posted on August 12, 2007 05:57:33 AM new
5 American Soldiers Killed Near Baghdad
Updated 8:03 AM ET August 12, 2007
By BUSHRA JUHI
BAGHDAD (AP) - Five American soldiers were killed south of Baghdad, including four in a single roadside bombing, the military said Sunday.
The blast that killed the four soldiers and wounded four others occurred Saturday during combat operations south of the capital, the military said. Another soldier was killed Saturday by small-arms fire during a foot patrol southeast of Baghdad.
All the soldiers were assigned to Task Force Marne, which operates in an area with a volatile mix of Sunni and Shiite extremists.
The troops also have been cracking down on networks allegedly smuggling explosively formed penetrators, or EFPs, from Iran to the Baghdad area. The precision-crafted explosives have become a growing threat to American troops, and the Pentagon has struggled to find ways to protect vehicles against their deadly power.
The deaths announced Sunday raised to at least 3,690 members of the U.S. military have died since the Iraq war started in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
U.S. and Iraqi forces elsewhere reportedly staged raids in a Shiite stronghold in Baghdad and the holy city of Kufa.
A police officer said two civilians were killed and four wounded when the joint forces backed by helicopters stormed into houses in Baghdad's Shiite district of Sadr City.
The officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to release the information, also said 16 people were detained. The U.S. military said it was looking into the report.
AP Television News footage and photos showed a crumpled white car and a truck pockmarked by shrapnel, with a pool of blood on the street. Dozens of men carried a black coffin in a funeral service for one of the purported victims.
Joint U.S.-Iraqi forces backed by air power also raided the house of an aide to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in the holy city of Kufa, 100 miles south of Baghdad, according to al-Sadr's office.
The U.S. military had no immediate word on that report either. Sheik Fouad al-Turfi was detained, according to an official and a relative who declined to be identified because he feared retribution.
U.S.-led forces have routinely carried out raids searching for Shiite militants since they launched a Baghdad security crackdown nearly six months ago. On Wednesday, U.S. aircraft and soldiers attacked Shiite militia bomb makers accused of links to Iran, killing 32 suspected militants and detaining 12 others.
The raids have sent a strong message that U.S. forces plan no letup on suspected Shiite militia cells despite risks of upsetting the Shiite-led government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and its efforts at closer cooperation with Shiite heavyweight Iran.
Al-Qaida-linked Sunni extremists, meanwhile, praised the attack on a moderate Sunni cleric who had recently spoken out against the terror network. Sheik Wathiq al-Obeidi was seriously wounded and three relatives were killed.
A Sunni insurgent umbrella group threatened al-Obeidi on Tuesday, calling him a traitor and accusing him of working with the U.S.-backed alliance of Sunni tribal leaders, who are fighting al-Qaida in western Iraq.
Followers denied the cleric was linked to the alliance in Anbar province, but he issued his own call against al-Qaida last week during a funeral prayer for two nephews believed killed by extremists.
The al-Qaida front group the Islamic State of Iraq did not officially claim the attack, but Web sites it generally uses to put out messages said it had been carried out by its militants.
Al-Obeidi was one of two Sunni leaders who took public stances against al-Qaida in Iraq to be attacked Saturday, in a sign the terror network may ramp up retaliation against local chiefs who oppose it.
A local tribal leader in Albu Khalifa, a village west of Baghdad, was gunned down by militants who broke into his home late Saturday, police said.
Sheik Fawaq Sadda' al-Khalifawi had recently joined the anti-al-Qaida alliance in Anbar, said a police officer in the town of Karmah, 50 miles west of Baghdad. The police officer declined to be identified for fear of more reprisals.
The United States has pointed to an anti-al-Qaida alliance of local Sunni leaders as a sign of turnaround, but the attacks showed the high risks local leaders face by joining.
A powerful roadside bomb also killed the governor and police chief of a southern province that has been torn by fierce fighting between Shiite factions. Al-Maliki ordered an investigation and urged residents to show restraint and not launch reprisals.
The attack occurred in Qadisiyah province, 80 miles south of Baghdad, on Saturday as the two officials traveled back to the provincial capital of Diwaniyah from a funeral. Their driver and a bodyguard also were killed.
Diwaniyah has been the site of heavy clashes between U.S.-Iraqi security forces and Shiite militia fighters. The area also has seen a rise in internal rivalries between militia forces. Authorities imposed an indefinite curfew after the deaths.
The governor was a member of the influential Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council, a group led by Shiite politician Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim. His loyalists dominate the police and have engaged in fierce fighting with the Shiite Mahdi Army for control of the oil-rich south.
In other violence, gunmen ambushed a police patrol southwest of the northern city of Kirkuk, killing three officers and wounding another, police Brig. Gen. Sarhat Qadir said.
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Associated Press Writer Hamid Ahmed contributed to this report.
Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
posted on August 16, 2007 05:59:44 PM new
yea it gets her all excited,just like Bigpeepa used to to do.She has taken his place.These 2 scumbags love it when our troops get killed or something bad happens to the U.S.so they can come here and gloat over it and say I told you so.
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If you dont want to hear the truth....dont ask the question.
posted on August 16, 2007 06:54:37 PM new
Whatever happened to bigpeepa? The last I remember is him boasting about all the things he would do to himself if Bush was re-elected. Well he was re-elected and bigpeepa is gone, so I guess he lived up to his word. Gone but forgotten.
posted on August 16, 2007 08:31:16 PM new
YeeHAWWW!!! I got them neocons a spittin', sputterin', spinnin', lyin', and name callin' and all I did was post a news article !!!
The POWER I have !!!!LOL!!!!
How about this one:
""bigpeepa is gone, so I guess he lived up to his word. Gone but forgotten.""
Well, classic and etex both mentioned him but that got spun into Bigpeepa being "forgotten" !!!
They just can't handle words with more than 4 letters. They don't know what forgotten means !!!!!
They do live up to their code:
""If At First You Don't Succeed - LIE LIE LIE """
[ edited by mingotree on Aug 16, 2007 08:32 PM ]
posted on August 16, 2007 08:51:45 PM new
Well, etex, I 'll give you an A for effort (I know English is an effort for you ).
But that "scumbag " thing....such bitterness...tsk tsk tsk and just because I make fun of you....you should really try to toughen up a little and not be so sensitive.......
posted on August 16, 2007 09:02:53 PM new
"tsk tsk tsk and just because I make fun of you"
I could not care less if you make fun of me or anyone else.
It is your dislike of your country, dislike of your military, and un-patriotic comments about the government that protects your sorry azz that brings me to your SCUMBAG description. I don't usually use that term, but it fits you exactly.
posted on August 16, 2007 09:08:53 PM new
etexbill
posted on August 16, 2007 08:57:30 PM
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mingo, you earned your reputation, so live with it.
From your posts, IMO, you are a SCUMBAG.
Enough said.
etexbill
posted on August 16, 2007 09:02:53 PM new
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"tsk tsk tsk and just because I make fun of you"
I could not care less if you make fun of me or anyone else.
It is your dislike of your country, dislike of your military, and un-patriotic comments about the government"""
(none of which you can prove but I know that's no object for a neocon/Fascist like you
"" that protects your sorry azz that brings me to your SCUMBAG description. I don't usually use that term, but it fits you exactly. """
See you lied...you said "enough said " and then said some more...silly little goosey....just can't control yourself, can you???
posted on August 17, 2007 12:10:31 AM new
Peepa slashed his wrists and passed away holding his worn copy of Das Kapital after his 10000 posts about what the Democrats were going to do never came to fruition.
posted on August 17, 2007 04:48:05 AM new
mingotree
posted on August 16, 2007 08:51:45 PM
But that "scumbag " thing....such bitterness...tsk tsk tsk and just because I make fun of you....you should really try to toughen up a little and not be so sensitive.......
WEINIE!!!!!!!!
HA-LOOKS WHOS TALKING-EVEN ONE OF YOUR OWN CALLED YOU A WIMP....BAAWWWWAAAAA
Helenjw
posted on January 4, 2007 05:37:35 AM
What a wimp, to be so easily insulted.
Return to your regularly scheduled program, Mingo...everyone's waiting and watching.
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posted on August 17, 2007 07:46:42 AM new
One of my own????
I don't own Helen.
And why would it matter? Only to you maybe....a thin-skinned pouty little weinie man ....who needs to be among "his own" to feel safe
etex, ""I don't have to prove it.""
No, you don't...you also can't
....but, because you're a neocon, that doesn't stop you from spouting lies...
posted on August 17, 2007 08:22:24 AM new
Peepa slashed his wrists and passed away holding his worn copy of Das Kapital after his 10000 posts about what the Democrats were going to do never came to fruition.
Well as Mark Twain said:
I didn't attend the funeral, but I approved of it."
posted on August 17, 2007 08:29:57 AM new
Amazing! BIGPEEPA had such a LARGE PRESENCE here that the tiny neocon wimps are still haunted by him months after he's gone, cowering in their hidey-holes pecking out insults. Rock on, BIGPEEPA - ya did good!
posted on August 17, 2007 08:40:56 AM new
kiara again showing how delusional she is.
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LOL desquirrel - I was just ready to post the same thing.
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'Waco' [peepa] bragged and bragged about all his party was going to accomplish. As we began to make him aware of the REALITY of how they were accomplishing NOTHING.....he just couldn't handle it. LOL
I personally think he became embarrassed when it was continually pointed out to him and just because ONE house passed a bill....didn't mean it passed BOTH houses and became law. That alone burst his bubble. He just could never grasp that concept. lol
Along with the fact that as time passed, HE could see his party gaining power didn't END THE WAR nor change a thing.
Hard for him to watch his party FAILING to live up to their promises...and he had been SO hopeful.
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"While the democratic party complains about everything THIS President does to protect our Nation": "What would a Democrat president have done at that point?"
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posted on August 17, 2007 08:42:38 AM new
"Amazing! BIGPEEPA had such a LARGE PRESENCE here that the tiny neocon wimps are still haunted by him months after he's gone, cowering in their hidey-holes pecking out insults. Rock on, BIGPEEPA - ya did good!"
Hmmm, can one not ask about someone that is mentioned on the board without kiara chiming in with one of her brilliant observations??
Could we then say, "Unlike kiara, whom, if she left today, would never be missed".
posted on August 17, 2007 08:52:14 AM new
Linda_K
posted on August 17, 2007 08:40:56 AM
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kiara again showing how delusional she is.
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LOL desquirrel - I was just ready to post the same thing.
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'Waco' [peepa] bragged and bragged about all his party was going to accomplish. As we began to make him aware of the REALITY of how they were accomplishing NOTHING.....he just couldn't handle it. LOL
I personally think he became embarrassed when it was continually pointed out to him and just because ONE house passed a bill....didn't mean it passed BOTH houses and became law. That alone burst his bubble. He just could never grasp that concept. lol
Along with the fact that as time passed, HE could see his party gaining power didn't END THE WAR nor change a thing.
Hard for him to watch his party FAILING to live up to their promises...and he had been SO hopeful. """"
OH BOY! Talk about DOUBLE STANDARDS and
SPEAKING FOR OTHERS !!!!!!!!
I know linduh is totally amoral, a PROVEN liar and lower than whale sh!t but to rattle on and on about someone, lying and lying when they are not here to defend themselves is proving her to be a bigger coward than her god boosh !!!!
posted on August 17, 2007 08:58:46 AM newHmmm, can one not ask about someone that is mentioned on the board without kiara chiming in with one of her brilliant observations??
Does it bother you that much that I post here, etex? Do you sit there and wish death on me too?
Asking about someone is much different than wishing death on them just because they had an opposing view or because they posted stats of the deaths caused by Bush's war.
It shows me how impotent and powerless some of you truly feel about your own beliefs, that someone else's would continue to haunt you to that extent.
posted on August 17, 2007 09:18:49 AM new
Etex, I asked a question of you because you took offense at my 'observation' and said I wouldn't be missed after you posted your approval of desquirrel's post.
Peepa slashed his wrists and passed away holding his worn copy of Das Kapital after his 10000 posts about what the Democrats were going to do never came to fruition.
Well as Mark Twain said: I didn't attend the funeral, but I approved of it."
It's not the first time this has been discussed here about Bigpeepa and I view others who say such things as powerless when it comes to their own lives and beliefs. JMHO
posted on August 17, 2007 09:39:12 AM new
Here kiara. Think about it as most people who remain in the 'real world', in reality would have - not how YOUR mind takes anything.
lol
Etex, I asked a question of you because you took offense at my 'observation' and said I wouldn't be missed
Wouldn't be missed IF you left and never came back. Like peepa.
But YOU see it as wishing you dead. LOL LOL
No one wished peepa nor you dead. Just made a joke about him having died. lol
It's all in how you often, incorrectly, take what is posted, kiara. It's YOUR own way of twisting what is said...and it's normal for you to do so. sadly
