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"CBS News RAW": A female suicide bomber struck near a government compound northeast of Baghdad, killing at least 15 people and wounding 40, police said. At least 21 suicide attacks have been carried out this year by women.
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Leigh Rich hugs her son, Australian soldier Private Kenneth Pegg, on his return home from Iraq at the Brisbane International Airport Sunday, June 22, 2008. The return of the soldiers from the Overwest Battle Group (West) Four marks the end of Australian soldier combat deployment in Southern Iraq. (AP Photo/ Tony Phillips)
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An Iraqi woman reacts at the scene were a female suicide bomber detonated her explosives in Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, Iraq, on Sunday, June 22, 2008. A female suicide bomber struck near a government compound northeast of Baghdad on Sunday, killing at least 15 people and wounding 40, the police said. (AP Photo)
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The troops were hit by small-arms fire near Madain, an area with a volatile mix of Sunni and Shiite extremists about 15 miles southeast of Baghdad. A suspected militant also was killed, said Maj. John Hall, a U.S. military spokesman.
The military provided no further details, but a witness said an attacker was waiting in his car until the soldiers came out of the municipal council building in Madain.
"The attacker got out of the car with an AK-47 assault rifle in his hand and he started to fire on the American soldiers until he was killed by return fire," said Hussein al-Dulaimi, who owns an agricultural machines spare parts store across the street.
Al-Dulaimi, residents and a police official said the attacker had been a Sunni member of the municipal council until he was ousted by Shiites during sectarian violence following the February 2006 bombing of a Shiite shrine north of Baghdad.
The death raised to at least 4,103 members of the U.S. military who have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
In other developments:
Elsewhere, U.S.-funded Sunni fighters - known as awakening councils - came under attack north of Baghdad late Sunday.
About 10 mortar shells slammed into Udaim, 70 miles north of the capital, killing at least 10 members of a U.S.-backed Sunni group and wounding 24 others, said Maj. Mohammed Thawra, a local Iraqi army battalion commander.
A roadside bomb also targeted an awakening council patrol in Buhriz, 35 miles north of Baghdad on Monday afternoon, killing two of the fighters, a police official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to release the information.
The Sunni revolt against al Qaeda in Iraq has been a key factor in a sharp decline in violence over the past year. The groups have frequently been targeted by insurgents trying to reverse the security gains.
Both attacks occurred in the restive Diyala province, which has been among the hardest areas to control since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion despite an influx of thousands of additional U.S. troops as part of the so-called surge last year.
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See all 67 CommentsNow the news media reports every single death situations in Iraq.
It is just a shame that every Police officers doesn''t get this sort of recognition in the US when they are killed in the line of duty. Or, what about the children killed by gang violence ?
Or what about drunk driver victims ? Aren''t their innocent lives as precious ?
%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
Now the news media reports every single death situations in Iraq.
It is just a shame that every Police officers doesn''''t get this sort of recognition in the US when they are killed in the line of duty. Or, what about the children killed by gang violence ?
Or what about drunk driver victims ? Aren''''t their innocent lives as precious ?
Posted by hoseobama at 12:42 PM : Jun 23, 2008
So you don''t support the troops, or is it just when it suits you wing nuts.
It is amusing that CBS Newz has recycled the "RAW" footage of the victims of the Blackwater/al-CIA''duh bombing that they blamed on a "female suicide bomber", to accompany this article, as if it was somehow relevant to the main story of another U.S. service member''s life wasted in this illegal, lie-based war for profit.
Posted by hoseobama
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Not as interesting
Posted by FeelFree4U
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Sponsored by Al Queda and the Taliban.
Posted by johnpatrick9
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When you start blaming it on the terrorists.
Posted by bluestardad
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Sorry, no crimes were committed.
Posted by bhoogren at 01:53 PM
It looked to me like johnpatrick was blaming the terrorists.
Posted by dragonwagon5
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Sorry, your Taliban and Al Quaeda are the terrorists.
Posted by hoseobama
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Not as interesting - Posted by bhoogren
Yeah, and there might actually be a purpose if they were to talk about the drunks
IF YOU WANT THEM IMPEACHED-GET THIS STORY TO MAINSTREAM MEDIA AND PUBLIC.
AN IRAN-CONTRA OPERATION, IS OPERATING FROM THE SAME BASES OLLIE NORTH SET UP WITH THE SAME PLAYERS. WE HAVE TROOPS (FIGHTING TROOPS) and A SECRET CIA AIRFORCE in GUATEMALA, NICARAGURA, HONDURAS, EL SALVADOR, ECUADOR, COLUMBIA and BELIZE! THE CIA IS SMUGGLING DRUGS AND WEAPONS YET AGAIN AND IS SUPPORTED BY SPECIAL OPERATIONS COMMAND ON BASES SET UP BY OLLIE NORTH!
THE %u201CSECRET%u201D AIR FORCE OF THE CIA ARE MOSTLY CILILIAN PLANES PURCHCHED WITH DRUG PROFITS WHOSE OWNERSHIP CANNOT BE TRACED AND ARE HIDDEN FROM ANY BUDGET.
Look it up yourself Please. This has some good info: http://www.madcowprod.com/index.html
(fat chance, dim-wit)
Regards, - Posted by Nancy_Naive
Exactly!
Saving Afghanistan - Barnett R. Rubin - From Foreign Affairs, january/February 2007
http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20070101faessay86105-p0/barnett-r-rubin/saving-afghanistan.html
Except OBL isn''t elected. Besides, he''ll never leave office.
You have learned well from the insurgents in Iraq, hermitdave. Attack one party hoping they will retaliate against the other.
I don''t care if you claim to be or don''t claim to be. You might as well be an insurgent.
Geeze impeach_w, why in hell didn''t you say so earlier!
bfd. sound like a move-on.org hardon to me.
U.S. policymakers have misjudged Afghanistan, misjudged Pakistan, and, most of all, misjudged their own capacity to carry out major strategic change on the cheap. The Bush administration has sown disorder and strengthened Iran while claiming to create a "new Middle East," but it has failed to transform the region where the global terrorist threat began -- and where the global terrorist threat persists. If the United States wants to succeed in the war on terrorism, it must focus its resources and its attention on securing and stabilizing Afghanistan.
As speakinup, I asked you COUNTLESS times to help with the Iraq problem, but your blame game was all you could think of. Probably because a liar always feels he needs to cement the lie on everything to make it believeable.
And, NOW, you claim I''m not supporting the troops by now not identifying the problems in Iraq...
You are such a hypocritical, dishonorable, lying, typical far left, piece of work (read shist), j-whitman.
Just, "move-on", like a good little bowel movement, will you.
If you really want to know our biggest problem in Iraq - it''s a lack of solidarity of purpose - on the Democrat''s part.
Due to the idiots like you that post on here, I''m willing to bet less than two regulars saw your post at 03:28.
Hope the typing was fun.
Son, you''ve been watching roots too much. Chicken George ? So, how many times has obama been there ?
Yup - they are going to be "let into a war zone to steal the oil" for the price that Iraq sets.
Are you from the royal guard ? How''d you survive the road of death ?
Don''t forget to inhale and exhale, ok bud.
It''s -- "Saving Afghanistan",,, Not ignoring it
http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20070101faessay86105-p0/barnett-r-rubin/saving-afghanistan.html
Not sure I understood your sentence that tried to emply a verb and a gerund (look it up).
Never said it was.
There might be hope yet for you.
Maybe I''ll ready your article later.
Busy right now.
Posted by labrat9999
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What crimes?
Posted by j-whitman
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And who said he''s wrong and you''re right your royal highness??
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