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Smoke billowed into the sky after the thunderous explosion, which also left nine cars burned and set a three-story building on fire in the busy Karradah shopping district, according to police and hospital officials who gave the casualty toll.
It was the deadliest in a series of attacks that left more than 40 people dead nationwide.
The three U.S. Marines and a sailor died Tuesday while conducting combat operations in Diyala province — the site of a major military operation against a Sunni insurgent stronghold, the military said Thursday. It announced earlier that a U.S. soldier had been killed Wednesday during a gun battle in southern Baghdad.
Identities of the dead were withheld pending notification of relatives.
Earlier Thursday, Lt. Gen. Ray Odierno, the top day-to-day U.S. commander in Iraq, expressed cautious optimism over a decline in the number of American troops killed this month.
At least 64 U.S. troops have died so far in July, after the death toll topped 100 for the previous three months, according to an Associated Press tally based on military statements.
Odierno said it appeared that casualties had increased as fresh U.S. forces expanded operations into militant strongholds as part of the five-month-old security operation aimed at clamping off violence in the capital, but were going down as the Americans gained control of the areas.
"We've started to see a slow but gradual reduction in casualties, and it continues in July," he said at a joint news conference with Iraqi military commander Maj. Gen. Abboud Qanbar. "It's an initial positive sign, but I would argue we need a bit more time to make an assessment whether it's a true trend."
Odierno said networks continue to smuggle powerful roadside bombs and mortars across the border from Iran despite Tehran's assertions that it supports stability in Iraq.
His remarks came two days after the U.S. and Iranian ambassadors to Iraq met in Baghdad and agreed to establish a security committee to jointly address the violence amid Washington's allegations that Tehran is fueling the violence by support Shiite militias. Odierno said the military also believes training of extremists is being conducted in Iran.
"One of the reasons why we're sitting down with the Iranian government ... is trying to solve some of these problems," Odierno said at a news conference in the Green Zone, which is home to the U.S. Embassy and the Iraqi government headquarters.
"We have seen in the last three months a significant improvement in the capability of mortarmen and rocketeers to provide accurate fires into the Green Zone and other places, and we think this is directly related to training that is conducted in Iran," Odierno said. "So we continue to go after these networks with the Iraqi security forces."
Iran has denied the U.S. allegations about its activities in Iraq.
Attacks against the sprawling complex along the Tigris River in the center of Baghdad have increased in recent months, adding to the concern over the safety of key Iraqi and international officials and thousands of U.S. soldiers and contractors who live and work there.
On July 10, a barrage of more than a dozen mortars or rockets struck the area, killing at least three people, including an American, and wounding 18. In a report last month, the United Nations office in Baghdad said the "threat of indirect fire" — meaning rockets and mortars — into the Green Zone had increased, adding that the barrages had become "increasingly concentrated and accurate."
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See all 170 Comments"Stay the course."
How many times do they get to make that excuse?
If ONE US soldier dies in Iraq, that is ONE too many.
I learn about what is going on in the world by reading the blogs from whatreallyhappened.com and then reading the corporate media propaganda to see what they want us to believe.
Based on those two sources, you can tell what they are thinking and planning to do next.
I comment here for theropy - thanks CBS, it is all the mental health therapy I can afford these days.
EXAMPLE: They banned public camera use in New York City recently but not a peep from corporate media ******.
TRANSLATION: They are getting ready to do another fake terror attack in an attempt justify the move of the NY financial sector to Israel. Dirty bomb attack in the fall I am guessing. 911 had too many cameras quoting firefighters talking about bombs in the WTC.
The pentagon however, more video cameras than any place on Earth didn't show a plane...
Israel has hijacked our government for a reason, to get us to fight their wars and to steal our financial districts. They are setting up a global financial feifdom in Israel presently. Wall street is run by the Jews anyway.
I have read that the Star Wars Program was really 30 billion dollars worth of banking satellites with a main computer hub (Linux running mysql) for the US in the pentagon.
Posted by tbweb at 08:14 AM : Jul 26, 2007
.......tbweb, you mean the "deep blue" city of Philadelphia? The same Philadelphia that has been under "one party rule" (Democrats) for decades and generations? If you Democrats don't know how to run a city...........then you should get out of the way! and let the GOP run these "deep blue" cities. That's what New Yorkers "finally" did in 1993 when they (Democrats) finally voted for a Republican (Rudy). Now New York City is the "safest" blue city in America.
Voters, YOU, have to make the change away from the failed policies of the Democrat Party if you want things to improve in "your" deep blue city.
Am I clear?
Posted by radiob at 08:40 AM : Jul 26, 2007
..radiob, now for the facts. Let me enlighten you and the rest of your liberal pals. From GlobalSecurity.org here's the facts on monthly death toll of US troops in Iraq:
May - 121
June - 98
July MTD - 57
rabiob, are you detecting a trend? And your comments are a little strange...........who are you rooting for?
Posted by perception5
Would you invest in a stock based upon these results? Trends need a longer base period than a quarter to have meaning. Another relative factor is the civilian casualties have they declined? Read the Chatham House report on Iraq.
http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk/research/middle_east/papers/view/-/id/501/
SPIN SPIN SPIN SPIN SPIN
However, the casualties are not easily trackable...
You know who I'm rooting for? The people of Iraq. Remember them? The ones we went in to liberate?
But, I'm always rootin' for the underdog. Who're you rootin' for? Blackwater, Bechtel, Halliburton, or US Oil Cos?
Don't say the troops, because I know you're a supporter of this war, and that ain't supporting them, that's sending them to kill and die for the above mentioned corporate interests.
"..radiob, now for the facts. Let me enlighten you and the rest of your liberal pals. From GlobalSecurity.org here's the facts on monthly death toll of US troops in Iraq:
May - 121
June - 98
July MTD - 57
rabiob, are you detecting a trend? And your comments are a little strange...........who are you rooting for?"
Interesting.
The Iraq Coalition Casualties website (that verifies deaths against DOD records) has different figures.
May - 126
June - 101
July - 63
Regardless, it is good that figures are dropping - let's just hope they continue to stay low.
By the way, if you support the war as you appear to do, why haven't you joined up?
he just can't admit the obvious:
the worst president of this country has made the biggest intentional mistake in our foreign policy history.
the responsibility for every death, lays on bushit's doorstep - and death stinks to high-helll
he just can't admit the obvious:
the worst president of this country has made the biggest intentional mistake in our foreign policy history.
the responsibility for every death, lays on bushit's doorstep - and death stinks to high-helll
Get those troops the h@ll out of Iraq.
Period Total
Jul-07 71
Jun-07 108
May-07 131
Apr-07 117
Mar-07 82
Feb-07 85
Jan-07 86
Dec-06 115
Nov-06 78
Oct-06 110
Sep-06 77
Aug-06 66
Jul-06 46
Jun-06 63
May-06 79
Apr-06 82
Mar-06 33
Feb-06 58
Jan-06 64
Dec-05 68
Nov-05 86
Oct-05 99
Sep-05 52
Aug-05 85
Jul-05 58
Jun-05 83
May-05 88
Apr-05 52
Mar-05 39
Feb-05 60
Jan-05 127
Dec-04 76
Nov-04 141
Oct-04 68
Sep-04 87
Aug-04 75
Jul-04 58
Jun-04 50
May-04 84
Apr-04 140
Mar-04 52
Feb-04 23
Jan-04 52
Dec-03 48
Nov-03 110
Oct-03 47
Sep-03 33
Aug-03 43
Jul-03 49
Jun-03 36
May-03 42
Apr-03 80
Mar-03 92
Total 3934
If you two dumbdumbs would stop drinking the kool-aid for a minute, you might realize that it is in the middle of summer in Iraq too. With temps above 120 degrees everyday, everything slows down, including the terrorists.
Now use your head and do year-to-year comparisons, and you'll see that things haven't gotten any better, despite the "so called surge".
So, when it comes to Iran, Iraq and the US are the bad guys. You attacked them to steal their oil more than once. I'm supposed to get mad at them because Exxon/Mobil/BP... wants their oil? The jews stole my car, anyway, so I'm with Iran on this one 100%! FU!
Oh for God's sake!!!! Blame Iran for the troop's death!!!! What a load of s.h.i.t.
Just think, if US troops were not in Iraq at all, THERE WOULD BE NO DEATHS!!!!
Ever think about that????
There is only ONE reason US troops are getting killed in Iraq at all. That reason is the BALD FACE LIE told by the Bush administration to whip up support for invading Iraq.
Everyone remember?? Let me refresh your mind.
SADDAM HAS WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION!!!!!
We MUST invade to prevent him from attacking us!!! That lie STARTED the whole Iraq disaster. When NO WMD were found, we should have pulled out of Iraq then. It was obvious our mission there was a HUGE MISTAKE.
Now 4-1/2 years later, we are still fumbling and bumbling around in Iraq, accomplishing NOTHING EXCEPT GETTING OUR TROOPS KILLED. We are stirring up resentments and fueling an insurgency that RIGHTLY sees us as OCCUPIERS.
And you are BLAMING IRAN for troops deaths. Why not blame Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, Lybia as well??? Why not blame THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION'S COMPLETE INCOMPETENCE!!!!
This is nothing more than an bald face attempt to push a case for invading Iran!!!!!
Beware America, the Bush administration is using the SAME LIES it used to invade Iraq to make the case to INVADE IRAN.
DO NOT BE FOOLED INTO BELIEVING WE NEED TO INVADE IRAN!!!
"There is only ONE reason US troops are getting killed in Iraq at all. That reason is the BALD FACE LIE told by the Bush administration to whip up support for invading Iraq."
"Oh for God's sake!!!! Blame Iran for the troop's death!!!! What a load of s.h.i.t."
"the responsibility for every death, lays on bushit's doorstep - and death stinks to high-helll"
I don't see how any American can truly say, "I'm proud to be a Democrat." They are the most un-American pieces of *** the world has ever know, and their political loves thrive on death and bad news. That's why they are so angry that the death rate in Iraq has dropped. They will respond angrily to this post, but the truth is obvious.
Speculation on the reason for this in terms of psychological operations could be useful...We have, over the last few days been lulled a bit with the welcomed decline in US casualties. The 'news reality' is about the weather, the troubles of another Hollywood ditz, and an NFL animal torturer...as July turns to August we could well see more edifying spectacles, such as a chicken dancing on a hot plate. Will this be the silence before the storm?...yet another staged event to focus the public on the task set for it by the masters of the Regime?
We've seen the rather ham-handed planting of memes by Homeland Security...Northern Command and various Washington weasels...'gut feelings'...al Qaeda cells...cheese on airplanes...the repetition of the 'follow-us-home' theme by the Chimp...What's next?
So why would anyone listen to their hollow, false, and irrelevant opinions of a war?
Liberals just want America to lay down and let terrorist take control of the world.
Silly liberals.
All of you with Bush Phobia who refuse to listen to any good news from our Troops or country while giving countries like Iran and the Terrorist the bennifit of the doubt, you are all sad excuses for americans. The Surge is working, were not leaving and Hillary is unelectable!
Posted by One_American at 10:33 AM : Jul 26, 2007
Does it make you feel like a big man when you write this? Do you feel brave and strong knowing full well the people you insult can't actually confront you? What if you met me on the street? You wouldn't say this to my face. My guess is that you wouldn't have the guts.
But still, you're awfully brave from behind that keyboard. So brave, in fact, one can't help wonder why you're not serving in the military. The nation need big, strong, brave people like yourself. Why are you wasting your time whining about liberals? Join up, Mr. Big Man. Show us you can do more than type.
"The CIA owns everyone of any significance in the Major Media" - William Colby - Former CIA Director
Glad to see America's men have finally remembered they have a fur bag with two peanuts inside instead of a peanut for a brain.
America is waking up from a state of denial and we are not going to to allow this "Project For A New American Century" to go forward. It will be a century before the crater that once was this country stops smoking because the rest of the world in not going to put up with these war crimes either.
This entire congress and I mean all of them, have got to go. The corrupt supreme court, the white house, the entire crime syndicate that has invaded our government on behalf of Israel and the merchants of death has got to go one way or another.
Posted by MrHoppy
Why don't you give Hugo Chavez a call and ask him how to create a dictatorship.
Rodger, ignore one_american. He does this for a living as part of the counter intelligence program. He says this kind of stuff every day. He is what is known as a forum troll.
Americas "crazies" the poor white people from rural areas and small towns that join the military, are not well educated and tend to have a lot of ID based ego.
One_american and the 1500 or so others Bush hired to do this illegal counter intel operation, control the crazies with name calling that insults their manhood.
D.C. has no fear of middle class America but they do fear the crazies. That is why Bush was placed in the white house to begin with - to control the crazies while they bump them off.
The death rate is far higher than any numbers posted. Mexicans are being disposed of in the Tigres and in mass graves, I have seen the video on youtube. Americans that die in helicopter or airplanes or in Germany are not counted. Ever wonder why they bring them to Dover at night and it is illegal to video the caskets?
The Ashkenazi Jews rule America but the uneducated well armed crazies control it.
One_americans job is to keep control them through ego while they are impoverished by exporting their jobs and then shipping them overseas. We have troops in 143 countries and they have troops here. People won't participate in the planned mass depopulation against fellow citizens.
Watch one_american go crazy now. :-) He will have nothing factual or intelligent to say though.
Mexicans? What planet did you say you are on?
Oh yeah, you're from Oregon. Sucking up too much crank again, Mr. Hoppy?
"The Ashkenazi Jews rule America but the uneducated well armed crazies control it."--Posted by MrHoppy
I think it's actually ruled by White Anglo-Saxon Protestants--you're a weird mix--no SH*T!
Now attacks on our soldiers are always backed by Iranian weapons, Iranian training or, perversely, by al Qaeda, which like a puppy, will follow us home if we don't run over it and crush its little head with our pickup truck.
Kurt Nimmo reports today at-- http://kurtnimmo.com/ --regarding internal defense department documents about the success of the 'Zarqawi PSYOP'. It doesn't take much gray matter to connect the dots and figure out that the rest of 'al Qaeda in Iraq' comes mostly out of the Pentagram's magic PSYOPS bag of tricks.
Another staged PSYOP attack on the 'Homeland' would be a cover for a market collapse and the final death throes of the so-called dollar-- an unbacked "note" from a paper mill operated by the Treasury for the benefit of the private Federal Reserve. 'Helicopter' Bernacki is hardly an inspiring Chairman if your goal is to maintain the value of the unit of exchange as mentioned, if memory serves, in the bank's charter. What's coming next?
roger-inkart
Its a good thing we didn't listen to people like you in world war II, or we would all be speaking German.
Also I did serve in Iraq and I find your Anti American talk distructive.
P.s. I would love to meet some of you anti military anti american folks in the street some day.
Posted by Hamiltongrad at 11:02 AM : Jul 26, 2007
Really. At what school do you teach? My, I didn't realize "Christian Action for Israel" had a university. Or is it some other pro-Israel ultra-right wing lunatic organization that owns your (a-hem) school?
But, for fun, let's go with this zionist garbage for the sake of argument. Firstly, why is Bush wrapping all this up under the guise of a "War on Terror?" Why isn't he being honest with America? Secondly, how does punishing the decendents of these so-called "Arab Islamic Nazis" make the US more safe? How does it help your average American who is paying for this war out of his own pocket?
Posted by jedi08 at 11:15 AM : Jul 26, 2007
Iraq? Are you sure you didn't serve on the frozen planet of Hoth, "Jedi?"
Now that is funny! You are a Zionist shill or a moron but not a professor of history.
WW1 and WW2 were started on false pretense as all wars are. They were fought to break the military alliance between Turkey and Germany in order to take Palestine to create the Jewish state.
This plan is the basis of Zionism which began in 1898 with the eventual goal of world domination through the central banks which are controlled by the Jews in every country except Belarus. Belarus will not let a Jew hold high office because of this global conspiracy.
This is the same communist conspiracy that McCarthy was trying to expose.
Oh yeah, here are a few more histoy lessons. The war going on now is a continuation of WWII. Carl Roves granpa was named Rovertine - Hitlers propaganda man. Bushs grandpa (a central banker) gave IG Farbin 100 million to build 5 death camps and lost his assets in 1942 under the Trading With The Enemies Act.
According to the red cross in a 1971 revised estimate, 271,000 Jews died in the death camps. Millions Germans Poles also died there. Hitler was of Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry.
Not all Jews are involved in this, not by a long shot but it is Jewish custom to not out another Jew. That is the reason that this conspiracy has been so successful until now.
You're a college professor.
So, what's the ISBN of the textbook you're using this fall?
I'll tell you mine if you tell me yours.
a sshole.
Posted by guyfrompa45 at 11:29 AM : Jul 26, 2007
I'd rather be that than a fraud.
I find it amusing that so often the right-wingers here feel the need to trot out personal claims to prop up their flagging arguments (I'm a professor, I served in Iraq, etc) Now, why is that?
Personally, I don't automatically trust people who make such claims on these boards. I've seen too many frauds over the years. If you make a claim such as "I served in Iraq" you had better be willing to prove it, otherwise it just looks like some keyboard warrior who needs to justify his position by telling fibs.
Posted by guyfrompa45 at 11:32 AM : Jul 26, 2007
Too funny! Like it's not the conseravtives who ran and hid under the skirt of Bush when he promised to protect you. Unlike you, we weren't willing to jetison all our dignity and civil rights so Bush could wipe his feet on the Constitution under the name of the "War on Terror."
God, you people are SUCH hypocrites!
Posted by guyfrompa45 at 11:42 AM : Jul 26, 2007
So the ultra-right keeps saying. Could it be you've simply found a target for your bitter hatred and a convienent group of people to blame for all the nation's ills?
For a group of people who haven't been represented in the US government for so long, I find it sad and amusing lunatics like yourself still work yourself into a rich, foamy lather of indignation at the very thought of our supposed ruining of the nation.
If you're unhappy with where the nation is, why don't you look to the people who have been running it? And are still running it? Cause, buddy, it ain't us.
Sorry dude, I contaminated the world already and my children will never fight in wars for Israel or Zionism. They went to college and got high grades and now they are contaminating the world. Does my huge potent gentile peanut sack frighten you?
Like I said, you would not have anything factual to respond with. Instead nothing but bumper sticker slams designed to control the crazies you fear most. Thanks again for making my point!
Unfortunately Americas rural people are waking up to the reality that they have been exploited by the Zionist Ashkenazi Jews that control our government, medical system, financial system, legal system and banking system. You know, everything that is corrupt and exploiting America these days.
Enjoy your day, I have some contamination work to do on the wife. Yum! :-)
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