Suicide Attack on Iraq Meeting of G.I.s

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Source: NYT

BAGHDAD — A suicide bomber attacked an American military unit visiting city officials on Monday in Baquba, a volatile city northeast of Baghdad. At least four Iraqis were killed, two of them police officers, and eight American soldiers were wounded, witnesses and security officials said.

The bomber, wearing an Iraqi special forces uniform and a hidden explosive vest, blew himself up around 10 a.m. outside the city’s administrative office on Tabu Street north of Baquba’s center, shortly after the American troops arrived in armored vehicles and got out, the witnesses and officials said.

“It seems he was waiting for them to arrive,” the chairman of Baquba’s city council, Raad al-Dehleky, said of the bomber.

The Americans were attending what city officials described as a regular weekly meeting with the city council, a far more typical mission for American troops these days than direct combat with insurgents.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/21/world/middleeast/21iraq.html

[Amonester]

1. And the non-absolutely necessary bloodbath continues.

And for what?

2006 didn't 'change' anything

[bemildred]

2. Sounds like an inside job.

Iraqi special forces uniform, "it seems like he was waiting for them to arrive."

[Amonester]

3. it's seems to be more like:

"he was waiting for them to arrive for he wanted to have a shot at being rewarded by too many virgins to handle"

so "he" 'managed' to get a special force uniform somehow

if a few politicians who succeeded being elected on promises to end that illegal occupation would have 'managed' to 'deliver' their promises to the naive voters who believed their word of honor, it would have never happened in the first place

http://www.whitehouse.gov/CONTACT/

(for what it's worth)

[bemildred]

4. So you don't think it was an inside job? nt

[Amonester]

5. yes, but the 'inside jober' had a shot at 'another job' for eternity...

and he didn't miss it

[bemildred]

6. Yep, I reckon he's dead. nt

[Amonester]

7. We told (the neo-cons) so.

And we tell (the ???) so too, at http://www.whitehouse.gov/CONTACT/ (but obviously, they're not reading our messages).

[sabra]

8. Iraqi media source says 3 US troops killed

http://en.aswataliraq.info/?p=111810

3 U.S. soldiers, 4 Iraqi cops killed in Baaquba blast

April 20, 2009 - 09:29:44

DIALA / Aswat al-Iraq: Three U.S. servicemen and four Iraqi policemen on Monday were killed in a blast that ripped through downtown Baaquba city, according to a local security source.

“On Monday, a suicide bomber wrapped in explosives detonated himself next to a joint U.S.-Iraqi patrol near the mayoralty building in Baaquba al-Jadida neighborhood, downtown Baaquba, killing three Multi-National Force (MNF) personnel and four policemen, and wounding five civilians,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
The explosion caused damage to the building.
No comment was immediately available from the U.S. side.

[uppityperson]

9. k&r