Posted on 04/02/2005 9:55:55 PM PST by Pharmboy
It would seem that the terrorists are going to a known address to find recruits.
Things may not be going all that well for them if their principle focus is freeing their thug friends to enlarge their numbers.
no prisoners , shoot them all and let allah sort them out....
There is unconfirmed reports that one terrorist died as the result of the combat and maybe some are injured. I wonder if there is a clinic for terrorists to treat them, like they had in Falluja. If the coalition force can find any of them, it should be a constrain for the terrorists.
"Abu Ghraib was at the center of a prisoner abuse scandal that broke out in 2004" If nobody knows this by now they do not care. Why add this line?
A 40 minute firefight and over 60 injured, nobody killed. Are they using paintball guns now? Maybe they should--they could make their point and then later hurl invectives at each other.
Good observation ... they are running out of people and are reduced to springing the captured ones... and failing.
We found a tunnel at one of the prison camps. (think "great escape" type of tunnel.)
"Abu Ghraib was at the center of a prisoner abuse scandal that broke out in 2004" If nobody knows this by now they do not care. Why add this line?
... it's a precoded short-cut key on the typewriter ... just like:
"... since Bush declared the end of major combat operations"
"no WMDs were found in Iraq"
"mounting casualties"
ROFLMAO!!!
Reminded me of all the Rambo-type movies where thousands of bullets wizz by yet the hero and the lead villian never get hit. Well at least until they meet face-to-face. Once the villian dies all fighting stops as if there is a golden rule that the leader is the last to go.
I'm waiting for the media outrage at the "insurgents" for injuring those 12 poor prisoners. Perhaps terrorists injuring prisoners is fine, as long as they don't place panties on their heads. That would be a step too far!
These are called MMSM: Macros of the Main Stream Media.
And the perennial favorite MSM head, "Explosions ROCK Baghdad!"
and don't forget the dastardly "pointing to the genitals"
just sick. makes me weep just thinking about it! Oh the humanity.=)
Predates even the modern MSM. During the Bosnia-Herzegovina war in the early pre-AOL days every press release from the first day to the end a couple years later contained the "200,000 killed" slug line.
And don't even get me started on the "allowing dogs to bark in the same room" -- I'm getting queasy just thinking about what those poor souls had to endure! And their only crime was sawing off the heads of infidels. Arrogant imperialist cowboys!
God bless those soldiers wounded in the line of duty. May they all pull through. Strange that the article doesn't state exactly what happened. Did the terrorists storm the building, or did they just lob mortars from a distance and get lucky? There's a big difference, after all.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The number of U.S. soldiers wounded in a battle with insurgents outside Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison rose to more than 40 on Sunday, from an earlier count of 20, the U.S. military said.
Most of the injuries were light, but several were serious, according to Lieutenant Colonel Guy Rudisill, spokesman for detainee operations in Iraq. All of the wounded were being treated at the prison's medical facility.
"There are 44 U.S. soldiers injured, but only a few of those are serious," Rudisill said, adding that there was no increase in the number of wounded detainees, 12 of whom were hurt in the well-organized attack, one of them severely.
At least one insurgent was confirmed killed in the battle late on Saturday, but the colonel said he expected the true toll was far higher after intense fighting that lasted around an hour and involved U.S. helicopters and heavy weapons.
I would never do that. Being a Catholic, some inhumanities are just to sever for me to discuss. Just seeing this in print again and acknowledging it requires me to say my "Hail Mary's" and cleanse my soul.
On Sunday, U.S. military officials raised the casualty toll from 20 to 44 U.S. service members, and said some of the injuries were serious.
OK, Im missing something here...were there 44 casualties or are they counting WOUNDED as casualties?????
Unreal, completely unreal. I guess this also goes into referring to any city in Iraq. They had to always put "The Holy City of " before each one so the readers knew what infidels we were.
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