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2007-01-26 Iraq

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Posted by tu3031 2007-01-26 15:07|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 A little whoop-a$$ on shiite militias is way overdue.

Posted by anymouse">anymouse 2007-01-26 15:28|| 2007-01-26 15:28|| Front Page Top

#2 This looks way too complicated for Shi'ite militia. This looks like foreign fighters of Al Qaeda or Iranian special forces.

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Posted by Frozen Al 2007-01-26 15:37|| 2007-01-26 15:37|| Front Page Top

#3 Note that no Iraqis were killed. Sounds like an inside job.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2007-01-26 15:40|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2007-01-26 15:40|| Front Page Top

#4 This was a professional hit, but still sloppy. Weirdly enough, those abandoned Suburbans are going to be investigated by FBI agents, who are by far the best forensics experts around. They will be collecting fingerprints and DNA.

Then, if they ever get a match, time for some good old fashioned Manchu-style interrogation.

If it turns out to have been an Iranian job, then specialists will be notified, and some extreme sanctions carried out around the world.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-01-26 16:22|| 2007-01-26 16:22|| Front Page Top

#5 More details...

It said, "Two soldiers were found handcuffed together in the back of one of the SUVs. Both had suffered gunshot wounds and were dead. A third soldier was found shot and dead on the ground. Nearby, the fourth soldier was still alive, despite a gunshot wound to the head." The mortally wounded soldier was rushed to the hospital by Iraqi police but died on the way, the military said.

The military also said Iraqi police had found "five SUVs, U.S. Army-type combat uniforms, boots, radios and a non-U.S. made rifle" near Mahawil, in neighboring Babil province.

"The precision of the attack, the equipment used and the possible use of explosives to destroy the military vehicles in the compound suggests that the attack was well rehearsed prior to execution," said Lt. Col. Scott Bleichwehl, spokesman for Multi-National Division-Baghdad. "The attackers went straight to where Americans were located in the provincial government facility, bypassing the Iraqi police in the compound," said Bleichwehl. "We are looking at all the evidence to determine who or what was responsible for the breakdown in security at the compound and the perpetration of the assault."

Posted by tu3031 2007-01-26 16:37|| 2007-01-26 16:37|| Front Page Top

#6 War, please.

Posted by Excalibur 2007-01-26 16:48|| 2007-01-26 16:48|| Front Page Top

#7
If it turns out to have been an Iranian job, then specialists will be notified, and some extreme sanctions carried out around the world.

I'm hoping the "specialists" will be the missile officers on our subs.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2007-01-26 17:15|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2007-01-26 17:15|| Front Page Top

#8 further rumors are that at least one spoke excellent English, and that one purportedly did not have the standard issue black hair. All rumor at this point.

Posted by anymouse">anymouse 2007-01-26 17:17|| 2007-01-26 17:17|| Front Page Top

#9 I'm sure Justice Kennedy, former Secty of State Powell, and Senator McCain can explain how our exemplary adherence to the Geneva Convention means the enemy will observe its protection for our troops. /sarcasm off

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-01-26 19:42|| 2007-01-26 19:42|| Front Page Top

#10 perhaps Arlen Spetor R-Asshole, has prepared comments for the funerals?

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-01-26 21:24|| 2007-01-26 21:24|| Front Page Top

#11 This incident shows so much of what has gone wrong in Iraq.
Iranians should have been expelled from Iraq in 2003. Any remaining now should be arrested or killed STAT.
Anyone caught impersonating US military in Iraq should be shot immediately, at least one as an example, but this will never happen with present ROE.
This was more likely an inside operation involving Iraqi forces working for the other side, which has been a problem ever since the 2003 overthrow. I keep reading of how US trainers of Iraqi forces must carry arms and have bodyguards when they work. There has always been this security gap. I am surprised this hasn't happened several times before.
Note the attempted abduction ended abruptly when the "black SUV's" ran roadblocks farther away from Karbala and local forces interfered with the escape. Not all the Iraqis were in on this. At least there was no time for the GI's be to tortured and beheaded on videotape for al-Jazeera to broadcast. That was one of the purposes of this operation.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2007-01-26 21:33|| 2007-01-26 21:33|| Front Page Top

#12 Wonder how Pepsi and her trained lap dog Murth-ahh will spin this? And if they do it whilst in Iraq.

Posted by USN, ret. 2007-01-26 21:42|| 2007-01-26 21:42|| Front Page Top

#13 This is very bad. Expect a proliferation of friendly fire "accidents".

Posted by gromgoru 2007-01-26 22:17|| 2007-01-26 22:17|| Front Page Top

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