BAGHDAD, Jan. 27, 2008
2 U.S. Troops Killed in Baghdad
Iraqi Forces To Lead Anti-Insurgent Efforts In Mosul
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Iraqi Army soldiers man a checkpoint in the center of Baghdad, Saturday, Jan. 26, 2008. A series of explosions thundered in the Iraqi capital Saturday morning, including one from a mortar round that hit the U.S.-controlled Green Zone. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
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Iraqi men line up at an U.S.-Iraqi Army base to submit their papers to join the Iraqi Police Force in Doha, a suburb of Baghdad, Jan. 27, 2008. (AP Photo/Lo Sai Hung)
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U.S. Army helicopters take off after delivering supplies to soldiers from Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 30th Infantry Regiment as they occupy a house in Arab Jabour during Operation Coliseum south of Baghdad, Sunday, Jan. 27, 2008. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
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Ara Stephens, grandmother of Army Sgt. Andrew Perkins who was killed in action in Iraq, comforts his stepmother Elizabeth Perkins during a ceremony honoring the fallen soldier with the Silver Star for gallantry in action, held at Calvary Baptist Church in Roswell, N.M. on Saturday, Jan. 26, 2008. (AP/The Daily Record, Mark Wilson)
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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.
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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.
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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- 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!! - Reply to this comment
- 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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- 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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When American''s die because of LIES, yes it is newsworthy... very much so! Sieg Heil Bush! - Reply to this comment
- 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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- The World Trade Center was attacked a few weeks after Bush became President
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- 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. - Reply to this comment
- (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? - Reply to this comment
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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. - Reply to this comment
- 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? - Reply to this comment
- 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? - Reply to this comment
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