BAGHDAD, June 9, 2008
U.S. Launches Airstrike In Northern Iraq
Facing Heavy Fire During Raid, U.S. Forces Kill 5 Suspected Al Qaeda Members
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An Iraqi Army soldier displays a cache of weapons seized in a raid in the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City in Baghdad on Monday, June 9, 2008. (AP Photo)
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Interactive Iraq: 5 Years At War Five years after the U.S.-led invasion, the war wears on.
Meanwhile, a parked car packed with munitions exploded near a passing Iraqi army patrol in eastern Baghdad, killing three civilians and an army lieutenant, police said.
The explosion wounded at least 12 others, and damaged several cars and shops in a busy commercial district of Karrada, an officer said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to media.
The U.S. military said it also detained 13 suspects and destroyed a "foreign terrorist hideout" in two days of operations targeting al Qaeda in Iraq across the country.
American soldiers, acting on intelligence gleaned from Iraqis already in U.S. custody, approached a suspected militant safehouse Monday in a remote area of northwestern Iraq, the military said. Troops immediately came under heavy fire from a fortified enemy position, it said.
When U.S. forces called in airstrikes, "secondary explosions erupted from the target buildings, indicating weapons and bomb materials inside," a military statement said.
Five men were confirmed dead, and multiple suicide vests and heavy machine guns were also discovered in the ruins of their hideout, it said.
An alleged al Qaeda in Iraq bomber was captured with another suspect Monday in Mosul, and another five men were arrested south of the city, the military said.
Mosul is believed to be one of the last urban strongholds of the terror group, and U.S. and Iraqi forces have fought fierce battles with militants there in recent months.
The al Qaeda in Iraq "emir" of Tikrit, a mostly Sunni Arab city north of the Iraqi capital, was arrested late Sunday along with three other suspects, the statement said. Two others were detained in Baghdad.
In other developments:
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- CARPET BOMB THE WHOLE FRIKING NORTHERN TERRITORY.KILL THEM ALL THE CIVILIANS SHOULD PICK UP ROCKS STICKS WHATEVER .HOWS TAT KURAN THING WORKING OUT FOR YOU?
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- Qada Iraq is a bunch of skinny, weak losers. They''re all hiding in closets squealing like fourteen year old school girls before a dance. There is no sense in showing them mercy. The Coalition should run them through.
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RE: "U.S. soldiers under heavy fire during a raid Monday in northwestern Iraq called in airstrikes and killed five suspected al Qaeda in Iraq militants, the military said."
Well, we know that this is a lie, since "al-Qaeda-in-Iraq" is little more than a Made-in-USA psy-ops ruse. Besides, our military leaders have just announced that they have re-defeated this imaginary band of boogie-men once again.
Nope. This is most likely just more excuses for murdering and maiming more Iraqis in this lie-based invasion.
Good luck to the people of Iraq in defending yourselves!- Reply to this comment
Air Strikes
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- After you take down Saddam Hussein''s government, he asks, "then what are you gonna put in its place? That''s a very volatile part of the world, and if you take down the central government in Iraq, you can easily end up seeing pieces of Iraq fly off... it''s a quagmire ... if you try to take over Iraq... How many additional American causalities was Saddam worth? Our judgment was not very many, and I think we got it right."
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Best-selling author Mitch Albom on his first nonfiction work since "Tuesdays with Morrie."
