2 U.S. Troops Killed in Baghdad

Iraqi Forces To Lead Anti-Insurgent Efforts In Mosul

(CBS/AP)  Two U.S. soldiers were killed in separate bombings in Baghdad, the military said Sunday.

One Multi-National Division - Baghdad soldier died Sunday after the soldier's vehicle was struck by a roadside bomb in northeastern Baghdad, according to a statement.

Another soldier was killed Saturday by a bomb during a foot patrol near Kazimiyah, a predominantly Shiite neighborhood in northern Baghdad, the military said separately.

Identities were not released pending notification of relatives.

The deaths raised to at least 3,934 members of the U.S. military who have died since the Iraq war started in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.


Iraqi Forces To Take Lead In Mosul

Iraqi soldiers reached the northern city of Mosul on Sunday for an operation against al Qaeda in Iraq, days after some 40 people were killed in a house explosion followed by a suicide attack against a senior police official.

The United States has said Iraqi security forces will take the lead in Mosul as a major test of Washington's long-range plans, which seek to keep a smaller American force in Iraq as backup for local soldiers and police.

Defense Ministry spokesman Mohammed al-Askari said most army reinforcements have reached the city, 225 miles northwest of Baghdad, although he declined to give a number.

"The operations against al Qaeda in Mosul will start soon," al-Askari said, adding that the operation would include armored vehicles, tanks and helicopters.

An Iraqi military officer in Mosul, speaking on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to discuss the operation, confirmed that some Iraqi units had arrived on the city's outskirts.

A spokesman for the Interior Ministry, Abdul-Karim Khalaf, said separately that 3,000 residents in Mosul will be recruited to augment the city's police force.

The U.S. military did not indicate it had any plans to send additional forces to the city, which is believed to be the last urban safehaven for al Qaeda-led insurgents.

"Regarding Mosul, an area where we recognize is of strategic importance to al Qaeda, our operations will continue in that area again not in a new way but in a continued way," said Rear Adm. Gregory Smith, a military spokesman.

Smith said "tens of thousands of pounds of explosive material" were in the abandoned building that exploded Wednesday, devastating nearby houses and killing at least 34 people. But he declined to assign blame.

"We're still working with the Iraqi security forces to determine exactly what happened in terms of why it exploded or how it exploded," Smith said Sunday at a news conference.

The military has said al Qaeda was believed to be behind a suicide attack the next day that killed the Ninevah provincial police chief and two other officers as they toured the site of the blast.


In Other Developments:

A former city official was stabbed to death along with his wife and daughter in their home in a predominantly Shiite neighborhood in northeastern Baghdad, officials said Sunday. The knife-wielding attackers stormed the two-story house late Saturday, killing Ahmed Jwad Hashim, his wife and their daughter, and leaving a visiting nephew seriously wounded, according to police and hospital officials.

The slaughter occurred in Talbiyah, a middle-class neighborhood on the fringes of the Shiite militia stronghold of Sadr City.

Neighbors told AP Television News that Hashim, a Shiite engineer from Karbala, had been the director-general of the Baghdad municipality office until he retired about four months ago.

Facing criticism that the Iraqi government has failed to take advantage of the lull in violence to make political progress, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki threatened to form a new government if ministers from the main Sunni bloc refused to end a boycott of his Cabinet. Six Sunni Arab ministers quit al-Maliki's government in August to protest his perceived Shiite bias, but the main Sunni Accordance Front raised hopes it could reconsider the decision after the Iraqi parliament approved a law that would open the way for low-ranking members of Saddam Hussein's Baath party to reclaim government posts and pensions.

Eight Iraqi refugees are headed to New Hampshire this week. Officials say the refugees are people who helped the U.S. military's war effort in Iraq and would have been in danger of retaliation had they remained. They will get medical checkups, English lessons and food stamps to help them get started in their new world. In return, they are expected to get a job within four and a half months and eventually repay the cost of their airfare.

Since 1980, more than 5,000 refugees have been resettled in Manchester from a variety of countries. In the years that followed the first Gulf war in 1991, New Hampshire received 86 Iraqi refugees.

The U.S. government expects to admit up to 12,000 Iraqi refugees by next October.

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by prinzowhales January 28, 2008 2:07 PM EST

The Puppet-in-Chief and his Israel-first War Pig accomplices have murdered five more American soldiers. Troops Home Now! The Republic''s greatest enemy is in Washington! The borders are open, the Constitution has been betrayed...and the vile, contemptible scoundrel, Bush, says that the Constitution that both you and your ''commander-in-chief'' are pledged to support and defend is ''just a
G-- Da--ed piece of paper!" It is time to come home!

Even now, a draft bill winds its way through Congress...a bill that Bush did not want to push during his war because he could betray YOU! He could extend your tours, deploy you repeatedly, use you up and then throw you away to the VA! And, at the same time pay the mercenaries of his backers, ten times or more what his regime is paying you!

KNOW THE FACE OF THE ENEMY! IT WILL BE GIVING THE STATE OF THE UNION TONIGHT!!

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by closethippy1 January 28, 2008 1:45 PM EST

BREAKING NEWS: 5 MORE US SOLDIERS KILLED IN IRAQ. IT HAPPENED IN MOSUL WHERE IRAQI TROOPS ARE SUPPOSEDLY TRYING TO BATTLE AL QAEDA.

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by mcvet January 28, 2008 9:35 AM EST

I assume these two went to Iraq with guns to kill non-uniformed Iraqis. In war, stuff happens.
So how is this newsworthy?


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Posted by Vet1971 at 10:58 PM : Jan 27, 2008
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When American''s die because of LIES, yes it is newsworthy... very much so! Sieg Heil Bush!

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by neoconrcrazy January 28, 2008 7:57 AM EST

thought Mosul was "pacified".... seems insurgents can more freely, strike here, then there, without problem. Let''s put this baby to bed, it''s late, and it''s a lose-lose deal.

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by stddating January 28, 2008 2:56 AM EST

The World Trade Center was attacked a few weeks after Bush became President



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by jerr11 January 28, 2008 2:53 AM EST

Looks like all those US taxpayers dollars Gen Betrayus is shelling out to those warlords are not that effective after all.

BUSH''S NEW SURGE/SPLURGE STRATEGY.

IF YOU CAN''T BEAT THEM, PAY THEM!

In some books, that''s called giving in to blackmail.

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by Con Mohrat January 28, 2008 1:58 AM EST

(CBS/AP) Two U.S. soldiers were killed in separate bombings in Baghdad, the military said Sunday.
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I assume these two went to Iraq with guns to kill non-uniformed Iraqis. In war, stuff happens.
So how is this newsworthy?

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by fettkonserv January 28, 2008 1:19 AM EST

In Other Developments:
They are expected to get a job within four and a half months and eventually repay the cost of their airfare.
The first part of that statement would be difficult for a transplant from Texas.
Good Luck!
Now lets all open our hymnals to page 123 and sing together Nearer My God to Thee.

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by fettkonserv January 28, 2008 1:06 AM EST

These Troops were part of somebody''s Family. This is not going to end anytime soon we can all agree. I do hope we all participate in the upcoming elections.
What happened in Viet Nam was a disaster from the start to finish. Here we are again. To continue to support Politicians that lead us foolishly into WAR is not Patriotic, but shameful. The Rabbit Hole keeps getting deeper. How Far do you want to go?

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by fettkonserv January 28, 2008 1:06 AM EST

These Troops were part of somebody''s Family. This is not going to end anytime soon we can all agree. I do hope we all participate in the upcoming elections.
What happened in Viet Nam was a disaster from the start to finish. Here we are again. To continue to support Politicians that lead us foolishly into WAR is not Patriotic, but shameful. The Rabbit Hole keeps getting deeper. How Far do you want to go?

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by clestes-2009 January 28, 2008 12:09 AM EST

shrub is trying to make an already disasterous situation even worse by trying to sign a long term agreement with al-Maliki that will keep US troops there for another 50 years.

He is, once again, trying to bypass Congress by calling it a "friendship agreement" instead of what it really is, a treaty which by the way, requires congressional approval.

He will no doubt try and push this through and go ahead dispite the obvious illegality of it. It will contested, called unconstitutional and no doubt end up in front of the supreme court.

You would think this pitiful desperate man would have learned something by now, but no, not shrub. He is still living in some dream world where he is going to be called a great war president, remaker of the middle east instead of the reality of starting an unnecessary war and bankrupting America!!

A complete jackazz.

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by mcvet January 27, 2008 11:55 PM EST

You''''re being, willingly, propogandized by a "coffee shop socialist media". The media is worse in the UK than here.



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Posted by jowand at 08:26 PM : Jan 27, 2008
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Well at least you admit there''s a problem Swastika Breath.. so what about the rest of Europe and Germany...same media? ROFLMAO Look there''s a problem here and anyone who watched and listened to the lies and the way our former friends were treated when Bush was LYING us into war KNOWS what the problem is. Honestly I wouldn''t blame them if they EVER tried to help us again the way Bush lied to them and treated them. Sieg Heil Bush!!

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by skyk-2009 January 27, 2008 11:51 PM EST

You''''re being, willingly, propogandized by a "coffee shop socialist media". The media is worse in the UK than here.



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Posted by jowand at 08:26 PM : Jan 27, 2008
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LOL Do you know how foolish you sound? It''s the most rediculous post I''ve ever heard. What you are saying is that they can''t see, read or hear. They are the puppet of the media? What do you have to say about the 935 LIES told by Bush? Those are documented and well documented.. I''ve heard NO ONE contradict even one of them as being a truth. Do you think that to is somekind of "liberal" conspircy. Then what about the rebuilding of AL Queda in the Safe Haven WE allowed to be created... is that to be blamed on someone else? I''m so tired of excuse and blame I can''t stand it. You conservatives will never change will you... never solved a problem and I can''t see as you ever will.

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by fstop100 January 27, 2008 11:33 PM EST

Hey George, how was your weekend?

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by liberalme January 27, 2008 11:30 PM EST

You can fool some of the people some of the time--
but those who worship GWB have been fooled ALL fo the time.

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by jowand January 27, 2008 11:26 PM EST

When over 80% of the citizens of England fear your leader more than that of North Korea that is NOT going to be an easy job.
Posted by skyk at 08:20 PM : Jan 27, 2008

You''re being, willingly, propogandized by a "coffee shop socialist media". The media is worse in the UK than here.

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by skyk-2009 January 27, 2008 11:20 PM EST

I''m not going to vote for ANY canidate until and unless they can come up with a way to bring the people who attacked this nation to justice. We have spent 6 long years and make enemies of just about every nation on earth and still haven''t brought justice to those killed on 9/11. With the Enemy recruiting now in Europe, taking advantage of the world wide hatred for Bush, we must also have someone who can return our nation to it''s proper place in the world. When over 80% of the citizens of England fear your leader more than that of North Korea that is NOT going to be an easy job.

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by skyk-2009 January 27, 2008 11:17 PM EST

Guys, the war is nearly over.

Mrconservatv, a summer 2007 article is now out of date as the world has changed.

Let it go. It is not even the major item of the primaries!! The US is now negotiating to remove most US troops from front line duty.




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Posted by donbl1 at 07:36 PM : Jan 27, 2008
+ report abuse

I sincerely hope you are right but I doubt the enemy will allow that to happen. They have us bogged down in a civil conflict and our own military say''s it could be 8-10 years before we''re able to rid ourselves of it. With the load on the Tax Payers of this nation in addition to the interest payments run up by the Incompetent one, We may well be bankrupt. That was the goal of the enemy when they started out wasn''t it? History will record the stupidity of Iraq in great detail but hopefully the next President can limit the damage.

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by skyk-2009 January 27, 2008 11:13 PM EST

liberalleftstme,,,,,Bush does know where Bin Laden is: Bin Laden was killed in the Tora-Bora attack although his followers dont wanna let us know in order to keep his cause alive.


Posted by BaghdadsHere at 07:37 PM : Jan 27, 2008
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What good do more lies do? Our Intelligence and HE himself has informed us he''s still alive. IF he had been killed in Tora Bora then the tapes were faked. They were confirmed by Voice I.D. to be Bin Laden and the contents of the tape contained info that was time sensitive. Good try though. It must be rough on you Neocon''s trying to defend someone as Incompetent as Bush!!

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by mrconservatv January 27, 2008 10:45 PM EST

liberalleftstme,,,,,Bush does know where Bin Laden is: Bin Laden was killed in the Tora-Bora attack although his followers dont wanna let us know in order to keep his cause alive.

Posted by BaghdadsHere
, If we enter Pakistan and grab Bin Laden & Al-Zawahiri then Bush will always be remembered as the greatest terrorists hunter in history and the Libs will go crazy.

Posted by BaghdadsHere

What''''s wrong with this picture? "false" information?



Posted by liberalme at 07:41 PM : Jan 27, 2008]

Simple right wing rhetoric and the guy don%u2019t even know he''s contradicting himself.

GOOD CATCH

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[prinzowhales]

The Puppet-in-Chief and his Israel-first War Pig accomplices have murdered five more American soldiers. Troops Home Now! The Republic''s greatest enemy is in Washington! The borders are open, the Constitution has been betrayed...and the vile, contemptible scoundrel, Bush, says that the Constitution that both you and your ''commander-in-chief'' are pledged to support and defend is ''just a
G-- Da--ed piece of paper!" It is time to come home!

Even now, a draft bill winds its way through Congress...a bill that Bush did not want to push during his war because he could betray YOU! He could extend your tours, deploy you repeatedly, use you up and then throw you away to the VA! And, at the same time pay the mercenaries of his backers, ten times or more what his regime is paying you!

KNOW THE FACE OF THE ENEMY! IT WILL BE GIVING THE STATE OF THE UNION TONIGHT!!

[closethippy1]

BREAKING NEWS: 5 MORE US SOLDIERS KILLED IN IRAQ. IT HAPPENED IN MOSUL WHERE IRAQI TROOPS ARE SUPPOSEDLY TRYING TO BATTLE AL QAEDA.

[mcvet]

I assume these two went to Iraq with guns to kill non-uniformed Iraqis. In war, stuff happens.
So how is this newsworthy?


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Posted by Vet1971 at 10:58 PM : Jan 27, 2008
+ report abuse

When American''s die because of LIES, yes it is newsworthy... very much so! Sieg Heil Bush!

[neoconrcrazy]

thought Mosul was "pacified".... seems insurgents can more freely, strike here, then there, without problem. Let''s put this baby to bed, it''s late, and it''s a lose-lose deal.

[stddating]

The World Trade Center was attacked a few weeks after Bush became President



######################
We both almost gave up hope due to herpes/hpv, but just posted our

success story to pozgroup.com, where we met each other.Stop feeling

dejected,don''t let your hopes fade away.Love is bigger than the H

virus!

[jerr11]

Looks like all those US taxpayers dollars Gen Betrayus is shelling out to those warlords are not that effective after all.

BUSH''S NEW SURGE/SPLURGE STRATEGY.

IF YOU CAN''T BEAT THEM, PAY THEM!

In some books, that''s called giving in to blackmail.

[Con Mohrat]

(CBS/AP) Two U.S. soldiers were killed in separate bombings in Baghdad, the military said Sunday.
==========

I assume these two went to Iraq with guns to kill non-uniformed Iraqis. In war, stuff happens.
So how is this newsworthy?

[fettkonserv]

In Other Developments:
They are expected to get a job within four and a half months and eventually repay the cost of their airfare.
The first part of that statement would be difficult for a transplant from Texas.
Good Luck!
Now lets all open our hymnals to page 123 and sing together Nearer My God to Thee.

[fettkonserv]

These Troops were part of somebody''s Family. This is not going to end anytime soon we can all agree. I do hope we all participate in the upcoming elections.
What happened in Viet Nam was a disaster from the start to finish. Here we are again. To continue to support Politicians that lead us foolishly into WAR is not Patriotic, but shameful. The Rabbit Hole keeps getting deeper. How Far do you want to go?

[fettkonserv]

These Troops were part of somebody''s Family. This is not going to end anytime soon we can all agree. I do hope we all participate in the upcoming elections.
What happened in Viet Nam was a disaster from the start to finish. Here we are again. To continue to support Politicians that lead us foolishly into WAR is not Patriotic, but shameful. The Rabbit Hole keeps getting deeper. How Far do you want to go?

[clestes-2009]

shrub is trying to make an already disasterous situation even worse by trying to sign a long term agreement with al-Maliki that will keep US troops there for another 50 years.

He is, once again, trying to bypass Congress by calling it a "friendship agreement" instead of what it really is, a treaty which by the way, requires congressional approval.

He will no doubt try and push this through and go ahead dispite the obvious illegality of it. It will contested, called unconstitutional and no doubt end up in front of the supreme court.

You would think this pitiful desperate man would have learned something by now, but no, not shrub. He is still living in some dream world where he is going to be called a great war president, remaker of the middle east instead of the reality of starting an unnecessary war and bankrupting America!!

A complete jackazz.

[mcvet]

You''''re being, willingly, propogandized by a "coffee shop socialist media". The media is worse in the UK than here.



--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Posted by jowand at 08:26 PM : Jan 27, 2008
+ report abuse

Well at least you admit there''s a problem Swastika Breath.. so what about the rest of Europe and Germany...same media? ROFLMAO Look there''s a problem here and anyone who watched and listened to the lies and the way our former friends were treated when Bush was LYING us into war KNOWS what the problem is. Honestly I wouldn''t blame them if they EVER tried to help us again the way Bush lied to them and treated them. Sieg Heil Bush!!

[skyk-2009]

You''''re being, willingly, propogandized by a "coffee shop socialist media". The media is worse in the UK than here.



--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Posted by jowand at 08:26 PM : Jan 27, 2008
+ report abuse

LOL Do you know how foolish you sound? It''s the most rediculous post I''ve ever heard. What you are saying is that they can''t see, read or hear. They are the puppet of the media? What do you have to say about the 935 LIES told by Bush? Those are documented and well documented.. I''ve heard NO ONE contradict even one of them as being a truth. Do you think that to is somekind of "liberal" conspircy. Then what about the rebuilding of AL Queda in the Safe Haven WE allowed to be created... is that to be blamed on someone else? I''m so tired of excuse and blame I can''t stand it. You conservatives will never change will you... never solved a problem and I can''t see as you ever will.

[fstop100]

Hey George, how was your weekend?

[liberalme]

You can fool some of the people some of the time--
but those who worship GWB have been fooled ALL fo the time.

[jowand]

When over 80% of the citizens of England fear your leader more than that of North Korea that is NOT going to be an easy job.
Posted by skyk at 08:20 PM : Jan 27, 2008

You''re being, willingly, propogandized by a "coffee shop socialist media". The media is worse in the UK than here.

[skyk-2009]

I''m not going to vote for ANY canidate until and unless they can come up with a way to bring the people who attacked this nation to justice. We have spent 6 long years and make enemies of just about every nation on earth and still haven''t brought justice to those killed on 9/11. With the Enemy recruiting now in Europe, taking advantage of the world wide hatred for Bush, we must also have someone who can return our nation to it''s proper place in the world. When over 80% of the citizens of England fear your leader more than that of North Korea that is NOT going to be an easy job.

[skyk-2009]

Guys, the war is nearly over.

Mrconservatv, a summer 2007 article is now out of date as the world has changed.

Let it go. It is not even the major item of the primaries!! The US is now negotiating to remove most US troops from front line duty.




--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Posted by donbl1 at 07:36 PM : Jan 27, 2008
+ report abuse

I sincerely hope you are right but I doubt the enemy will allow that to happen. They have us bogged down in a civil conflict and our own military say''s it could be 8-10 years before we''re able to rid ourselves of it. With the load on the Tax Payers of this nation in addition to the interest payments run up by the Incompetent one, We may well be bankrupt. That was the goal of the enemy when they started out wasn''t it? History will record the stupidity of Iraq in great detail but hopefully the next President can limit the damage.

[skyk-2009]

liberalleftstme,,,,,Bush does know where Bin Laden is: Bin Laden was killed in the Tora-Bora attack although his followers dont wanna let us know in order to keep his cause alive.


Posted by BaghdadsHere at 07:37 PM : Jan 27, 2008
+ report abuse

What good do more lies do? Our Intelligence and HE himself has informed us he''s still alive. IF he had been killed in Tora Bora then the tapes were faked. They were confirmed by Voice I.D. to be Bin Laden and the contents of the tape contained info that was time sensitive. Good try though. It must be rough on you Neocon''s trying to defend someone as Incompetent as Bush!!

[mrconservatv]

liberalleftstme,,,,,Bush does know where Bin Laden is: Bin Laden was killed in the Tora-Bora attack although his followers dont wanna let us know in order to keep his cause alive.

Posted by BaghdadsHere
, If we enter Pakistan and grab Bin Laden & Al-Zawahiri then Bush will always be remembered as the greatest terrorists hunter in history and the Libs will go crazy.

Posted by BaghdadsHere

What''''s wrong with this picture? "false" information?



Posted by liberalme at 07:41 PM : Jan 27, 2008]

Simple right wing rhetoric and the guy don%u2019t even know he''s contradicting himself.

GOOD CATCH