Sadiyah:
July 7, 2007
To the north, in a Kurdish area near the border with Iran, a suicide car bomber struck Friday night outside a cafe, killing at least 19 people, all members of the same family, the U.S. military said. The blast occurred in a village near Sadiyah, about 100 miles northeast of Baghdad, said Army Lt. Col. Lee Packnett, a military spokesman.
The village is in remote eastern Diyala, a province where U.S. forces have been waging offensives aimed at insurgents who fled a security crackdown in Baghdad and at Al Qaeda militants who use the region as a staging ground for attacks in the capital.
In Samawah, Abdul Razzaq Zaidi, a neighborhood representative, said he hid with his family at home during the clashes, hesitant to emerge though he said the militants had left the area. Many residents stayed inside, he said, unable to shop or scrounge for gas and kerosene, which are in short supply.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-iraq7jul07,0,5377730.story?coll=la-home-center
That said, better lose 1000 reporters than one GI. ‘Sorry bout that. But that is how I feel.