AP: Iraqi brigadier general killed in Baghdad

[expatriot]

http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/news/world/11625155.htm

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Suspected insurgents killed a brigadier general as he drove to work at the Ministry of Defense in Baghdad on Thursday, police said.

The attackers opened fire from two cars at a vehicle carrying Brig. Gen. Iyad Imad Mahdi in the Jihad neighborhood of western Baghdad at 6:45 a.m., said police Capt. Hamid Hussain.

No other information was immediately available.

[Erika]

1. And why are we there?

Doesn't www.icasualties.org show we've suffered enough for a bunch of republican lies?

[akawhysguy]

2. Craziness

Don't worry the government will make this blow over in a couple days until it happens again. We wouldn't want anyone questioning why we are they would we?

[Starfury]

3. The Jihad neighborhood? Doesn't sound like a safe place to commute...nt

[bemildred]

4. Senior Officers Assassinated in Baghdad (2)

Masked gunmen assassinated two senior Iraqi officers in separate attacks in Baghdad Thursday, official sources said.

Lt. Col. Iyad Imad Mehdi, who occupies a senior position at the ministry of defense, was gunned down in his car in the Jihad neighborhood in west Baghdad while on his way to work.

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In the second incident, masked gunmen traveling in a speeding car sprayed Col. Jamal Ahmed Yassin from the ministry of the interior with automatic rifle fire outside his home in the Amin neighborhood. He died later in the hospital.

http://wpmi.com/news/national/story.aspx?content_id=714EBDE3-DB69-4A67-A38A-CB68FD6ABB5E

[alcibiades_mystery]

10. Lt. Col. and Col. or Brig Gen?

I wish these damn news stories would make up their minds about the fucking rank...

[bemildred]

12. Long range reporting from the bowels of the Green Zone.

They just make shit up, and nobody checks because you could
get your precious ass blown away doing that.

[Frederik]

5. The insurgents have excellent intelligence

They must have plenty of moles in the new government and in the upper echelons of the "armed forces".

[Kagemusha]

6. I have heard of Gen. Mehdi.

This is not some little guy they knocked off. In fact, I think this is a guy that they were believed to have knocked off before but it came out it was a false report. Guess this time, they made sure...

Yeah... the reporters went nuts 'cause they'd had a briefing by Gen. Mehdi just a few hours before... can't remember for what, was probably over a month ago...

[SodoffBush]

7. When was the last time Bush mentioned Iraq?

[Kagemusha]

8. If seriously asking, he's been talking up "freedom" worldwide

Saying FDR didn't do enough to support it in WWII and he and the US are now correcting that mistake.

[SodoffBush]

9. Doesn't the US have the highest incarceration rate in the world?

Hasn't the Bush administration incarcerated at least 40,000 Iraqis?

What freedom?

A platoon was decimated. Those soldiers aren't free.

Does America care about anything other that its next meal?

[alcibiades_mystery]

11. He is insane

And fucking despicable.

FDR saved 30 million more lives by dealing with the Russians at Yalta, and everybody fucking knows it. What is wrong with these shitbirds.