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To: Oorang

Thanks Oorang.

So the suspect(s) stole the explosives from four utility trucks, not just one.
Interesting.


14 posted on 06/01/2007 8:59:41 PM PDT by Cindy
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1843510/posts

Locals Rise Up Against al Qaeda — at a Cost
Iraq Slogger ^ | 6/2/07 | JANE ARRAF

Posted on 06/01/2007 8:49:32 PM PDT by bnelson44

Baghdad – They were still bringing in the wounded when we arrived at the mosque in southern Amiriya Thursday morning, racing from the armored vehicles surrounded by bursts of gunfire.

An American soldier was among the casualties – killed by small arms fire. His name is being withheld. His commanders said he was an exceptional young man who re-enlisted after surviving a mortar attack that killed his roommate.

The Iraqi wounded were taken to the mosque – laid out on the teal blue carpet stained by pools of blood and littered with shards of glass from the shattered ceiling panels which had read “There is no God but God...’

One of them was Saif Mohammad Fakhry, an Iraqi cameraman with the television news agency APTN. His brother said he had gone out in the street with a gun after suspected al-Qaeda militants attacked the neighborhood.

(Excerpt) Read more at iraqslogger.com ...


15 posted on 06/01/2007 9:03:53 PM PDT by Cindy
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