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2004-05-17 Iraq-Jordan

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Posted by Lux 2004-05-17 12:35|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 U.S.-led forces in Iraq have killed 51 guerrillas, including 20 in an air strike on insurgents loading and unloading weapons from vehicles in southeastern Iraq, the U.S. military said Monday

makes my Monday a little more sunny ;-)

Posted by Frank G 2004-05-17 1:13:31 PM|| 2004-05-17 1:13:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Should they be called "good" insurgents?

BTW, I liked Rice's comparison of them to Klansmen after the Civil War. I wonder if referring to them as "Klansmen" would change the debate?

Posted by Anonymoose 2004-05-17 1:13:53 PM|| 2004-05-17 1:13:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Maybe that figure can be more than doubled next week.

Posted by Mark Espinola 2004-05-17 1:27:39 PM|| [http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1133085/posts] 2004-05-17 1:27:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 The actual count is 3,672 virgins supplied in paradise.

What we need is one of those old signs that McDonald's Hamburgers used to have.

"Billions and Billions Served"

Posted by BigEd 2004-05-17 1:47:02 PM|| 2004-05-17 1:47:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 great score this,anyone got a totaliser that keeps track of all the Islamozoid deaths just as the western media love to whore over American death numbers.Bet they've lost about 300 in the last month if not more and yet are media still tell us were losing and in a quagmire! Bet the red cross would say they were all innocents,mainly women and children.If we lost 51 troops in Iraq in one day our media would be screaming and bawling that its a disatster etc etc, yet they lose 51 men and they barly report it, it makes me sick with rage at the media propaganda campaign! Anyway sweet that we zapped 20 in one hit :)

Posted by Shep UK 2004-05-17 1:48:59 PM|| 2004-05-17 1:48:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Shep, my incomplete count (no figures from Fallujah after 17-4) makes it 1345 insurgents killed since 1-4-04. In assembling its own much lower figures two weeks ago, AP completely ignored known insurgent deaths in Baghdad.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2004-05-17 2:01:26 PM|| 2004-05-17 2:01:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 wow 1345 is excellent,keep the totaliser running,im gonna try counting too,lol counting the rag heads getting shredded that is not just counting.

Posted by Shep UK 2004-05-17 2:09:26 PM|| 2004-05-17 2:09:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 AC, any tips on how to keep score for those of us following along on home, or is (shudder) actual work involved ?

Posted by Carl in N.H. 2004-05-17 4:45:50 PM|| 2004-05-17 4:45:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Carl, I bookmark major media reports then correlate these with Centcom briefings, the English language Iraqi media, and various first hand reports, including Iraqi bloggers and individual soldiers.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2004-05-17 11:56:31 PM|| 2004-05-17 11:56:31 PM|| Front Page Top

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