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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(AP / CBS)
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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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1) George W. Bush
2) *** Cheney (and what a *** he is)
3) The 28% of Americans who still support #1 & #2
Posted by ontheleft at 10:41 PM : Apr 06, 2008
So very, very, TRUE! Sad to think that 28% of our voters are accessories to these disasteous 7+ years!
Those chinese guys are unworthy to have human rights.
%u201CWhy we stand for immediate withdrawal of all US troops from Iraq%u201D
%u201CTHE U.S. occupation of Iraq has not liberated the Iraqi people, but has made life worse for most Iraqis.%u201D
%u201CTens of thousands of U.S. service people have been killed or maimed, and hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis have lost their lives as a result of the U.S. invasion in 2003, the ongoing occupation, and the violence unleashed by them.%u201D
%u201CIraq''s infrastructure has been destroyed, and U.S. plans for reconstruction abandoned. There is less electricity, less clean drinking water, and more unemployment today than before the U.S. invasion.%u201D
%u201CAll of the justifications initially provided by the U.S. for waging war on Iraq have been exposed as lies; the real reasons for the invasion %u2014 to control Iraq''s oil reserves and to increase U.S. strategic influence in the region %u2014 now stand revealed.%u201D
%u201CThe Bush administration has insisted again and again that stability, democracy, and prosperity are around the next bend in the road%u2026But the U.S. has deliberately stoked sectarian divisions in its ongoing attempt to install a U.S.-friendly regime, thus driving Iraq towards civil war.%u201D
%u201CWe call on the U.S. to get out of Iraq %u2014 not in six months, not in a year, but now.%u201D
www.ipetitions.com/petition/OutNow
At current rates that''ll mean:
200,000 Dead American troops.
$60 trillion!
Only neocons know how to kill our troops and squander taxpayers dollars like this!
-Hummmmm, the green zone!?!?!?!?! who has been deceived recently in Iraq?
Re: "How long is it supposed to last?"
General Betrayus says that he needs a bit more "flexibility", and only another 6 months or so to figure out if he is losing or not.
Posted by j-whitman at 11:50 PM : Apr 06, 2008
And just to be sure you sleep well take about 35 or 40 sleeping pills washed down with a bottle of cheap whiskey. Trust me, the world will love you for it.
GENTLEMEN ALL : NO LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL. IMPEACH THE STUPID !
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