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.
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.
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:--From Nimrod Rapaheli in a Daily Standard article posted 07/25/2003President 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."
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.