2 GIs, Allied Sunni Leader Killed In Iraq

1st Deadly Attack On U.S. Troops In Weeks; Military Facilities Inspected After Electrocution Deaths

(CBS/AP)  A roadside bomb killed two U.S. soldiers in a predominantly Shiite area in Baghdad on Monday, the first deadly attack against American troops in the capital in nearly a month, and gunmen killed one of the senior leaders of a U.S.-allied Sunni group fighting militants south of the capital.

The U.S. military said another American soldier was wounded when the blast struck a U.S. patrol at about 9:30 a.m. in eastern Baghdad. The area was the site of fierce clashes and frequent roadside bombings blamed on Shiite militiamen before a cease-fire by anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.

The soldiers were the first to be killed in Baghdad since July 8, when a roadside bomb killed Spc. William McMillan III, a 22-year-old Army medic from Lexington, Ky., and wounded five other soldiers in the western neighborhood of Amariyah, a Sunni area.

As of Monday, Aug. 4, 2008, at least 4,131 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

A member of the U.S.-allied Sunni group said Tuesday that gunmen had attacked the convoy of Sheik Ibrahim al Karbouli in Youssifiyah on Monday. Six of the Sunni leader's guards were also killed in the ambush.

He was a senior leader of the so-called awakening council in the town, which is a former al Qaida stronghold about 12 miles south of Baghdad.

The official spoke on condition of anonymity out of fears for his own security.

Al Qaeda has frequently mounted reprisal attacks against awakening councils because of their success in cutting into support for the terror movement among Iraqi Sunni Arabs.

Meanwhile, more than 80,000 facilities in Iraq will be inspected for faulty wiring as part of an effort to prevent future accidental electrocutions of U.S. troops, the top commander in Iraq said.

At least 10 U.S. soldiers, five Marines and a third-country contractor for the Defense Department have been identified as having died by electrocution in Iraq.

Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, spelled out the extent of the review that began last month in a letter to Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., that was released Monday by Casey's office. Casey had questioned what changes had been made following the death of a Green Beret from Pittsburgh, Sgt. Ryan Maseth, who was electrocuted while showering.

Petraeus said a team was named to oversee the review of more than 80,000 facilities, which include 6,000 pre-existing Iraqi facilities. All are maintained by the Logistics Civil Augmentation Program, which Petraeus said performs operations and maintenance on 61 bases in Iraq as well as smaller combat outposts and security stations.

The team will also develop repair and prevention plans, Petraeus said.

Casey said in a statement the inspections "should have been taken a long time ago," but he was pleased that Petraeus was making the changes.

[dixxson-2009]

Counting the casualties of American slavery, and not including Whites and the Civil War gives an inaccurate count. Counting USA troops
deaths, and not the Coalition, Iraq Troops, police, civilians, Kurds, Lebanese, Pakistan Afghans and the opposition, does not assess the war.

[whitemale08]

What more evidence do these talk show clowns on the radio need that the so called SURGE has failed?

And how dare CBS run an article about Bush "beaming" over the progress in Iraq.

Those are the same type of articles that got us here in the first place and more articles like that are going to be used as excuses to stay in Iraq for a 100 years.

Give me a break!

[babooph]

Good news is the US won''t be there for 100 years, bad news is there will be no middle class to fight & pay for the idiocy,long before then.

[bobnjersey]

[What rights have you lost? It does not appear to be free speech which allows you to say whatever you want no matter how supid.]
[Posted by NAVYVET77 at 03:07 PM : Aug 05, 2008]

the presumption of innocence, the right to an attorney ... the right to face your accuser ... the right to a fair trial ... the right to a judgement of a jury of my peers ... once they deem me an enemy combatant ... which they can do at any time, for any reason, they don''t need to tell anyone they did it ... or why.

the federal govt is actively spying on us citizens and mining their data ... their monetary transactions, their phone calls, where they take their vacations, and how they pay for it.

why are you ok w/ this?

[bobnjersey]

[Meanwhile, more than 80,000 facilities in Iraq will be inspected for faulty wiring as part of an effort to prevent future accidental electrocutions of U.S. troops, the top commander in Iraq said. ]

who is going to do these inspections? let''s get the same contractor that installed it to inspect it ... after all, they would know the setup the best ... then pay them $250 million to claim they fixed it.

[navyvet77]

When are we going to get sick of this fascist takeover of the government and military by Exxon, Chevron, Halliburton, Wal-Mart, AT&T, Halliburton and Blackwater? Unbelievable.

Posted by noloyalisti at 01:29 PM : Aug 05, 2008

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You would not know a fascist takeover even after you have been grabbed off the street, thrown in a boxcar and taken to a work camp. You say you are loosing your rights? What rights have you lost? It does not appear to be free speech which allows you to say whatever you want no matter how supid.

[petro49l]

Bin Laden has the cash for the latest horticulture technology. He wants exotic, potent opium grown throughout the region. Osama says that rich opiate gets the most money from Addicts. Bin Laden''s Al Qada Clique has the exclusive control of the poppy farms in Waziristan. He not only practices elitism and genocide, but he trafficks the deadliest street heroin in the world. Osama wants it all. Money, power, fame, and the slaughter of every common person on the planet.

[noloyalisti]

Maybe when we raise the big corporate tax rate to 90% so they pay their fair share. Especially since Exxon, Chevron, GE, Wal-Mart, Halliburton, etc. are profiting from the killing of Americans.

[noloyalisti]

When in God''s name are we going to get the heck out and stop the American corporation war OF terror.

When are we going to get sick of this fascist takeover of the government and military by Exxon, Chevron, Halliburton, Wal-Mart, AT&T, Halliburton and Blackwater? Unbelievable.

[hotpaulie]

WellHell3 - The sky is falling the sky is falling

Just because Obama feels we need to have some sort of plan in getting out of Iraq doesn''t mean he is kissing up to them. Do you have any idea how many Iraqi militants are being paid by the U.S. government in Iraq to behave? Bush is doing a lot more "smooching"

[talkingham]

We define success in Iraq as putting an Islamic Shiite government in place. The same religious sect who took down the World Trade Towers. Great job Bush. The surge is working.

[wellhell3]

As the ****** keep pushing for supremacy in the Middle East, deranged Americans want to follow Obscamma and go over there and hug and smoochies the bastwards and make them feel better, pull out and let them have the Middle East.

That way we can save our tax money so that next year we won''t have to borrow from China when we have to go over there and clean out their nukes!

When Obscamma''s brain *** ideas finally dawn on people, you''ll be dodging car bombs on the way to the grocery, and he''ll be high fiving the bastwards every time they do in an American whom he despises!

[wogerwabbit]

Let our position be absolutely clear: An attempt by any outside force to gain control of the Persian Gulf region will be regarded as an assault on the vital interests of the United States of America, and such an assault will be repelled by any means necessary, including military force. (full speech)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ca
rter_Doctrine

Posted by terrorislamv at 07:06 AM

hmm...so in this case we''re our own worst enemy. Pogo was right!

[meanbiker]

Trish keep smoking that meth.. You''ll get there one day..

I don''t hear anyone (female doging) about all the deaths on the streets of America? Come on people don''t let me down..

[obama441]

MyCane: "When Iraqi forces can safeguard their own country, American troops can return home".....or "When Iraqi forces can safeguard our OIL ji,ji,ji American troops can return home...

[obama441]

MyCane."I will take the UNITED STATES to Vistory" old prisoner of war shhesh

[mcvent]

Obama a man who, upon securing the Democratic nomination, said, %u201CI am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal%u201D;

Only the Messiah the Anoited one could do this our Savior Obama is like God or Jesus parting the seas, healing the world.

He put the whole world in his hand in put whole wide world in his hands, he saved you and me brother he put the whole world in his hands....

People of Berlin
People of THE WORLD.

[obama441]

MOSUL - Militants shot dead two off-duty policemen in a market in eastern Mosul,police said source (Reuters)

[obama441]

TERRORSALAMI "parrot" continue to LIE to the American public about the success of "the surge."

[obama441]

The attacks came a day after a truck bomb explosion that killed 12 people and wounded 23 in Azamiyah, a former Sunni insurgent stronghold in northern Baghdad that has seen a sharp drop in violence after tribal leaders joined forces with the Americans against al-Qaida in Iraq....(Reuters)