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Bomb Kills 2 Soldiers; Coalition Operations Continue [2/19 news, 2/20 release]
CJTF7-DoD-AFPS ^
| Feb. 20, 2004
Posted on 02/20/2004 7:40:48 AM PST by Ragtime Cowgirl
Bomb Kills 2 Soldiers; Coalition Operations Continue
American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, Feb. 20, 2004 -- Two Task Force All American soldiers were killed and one was wounded in a roadside bomb explosion near Khaldiyah, Iraq, Feb. 19. Two Iraqis a translator and a policeman -- also died in the attack. The unit was on patrol northwest of the city when it was attacked with an improvised explosive device and small-arms fire, according to a Combined Joint Task Force 7 news release. The release said the wounded soldier was taken to a military hospital, where he was in serious condition. The soldiers' names are being withheld until their families are notified. Another CJTF 7 release today detailed 4th Infantry Division activity over a 24- hour period Feb. 18-19. Soldiers raided three locations and captured six people, four of them suspected of anti-coalition activity. The dawn mission targeted suspects in mortar attacks on coalition forces near Balad Feb. 18. The soldiers confiscated an automatic weapon and two AK-47 assault rifles. One attacker was killed after he fired an automatic weapon at soldiers from Company C, 1st Battalion, 8th Infantry Regiment, Feb. 18 near Balad. Soldiers recovered an AK-47 near his body. They were in the area searching for people believed to be responsible for attacks against coalition forces, and captured two suspects. An Iraqi child was killed in Tikrit when a rocket-propelled grenade, aimed at soldiers from 1st Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment, missed them and exploded near the child Feb. 18. The child died instantly, and soldiers were unable to capture the attackers. Members of the Iraqi Civil Defense Corps and soldiers from 3rd Battalion, 66th Armor Regiment, raided a building in Bayji just after midnight Feb. 19 in an attempt to capture former regime loyalists. Nine people were captured, including two who were specifically targeted in the operation for suspected anti-coalition activity. Soldiers confiscated four AK-47s, two rifles and a pistol. They went to another location and captured two more people carrying a bag of AK-47 parts, knives and axes. Related Web Sites: Combined Joint Task Force 7 4th Infantry Division
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 4id; centcom; cjtf7; fallen; gnfi; goodguys; iraq; tfironhorse
To: Ragtime Cowgirl
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posted on
02/20/2004 7:42:42 AM PST
by
AntiGuv
(When the countdown hits zero, something's gonna happen..)
To: MJY1288; xzins; Calpernia; TEXOKIE; Alamo-Girl; windchime; Grampa Dave; anniegetyourgun; ...
DoD ~ CJTF7 security recap, with related links, good work of the 4ID over the past 24 hours, included.
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Bad days for the bad guys!
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posted on
02/20/2004 7:44:43 AM PST
by
Ragtime Cowgirl
("(We)..come to rout out tyranny from its nest. Confusion to the enemy." - B. Taylor, US Marine, 2/28)
To: Ragtime Cowgirl
Bomb Kills 2 Soldiers; Coalition Operations Continue [2/19 news, 2/20 release]Are we to believe that these deaths that continue unabated cannot be stopped with all the military might and sophistication we have at our disposal?
I refuse to believe that.
Somebody in the higher echelons of authority is not doing the job he is being paid to do and who pays the awful price for this lack of leadership?
World War 2 was not won by such timerity and neither will this one.
This compassionate conservatism silliness has got to cease and the attitude that our troops must be sacrificed at all costs must also be rejected as a complete failure in war time.
I can hear the voices of the extreme left say our troops have no more right to live than the bastards who are murdering them daily and with nothing to show for it.
Please don't burden others with the brainless prattle that this war is different.
If it is different it is because the folks who are making the rules are not out in front with our sons, daughters, husbands, aunts, uncles, brothers and sisters who are being blowned to bits or maimed for life by these murdering heathen they are so concerned about, who don't give a tinker's dam about what's being done for them, in the name of being compassionate.
To hell with that lie let's get out there and kick ass like wars have always been fought which is to destroy the enemy at all costs before he destroys us.
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posted on
02/20/2004 8:28:14 AM PST
by
VOYAGER
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To: Ragtime Cowgirl
Thank God for our heroes and their loved ones!
To: VOYAGER
See my commentary at the AP link above.
Our guys are not sitting around waiting for the bad guys to hit them. We have over 120,000 troops in Iraq, over 100,000 civilian supporters, over 19,000 Coalition allies, over 20 millions Iraqis who are NOT enemies...and many risking their lives to face the same thugs that murdered their loved ones...and we have lost 546 precious US troops in 11 months on top of a powder keg the size of California...it's not a quagmire, or mass-casualties...it's a miracle we've had so few casualties...in spite of the daily AP enemy press spin implying otherwise, and cruelly mocking every Soldier's death by mocking the mission and ignoring their hard won victories ~ removing enemies and enemy weapons, rebuilding power plants, vaccinating children, teaching Iraqi doctors modern medical techniques (they missed over the past three decades or so), etc., etc., across Iraq...daily, since before May 1st, when Pres. Bush declared an end to major combat operations.
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posted on
02/20/2004 9:55:27 AM PST
by
Ragtime Cowgirl
("(We)..come to rout out tyranny from its nest. Confusion to the enemy." - B. Taylor, US Marine, 2/28)
To: VOYAGER
Are we to believe that these deaths that continue unabated cannot be stopped with all the military might and sophistication we have at our disposal? ===
It is nature of guarilla war. Technology gives the ability to fight from distance so the enemy cann't reach you. But when you go to patrol streets then the distance deminishes and the enemy can reach you and advantage disappears.
If the purpose of that war was just crush military machine of Saddam and assure that Iraq cann't produce no WMDs in future then it was acheived already.
SO if there are the NEW purpose is to progress Iraq then you have to patrol streets.
I wonder what will be after June30th when the power in Iraq will be handed to them.
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posted on
02/20/2004 10:21:19 AM PST
by
RusIvan
To: Ragtime Cowgirl
God Bless our Coalition warriors.
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posted on
02/20/2004 6:01:43 PM PST
by
PhilDragoo
(Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)
To: Ragtime Cowgirl
Bump!
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posted on
02/21/2004 5:36:03 PM PST
by
windchime
(Podesta about Bush: "He's got four years to try to undo all the stuff we've done." (TIME-1/22/01))
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