At Least 57 Iraqis Killed In US-led Assaults On Insurgents

[G_j]

http://www.turkishpress.com/turkishpress/news.asp?ID=26701

At Least 57 Iraqis Killed In US-led Assaults On Insurgents

AFP: 9/9/2004
by Mujahid Mohammed

TALL AFAR, Iraq, Sept 9 (AFP) - At least 57 people were killed when US-led forces spearheaded assaults on Iraq`s northern trouble spot of Tall Afar and the notorious insurgent bastion of Fallujah, a hospital official said Thursday.

Meanwhile, Rome shifted into diplomatic overdrive in an effort to save two kidnapped women aid workers snatched from their Baghdad office in broad daylight, two weeks after Islamic captors killed an Italian journalist.

As helicopters and planes flew overhead, the US army sealed off Tall Afar after 13 hours of bombardment and fierce fighting that the head of the local hospital said had left 45 people dead and more than 80 wounded.

The bombing, which began at 2:00 am (2200 GMT Wednesday) ended at 11:00 am, as helicopters and warplanes flew overhead.

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[underpants]

1. They probably deserved it

throwing flowers at the soldiers and all.

[lostnfound]

6. Punishment for playing with matches near Tall Afar pipelines.

US military in major offensive in northern Iraq

Sabotage hits southern Iraq oil pipeline, key oil export pipeline still ablaze.

http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/iraq/?id=11169

[Flagg]

2. How'd you like democracy now sand n#ggers !!!!!

freeperville

[wtmusic]

3. I thought we didn't keep body counts

since they started fighting back the DOD has learned how to count

[lostnfound]

4. 45 killed out of a population of 167,800 in one day

population source: http://www.gazetteer.de/d/d_iq_nn.htm

Just another day in Paradise..Iraqis are living in hell.

The numbers have been so high lately for the Iraqis..20 here, 100 there, 45 here.

Another 13 were killed and 58 wounded in this same town just 5 days ago. http://www.turkishpress.com/turkishpress/news.asp?ID=26241

And 2 killed, 9 wounded 4 days ago. http://www.khaleejtimes.com/displayArticle.asp?col=§ion=focusoniraq&xfile=data/focusoniraq/2004/September/focusoniraq_September33.xml

[Just Me]

5. Hmmm,...before "freedom" was delivered,....

,...there were somewhere between 10,000 and 30,000 Iraqi people who were,...still living,...

Here on earth,...oil runs thicker than blood.