BAGHDAD, April 6, 2008
3 U.S. Troops Killed In Mortar Attacks
31 Others Wounded As Rockets Strike Baghdad's Green Zone And Base In Rustamiyah
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A military official says two U.S. troops were killed and 17 wounded when rockets struck the Green Zone in central Baghdad.
The official says another American service member died and 14 were wounded in another attack on a military base in the southeastern area of Rustamiyah.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity for lack of authorization to release the information.
The attacks come amid fierce clashes between Shiite militia fighters and U.S.-Iraqi forces.
In Other Developments:
The U.S. military said that fighting broke out overnight in Sadr City, a stronghold of anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's militants. Officials at two local hospitals said 22 people were killed and 92 wounded.
The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media, did not say whether the casualties were civilians or fighters. U.S. and Iraqi forces released no information about the casualties.
A police officer said that a U.S. Stryker armored personnel carrier was damaged in the fighting, which continued with sporadic exchanges of fire through Sunday morning.
Two armored Humvee vehicles and two trucks belonging to the Iraqi army were also destroyed, said the officer, who also spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media.
The U.S. military said it had no information about a Stryker being damaged.
During the operation, nearly 1,000 government soldiers and policemen deserted and handed over their weapons and vehicles to the Mahdi fighters.
"It was obvious that there was negligence among some members of our security forces and this issue will be dealt with according to the law," Tahseen al-Sheikhli, spokesman for the Baghdad security operation, told reporters Sunday.
Although scattered clashes continued between his fighters and Iraqi security forces, the Iraqi government relaxed security measures Saturday around the Mahdi Army strongholds of Sadr City and the Shula neighborhood.
A vehicle ban remains in effect as part of a curfew imposed on Baghdad after fighting broke out between government forces and Shiite militants March 25. The curfew has been lifted in the rest of Baghdad.
The hijacked bus was then driven onto a farm road, where all the students were released after the gunmen made sure they were not members of the security forces, Abdul-Sattar said.
One of the mourners, Midhat Faez, said the assassination was aimed at provoking conflict between Muslims and the tiny Christian community.
"As Christians, we are terrified and our numbers are gradually diminishing," Faez said.
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See all 91 CommentsWill someone please tell me what we''re winning?
Posted by FloydZepp at 04:58 PM : Apr 06, 2008
That''s right. The goal is to kick the war off to the next president so that when the inevitable collapse happens and the bloodbath really begins, Bush will be able to sit on his murdering larcenous as*s in Texas and claim that he had nothing to do with it. What a sub-human lying piece of sh*it he truly is.
Makes me sick!
The treacherous Maliki Quislings are continuing their assault on Iraqis who know if they give up their weapons they will face an endless occupation by the forces of Big Oil and Israel.
Americans can learn something from this...never give up your guns...The real enemy is in Washington!
Remember!! This is the Regime that could not bring aid to its citizens in the Super Dome in New Orleans after Katrina, but could conduct home searches in other areas to confiscate guns, disrupt communications of local officials and prevent aid from private sources from going where it was most needed. The Washington Regime is nobodies friend...just the abject servant of Corporate Imperialists.
TROOPS HOME NOW! FREE IRAQ!!...FREE AMERICA!!
We''re winning more government contracts for the military industrial complex and it''s stock market investors.
Posted by timdgrim
We need to clean the HOUSE and SENATE--
Concentrate on your local representatives in November--we need ALL new people in Washington!
Remember that America!! Before you vote for Demopublican war pigs once more as you did in 2000, 2002, 2004, and 2006
YOU CAN''T MAKE A LAND OF TRIBES INTO NATIONS. Look at Africa and Afghanistan.The concept of Nationhood is alien to some people, so is democracy too.
YOU CAN''''T MAKE A LAND OF TRIBES INTO NATIONS. Look at Africa and Afghanistan.The concept of Nationhood is alien to some people, so is democracy too.
Posted by bgwinnett at 05
That was the premise of why Bush went into Iraq.
We also know full well, if another country invaded America and tried to make it something is isn''t we would be fighting tooth and nail to keep our country as is.
If the people in Iraq wanted democracy--they would have it, those who wanted it bad enough--left''
Our only intention was the oil and the pipeline, never was anything else--I wish Bush Cheney and their "tribe" would have nightmares of drowning in the blood of the murdered, they better not go unpunished.
I honestly don''t know what this war was for but it was a stupid one, got to be.
And what did they die for?
So that Bush and his friends can profit.
mission accomplished
Now, eighty years later, after it had thrown off foreign oil companies and refused to crumble under murderous sanctions, it has been occupied and is hosting a dirty war under the control of the Corporate Imperialists. We are in Iraq in large part because the people of Iraq were succeeding at building a nation--a prosperous, secular nation.
1) CANCEL YOUR CABLE / SATTELITE TV: let the corporate media moguls (and their advertisers) know that you will no longer pay for their propaganda.
2) DIVEST FROM WALL ("WAR") STREET: the banking ELITE are systematically selling out the middle class to the lowest global bidder yet they still demand the average taxpayer to bail them out when times are tough.. seem UNFAIR ? do something and DIVEST .. invest your money in land, real estate, GOLD and SILVER.
3) SUPPORT & DEVELOP LOCAL ECONOMIES !
- if possible, BURN WOOD for heat;
- support local ORGANIC growers or grow some of your own food;
- implement alternative energy sources (solar, hybrid autos etc ..)
- develop local means of commerce not based on the failing US dollar.
4) AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE BEGINS WITH YOU - healthy eating habits and exercise will create less demand on the system meaning lower costs. You%u2019ll have plenty of time to work out once you UNPLUG THE TV DRUG.
5) STOP UNNECESSARY CONSUMPTION & STOP USING YOUR CREDIT CARD !
6) DECENTRALIZE ! - the global economy is nothing more than a ploy to centralize power, control and wealth into the hands of an elite few - blinded by misinformation, the American people are buying right into it - the rich get richer and the middle class is quickly becoming the working poor.
Posted by Prinzowhales at 05:59 PM : Apr 06, 2008
Yes it was prosperous until Saddam went to war against Iran and drove the country hundreds of billions into debt.
I think things are going pretty well as planned. Economic, moral, and internal decay of USA. Bin Laudens'' plan is working. The quagmire is taking us down, as planned. They can''t beat us toe to toe, but with an idiot in charge they are winning. Stay the course, is the Bin Lauden battle cry!!!
This is part and parcel of the New World Order...to create chaos and then create order--their order--out of it. That is why we have unlimited immigration... that learning English is not encouraged...that the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations fund La Raza and the Aztland crowd on one hand and black seperatism and black liberation theology....the kind of theology preached by Obama''s pastor, Wright on the other hand.
What will the Iraqi war memorial look like?
How many names are going to be on it?
Will we obfuscate the reasons for the fallen for our own historical gratification?
Republicans:
Stop feeling so bad and stop voting for GOP''er just because you keep hearing the word "team" associated with them. This is not Football, your votes can help decide whether our brothers and sisters fight and die for causes that all Americans believe in and support.
Do not let your guilt get in the way of your intelligence!
By the way, where are the centrist Republicans? Why does the GOP have to have a big rubber stamp as a constituency?
I would rather have a "inexperienced" Democrat wasting a 500 billion on helping the poor or disabled or uneducated, than have a neo-con Republican blow 500 billion on killing tens of thousands of innocent Iraqi and thousands of US service men and women.
In the last 8 years or so Republicans have shown me that they will do anything and everything in their power to keep you from retaining an opinion based on the facts that their incompetence is comprised of.
Come to think of it, Iraq was invaded to protect the Dollar, because Iraq had recently switched over to trading oil in Euros. Iran did this too in March 06, if the Dollar continues to fall through the floor, I think that they will bomb Iran.
the surge is working
four more of the same McBushCain
We''re warriors, warriors of the world
Like thunder from the sky - sworn to fight and die
We''re warriors, warriors of the world
Many stand against us, but they will never win
We said we would return and here we are again
To bring them all destruction, suffering and pain
We are the hammer of the gods, we are thunder, wind and rain.
HOOORAH !!!!! to the Warriors !!!
--posted by FloydZepp
-How many unborn babies were murdered because of abortion(murder) this year Floyd?
Posted by libagenda at 06:07 PM : Apr 06, 2008
Just like a neo con can''t beat them so they try to divide them. Your colors are showing but hey talk tough because in November you will see just how tough true Americans are when we send the Senate neo cons home for good.
It happened in the 1950''s and they felt the Americans anger for 40 years and that was due to a Senator how long will they feel it due to a President.
It has been coming unification through hate like Hitler did with Germany only works for so long then it comes crashing down around you.
...In America, you are the cat''s meow if you content yourself with opposing a bunch of dumb animals trying to march through Skokie...or nail some Greenwich Village ideologue for opposing prayer in the classroom...or chase octogenarian Latvian prison guards...but if you try to lift the curtain to expose the real b*stards behind these totalitarian movements...well, you are just anti-American and those b*stards, through their ABCNBCCRBCNNFOXPBS propaganda machine will let you know about it!
70 less members of MUQTADAs outlaw militia and you retarded leftwingers jihadiots dont say anything about it.
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Posted by demslie at 08:01 PM : Apr 06, 2008
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Duh?? YOU fascist have taken the nation from a balanced budget to a 9.3 Trillion Dollar Debt, the Interest alone on that debt cost us 430 Billion last year alone. Your fuhrer has LIED us into a war that never had to be and it''s costing us 28 BILLION a month. It would appear to me that you have enough problems in your own house to be concerned with those involving the Democrats. Sieg Heil Bush!! Dumb as a box of rocks!!
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Posted by BaghdadsHere at 07:54 PM : Apr 06, 2008
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You pathetic Swastika Hugger... there is NO WAY of knowing if the people dead and hurt were Militants or just citizens who happened to get in the way. Honest you have watched way to many John Wayne movies and THAT is not what a civil war is about Sparky... not even close! Sieg Heil Bush
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