Roadside Bomb Blasts Kill 4 U.S. Soldiers in Iraq

Reuters ^ | Tue Sep 7, 2004

[yonif]

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Separate roadside bomb attacks around Baghdad and near the northern city of Mosul have killed four American soldiers, the U.S. military said on Tuesday. It said one soldier was killed in a blast in Baghdad on Monday afternoon, and another died of his wounds after an explosion on Monday evening.

In a third attack, near Baghdad, a soldier was killed late on Monday when his convoy was targeted. And in Qayarrah, near Mosul, one soldier was killed in a blast on the same day.

The attacks will raise the official Pentagon U.S. death toll to at least 992 since the start of the war in Iraq.

[tomahawk]

Media and Kerry salivating for more dead American soldiers.

The are in an unholy alliance to take this country over.

After that, we will be turned over to the tender mercies of the Jihadists.

[JLS]

Media and Kerry salivating for more dead American soldiers.
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It is sick isn't it? Add in the comparison to Viet Nam when the KIA so far are about the total of a month and Viet Nam and you see how much they are reaching.

[steplock]

WHY is this happening now?

Because the left-wing radical press bacjers of the Progressive Socialist Democrat party that is promoting Kerry is salivating over what they think will be the "Magical" 1000 mark.

So they are encouraging the enemies of the United States to KILL more Americans.

Makes you proud to be a Democrat now, doesn't it?

[jwpjr]

Maybe one approach would be to warn everyone in the town that coming within a certain distance of American vehicles would be considered a hostile action and the vehicle would be destroyed. Same with unattended vehicles. Don't be leaving your unoccupied car sitting along the street, it works at US airports where they impound unattended vehicles. Something has to be done about this. I just can't believe it's acceptable to the US to be losing four more soldiers a day to these bombs. I don't care WHAT it takes to stop it, even if it means launching an indiscriminate withering aerial assault on the entire city where the bombing occurs. Lots of people in every one of these towns know who is doing this but won't come forward because they are either afraid of retribution or they support the ones who are setting the bombs. It shouldn't take to many hell and damnation strikes by US planes to convince them that either way a bombing of US forces is going to mean serious consequences. I think I would have our troops withdraw from the area of the blast as quickly as possible and then when the locals move in to loot and celebrate let loose on them with a couple of 2,000 pound guided bombs. I see no other way unless we're willing to sacrifice our troops in groups of two or more every day.

[jwpjr]

Is this the same attack that killed members of the 1st MEF yesterday, or a separate attack?

[afnamvet]

Media and Kerry salivating for more dead American soldiers.

The jihadist scum will now ratchet Iraqui government should loosen the restraints on our troops, the coalition forces and the Iraqui army. Case in point..Fallujah and Najaf. Kill all the terrorists now. No quarter.

[saquin]

Different attacks. These 4 were in separate roadside bomb attacks, in addition to the 7 Marines yesterday.

There was also one soldier killed by an RPG in Sadr City today and another killed by a sniper in another area of Baghdad.

It's been a bad couple of days, unfortunately.

[afnamvet]

Should read: .........will now ratchet up the frequency of attacks.

[Dick Vomer]

pink slips and coffins..... that's what the media and the national socialist democratic party "need" or feel that will "win" them the election.

just beautiful.

[Lijahsbubbe]

After that, we will be turned over to the tender mercies of the Jihadists

It's sick, but that paradoxical statement got a chuckle out of me.

Thanks for the stress release.

[RicocheT]

Agree 100% with post 6. Fight these car bombers with a strong reaction. Our fine soldiers must not be lost to such underhanded and vile terrorist tactics.

[TexKat]

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[TexKat]

British troops will stay the distance in Iraq

[TexKat]

Scores killed in Sadr City battles as US death toll in Iraq climbs

BAGHDAD (AFP) - Bloody clashes between US forces and Shiite militiamen left more than 40 dead in Baghdad's Islamist stronghold of Sadr City, officials said, while 11 US soldiers were killed in a spate of attacks.

Smoke was rising and US war planes roared overhead as armed members of radical cleric Moqtada Sadr's Mehdi Army ran through the streets of the Baghdad slum after a night of fighting that left one US soldier dead and scores of Iraqis killed and wounded.

The Iraqi health ministry reported that 40 people were killed and more than 270 injured as a fragile week-long truce called by Sadr unravelled.

Militia fighters killed a US soldier and wounded two others Tuesday in a small-arms and rocket-propelled grenade attack in the sprawling Baghdad district, US Lieutenant Colonel James Hutton told AFP.

The soldier's death brought to 992 the total number of US military fatalities since the US-led March 2003 invasion of Iraq that toppled Saddam Hussein.

US tanks rumbled around the neighborhood and automatic fire echoed on Sadr City's main al-Shuhader Street. Four US military vehicles blocked off al-Hay square, site of Sadr's main office.

On side streets, Mehdi army soldiers, dressed in their trademark black outfits and civilian clothes, planted bombs in the road.

Hutton reported a string of attacks overnight on US forces in the den of the young radical cleric who has organised a thousands-strong army of young and unemployed Shiite men united under a banner of Islamic fundamentalism.

Sadr aide Sheikh Naim al-Qaabi said 15 Mehdi Army fighters were killed and 62 wounded in the strife.

"Last night was the most intense shelling of Sadr City since the Americans arrived in Iraq," he said, adding heavy aircraft fire lasted from 11 pm (1900 GMT) to 4 am.

"The people are defending themselves against the occupation forces."

There was no confirmation from the Americans about air strikes in the Shiite neighborhood. A mortar landed near a school as the battle raged, the military said.

An uneasy calm had reigned in the district since the end of last month's three-week revolt by Sadr against the Americans in the Shiite shrine city of Najaf.

Sadr's men had entered negotiations with the Iraqi government to disarm and enter the political arena, but his right-hand men complained the Iraqi government had started arresting its followers last week despite the talks.

As troubles flared in the Shiite slum, the US military was mourning its dead from a flurry of anti-coalition attacks around Baghdad Monday.

In addition to the US soldier killed in Sadr city, another three were killed in a string of attacks in the capital after a car bomb killed seven soldiers and three Iraqi national guard near the restive city of Fallujah Monday, the deadliest single strike in months for US troops.

The Fallujah attack was claimed by black-hooded men, gripping assault rifles, in the name of Jordanian fighter Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi's militant group, in a video obtained by AFP.

Meanwhile, Baghdad governor Ali al-Haidri narrowly escaped a bomb assassination attempt on his life that left two civilians dead, officials said.

"There was an attempt to assassinate the Baghdad governor," said interior ministry spokesman Colonel Adnan Abdul Rahman.

A police investigator on the scene in Baghdad's western al-Adel district said the bomb was a small booby trap device planted in a pothole, although the interior ministry described it as a car bomb. Some of Haidri's bodyguards were wounded, the governor said.

The deputy director of Karama hospital in Baghdad was also shot dead, the health ministry said.

And in the northern city of Mosul, the son of governor for the northern Iraqi province of Niniveh was assassinated.

Leith Dureid Kashmula, 19, was shot several times in the chest by unknown attackers as he was alone in his car in western Mosul, said Hazem Gallawi, media adviser for the governorate.

A Turkish truck driver was killed when insurgents fired small arms at some petrol tankers parked outside Abbasi, about 22 kilometres (13 miles) from the rebel bastion of Samarra, police said.

The US military and Turkish embassy had no information about the incident.

[TexKat]

Residents of Sadr City show cars that were run over by U.S. armored vehicles, Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday Sept. 7, 2004. U.S. forces battled radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's supporters in the Baghdad slum on Tuesday, killing at least 34 people, including one American soldier, and injuring 193. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

Smoke rises over the central part the town of Falluja, following a U.S. army bombardment, September 7, 2004. U.S. forces and insurgents fought in Falluja on Tuesday, and shelling by American tanks forced some to leave homes in the Iraqi town that has been a hotbed of resistance to the U.S.-backed government, witnesses said. REUTERS/Mohammed Khodor

[TexKat]

What the hell????

A grab from a video obtained by Agence France-Presse (AFP) in Baghdad shows militants of the radical Secret Islamic Army of Iraq calling on a rival group, the Islamic Army of Iraq, to free the two French journalists held hostage since August 20.(AFP/HO)

Iraqi militiamen loyal to radical Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr take a position in one of the alleys of Baghdad's Shiite slum of Sadr City.(AFP/Ahmad Al-Rubaye)

An Iraqi policeman secures the area as a US military tanker is engulfed in fire after it came under attack on the outskirts of Baghdad.(AFP/Jewel Samad)