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5 U.S. Soldiers Wounded During Gunfight With Militants After Meeting With Officials
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Play CBS Video Video Female Bomber's Deadly Attack "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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Iraqi men and police officers inspect bodies outside a morgue who were killed after a female suicide bomber attack in Baqouba, Sunday, June 22, 2008. (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 Commentshave been and are still now insisting
that TWO soldiers were killed and they
were killed by an Iraqi COUNCILMAN.
Understandable though, it''s hard to
decipher the difference between
One dead body two dead bodies.
You mean Baghdad''s not safe?
But John McSame said it was!
oil.
http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion/tucker/stories/2008/06/20/tucked_0622.html
A quote: "Can it be mere coincidence that [these] are the very same companies that Saddam Hussein threw out when he nationalized the Iraqi oil industry more than three decades ago?"
I agree, once bush is out of power he has no powers to block criminal charges. I hope that we get to see him brought to justice.
The Bush White House has totally lost its bearings. Or they have a lot to hide with Blackwater. Either way, the evidence is really mounting up.
The Office of Management and Budget, President Bush''s administrative arm, has shot down a service plan to add five active-duty generals who would oversee purchasing and monitor contractor performance.
The boost in brass was a key recommendation from a blue-ribbon panel that last fall criticized the Army for contracting failures that undermined the war effort in Iraq and Afghanistan, wasted U.S. tax dollars, and sparked dozens of procurement fraud investigations.
If an agent for the CIA was arrested , your sdaying he said oh by the way fellows i am working for the CIA, and they say oh , sorry we didn''t know that and release him. The law does not work that way and CIA operatives never admit they are working for the CIA.
You said the council on foreign relations is not Mad Magazine. if it wasn''t so pitiful i would think it was Mad Magazine. Our current administration appears to be a total joke.
I think since bush incaded Iraq with the help of his klies and thus making this war illegal he is guilty of war crimes and i hope to see him tried for them. I would never have believed one person could destroy our country until now.
I said pull out first then let the bombs go.
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Posted by dobbershome
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Why would we kill all our soldiers??
Posted by labrat9999
And I would suggest you look at actual law and not the rantings on some far left or anti-US website. George Bush is not Milosevich. Put your blinding hate away for a few minutes and try reality.
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How are you the one who knows all the tippitty top secret stuff that no one knows about since it''s so secret?
Posted by j-whitman
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And who said he''s wrong and you''re right your royal highness??
Posted by labrat9999
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What crimes?
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