Truck bomb attack wounds 8 U.S. troops, destroys overpass

[maddezmom]

Source: CNN

BAGHDAD (CNN) -- A bridge overpass on a highway that connects Baghdad with Jordan was blown up by a suicide truck bomb that also killed one Iraqi civilian and wounded eight U.S. troops Friday afternoon, according to the U.S. military.

The attack was aimed at a U.S. military checkpoint along the Baghdad-Amman highway just northeast of Saqlawiya between Ramadi and Falluja and about 45 miles west of Baghdad, according to a U.S. military spokesman. The overpass partially collapsed onto the highway, the miltary said.

In other violence reported Friday, the bodies of 19 people were found in various sections of Baghdad, a Baghdad police official said. Each body was found with hands bound and a bullet in the head, he said. (Posted 4:42 a.m.)



Read more: http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/04/21/saturday/index.html?section=cnn_latest

[blue cat]

1. How sad. n/t

[SpiralHawk]

2. "Don't worry. I'm perfectly comfortable and safe." - Commander AWOL

"I am somewhat bushed (heh, heh) from counting up my war profits with Dickie 'Five Military Deferments' Cheney, and I appreciate your sympathy, but basically I am just fine and having a ball out on the golf links.

"Oh yeah, too bad about the dead soldiers and stuff."

- Commander AWOL

[Divernan]

3. "Wounded" is such a mild term, as opposed to maimed, blinded, permanently brain-damaged

burned over large portions of bodies - not mention losing arms, legs, etc.

"Wounded" makes it sound like someone could slap some antibiotic cream and an ace bandage on them and they'll be right back in action.

I know that was the term used in the article, and not your choice of word, Maddezmom. My comment is directed to the media pardon-the-expression coverage.

[bemildred]

4. Blowing up bridges seems to be a new fad. nt

[maddezmom]

5. more from the FactBox

FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, April 21
21 Apr 2007 11:41:55 GMT
More April 21 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq as of 1100 GMT on Saturday:

* denotes new or updated items

* BAGHDAD - One soldier was killed and two others were wounded when they were hit by a roadside bomb during a patrol southwest of Baghdad, the U.S. military said

* KHALIS - The bodies of eight people were found in Khalis, 80 km (50 miles) north of Baghdad, a police source said. All showed signs of torture and four had been beheaded.

* BAGHDAD - A bomb planted in a minibus in Baghdad's Shi'ite stronghold of Sadr City killed up to two people and wounded about five others, police said. Another bus next to it was also hit by the blast.

* KIRKUK - Gunmen stormed a house and killed four members of the same family, including a wife, husband and their two children in the city of Kirkuk, police said.
more:
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L2121918.htm

[maddezmom]

6. Mussayab mayor Mehdi Abdul Hussein al-Najem and two of his bodyguards were killed in an a

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L2121918.htm

[maddezmom]

7. Report of mortars striking Baghdad's Green Zone

Report of mortars striking Baghdad's Green Zone
BAGHDAD (CNN) -- Two mortars landed in Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone on Saturday, an Iraqi Interior Ministry official said.

No information was immediately available whether there were casualties or damage.

The area in the Iraqi capital is the command center for U.S. and Iraqi officialdom, and it has been the object of attacks in recent weeks.

Last week, a suicide bomber eluded security and detonated in the Iraqi parliament cafeteria.

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/04/21/saturday/index.html?section=cnn_latest