fat bas***** and his idiotic puppet?
Find a way to re-elect Bush and Cheney!
Posted by RandalDS at 04:54 PM : Apr 05, 2007
The DS stands for Di*k Small. Your overcompensation betrays your inadequacies where it really counts. Please don't respond to any of my comments as your LIB SPEW has become quite tiresome. - Reply to this comment
- Like being ruled by a fascist neo-Nazi fat bas***** and his idiotic puppet?
Find a way to re-elect Bush and Cheney!
Posted by RandalDS at 04:54 PM : Apr 05, 2007
submit to fascist nazi islam..........
FASCIST NAZI ISLAM / PERFECT EXAMPLE OF FASCISM!!!
Fascist nazi islam is intent on killing or enslaving all non muslims......
The most notable characteristic of a fascist country is the separation and persecution or denial of equality to a specific segment of the population based upon superficial qualities or belief systems.
Simply stated, a fascist government always has one class of citizens that is considered superior (good) to another (bad) based upon race, creed or origin. It is possible to be both a republic and a fascist state. The preferred class lives in a republic while the oppressed class lives in a fascist state.
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- Like Iraq ? Vote Republican !
Posted by superdem at 04:38 PM : Apr 05, 2007
Want terrorist attacks? Vote LIB!
Posted by mbcsmith at 04:42 PM : Apr 05, 2007
Like being ruled by a fascist neo-Nazi fat bas***** and his idiotic puppet?
Find a way to re-elect Bush and Cheney! - Reply to this comment
- Hey di*ckweed you asked for a source so I told you where I heard it from. If you can't believe the uber-conservative Pat Buchanan then go do your own online research or quit bi*tching. So far all you seem to be doing is being a waste of space and air.
Posted by RandalDS at 04:07 PM : Apr 05, 2007
I asked you for NOTHING a**hole. You just can't seem to keep your f**kng mouth shut anyway! You are a LIAR and a pu**y. Your pri*k size must really make you feel inadequate.
Posted by mbcsmith at 04:31 PM : Apr 05, 2007
LOL! As the Great Bugs Bunny once said: "What a maroon!!" LOL! - Reply to this comment
- is it time to end fascist nazi islam once and for all???
a muslim justifies slavery and piracy%u2026
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But for a Muslim to keep his word to an infidel at the expense of opportunities to expand Islamic power is the Islamic equivalent of a mortal sin.
Sidi Mehemet Ibrahim by demanding that America once again appease the Islamists. Their demand for withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan in the face of Islamist attacks aimed to re-enslave the populations of those countries will get America into a much larger war a lot sooner than the 17 years to took for appeasement to lead to war at the end of the 18th Century.
Ben Franklinb%u20AC%u2122s use of an imaginary Algerian pirate to satirize a pro-slavery Congressman shows his clear understanding of the danger posed by Islamism. Modern day Americans would do well to consider the lessons of the War with Islamism fought by Thomas Jefferson and again by James Madison and this alternate meaning in Franklinb%u20AC%u2122s final words of warning. - Reply to this comment
- Like Iraq ? Vote Republican !
Posted by superdem at 04:38 PM : Apr 05, 2007
Want terrorist attacks? Vote LIB! - Reply to this comment
- Like Iraq ? Vote Republican !
Posted by superdem at 04:38 PM : Apr 05, 2007
Want terrorist attacks? Vote LIB! - Reply to this comment
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