Attack kills 15 US and Iraqi troops, 49 injured

[sabra]

Source: DPA

BAGHDAD - A fresh bout of violence across Iraq left three US soldiers and 12 Iraqi troops dead and 49 people injured, including a senior science ministry official, the US and Iraqi military said Wednesday.

In the latest escalation of violence in the northern Nineveh province, four policemen were killed and four injured in an attack on their patrol by gunmen in central Mosul, security officials told the Voices of Iraq (VOI) news agency.

Mosul, 400 kilometres north of Baghdad, has become a hotbed of Sunni insurgents, believed to be loyalists of the Al Qaeda in Iraq group, who fled from Baghdad and surrounding areas and regrouped in the northern provinces of Nineveh and Salahaddin.

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Also in Baghdad, three US soldiers were killed when a bomb struck their vehicle on Tuesday night, according to a US military statement.

Tuesday’s attack brings the number of US soldiers killed in Iraq in February to 22 and the total number killed since the 2003 US-led war on Iraq to 3,966.

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[SpiralHawk]

1. "I know I & republicon cronies lied us into this oil profits Crusade and..." - Commander AWOL

"...that it's your innocent sons and daughters in uniform who are dying, but I, um, see a light at the end of the tunnel. Smirk.""

- Commander AWOL Bush,
Hero of the republicon chickenhawk stay-at-home-to-count-profits brigade

[uppityperson]

4. k&r because it seems specifics are fading off our conciousness

[LynnTheDem]

2. " latest escalation of violence"...goes with bush's escalation "surge"

How can so many still be so damn fucking dumb??!

[IsItJustMe]

3. How's that surge working out? This is a cluster f@ck and will remain one. And McCain wants

a hindered more years of it. Good luck with that.

[Supersedeas]

5. expect a new round of "the surge is working" innane vagaries from Condi's minions

[libodem]

6. Just bring our kids

back home. Heartbreaking doesn't even begin to describe the sadness of all of this senseless death and maiming of human beings. It's too bad the administration of this failed policy has no conscience to realize the depth of the disgrace and destruction they have brought into being. Satan must be proud.

[lonestarnot]

7. quagmire accomplished.

[tekisui]

8. Make this goddamn war stop.

[TheCowsCameHome]

9. Haven't these folks heard that the surge is working? Don't they read

the White House press releases?