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| GIs Kill 8 After Convoy Bombed in Iraq |
| 2005-01-10 |
| U.S. troops opened fire near a checkpoint south of Baghdad after their convoy was hit by a roadside bomb and a hospital official said Sunday at least eight people were killed in the second American attack in two days to have deadly results. In other violence Sunday, a U.S. soldier assigned to Task Force Baghdad was killed by a roadside bomb, while a Marine was killed in action in the volatile Anbar province. Seven Ukrainian soldiers and one from Kazakhstan also died in an apparently accidental explosion at an ammunition dump south of Baghdad. U.S. officials said they had no information about the checkpoint shooting, which occurred overnight Saturday. Interior Ministry spokesman Col. Adnan Abdul-Rahman said a roadside bomb hit a U.S. convoy near a police checkpoint in Yussifiyah, nine miles south of Baghdad, and troops opened fire, killing two police officers and three civilians. Dr. Anmar Abdul-Hadi of al-Yarmouk hospital said eight people died in the attack and 12 were wounded. American commanders recently announced a change in response to roadside bombings. Rather than pushing on after the blast, they now stop and try to engage the perpetrators, who may have detonated the explosives remotely. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 Article: American commanders recently announced a change in response to roadside bombings. Rather than pushing on after the blast, they now stop and try to engage the perpetrators, who may have detonated the explosives remotely. This sounds like the old "find 'em, fix 'em and kill 'em" formula, except that it was traditionally done with infantry formations, not relatively lightly-armed supply convoys. If the commanders feel confident enough about the ability of heli-borne, air-borne, mortar and artillery fire support get the supply people out of trouble, we've definitely hit a new milestone in fire support. Otherwise, the commanders are going to be backpedaling from this new stance real quick. The reason for the old stance, of getting out of the attack zone, was that the guerrillas can concentrate anywhere they want to - attacking only the weak convoys, using large guerrilla formations. Current convoy tactics are similar to the convoy tactics during the Battle of the Atlantic in WWII, when stragglers and sub-damaged ships were left to their own devices, so as to avoid the destruction of the entire convoy at the hands of the U-boat wolf packs. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2005-01-10 9:39:46 AM |
| #2 Hurray! My team won! |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2005-01-10 6:41:18 AM |
| #1 What a mish-mash muddled mess. Thx, WTOP. In today's Sport News, 28-17, 56-44, 18-0. |
| Posted by: .com 2005-01-10 1:31:57 AM |