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US Military Foils Insurgent Attack
Bell South.net ^
| 3-27-2007
| AP
Posted on 03/27/2007 1:34:00 PM PDT by blam
U.S. Military Foils Insurgent Attack
Published: 3/27/07, 4:05 PM EDT
BAGHDAD (AP) - U.S. soldiers foiled two suicide truck bombings against their base in a small town west of Baghdad and killed as many as 15 attackers, the U.S. military reported Tuesday.
The attacks began when a water truck tried to drive into the base just north of Karmah, a town not far from the city of Fallujah, at about 2 p.m. Monday. A soldier opened fire and the truck bomb exploded.
The military said 30 insurgents responded with small-arms fire, rocket-propelled grenades and mortars. Five minutes into the firefight, a dump truck following the same path as the exploded water truck tried to smash into the base but the driver was shot and the load of explosives blew up.
The military estimated it killed 15 insurgents in the fight and said eight soldiers were wounded. Seven of the wounded returned to duty after treatment by medics at the site. One soldier was hospitalized.
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: attck; insurgent; iraq; us
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posted on
03/27/2007 1:34:03 PM PDT
by
blam
To: blam
God bless our brave warriors.
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posted on
03/27/2007 1:36:04 PM PDT
by
azhenfud
(The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
To: blam
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posted on
03/27/2007 1:36:28 PM PDT
by
Brilliant
To: Brilliant
30 attack, 15 dead. Good Guys: 15
Bad Guys: 0
I like happy endings. :-)
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posted on
03/27/2007 1:40:01 PM PDT
by
TChris
(The Democrat Party: A sewer into which is emptied treason, inhumanity and barbarism - O. Morton)
To: TChris
15 x 72 = 1,080 Helen Thomas Clones ASAP!
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posted on
03/27/2007 1:43:01 PM PDT
by
Agent Smith
(Fallujah delenda est. (I wish))
To: blam
I love good news.
To me "Support the Troops" includes sending them more ammo.
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posted on
03/27/2007 1:43:14 PM PDT
by
PeteB570
(Guns, what real men want for Christmas)
To: blam
This good news is NOT brought to you by the maindream networks. Good news for us is bad news for them!
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posted on
03/27/2007 1:45:23 PM PDT
by
Just Lori
(There's nothing democratic about Democrats.)
To: Agent Smith
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posted on
03/27/2007 1:47:07 PM PDT
by
AxelPaulsenJr
(Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.)
To: blam
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posted on
03/27/2007 1:48:22 PM PDT
by
Uncledave
To: blam; NormsRevenge; Grampa Dave; SierraWasp; SunkenCiv; Marine_Uncle; Allegra; tobyhill; Dog; ...
Excellent awareness by our warriors....
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posted on
03/27/2007 1:54:09 PM PDT
by
Ernest_at_the_Beach
(The DemonicRATS believe ....that the best decisions are always made after the fact.)
To: blam
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posted on
03/27/2007 2:00:44 PM PDT
by
Just Lori
(There's nothing democratic about Democrats.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
The watertruck and dump truck the sandmaggots blew up were probably on loan from the "palestinians", and were supposed to be rebuilding that huge sewage pond that collapsed in Gaza...
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posted on
03/27/2007 2:01:55 PM PDT
by
Publius6961
(MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
To: Publius6961
ROFL!!!
Just shows it is a Global Enterprise....
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posted on
03/27/2007 6:15:11 PM PDT
by
Ernest_at_the_Beach
(The DemonicRATS believe ....that the best decisions are always made after the fact.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Less goons to shoot the next time around.
To: AxelPaulsenJr
I love this post card.....it makes me laugh..
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posted on
03/27/2007 11:43:43 PM PDT
by
marmar
((Although, I may look different then you....my blood still runs....RED, WHITE, & BLUE.))
To: blam
"U.S. soldiers foiled two suicide truck bombings against their base..."By the time this gets to Rosie "Beast" O'Donnell it will have become a couple of ice cream wagons loaded with fluffy bunnies and baby ducks-------but only if Tehran says so.
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posted on
03/27/2007 11:59:45 PM PDT
by
atomic conspiracy
(Rousing the blog-rabble since 9-11-01)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
"Excellent awareness by our warriors...." Yup. I was thinking of my days as lookout/guard. These lookouts saved many lives...it's for real there.
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posted on
03/28/2007 6:39:22 AM PDT
by
blam
To: AxelPaulsenJr
OMG, that is awful...I am going to have nightmares!!!
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