Death Toll Surges in Iraq Killings (10 US troops/3days)

[rodeodance]

Mon Oct-16-06 06:41 AM
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AP: Death Toll Surges in Iraq Killings
Death Toll Surges in Iraq Killings


Monday October 16, 2006 12:16 PM

AP Photo BAG115

By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN

Associated Press Writer

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - The death toll in a surge of sectarian killings in Balad swelled to at least 91 on Monday, police and army officials said, while bombings in and near Baghdad killed as many as up to 10 people. Eleven more bodies were found dumped in the capital.

Two Marines and a soldier were killed in fighting Sunday, bringing to ten the number of U.S. troops killed in Iraq over the past three days.

The Marines, assigned to Regimental Combat Team 5, were killed in fighting in volatile Anbar province, while the soldier was killed when his vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb outside Baghdad.


A police officer in the nearby Sunni-dominated town of Duluiyah said members
of the Mahdi Army militia loyal to anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada al-Sadr had moved
into the area and were killing Sunni men and boys.

-snip-Full article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6150607...

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[saigon68]

1. "BRING EM ON" shouted the AWOL CHIMPANZEE

TWO DRAFT DODGERS

[Phredicles]

2. When I see that pic I can't help but think of:

I wonder if the Nov. 5 verdict to Saddam will be issued from a mob of people trying to board a helicopter on the roof of the US embassy

[cliss]

3. Remember that?

I see references to it every once in a while.

"Our Dien Bien Phu Moment".


....it's coming.

[ninkasi]

4. That is a truly

disgusting picture. It makes my stomach churn, to see the adoring look on Lieberman's face. When I think that Joe is refusing to say whether he will vote for the Democratic candidates in his own state, it's enough to trigger my gag reflex. Excuse me, I'll be back after I throw up.

[llmart]

5. That's OK.........

any picture of Bush makes me want to throw up.