Four U.S. soldiers killed by bomb in northern Iraq

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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/MAC664150.htm


Four U.S. soldiers killed by bomb in northern Iraq

BAGHDAD, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Four U.S. soldiers were killed by a bomb in northern Iraq on Monday, the military said in a statement on Tuesday.

"Four Task Force Lightning Soldiers assigned to the 4th Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division were killed Monday as a result of an improvised explosive device while conducting operations in Nineveh province," it said, giving no other details.

Nineveh province includes the city of Mosul, Iraq's third largest, and the town of Tal Afar.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

1. Impeach, Impeach, Impeach

eom

[partylessinOhio]

3. Yes, yes, yes!

Show all the caskets coming home filled with dead Americans on the evening news.



Rest in peace soldiers. We are so sad and so sorry. Not in my name!

[rodeodance]

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[maddezmom]

2. and 109 Iraqi's

Deadly day in Iraq leaves 109 dead By KIM GAMEL, Associated Press Writer
51 minutes ago



BAGHDAD, Iraq - An explosion outside a Baghdad university as students were heading home for the day killed at least 65 people on Tuesday, in the deadliest of several attacks on predominantly Shiite areas. The attack came on a day the United Nations said more than 34,000 Iraqi civilians died last year in sectarian violence.

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Attacks in Baghdad — the university explosion, blasts at a marketplace for used motorcycles and a drive-by shooting — came as at least 109 people were killed or found dead nationwide in what appeared to be a final spasm of violence ahead of an imminent security operation by the Iraqi government and U.S. forces to secure the capital.

The violence also came a day after the Iraqi government hanged two of Saddam Hussein's henchmen in an execution that left many of the ousted leader's fellow Sunni Muslims seething after one of the accused, the ousted leader's half brother, was decapitated on the gallows.

Cabinet ministers and legislators loyal to the radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr were instructed to end their six-week boycott of the political process, a parliamentarian in the political bloc said Tuesday, indicating that the decision was linked to the new security drive.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070116/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

[Buck Rabbit]

4. We'll probably see much more of this in the North and Anbar,

I suspect the Sunni insurgents will be more active in the West and North during The Surge. In Baghdad, the Sunnis will be in a crossfire between the increased American presence, the Mahdi Militia and the Badr Militia and death squads (aka the Iranian Army).

If I were a Sunni I would operate in those two areas and allow the Sadrists and Americans slug it out for control of Baghdad for the next year.

Though a minority, like the Tutsi in Rwanda, I suspect they will eventually come out on top, being more unified, with less sub agendas. The Nationalist Shiites (Al Sadr and such) may again come to blows with Al Hakim's Iranian leaning factions, as happened in Barsa, but in a National scale.

[librarycard]

5. "Task Force Lightning" soldiers -- what a bunch of bullshit

"Casket Force" is more like it.

[acmavm]

6. I was wondering if that horrible name struck anyone else as

obscene. Task Force Lightening. How clever.

And now four more are dead.

Shit.

[ellisonz]

7. RIP.

:patriot: :patriot: :patriot: :patriot:

Also,

Also, an explosion outside a Baghdad university as students were heading home for the day killed at least 65 people on Tuesday, in the deadliest of several attacks on predominantly Shiite areas. The attack came on a day the United Nations said more than 34,000 Iraqi civilians died last year in sectarian violence.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070116/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_070116180624

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[Supersedeas]

8. Nothing to see here--feed them more best & worst dressed at the Golden Globe

[Spazito]

9. Hmmm, isn't this supposedly the region (Tal Afar) being used

as the "successful" strategy that is going to be duplicated in Baghdad as a key part of the "new" plan?

[xchrom]

10. looks like the insurgents know how to surge as well.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

11. Is't this in Kurd IraqNam? Until we fucked up royally, weren't they allies?

I have said it before, I will repeat it again, and I apologize to anyone who is sick and tired of it.
If at every chance, when the boy king was going to make a decision, we were to have forced the opposite decision, we would be in far, far better shape all over the world. EVERY SINGLE DECISION he has made has been flat out wrong. Flipping a coin to decide would have been so much better that Bush would have been up for a Nobel. But alas, no, he was and remains the deCider in cheef. when he is not the commander in chief, or the educator in chief.

[rodeodance]

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