Top Iraqi general killed in gun attack - U.S. army

[sabra]

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/MAC675855.htm

Top Iraqi general killed in gun attack - U.S. army


BAGHDAD, March 6 (Reuters) - A senior Iraqi general was killed in a gun attack on his convoy in Baghdad on Monday, the U.S. military said in a statement.

"Major General Mubdar Hatim Hazya Al-Duleimi, commanding general for the 6th Iraqi Army Division, was killed by terrorists March 6 at approximately 4:35 p.m. in western Baghdad," the statement said.

The 6th Division is the main Iraqi force operating in Baghdad, where it has been in the front line of efforts over the past two weeks to suppress sectarian violence erupting into civil war.

From Feb. 21, 2006:

http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Feb2006/20060221_4261.html

Iraqi Brigade Assumes Responsibility for Central Baghdad

<snip>

"The responsibility of our army is to protect this country and its people," said Maj. Gen. Mubdar Hatim Hazya al-Duleimi, commanding general, 6th Division, "and because of the bravery of our armed forces that sacrifice themselves on a daily basis, the amount of insurgent activity will continue to decrease."

BAGHDAD is burning!

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

1. 6th Division? How many battle-ready battalions does

that have, I wonder.

[Disturbed]

2. "killed by terrorists"

Evidence that he was killed by "terrorists" ?

[monktonman]

3. Just curious..

anyone know the last time an american general was killed in combat?

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

8. I am not sure. I know there was at least one in VietNam

who died in a Helo crash, shot down..

FALLEN IN BATTLE: AMERICAN GENERAL OFFICER COMBAT FATALITIES FROM 1775
Brown, Russell K. Greenwood Press, New York 1988
E181.B886 1988
Biographical encyclopedia of all American generals killed in action, with appendices listing other deaths and other casualties (i.e., wounded, POWs).

if you can find this, it should help


on edit, I found this...
http://aad.archives.gov/aad/display-partial-records.jsp?dt=205&sc=1318%2C1350%2C1320%2C1322%2C1351%2C1352%2C1335%2C1347&cat=all&tf=F&bc=sl%2Cfd&q=&as_alq=&as_anq=&as_epq=&as_woq=&nfo_1318=V%2C2%2C1900&cl_1318=&nfo_1350=N%2C9%2C1900&op_1350=3&txt_1350=&txt_1350=&nfo_1320=V%2C27%2C1900&op_1320=0&txt_1320=&nfo_1322=V%2C3%2C1900&cl_1322=BG%2C%22B+G%22%2CBRG%2CLTG%2CMG%2C%22M+G%22&nfo_1351=N%2C2%2C1900&cl_1351=12%2C14%2C13%2C11%2C21&nfo_1352=D%2C6%2C1900&op_1352=3&txt_1352=&txt_1352=&nfo_1335=V%2C2%2C1900&cl_1335=&nfo_1347=V%2C2%2C1900&cl_1347=

which tells me that on 7/9/1972
BGen Richard Tallman was killed by hostile mortar/artillery fire in the Republic of Viet Nam.

[sabra]

9. not sure, but to me this is a major blow to the "Iraqi army"

[demosincebirth]

11. Don't know, but the last one captured was int the Korean War.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

13. we lost more than I thought in Viet Nam

UNITED STATES AND TERRITORY MARKS EDWIN H Brigadier General HOSTILE DEAD: Died of Wounds 12/29/1967
VIETNAM, REPUBLIC OF 218180874 BOND WILLIAM R BRIGADIER GENERAL HOSTILE DEAD: Killed out-right 04/01/1970 MARYLAND OR KANSAS 199th Lt Inf Bde
VIETNAM, REPUBLIC OF 33181 WARE KEITH L MAJOR GENERAL HOSTILE DEAD: Killed out-right 09/13/1968 CALIFORNIA OR ARKANSAS 1st Inf Div
VIETNAM, REPUBLIC OF 289097456 DILLARD JOHN ALBERT BROADUS MAJOR GENERAL HOSTILE DEAD: Died of Wounds 05/12/1970 MICHIGAN OR LOUISANA
VIETNAM, REPUBLIC OF 549012987 WARE KEITH LINCOLN MAJOR GENERAL HOSTILE DEAD: Died of Wounds 09/13/1968 COLORADO OR CALIFORNIA
VIETNAM, REPUBLIC OF 218180874 BOND WILLIAM ROSS BRIGADIER GENERAL HOSTILE DEAD: Died of Wounds 04/01/1970 MISSISSIPPI OR MARYLAND
VIETNAM, REPUBLIC OF 198141783 TALLMAN RICHARD JOSEPH BRIGADIER GENERAL HOSTILE DEAD: Died of Wounds 07/09/1972 TENNESSEE OR PENNSYLVANIA
VIETNAM, REPUBLIC OF 198141783 TALLMAN RICHARD JOSEPH BRIGADIER GENERAL HOSTILE DEAD: Died of Wounds 07/09/1972 TENNESSEE OR PENNSYLVANIA MACV Advisors
VIETNAM, REPUBLIC OF 289097456 DILLARD JOHN ALBERT B JR MAJOR GENERAL HOSTILE DEAD: Killed out-right 05/12/1970 MICHIGAN OR LOUISANA Engineer Command

[Webster Green]

4. "Killed by terrorists" ?

Why not "killed by rebels", or "killed by insurgents" ?

More US propaganda, that's why.

[Taguba]

7. Could be "saddamists" or "rejectionists" or maybe "freedomhaterists" or

any other word that DUMBya makes up for Iraqis that want us the hell out of their country.

[EFerrari]

10. Where's Cheney? n/t

[xchrom]

5. is it a civil war yet?

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

6. Somebody inform the "failed insurgency" that they've failed.

And, a cc: to the idiot general who just told how "very, very, well" things are going in Iraq.

[LSK]

12. well now they have an excuse for the 6th division not being ready