Over 100 Enemy Killed in U.S. Assault in Iraq (1 Oct, 04)

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[Happy2BMe]

A young boy holds a photograph of rebel Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr during the Friday afternoon prayers in Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Oct. 1, 2004. Several of al-Sadr's supporters have been killed in U.S. airstrikes in the slums of Sadr City in the past few days. The writing in the poster is reference to a verse in the Quran which says "Men said to them a great army is gathering against you so fear them; but it only increased their faith and they said, for us we depend only on Allah and he is the best disposer of affairs." (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

[Happy2BMe]

1ST ID - Good Guys doing what Good Guys do best - ping.

[Happy2BMe]

"More than 100 insurgents Muslim terrorists and at least one American were killed, an Iraqi minister said." - ping.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

As Iraqi forces secured the Samarra bridge, American soldiers saw insurgents in speedboats loading ordnance on the banks of the Tigris River, the military said. Soldiers fired warning shots and the insurgents returned fire, prompting U.S. forces to destroy the boats, killing their occupants, the statement said.

That's not very smart to do!

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[2banana]

That's not very smart to do!

Ya damn straight - what in the heck are American soldiers firing warning shots for?

[Happy2BMe]

I am just waiting for Bush's reelection when we can finally put this baby to rest once and for all (with honor and due respect to those fallen who sacrificed their lives for this cause).

[Onelifetogive]

Soldiers fired warning shots and the insurgents returned fire, prompting U.S. forces to destroy the boats, killing their occupants, the statement said.

This war is SOOOOO one-sided. American soldier, "I really don't want to have to kill you......OK, fine.....I'll kill you if you insist..."

[Onelifetogive]

Ya damn straight - what in the heck are American soldiers firing warning shots for?

Because if the guys can be encouraged to surrender, they can be persuaded to give names anl locations of their buddies...

[Robert_Paulson2]

we depend only on Allah and he is the best disposer of affairs

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yes, well then, allah disposed of about 109 of your assclown rebels yesterday.

with a little help from the 1st.

[Inyokern]

No foreign Arab fighters were captured, he said.

I think everyone believes that the ones setting off the suicide car bombs are foreigners.

We have to find those guys.

[Mr. Lucky]

We are terrified by the violent approach used by the Americans...

Learn from it.

[Happy2BMe]

1st ID - OOHRAH!

[Congressman Billybob]

Has anyone ever seen Muqtadar in the same place as Michael Moore? Put a pair of glasses on that Iraqi murderer and he'd look exactly like Moore. They think alike, too. Whatever gets me money and fame is just dandy.

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[BenLurkin]

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[alloysteel]

Let us put a little arithmetic on this - if there were 20,000 insurgents, and they lost 100 in a 24-hour period, that is a 0.5% casualty rate in ONE DAY. For Americans to have a comparable rate, we would have to lose 650 in a single day.

If this is a war of attrition, they are steady losing....

[Zhangliqun]

"The sound of shelling mixed with the crackle of automatic gunfire."

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Gee, ya think? That's what usually happens in battles that involve tanks and automatic weapons.

[ApesForEvolution]

An American died...more bombs and fewer troops...

[Zhangliqun]

Have you noticed that you never see Michael Moore and Muqtada al-Sadr on stage together? Hmmm...

In other news, controversy erupted when the concussion from a bomb dropped by an American warplane blew a dust bunny out the second floor window of a local resident's house. The dust bunny was trampled by Marines from the 1st Marine Division as they advanced on an insurgent position, prompting al-Sadr supporters to protest and fire their guns in the air. Apparently it was one of the holiest dust bunnies to Shiite Islam.

[DTogo]

"We are working on the complete cleanup of the city from all those terrorists," Dowoud said, describing Samarra as an "outlaw city" that had spun out of control. "We will spare no effort to clean all the Iraqi lands and cities from these criminals and we will pave the way through these operations not only for the reconstruction but also for the general elections." Qasim Dowoud - aka MR. CLEAN :)