ONE SOLDIER KILLED, TWO WOUNDED IN SMALL ARMS ATTACK

Central Command press release ^ | July 31, 2003

[HAL9000]

July 31, 2003
Release Number: 03-07-90

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

ONE SOLDIER KILLED, TWO WOUNDED IN SMALL ARMS ATTACK

TIKRIT, Iraq – One 4th Infantry Division soldier was killed and two were wounded in a small arms attack at a tactical operation center July 30 at approximately 11:45 p.m. about 40 km east of Ba’qubah.

The soldiers were evacuated to the 21st Combat Support Hospital for treatment.

The soldiers’ names are being withheld pending next-of-kin notification.

[dandelion]

God, have mercy on the hearts that wait at home... let us remember those left behind, and comfort them.

[JohnHuang2]

AP version:

GI Killed, 2 Hurt in Attack at Iraq Base

.c The Associated Press

TIKRIT, Iraq (AP) - A U.S. soldier was killed and two were wounded by small-arms fire at their base in northern Iraq, the military said Thursday.

The U.S. Central Command said the soldiers from the 4th Infantry Division came under attack at a forward position 50 miles northeast of Baghdad at 11:45 p.m. Wednesday.

The wounded soldiers, who won't be identified until their families are notified, were taken to a military hospital for treatment, Centcom said in a statement.

The death brought to 50 the number of U.S. troops killed in hostile action since May 1, when President Bush declared an end to major combat in Iraq. In all, 165 Americans have been killed in combat in Iraq, 18 more than died in the 1991 Gulf War.

================== God bless our troops, and may that mass-murdering bastard Saddam be caught soon.

[JohnHuang2]

Well said -- seconded.

[Cold Heat]

Snipers!

I hope this crap ends soon.

The trouble is that you have to draw them out to kill them. We will get them all eventually, but the cost is so high.

Prayers for the families and all the troops.

[JohnHuang2]

Prayers for the families and all the troops.

Amen.

[JohnHuang2]

Reuters:

Ambush kills one U.S. soldier, wounds two in Iraq

BAGHDAD, July 31 (Reuters) - One U.S. soldier was killed and two wounded in a gun attack on their tactical operations centre northeast of Baghdad, the U.S. army said on Thursday.

A military spokesman said the soldiers from the 4th Infantry Division were attacked around 11:45 p.m. (1945 GMT) on Wednesday. The death brings to 51 the number of U.S. soldiers killed by attacks since Washington declared major combat over on May 1. In the last two weeks alone, 18 have been killed.

[Cold Heat]

I understand the 4th has been launching a increasing number of raids in Tikrit.

The 4th is a class A bunch and will prevail. Tikrit is a rats nest that never fought during the real war. They took their guns, dropped their uniforms and hid like snakes.

They will be dealt with.

[JohnHuang2]

The 4th is a class A bunch and will prevail.

There's absolutely no doubt about it.

[Cold Heat]

Just heard on FOX that there is a Shiite cleric who has claimed he will build a million man army to defete the Americans and the new Iraqi government.

Any bets of how long he will be claiming? LOL

They need to come down on this guy. I hope we don't allow him to fester beyond the time it takes to investigate him.

[JohnHuang2]

Any bets of how long he will be claiming?

hehe, not very long...:-)

[KQQL]

Was this war worth the lifes of our soldiers?

Where are WMD?

Was Iraq really a danger to the US?

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[risk]

To answer a question indirectly,

MEMRI's special dispatch of November 8, 2001 carried news from the Iraqi daily Babil about Saddam's meeting with the heads of the Iraqi Nuclear Energy Authority (NEA) and the defense establishment. It quotes Babil:

President and leader Saddam Hussein met with Dr. Fadhel al-Janabi, chairman of Iraq's Nuclear Energy Authority, and a select group of outstanding researchers and engineers from among the warriors of the NEA and the military industry. . . . His excellency told those present and the Iraqi people: "When the human mind has a . . . great objective, it will not be sidetracked from its goal."

--From Nimrod Rapaheli in a Daily Standard article posted 07/25/2003

Many thanks to our troops for taking the fight to the enemy instead of waiting for him to bring it to us. May their success not bring too much more criticism of "was it necessary?" There are critics who would only stop berating our policy of preemption when they themselves were injured by foreign attackers, they are just that obstinate. The events of 9/11 were evidently not enough to awaken their keen sense of self-protection, or if it did, it raised the most simplistic of responses: withdraw from the world and hide.

Americans aren't going to hide.

[Dog]

This is lead story on CNN this morning and they seem gleeful about it.

[BOBWADE]

Let him finish assembling, then take him and his million out at once.

[anglian]

small-arms fire at their base? Can't a portable tower be erected so that someone can keep 360 watch at ALL TIMES looking out to prevent this? This I pray cannot continue.

[Prodigal Son]

Where are WMD?

When we find them, will you be happy?

Was this war worth the lifes of our soldiers?

Is keeping the peace worth the lives of law enforcement officers? If not, well I guess it's not worth the lives of soldiers to protect the overall peace and security of the US either.

Was Iraq really a danger to the US?

Yep. And not just to us but to everybody in the free world.

[Prodigal Son]

This happened at a TOC. That was an eyebrow raiser for me. Your TOC is usually set up in a safer position- generally speaking.

[Coop]

You disappear for weeks and weeks, and you come back posting this kind of crap? You must be kidding.

[Amelia]

Your TOC is usually set up in a safer position- generally speaking.

That's what I thought as well.