3 GIs Killed In Baghdad Bridge Blast
Six Soldiers Wounded As Bomb Hits Bridge Checkpoint; Former Sunni Foes Asked For Help
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Play CBS Video Video 82nd Airborne Heads To Iraq As the remaining members of the 82nd airborne join their fellow soldiers in Iraq, there is concern that that the troop surge has over-extended the U.S. armed forces. Joie Chen reports.
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Video Taming Baghdad's 'Hotspots' U.S. troops in Baghdad are hoping that by isolating certain troubled Baghdad neighborhoods and making significant improvements, they can show residents the benefits of cooperation. Lara Logan reports.
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Video Insurgents: An Unlikely Ally The Ameriyah Freedom Fighters are helping the U.S. Army fight a common enemy, al Qaeda, in the hardcore Sunni neighborhood of Ameriyah. Lara Logan reports.
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A U.S. soldier runs by a bridge destroyed by an apparent suicide vehicle bomber on June 10, 2007,outside Mahmoudiya, about 20 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
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U.S. troops and private security guards, in black, work to remove concrete rubble from atop wounded soldiers, at a bridge destroyed by an apparent suicide vehicle bomber on Sunday, June 10, 2007, outside Mahmoudiya, about 20 miles south of Baghdad. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
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A U.S. soldier runs after a bridge was destroyed by an apparent suicide bomber on Sunday, June 10, 2007,outside Mahmoudiya. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
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Private security contractors, in black, inspect a bridge destroyed by an apparent suicide vehicle bomber on Sunday, June 10, 2007, outside Mahmoudiya. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
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Iraqis gather around a burning patrol car in Samarra, 60 miles north of Baghdad, Monday, June 11, 2007. (AP Photo/Hameed Rasheed)
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The U.S. military said engineers were dispatched with bulldozers and other heavy equipment to clear the highway, which was partially blocked by debris from the overpass. An Iraqi interpreter also was wounded in the attack, according to the statement that gave the casualty toll.
Donald Campbell, a 40-year-old Scot with the private security firm Armor Group International, and his colleagues were in a passing convoy and worked with a U.S. Army quick reaction force for some 45 minutes to pull trapped men from the rubble, scrambling over the fallen concrete.
U.S. armored vehicles provided cover fire from their cannons after the bombing, which occurred in the area dubbed the "triangle of death" for its frequent Sunni insurgent attacks.
The blast dropped one of two sections of the "Checkpoint 20" bridge, which crosses over the north-south expressway, six miles east of Mahmoudiya.
It appeared that a northbound suicide driver stopped and detonated his vehicle beside a support pillar, said Lt. Col. Garry Bush, an Army munitions officer who was in the convoy, which also carried an Associated Press reporter and photographer and arrived two minutes after the blast.
A U.S. Army checkpoint and a tent structure, apparently a rest area, fell into the shattered concrete. The crossing was believed to have been closed to all but military traffic at the time.
Armor Group security guards, all ex-military, and others in the convoy rushed to the ruins. They found a scene of confusion.
"When that size blast went off, everyone was in shock," said one of the first atop the rubble, Jackie Smith, 53, a former lieutenant colonel now working as a civilian Army munitions expert.
He said he saw what he believed was the engine block of a truck — apparently what remained of the suicide vehicle.
Soon the outpost sergeant in charge was organizing a search for his missing men, Smith said. The Armor Group team climbed up with first-aid kits, stretchers and other aid.
With the Army's quick reaction force, they struggled to lift concrete shards off the men, pinned along the slope of what was once a roadway. At one point, a Bradley armored vehicle with a tow chain pulled a slab off a pinned victim to free him.
Then a shout went up, "Morphine! Morphine!" and a black T-shirt-clad Briton administered painkiller to the freed man.
"Another poor fellow looked crushed beneath a concrete slab," said the Armor Group's Campbell.
During the rescue operation, U.S. armored vehicles opened up with suppressing fire, possibly having spotted movement in the surrounding countryside, flat and baking in 100-degree-plus Fahrenheit temperatures.
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Michelle Obama tells how her role as the First Lady has changed her perspective.
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See all 173 CommentsNicely stated! It IS your IMPRESSION, because you are so pathetically uninformed by our corporate media. You don't have factual information so you are led through the nose on feelings, fear, impression, slogans...
You probably thought Saddam had WMDs, just like "the rest of the world".
It is probably your impression that the "terrorists hate us for our freedom", and that "we must fight them over there so we don't have to fight them here".
Perhaps you were part of the 50% that thought Saddam was involved in 9-11.
It may be your impression that Bush and Cheney give a rats a** about Democracy. (really, friendly brutal dictators are much easier to work with).
It may be your impression that Bush/Cheney care about our troops, that they are worried the war is going badly -- when in fact they use our troops as cannon fodder for their pre-9/11 Iraq plans, and they are just fine with endless war and keeping the troops in Iraq "until the job is done".
When will people start doing their civic homework, wake up and JAIL these SOBs!
LIED about WMDs, aluminum tubes, bio-mobile labs, mushroom clouds, niger yellowcake uranium
LIED about Saddam violating the UN 1441, to create the fig-leaf pretext for invasion (Saddam truthfully said he had no WMDs, Saddam DID let UN inspectors have free access to wherever they wanted)...
EXPLOITED 9-11, with fake Saddam links to Al Qaeda, fake color coded terror alerts to keep us all afraid...
INVADED a country that was NOT a threat, then builds 14 permanent military bases, a $500 Million US embassy, and claims we will need a military presence in Iraq for decades to come...
THREATENS Iraq Parliament to pass the Oil Law, giving US corporations access to Iraq's $21 Trillion oil reserves...
DECLARES "enemy combatants" and then throws them in solitary confinement without ANY trial, hearing, or due process...
Think about all that Cheney/Bush have done, and ask who they remind you more of, Thomas Jefferson or Adolf Hitler?
The answer of course is Adolf Hitler. Heil Bush!
"With a thunderous rumble and cloud of dust and smoke, a suicide car bomb brought down a section of highway bridge south of Baghdad on Sunday"
This event happened yesterday, and was reported elsewhere, yesterday. This leaves the impression that helping Joe Lieberman to foment an illegal and suicidal attack against Iran, is higher on the CBS priority list, than three dead U.S. soldiers.
"No, you judged me out of your ignorance. You brought racism into it, thats ignorance, so, you might get off calling me moron, but you truely are a boy.
And a mental midget. You have been out classed, out argued, and out maneuvered every step of the way, and you still have not figured it out.
That, my boy, is truely ignorant."
lol - that from someone who has been calling me a "boy".
I guess that makes you a sexist pig.
By the way, I never said anything about your skin color - I was commenting on the fact that you repeatedly kept calling me "boy" - something that I attribute to southern redneck morons.
Your opinion is of no concern to me - I still think you're a pathetic piece of cowardly cr@p, who is to chicken to answer a few questions.
Here they are again for you:
So tell us - are you happy with GW Bush's plans?
Do you think his plans are working?
How many more dead Americans will it take for you to realize that GW Bush has no plan other then the "same ol', same ol'"?
By the way, I bet you can't tell me the color of my skin.
Moron.
Will Rogers
Moron.
Posted by mcdazz
No, you judged me out of your ignorance. You brought racism into it, thats ignorance, so, you might get off calling me moron, but you truely are a boy.
And a mental midget. You have been out classed, out argued, and out maneuvered every step of the way, and you still have not figured it out.
That, my boy, is truely ignorant.
"To show your ignorance, as if its not already been agreed, the Klan is a white supremacist organization, akin to the aryan brotherhood, of which, my poor boy, I am by the Grace by God excluded from.
Those white boys dont want nothin to do wit me, in other words.
Its pretty ignorant of you to reduce you call to that level. It only reinforces what I have been saying all along, you have no credence. Your moraly bankrupt."
From a moron who keeps calling me "boy", despite never having met me.
I'm nobody's "boy", especially not yours, you ignorant moron.
Now, answer the questions instead of avoiding them. Or perhaps the truth is too hard for you to handle?
Here they are again:
So tell us - are you happy with GW Bush's plans?
Do you think his plans are working?
How many more dead Americans will it take for you to realize that GW Bush has no plan other then the "same ol', same ol'"?
By the way, are you incredibly stupid or just a moron?
How do you think I would be able to tell the color of your skin over the internet?
I've judged you not on your skin, but by your own words - boy.
Moron.
Answer the questions and stop thinking about your next Klan meetin', boy.
Posted by mcdazz
What, you think your special? You still have not linked to any credible source for your bogus BS.
You expect from me what you yourself refuse? What a crock your are.
Now you know what I mean when I call you boy. Its because you "are" a boy. Its in the way you act, your characture is that of a boy.
Pretty simple, though truely, offensive to us all.
Answer the questions and stop thinking about your next Klan meetin', boy.
Posted by mcdazz
To show your ignorance, as if its not already been agreed, the Klan is a white supremacist organization, akin to the aryan brotherhood, of which, my poor boy, I am by the Grace by God excluded from.
Those white boys dont want nothin to do wit me, in other words.
Its pretty ignorant of you to reduce you call to that level. It only reinforces what I have been saying all along, you have no credence. Your moraly bankrupt.
"There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart; never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; and never to tell that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening while you tell it."
Cut the cr@p, boy.
Answer the questions and stop thinking about your next Klan meetin', boy.
So tell us - are you happy with GW Bush's plans?
Do you think his plans are working?
How many more dead Americans will it take for you to realize that GW Bush has no plan other then the "same ol', same ol'"?
The government reports 3509 American soldiers dead in the Iraq War to date; this doesn't even touch the staggering statistics on the wounded.
Our highly trained soldiers are sent on repeated, extended tours to chapperone the ICW (Iraq Civil War), and this draws just enough terrorists from outside and inside Iraq to make this War a spectacle of bewilderment. Hey, George can play with fear regarding WMD, so I can use ICW to shed truth on this debacle.
Our President cannot come up with a plan to win a war against terrorists in Iraq because terrorism doesn't originate in Iraq. On the positive side, our soldiers cannot lose; winning is a feat that is physically impossible while a majority of resources are tied up at the ICW. WOW, what a novel idea; something he could've acknowledged around the time he was spewing Mission Accomplished.
Henry Van *** 1852--1933
Answer the questions and stop thinking about your next Klan meetin', boy.
"I already know your a liar, so all the double talk and BS you spew only amounts to one thing.
The only good your doing here is to puff up your pathetic ego, which is also useless..your such a loser."
lol - coming from a "boy" who has repeatedly had his "facts" proven to be based on lies over the past few months.
So, how about answering my questions, boy?
So tell us - are you happy with GW Bush's plans?
Do you think his plans are working?
How many more dead Americans will it take for you to realize that GW Bush has no plan other then the "same ol', same ol'"?
Answer the questions, boy.
Posted by mcdazz
Ya, but your so screwed up, you dont even know what the lie is, so it really doesnt matter what your thinking about Bush or anyone else.
Without the truth, in hand, and a forward movement to solve the problem, nothing posted on these boards have any meaning, its nothing but politicalized juvenile rants by immature mentalities who cant grasp reality.
Just like whitman.
"Read it just fine. It dont say what you posted boy. So that makes you a lyin pond scum suckin POS. And by the way, the shoe fits, thats why I call ya boy. You dont have what it takes to be a man and uphold the truth.
(redneck? No Im just a man, unlike you, who hate liars.)"
lol - you're a incestuous, inbred redneck through and through, boy.
When's your next Klan meeting, boy?
Anyway, back to the topic:
If you read GW Bush's policy, then why did you even need to ask?
Are you that stupid?
Did you see the part where I said:
"From what I can see, GW Bush's plans are as follows:"
Apparently you are that stupid.
By the way, I hate liars as well - and that's why I hate GW Bush and most Republicanazis (along with a few Dems).
The funny thing is our military leaders here will fail to mention that in the press. So watch the news.
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