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Three insurgents killed emplacing roadside bomb
Multi-National Corps – Iraq Public Affairs Office, Camp Victory ^
| July 24, 2007
| 4th IBCT, 1st Inf. Div. Public Affairs
Posted on 07/24/2007 2:44:34 PM PDT by mdittmar
BAGHDAD Multi-National Division Baghdad troops opened fire on insurgents emplacing a roadside bomb, killing three and wounding at least one more July 21 during continuing clearing operations in the Rashid District.
Troops from Company B, 1st Battalion, 38th Infantry Regiment, attached to the 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, witnessed five men out after curfew excavating a hole by the side of the road in a Doura neighborhood of southern Baghdad. The location was an area historically used by insurgents to employ deep-buried improvised explosive devices against Coalition and Iraqi Security Forces.
When one of the men was positively identified with an AK-47 assault rifle and appeared to be pulling security for the other diggers, the troops requested permission to engage.
After investigating the area where the insurgents were digging, the troopers found three bodies, the assault rifle, a pistol, two shovels and an axe. They also identified blood trails leading south.
Under Iraqi law, citizens are permitted to keep one AK-47 and a full 30-round magazine in their homes for protection. Handguns or weapons heavier than an assault rifle are not allowed.
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 1stid; ied; iraq; oif; oops
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Guess they won't have the guts to do that again.
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posted on
07/24/2007 2:44:37 PM PDT
by
mdittmar
To: mdittmar
Under Iraqi law, citizens are permitted to keep one AK-47 and a full 30-round magazine in their homes for protection. Handguns or weapons heavier than an assault rifle are not allowed.
That's... something, not sure what...
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posted on
07/24/2007 2:46:48 PM PDT
by
kinoxi
To: mdittmar
Hopefully this is an indication that the terrorists are scraping the bottom of the barrel for new recruits.
To: mdittmar
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posted on
07/24/2007 2:47:32 PM PDT
by
steveo
(Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.)
To: kinoxi
To: mdittmar
I'm only going to post a
link to this picture.
It says "Oh Glorious Shaheed...your 72 virgins await!"
Due to the graphic nature of the picture (Helen Thomas alert), I am not going to post it, although it may be a good representation of what awaits the stupid terrorists in this story.
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posted on
07/24/2007 2:48:57 PM PDT
by
rabscuttle385
(Sic Semper Tyrannis * U.Va. Engineering '09 * Friends Don't Let Friends Vote Democrat * Fred in 2008)
To: Resolute Conservative
Rather odd distinction isn’t it? Keep your AK’s but don’t let me catch you with a handgun....
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posted on
07/24/2007 2:51:05 PM PDT
by
kinoxi
To: mdittmar
Excellent! That’s 216 more virgins used up.
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posted on
07/24/2007 2:51:27 PM PDT
by
jazusamo
(DefendOurMarines.com)
To: Resolute Conservative
Well, yes. Allow handguns into Iraq and it may become a violent place.
Reuters’ employees dropping like flies.
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posted on
07/24/2007 2:55:16 PM PDT
by
svanni
To: mdittmar
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posted on
07/24/2007 2:56:02 PM PDT
by
Revolting cat!
(We all need someone we can bleed on...)
To: rabscuttle385
It is a common idea among terrorists that "72 virgins await" them.
This is a misinterpretation of the koran.
It's actually just one "72 year old virgin";)
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posted on
07/24/2007 2:56:17 PM PDT
by
mdittmar
(May God watch over those who serve,and have served,to keep us free)
To: mdittmar
the troops requested permission to engage. The UN and the Congress managed to give permission that fast? /s
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posted on
07/24/2007 2:56:55 PM PDT
by
lowbridge
(A Gun A Day Keeps The Government Away)
To: mdittmar
Under Iraqi law, citizens are permitted to keep one AK-47 and a full 30-round magazine in their homes for protection. Poor Iraqis. They just dont know what its like to live in a free state, like Washington DC. I mean, the state of California. I mean the state of New York....ah, the heck with it.
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posted on
07/24/2007 2:58:25 PM PDT
by
lowbridge
(A Gun A Day Keeps The Government Away)
To: mdittmar
Hopefully the behavior is contageous among fellow murderers (insurgents).
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posted on
07/24/2007 2:58:38 PM PDT
by
showme_the_Glory
(ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government)
To: mdittmar
Darn. I was hoping for video of the moment of explosion.
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posted on
07/24/2007 2:58:54 PM PDT
by
Clara Lou
(Thompson-Hunter '08-- imwithfred.com)
To: mdittmar
...Baghdad troops opened fire on insurgents emplacing a roadside bomb, killing three...
Now that would be a video to see! Replete with the US anthem...
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posted on
07/24/2007 3:00:02 PM PDT
by
eleni121
(+ En Touto Nika! By this sign conquer! + Constantine the Great)
To: mdittmar
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posted on
07/24/2007 3:02:15 PM PDT
by
KStorm
(Every time a newspaper shuts down, a forest breathes a sigh of relief.)
To: mdittmar
It can also be translated as 72 raisins.
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posted on
07/24/2007 3:05:14 PM PDT
by
magslinger
(Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors. And miss. R.A.Heinlein)
To: mdittmar
I love self-correcting errors.
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posted on
07/24/2007 3:08:46 PM PDT
by
OB1kNOb
(Support Duncan Hunter for the 2008 GOP presidential nominee. He will build the fence!!)
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