Special Operations forces member killed, eight wounded by "hostile fire" (JUST BREAKING!)

CNN ^ | 6/26/03

[areafiftyone]

Special Operations forces member killed, eight wounded by "hostile fire" in southwest Baghdad, U.S. Central Command says. Details to come.

[VRWC_minion]

Time for marshall law.

[Cate]

what the heck is going on over there? We are losing more guys now then when all the stuff was hitting the fan months ago. My son just got over there last week, so I would think the Iraqis' should stop shooting at us right now.

[BrooklynGOP]

break out the plastic shredder.

[Pikamax]

June 26, 2003
Release Number: 03-06-85


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


ONE SERVICE MEMBER KILLED, EIGHT WOUNDED IN HOSTILE FIRE INCIDENT

BAGHDAD, Iraq – One special operations force service member was killed and eight injured in a hostile fire incident on the morning of June 26 in southwest Baghdad.

Names of the service members are being withheld pending notification of next of kin.

[areafiftyone]

God Bless your son and keep him safe!! This is insane!!!

[hellinahandcart]

Make it martial law and I'll bump to that.

[sarasota]

Will you be able to communicate with your son? I pray he stays safe.

[nuffsenuff]

This is getting ridiculous.

It's time to start really cracking heads over there.

[angcat]

It's time to leave!

[jpl]

This is starting to get totally out of hand. We have to get the troops needed to get in there, lock down the borders, root these people out and kill them, otherwise people are going to start thinking that this really is another Vietnam.

[areafiftyone]

My stomach has been in knots all day!!!

[InvisibleChurch]

we relax and give them time to regroup rather than be on the run

[Catspaw]

sunnofab*tch. I'm getting REALLY ticked off. We have GOT to go after these Baathist thugs NOW.

[smith288]

Its an organized effort by Ba'athists as well as Islamic extremists answering some muslim leaders call for attacks on Americans. This part of the conflict is the most difficult and unpredictable.

Trying to win the people over but having to deal with instigators going to quiet neighborhoods, attacking so that Americans will have to attack and then become hated in said neighborhood and this is repeated all over Iraq.

They find a town that likes the Americans, try to kill a few, cause the Americans to not be as nice and the town turns on us. Its a difficult task and I think we will need some more international forces in there to take some of the burden off the US while we stabilize (or try)

[Rik0Shay]

This is exactly what we should not do.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

otherwise people are going to start thinking that this really is another Vietnam

We have that right here on the forum!

This is what OBL and Saddam said about America, no stomach for a nasty war, !!!!

[areafiftyone]

Not only Baathists but also the foreigners who went into the country just before the war to create havoc. They hate us also. I am sure if Saddam is alive this is part of this plan to drive us out of Iraq. He can't get an army together but he can do it slowly but surely with these NUTJOBS who are more than happy to serve him and I am sure are getting alot of money from him. Don't forget he smuggled at least a billion out of the country.

[Mo1]

It's time to start really cracking heads over there.

I agree!

[hellinahandcart]

It's time to leave!

You've got to be kidding. Have you learned nothing about these people in the past year and a half?

Look how our leaving Somalia emboldened Osama Bin Laden.

We can become an extremely unpleasant occupying force if we must, but we absolutely cannot LEAVE.