Shi'ites claim Iraqi attack (IED attack on Bradley carrying mercs)

[Barrett808]

Cairo - In a rare claim, an armed faction of Iraq's Shi'ite community has said it attacked a US military vehicle and a car carrying Western contractors, according to a video broadcast by Al-Jazeera on Friday.

The pan-Arab satellite channel broadcast footage of the video that showed a US Bradley armoured vehicle and two cars being hit by what appeared by roadside bombs in separate attacks.

The video, and an accompanying statement about the Bradley attack, were issued by a group calling itself the People of Truth Factions.

The Qatari-based Al-Jazeera said the claim could not be authenticated.

The group gave no dates for the attacks, but its statement said the attack on the Bradley took place in the Saidiyah district of Baghdad.

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http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1932074,00.html

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[Kagemusha]

1. Armed faction doesn't mean the militias at all...

US wearing out its welcome with Shiite Arabs in Iraq?

[ShortnFiery]

2. The covert sections of the ruling class better hope that

these "record opium crops" in Afghanistan provide oodles of kickbacks. Hiring quality mercenaries is a very expensive venture. Believe it or not, the dark art of forming death squads and systematically killing people requires years of quality training ... guess our SOA, CACI, etc. are going to jack up their enrollments?

And still, it won't work. Hello? This requires skilled sociopaths - these operations are not like in the movies such as "The Wild Geese" ... anyway something can f**k up, it will f**k up even if you can recruit intelligent people who hold no conscious.

IMO, these civilian "ruling class" neo cons in the Pentagon's dark recesses are not only Antisocial, they're fucking clueless! :grr:

[sabra]

3. It's been reported that the present feelings by Shiites towards the US

is very sour...

[leftchick]

4. interesting

I wonder if we will ever be able to see it?

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The video showed a Bradley moving slowly along a road in an urban area. When the bomb explodes, the scene erupts in orange flames.

"The target suffered an immediate hit, which caused it and the ammunition inside it to explode, killing all the occupation soldiers inside," the statement said.

No casualties were shown in the video of either attack.

Al-Jazeera said the attack on the cars took place in Nasiriyah, about 320km southeast of Baghdad. The channel said one of the cars was carrying Western contractors.

In the video, viewers see two cars speeding along a stretch of road in the desert. Several bombs seem to detonate at the same time, engulfing the whole scene in thick grey smoke.