Posted on 09/07/2004 8:34:59 AM PDT by TexKat
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Six American soldiers have been killed in attacks in and around Baghdad since midday Monday, the U.S. military said in separate statements Tuesday.
In total, 997 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq in March 2003, according to a count by The Associated Press based on Defense Department figures.
_ A soldier from the Army's 13th Corps Support Command was killed in a roadside bomb attack near Qayarrah, just north of Baghdad, at noon Monday.
_ A second soldier from the 13th Corps Support Command was killed by a roadside bomb late Monday.
_ A soldier with Task Force Baghdad died Monday from wounds sustained during an unspecified attack in Baghdad.
_ Another Task Force Baghdad soldier died early Tuesday from wounds sustained from a roadside bombing against his convoy a day earlier in Baghdad.
_ A third Task Force Baghdad soldier was killed by a rocket-propelled grenade during clashes in the Baghdad slum of Sadr City early Tuesday.
_ One soldier from the 89th Military Police Brigade was killed by small arms fire Tuesday in west Baghdad.
The military said it was withholding the names of all the dead soldiers pending family notification.
The latest deaths came in addition to the killing of seven Marines early Monday when a car bomb exploded near their convoy on the outskirts of Fallujah, west of Baghdad.
Ghoulish AP is only reporting so much detail in this particular story because the figure is near 1000. Our MSM is awful. Anything for a story, I suppose. Even if it means dancing on the dead bodies of American soldiers.
And what do you suggest? Ignoring the increasing death rate of U.S. soldiers and putting up endless and misleading "good news" posts?
Pray for them.
As for the Godless vermin that our soldiers killed, f'm.
Esp after their display in Russia!!
This am, Fox said ~ 100 Islamofascists were dead and counting ...
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Two Italian Women Humanitarian Workers Kidnapped in Baghdad
Endless and misleading "good news" posts? You better justify that comment pretty quick, pal, because I haven't done it or seen it.
I will tell you this. I resent the MSM and the Kerry campaign using the deaths of brave American soldiers for political purposes to further their anti-American agenda. It is just what the Left did during Vietnam. It is disgusting and, in some cases, treasoness.
I'm with you.
The media and the Kerry camp approve of roadside bombs.
This is not sarcasm. I'm serious.
They are purely focused on bringing down Pres. Bush's numbers. They don't care how they do it, and they don't care who they signal to do their dirty work.
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Some on this board would rather read fluff than face the reality on the ground. We lost nine soldiers over the weekend; we've lost another six since yesterday morning. That makes at least 15 dead young men since the first of September. August saw 66 KIAs and 1,100 WIAs -- we're likely to see an even greater number this month.
These deaths, coupled with the wishy-washy manner in which Bush has chosen to deal with insurgents, might cost him the election. As more and more cities fall under insurgent control, we can no longer trumpet a great march of democracy across the plains of Iraq. We can't claim any sort of progress, to be honest. Oil production has come to a near halt, the populace hates us, and we are nowhere near handing over real power.
Sorry if this sounds pessimistic, but the situation in Iraq sucks, and I don't see any clear plan for its improvement.
Obviously by that statement you have no real clue about the situation in Iraq. Why don't you try talking to people over in Iraq. You'll find the situation in a hell of a lot better than what is being reported.
BAGHDAD (AFP) - Bloody clashes between US forces and Shiite militiamen left more than 40 dead in Baghdad's Islamist stronghold of Sadr City, officials said, while 11 US soldiers were killed in a spate of attacks.
Smoke was rising and US war planes roared overhead as armed members of radical cleric Moqtada Sadr's Mehdi Army ran through the streets of the Baghdad slum after a night of fighting that left one US soldier dead and scores of Iraqis killed and wounded.
The Iraqi health ministry reported that 40 people were killed and more than 270 injured as a fragile week-long truce called by Sadr unravelled.
Militia fighters killed a US soldier and wounded two others Tuesday in a small-arms and rocket-propelled grenade attack in the sprawling Baghdad district, US Lieutenant Colonel James Hutton told AFP.
The soldier's death brought to 992 the total number of US military fatalities since the US-led March 2003 invasion of Iraq that toppled Saddam Hussein.
US tanks rumbled around the neighborhood and automatic fire echoed on Sadr City's main al-Shuhader Street. Four US military vehicles blocked off al-Hay square, site of Sadr's main office.
On side streets, Mehdi army soldiers, dressed in their trademark black outfits and civilian clothes, planted bombs in the road.
Hutton reported a string of attacks overnight on US forces in the den of the young radical cleric who has organised a thousands-strong army of young and unemployed Shiite men united under a banner of Islamic fundamentalism.
Sadr aide Sheikh Naim al-Qaabi said 15 Mehdi Army fighters were killed and 62 wounded in the strife.
"Last night was the most intense shelling of Sadr City since the Americans arrived in Iraq," he said, adding heavy aircraft fire lasted from 11 pm (1900 GMT) to 4 am.
"The people are defending themselves against the occupation forces."
There was no confirmation from the Americans about air strikes in the Shiite neighborhood. A mortar landed near a school as the battle raged, the military said.
An uneasy calm had reigned in the district since the end of last month's three-week revolt by Sadr against the Americans in the Shiite shrine city of Najaf.
Sadr's men had entered negotiations with the Iraqi government to disarm and enter the political arena, but his right-hand men complained the Iraqi government had started arresting its followers last week despite the talks.
As troubles flared in the Shiite slum, the US military was mourning its dead from a flurry of anti-coalition attacks around Baghdad Monday.
In addition to the US soldier killed in Sadr city, another three were killed in a string of attacks in the capital after a car bomb killed seven soldiers and three Iraqi national guard near the restive city of Fallujah Monday, the deadliest single strike in months for US troops.
The Fallujah attack was claimed by black-hooded men, gripping assault rifles, in the name of Jordanian fighter Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi's militant group, in a video obtained by AFP.
Meanwhile, Baghdad governor Ali al-Haidri narrowly escaped a bomb assassination attempt on his life that left two civilians dead, officials said.
"There was an attempt to assassinate the Baghdad governor," said interior ministry spokesman Colonel Adnan Abdul Rahman.
A police investigator on the scene in Baghdad's western al-Adel district said the bomb was a small booby trap device planted in a pothole, although the interior ministry described it as a car bomb. Some of Haidri's bodyguards were wounded, the governor said.
The deputy director of Karama hospital in Baghdad was also shot dead, the health ministry said.
And in the northern city of Mosul, the son of governor for the northern Iraqi province of Niniveh was assassinated.
Leith Dureid Kashmula, 19, was shot several times in the chest by unknown attackers as he was alone in his car in western Mosul, said Hazem Gallawi, media adviser for the governorate.
A Turkish truck driver was killed when insurgents fired small arms at some petrol tankers parked outside Abbasi, about 22 kilometres (13 miles) from the rebel bastion of Samarra, police said.
The US military and Turkish embassy had no information about the incident.
Residents of Sadr City show cars that were run over by U.S. armored vehicles, Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday Sept. 7, 2004. U.S. forces battled radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's supporters in the Baghdad slum on Tuesday, killing at least 34 people, including one American soldier, and injuring 193. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
Smoke rises over the central part the town of Falluja, following a U.S. army bombardment, September 7, 2004. U.S. forces and insurgents fought in Falluja on Tuesday, and shelling by American tanks forced some to leave homes in the Iraqi town that has been a hotbed of resistance to the U.S.-backed government, witnesses said. REUTERS/Mohammed Khodor
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