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2003-10-17 Iraq

Karbala Grenade Attack Kills Three Polish Soldiers

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Posted by Murat 2003-10-17 4:52:22 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Update, NBC and CNN report that the death soldiers where American: 3 U.S. troops and 8 Iraqis killed

Posted by Murat 2003-10-17 5:31:54 AM|| 2003-10-17 5:31:54 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 what i really want to know is who the attackers were - Sadr's people?

Posted by liberalhawk 2003-10-17 8:54:56 AM|| 2003-10-17 8:54:56 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 update, US casualties risen to 4:4 American Soldiers Are Killed in 2 New Attacks in Iraq

If this speed of casualties keeps on, I think that Bush will get a lot of headaches during the election

Posted by Murat 2003-10-17 9:51:04 AM|| 2003-10-17 9:51:04 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 The search shows no other mention of this cleric. Got it wrong? Was it really Sadr? We're stating five friendly deaths. The terrs are stating they lost 7, I suspect more.

Posted by Chuck Simmins 2003-10-17 10:25:37 AM|| [http://blog.simmins.org] 2003-10-17 10:25:37 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Murat

How about your own set of casualties in ~~Kurdish~~ Mountain Turks territory?
Did it alter the result of elections? Did you
have any elections?

Posted by JFM 2003-10-17 10:43:07 AM|| 2003-10-17 10:43:07 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Those casualties where for defending our own country not during attack/occupation of another country JFM. I guess you see no difference Pearl harbor and Vietnam?

Posted by Murat 2003-10-17 10:58:55 AM|| 2003-10-17 10:58:55 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 If this speed of casualties keeps on, I think that Bush will get a lot of headaches during the election

When the casualty figures approach that of the Vietnam War, then there's going to be real trouble. Until then, the media's military body count is nothing more than an attempt to generate hysteria over U.S. involvment in Iraq.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2003-10-17 11:09:27 AM|| 2003-10-17 11:09:27 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Yeah, I do. In 'Nam, we weren't ALLOWED to win, whereas after Pearl Harbor, we nuked 2 Jap cities.

Think about it.

Posted by mojo 2003-10-17 11:14:42 AM|| 2003-10-17 11:14:42 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 Al-Jazeera has a more reasonal account. No, really!:
The fiercest attack was in the central Iraqi city of Karbala, where three US soldiers and two Iraqi policemen were killed in an overnight ambush. A US army spokesman said its troops had been ambushed in Karbala. "At approximately 11.30 pm (20:30 GMT) yesterday a routine Iraqi patrol accompanied by American military police was attacked by Iraqis from the roof of buildings in the vicinity of the al-Abbas mosque," the spokesman added. The US-led occupation army blamed bodyguards of a local Shia cleric for the attack. "The attackers, who are bodyguards of religious leader Mahmud al-Hassani, used rocket-propelled grenades and AK-47 rifles. They were about 20 to 30 attackers," the US army spokesman said. "It was an unprovoked attack. It was an ambush," the spokesman added.

So it was a Iragi police patrol with US backup, 3 US soldiers and 2 Iraqi cops dead. I'm thinking al-Sadr's time is about up. So do the Iraqi's:

AP - Iraq's foreign minister has a warning for a young Shiite Muslim cleric -- his private militia will be disarmed by force if necessary.

It's necessary.

Posted by Steve 2003-10-17 11:47:34 AM|| 2003-10-17 11:47:34 AM|| Front Page Top

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