Bomb Kills 32 In Iraq Shiite Enclave
Leaflets Dropped In South Baghdad Seek Info On Missing Troops; 9 Iraqis Die In Fighting
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Play CBS Video Video Ft. Drum Feels Loss Everyone stationed at Ft. Drum, N.Y., is holding their collective breath as they wait to learn the names of those killed or kidnapped during a weekend ambush in Iraq. Sharyn Alfonsi reports.
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Video Military Mobilizes For Search The U.S. military has stepped up its search efforts to find three missing soldiers, amid fears they may have been kidnapped by al Qaeda insurgents. Mark Strassmann reports.
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Video Al Qaeda: Stop The Search An al Qaeda group that claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of three U.S. troops is now demanding that the 4,000-troop force searching for them stop looking. Mark Strassmann reports.
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Iraqi youths burn car tires during a protest against power shortages in Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, 340 miles southeast of Baghdad, May 16, 2007. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)
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Marine Lance Corporal Larry Martin from Odessa, Texas of Mobile Assault Platoon 3 of Weapons Company 2 Battalion, 7th Marines patrols in the area known as Zaidon in the Al Anbar province near Fallujah, Iraq, May 14, 2007. (Getty Images/Joe Raedle)
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A U.S. soldier gestures at the site of a car bomb in the Karrada district near Baghdad city center, May 14, 2007. (Getty Images/Ahmad Al-Rubaye)
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Staff Sgt. Redoc Jordan, 43, from Waiawa, Hawaii looks behind him as soldiers from Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 28th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade, 1st Infantry Division search a block in the Rashid neighborhood in Baghdad, Iraq Tuesday May 15, 2007. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
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The attack occurred near an outside market in the village of Abu Saydah in the volatile Diyala province, local police said, giving the casualty toll.
Residents of the farming village of 10,000 people said the attack appeared to be revenge for a confrontation a month ago in which locals killed 12 al-Qaida fighters. They said residents had fought back against Sunni militants trying to storm the village and 10 days later received threats to leave the village or face death.
It was not clear why the bombing went unreported until Wednesday, more than 12 hours after police said the explosion occurred.
Hospital officials and victims said it appeared chlorine gas was used in the attack since many of the wounded were having difficulty breathing and their sight was affected. But Lt. Col. Michael Donnelly, a U.S. military spokesman in northern Iraq, and provincial Iraqi police officials denied that toxic gas was involved.
"Our folks on the scene ... who are investigating this do not have any of those indications," Donnelly told The Associated Press. But the investigation was continuing, he said.
One man had a white cloth across his eyes as he lay in his hospital bed; others were bandaged from head to toe.
Abu Saydah is a mainly Shiite village about 25 miles northeast of the Sunni insurgent stronghold of Baqouba, the capital of the province that has seen a recent spike in violence largely blamed on militants who fled Baghdad ahead of a U.S.-Iraqi security crackdown.
Kadim Hussein, a 45-year-old farmer who was taken to the Imam Ali hospital in Sadr City, claimed the hospitals in Baqouba would only accept Sunnis.
"My eyes became puffy due the chlorine gas that was packed in the car bomb," he said, adding he also had difficulties breathing.
A hospital official said the facility had received three bodies and 11 of those wounded who all showed symptoms of chlorine poisoning. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to speak to the media.
Diyala province — with its mixed Shiite and Sunni Muslim population — has been the scene of frequent violence of a sectarian nature as well as attacks by anti-U.S. insurgents.
Meanwhile, thousands of U.S. forces continued to search for three American soldiers feared captured by al Qaeda last week after an attack on their convoy south of Baghdad, which also killed four U.S. troops and an Iraqi soldier.
U.S. aircraft dropped leaflets on an area south of Baghdad Wednesday, seeking information on three soldiers feared captured. Trucks with loudspeakers were roaming the area urging people to come forward with any information. No details of the leaflets or their precise message were released.
They were lost Saturday in an ambush in the so-called Triangle of Death. Four of their comrades were killed.
An umbrella terror group calling itself the Islamic State of Iraq claims responsibility and has warned the U.S. to stop the search.
All the soldiers are with the storied 10th Mountain Division based at Fort Drum, New York.
In other developments:
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See all 21 CommentsPosted by mbcsmith at 10:22 AM : May 16, 2007
Why do neocons hate our troops?
Posted by wfbdem at 01:15 PM : May 16, 2007
I don't know why? They wrap themselves in the flag, accuse those who disagree with them of being unpatriotic and not supporting the troops, when it's they who send our troops off to die in vain. For nothing, but money. The only conclusion one could have is that, in spite of their phony words, they have nothing but contempt for our brave young men in women in uniform. Even to the point of outright, though hidden, hatred. People who REALLY support the troops are the ones who want them to come home now, instead of having their lives thrown away in Bush's folly.
Islamic rule will benefit Christians and Jews
by Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook - May 14, 2007
The force behind Hamas TV%u2019s controversial Mickey Mouse clone said today that his children%u2019s television program will continue to promote worldwide Islamic supremacy, for everyone's benefit, including Christians and Jews.
In a long interview on Hamas TV, Hazim Al-Sha%u2019arawi, Deputy Director of Al-Aqsa TV and one of the creators of the Hamas children%u2019s TV show Tomorrow%u2019s Pioneers, said that using the program to promote Islamic rule over other religions is actually promoting %u201Cjustice, goodness and world love.%u201D
Al-Aqsa TV and the Palestinian Authority have been under fire since PMW reported last week that Tomorrow%u2019s Pioneers was using a character named Farfur, a knockoff of Disney%u2019s Mickey Mouse character, to convey messages about Islamic supremacy as well as hatred of Jews, Israel and the U.S. Despite public statements by PA Minister of Information Mustafa Barghouti that the show would be taken off the air until it could be reviewed and revised, a new episode of the program %u2013 featuring Al-Sha%u2019arawi as one of the hosts %u2013 ran Friday.
http://pmw.org.il/bulletins_may2007.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S995NCeaUg
Americans hold elected officials accountable for the deaths of our troops!
How about Bushes daughters? Those captured soldiers are someones children, so while W says OTHERS must make the ultimate sacrafice, why does he not step up to the plate and lead by example?
The most worthless president in my countries history.
if it is ok for fascist nazi islamic muslims to kill all non muslims everywhere.... is it ok for the non muslims to kill all fascist nazi islamic muslims???
Wouldn't killing 5.1 BILLION people (the number of non muslims in the world) be the very definition of barbarism???
Or is it fascist nazi islam%u2019s way of solving global warming???
Switching Sides: Inside The Enemy Camp
But then in 2000, well before his arrest, something happened which would make Abas question everything he believed in: a fatwa, a religious edict, was issued by Osama bin Laden.
"It should be understood that killing Americans and Jews anywhere found are the highest act of worship and the highest form of good deeds in the eyes of Allah," Simon quotes bin Laden.
Abas and his fellow commanders were ordered to read the fatwa to their men and make sure they carried it out. The others obeyed, but Abas refused. It was his moment of truth. He firmly believed that jihad was to be fought only on the battlefield in defense of Islam; he had always been taught that the killing of civilians had nothing to do with holy war and that it was forbidden.
The fatwa justified killing non-Muslim civilians everywhere.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/05/04/60minutes/main2761108.shtml?source=RSSattr=60Minutes_2761108
Posted by mbcsmith at 10:22 AM : May 16, 2007
Why do neocons hate our troops?
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The deadline should be determined by Americans. If it's left up to the vacationing Iraqi lawmakers, it will be set at 10 minutes after Never.
Benchmarks without hard deadlines, enforcement and penalties, are useless, as any high school teacher will confirm.
If the Iraqi government folds after that, it will be them doing the surrendering, not Americans. The dishonor will be all theirs.
- Posted by mbcsmith at 10:22 AM : May 16, 2007
The mission is for Iraqis themselves to accomplish.
Gates says the Surge is just "a strategy to buy time" for the Iraqis to build consensus.
There is no military solution in Iraq, and according to Petraeus, those who claim otherwise are ignorant of history.
The surfing at Iraqi beaches at this time of year is awesome.
Gotta watch out for those apparent mortar rounds.
They feel like the real thing when they hit you.
[Dog Cheney should get a medal for risking his life in the Green Zone.]
It's not a difficult thing at all period!!!!
Posted by tbweb
Well I dont agree with that T our congress always takes every day off it can get regardless of whats happening seems their politicians are just like ours.
Other than the fact that our politicians choip peoples heads off behind closed doors.
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