Posted on 04/16/2008 9:46:15 AM PDT by tobyhill
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Fighting flared overnight in two key Shiite regions of Iraq, with four people killed early Wednesday in a U.S. airstrike in Basra and five others dying in battles in Baghdad's volatile northeastern region.
Also, in Mosul, the U.S. military said Wednesday it killed a senior leader of al Qaeda in Iraq and accidentally shot and killed a bystander during a clash with militants.
In the Basra violence, the U.S. military said an unmanned aerial vehicle early Wednesday launched a Hellfire missile at five insurgents firing rocket-propelled grenades at Iraqi soldiers.
The Predator drone killed four "criminals" and wounded another in the Basra neighborhood Hayaniya -- a bastion of support for Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's Mehdi Army militia. Another missile was fired at the insurgents' vehicle, thought to contain weapons and ammunition.
"The message is clear to those that continue to obstruct the rule of law in Basra," said Capt. Chris Ford, spokesman for the coalition forces in Basra said in a statement. "Those attacking the Iraqi army and other government of Iraq security forces will be targeted as part of enduring coalition support to the people of Iraq."
A British military spokesman said there were no coalition casualties.
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Quoting Austin Powers
It’s a man baby LOL!
That woman has a 5 o’clock shadow.
Hormones?
Dare I say it... Maybe that’s why they keep covered up??
I don’t believe that’s a woman.
No wonder the men dream of 72 virgins when they die after looking at that every day they were married.
Is that hair coming out of that dimple on her chin? She could grow a pretty impressive mustache!
Are the brits back in the fight?
OMG that “so called woman” had Don Johnson 5pm shadow LOL!
“Airstrike, battles kill at least 11 in Iraq (Is that really a woman pictured?)”
Beautiful shia druidic shemale. Notice the tattoo tear under her chin. They are dark hearted druids. Every pic of an old woman in that neighborhood has a tattoo on around her mouth towards the chin. These people are tribal inbred bags of freakishness. Bad to the bone.
Thank you for explaining. Now, are you being serious?
please don’t post the picture, it’s a Getty.
Psst. Schiltze was a man too.
Definitely. The older women wear crude ink tattoos under their mouths. Some look like linked diagonals. It’s just freaky. I guess it’s a regional thing.
I guess she’s technically a woman then.
They hate HATE us. Death glares. Never ever came around. Read Michael Yon.
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