Wednesday 10 US soldiers killed in Iraq

[Spytheweb]

September 5, 2007
Wednesday: 10 GIs, 35 Iraqis Killed; 65 Iraqis Wounded

Updated at 6:15 p.m. EDT, Sept. 5, 2007

At least 35 Iraqis were killed and 65 wounded during attacks that included bombing civilians in Sadr City and Mosul. Ten American soldiers were also killed in the latest violence.

Two GIs were killed today and another was wounded during combat operations in the capital. An explosion in Salah ad Din province killed two Task Force Lightning soldiers and wounded three more. Yesterday, three MND-B soldiers were killed and two more were wounded during an EFP attack in Baghdad. Another American soldier was killed and two were wounded during combat operations, also in Baghdad. Military officials have also announced the death of a GI who was injured in Iraq, but died in Germany. Also, the DOD reported the death of an American servicemember in a non-combat incident.

 

[gardenweasel]

shouldn`t you be attending an honor killing somewhere?......

or a homosexual gibbeting at the soccer stadium(or is that a soccer game at the homo gibbeting stadium)?

 

[danmurphy jr]

GW stepped on more mosquitoes today. That's hardly newsworthy.
This thread is only the 2nd I heard about it.

 

[DOGS THAT BARK]

GW The way to counter Spy and Dan is to give them news they hate to hear (and won't hear) in the blogs they frequent--

This should bring out the from them and the code pinko's


BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A U.S. air strike killed a senior al Qaeda militant who masterminded truck bombings on Iraq's minority Yazidi community last month that killed more than 400 people, the military said on Sunday.


"On September 3, a coalition air strike killed the terrorist responsible for the planning and conducting of the horrific attack against the Yazidis in northern Iraq on August 14," military spokesman Rear Admiral Mark Fox told a news conference.

Iraq's government has put the death toll at 411 from the suicide bombings, although the Iraqi Red Crescent has said it could be more than 500. The bombings in the villages of Kahtaniya and al-Jazeera were the deadliest militant attacks in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.

A U.S. military statement named the mastermind as Abu Mohammad al-Afri, adding he was the al Qaeda "emir," or prince, in the area where the bombings took place.

Fox said he was an associate of Abu Ayyab al-Masri, the Egyptian leader of al Qaeda in Iraq.

Afri was killed in an air strike southwest of the northern city of Mosul, Fox said.

"He is no longer a threat to the Iraqi people. We will continue to hunt down al Qaeda in Iraq and their operatives who conduct indiscriminate and brutal attacks against the Iraqi people," Fox said.

Scores of clay-built homes were levelled in the bombings, burying entire families in rubble.

The U.S. military has previously said Sunni Islamist al Qaeda was the prime suspect in the attacks.

Al Qaeda views Yazidis, who are members of a pre-Islamic Kurdish sect, as infidels.

 

[djv]

Lets be fair how well things have improved in Iraq.
Remember just a year or or two back there were over 1200 attacks a week. Yes to many. Were down to 600 a week. You have to say that's better. But of course to many still dieing. And on the political side were back to start over. There so call government is dysfunctional.