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Jihad Unspun: Iraqi Insurgents Killed More Than 40 US Soldiers on Wednesday
2005-07-15
From Jihad Unspun
And nobody knows bombast and incredulity like Jihad Unspun.
... late Wednesday [July 13] afternoon. .... a Resistance bomb, which was planted by the side of the strategic highway, blew up when a column of eight US armored vehicles and two Humvees passed by. The witnesses said that the explosion destroyed one armored vehicle, killing three US troops and wounding three others American soldiers. ....
Yup, M-1's fold up like a tin can ...
Iraqi Resistance fighters shot down a US Apache helicopter over the ath-Tharthar area northwest of Baghdad at 3pm local time Wednesday afternoon. .... It was seen on the ground completely wrecked and its crew of two American soldiers were killed. ....

In a dispatch posted at 1:45pm Mecca time Wednesday, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that a short time earlier an Iraqi Resistance martyrdom fighter drove an explosives-packed car into a house that was being occupied and used by US forces as a barracks in the as-Sufiyah area of ar-Ramadi, 110km west of Baghdad. ... the carbomb managed to get past the concrete barricades that the Americans had put up around the building, blowing up his car in the front courtyard of the house. The blast brought down the whole building, killing or injuring about 15 US troops who were inside. ....

Iraqi Resistance forces attacked an American patrol in the industrial area to the east of ar-Ramadi at 12 noon local time Wednesday. .... Resistance fighters armed with light and medium weapons including RPG7 rocket-propelled grenades, attacked the American patrol, sparking a firefight that lasted for 10 minutes. Two US Humvees were set on fire in the attack, killing or wounding a number of US troops. ....

Five US troops killed in martyrdom car bombing near al-Hadithah Wednesday morning. An Iraqi Resistance martyrdom fighter drove an explosives-laden white Daewoo car into a column of US military vehicles by the ash-Shaykh Hadid Cemetery north of al-Hadithah in western Iraq. .....

An Iraqi Resistance car bomb exploded by a US military column in al-‘Amiriyah in western Baghdad at about 9am local time Wednesday morning. .... an explosives-packed car that was parked by the side of the old road to Abu Ghurayb in al-‘Amiriyah blew up as a US armored column passed by. The blast destroyed one American armored vehicle, killing its six-man crew. ....
What the Lions of Islam™ fail to recognize in these stories is that they're admitting their utter reliance on skulking around and setting off bombs. Nobody really believes that the Lions™ are going to go toe-to-toe with American soldiers.
An Iraqi Resistance martyrdom fighter drove an explosives-laden car into a position occupied by a US patrol in the Baghdad al-Jadidah area in the southeast of the occupied Iraqi capital on Wednesday. ... the Saudi News Agency (WAS) reported the US military as admitting that one American soldier was killed in the attack. Witnesses told the Saudi agency that three American soldiers were wounded. ....

An Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by a US patrol in the al-Muhandisin neighborhood in the middle of al-Latifiyah, 25km south of Baghdad at 5pm local time Wednesday afternoon. ....a bomb exploded as a patrol of six US Humvees passed by, setting one of them ablaze and killing one US soldier and wounding four more.

An Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by a US patrol in Diyala, northeast of Baghdad at 3pm local time Wednesday afternoon. ... the bomb, which was planted south of al-Miqdadiyah by the side of the road leading to Ba‘qubah, blew up when the US patrol passed by on its way out of the city. The blast destroyed one Humvee, killing three American soldiers and wounding a fourth.

Two Iraqi Resistance bombs exploded by a US column in the Shahraban area north of Ba‘qubah (which is northeast of Baghdad) at 11am local time Wednesday morning. .... the bombs, which were planted by the side of the main road leading to Ba‘qubah, the capital of Diyala Province, blew up as a column of eight US armored vehicles and two Humvees was passing by. The explosion destroyed one American armored vehicle and disabled another, killing five US troops and wounding three more American soldiers. ....
Yup, all bomb attacks. Oh brave Lions.
Iraqi Resistance forces mounted a two-pronged attack on a US military base located west of Samarra’ at 2:30pm local time Wednesday afternoon. .... the first part of the attack took place when an Iraqi Resistance martyrdom fighter drove an explosives-packed car into the entrance to the US base, blowing up and inflicting a number of dead and wounded among the American forces. .....
Posted by:Mike Sylwester

#10  What we'll probably see is a Mikey post at the very last second before rollover on every thread where he took up residence today. I'm sure he will devastate everyone he considers an antagonist. Why, I feel the pre-quivers already.
Posted by: .com   2005-07-15 18:56  

#9  Yet more MS BS, wait for the apologista.
Posted by: Shipman   2005-07-15 18:50  

#8  Jihad Unspun reminds me of the Japanese battle damage assessments after kamikaze attacks.

Day 1 - 4 carriers sunk
Day 2 - 8 carriers sunk
Day 3 - 6 carriers sunk
Day 4 - Where the hell are all of these American carriers coming from if we sank so many the past 3 days?!?
Posted by: Dreadnought   2005-07-15 10:24  

#7  We know J.I. lies
Well... some of us do. I'm not sure about all of us.
Posted by: eLarson   2005-07-15 09:38  

#6  Great idea TW. But I doubt those who want to believe could ever be convinced no matter what they see, hear, smell or touch. The truth is rarely a remedy for that type of mental disorder.
Posted by: Tkat   2005-07-15 08:47  

#5  Mike, this kind of article would be more useful were you to correlate the casualties it lists to, say, U.S./Coalition Command Daily Briefings (or whatever they're called). We know J.I. lies, and that non-Iraqi Muslims believe its reports, but it would be more useful to know by how much -- as compared to reality. Perhaps a 3- or 4-way comparison would be even more helpful: J.I./U.S./Al Jazeera/BBC. It needn't be a formal table, just your own notes highlighted alongside the article's numbers.

Thanks!
Posted by: trailing wife   2005-07-15 07:46  

#4  kofi's butt boy returns, unawakened, unashamed, unable to detect a hostile room.
Posted by: Frank G   2005-07-15 00:46  

#3  It's hard to underestimate the gullibility of those who want to believe something and are fed confirmation.

I see the Jihad Unspun PR Dept hack is back.
Posted by: .com   2005-07-15 00:30  

#2  I wrestled an 18-ft great white shark the other day. The shark lost. But there's no way I'd ever boast about it.
Posted by: Jihad Unfun   2005-07-15 00:11  

#1  In five years they will have destroyed all known US military assets two to three times over and yet no caliphate in sight. Poor buggers need to get a better grip on reality.
Posted by: Cregum Glolunter6735   2005-07-15 00:04  

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