4 U.S. troops killed, 5 injured in Baghdad (Sadr)

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[I_killed_kenny]

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Four U.S. soldiers were killed and five wounded on Friday when an explosion hit their vehicle in eastern Baghdad, a U.S. military spokesman said.

Reuters reporters had earlier seen soldiers dragging away the bodies of several troops from the smoking wreckage of a vehicle destroyed by an explosion on a main highway.

[Militiaman7]

The United Nations' top human rights official said that U.S.-led occupation forces have mistreated many ordinary Iraqis and called for appointment of an international ombudsman to monitor their behavior. Acting High Commissioner for Human Rights Bertrand Ramcharand also suggested in a new report that U.S. soldiers accused of gross abuses in Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison could be guilty of war crimes.

We need to tell the UN to STFU and furthermore get out of the US because the US in getting out of the UN.

[dasboot]

Heart, breaking; anger, cloyed.

[No Blue States]

twice now i thought Sadr and his thugs were going down, weve got to kill that #%@!#%$^!!!

[rudypoot]

al-Sadr criticized the new Iraqi government Friday and said he would accept 'nothing less' than an elected leadership, as his militia fighters battled American soldiers.

This is why he still is fighting us: because he knows that his life is not threatened.

[goodnesswins]

the UN stood by and watched while Saddam killed thousands....and they have the NERVE to say something LIKE THAT!!!! The UN really is the TERRORISTS PROTECTION Society.

[steplock]

reporters had earlier seen soldiers dragging ....

nice choice of words from scum 'reporters' for our enemies.

[TexKat]

Ping.

[heylady]

Try to imagine a wife's, Mother's, or Father's reaction to looking at this picture. Let me tell you..it rips your gut out.

[oceanview]

the bulk of them have "gone down", what you are seeing now are holdouts, or just a band of street thugs who the media is labeling as an "army" as part of their spin to turn every incident into a defeat for the US.

Of course, losing 4 soldiers is a tragedy - but its not disneyland over there.

[jimbo123]

Propoganda photos of attack on US soldiers by REUTERS/Ceerwan Aziz.

[pickemuphere]

the bulk of them have "gone down", what you are seeing now are holdouts, or just a band of street thugs who the media is labeling as an "army" as part of their spin to turn every incident into a defeat for the US.

We've been hearing that for over a year now. You need some new material.

[oceanview]

to be honest, we should spot one of these "photo op" setups from the air, where these photographers have them posing with their weapons - and kill them all from the air, INCLUDING the photographers. If we did that one time - they would stop setting up these photo ops.

[oceanview]

you obviously have not been following what has happened to this Sadr "army". The threads are right here on FR. Don't buy the media spin.

[jimbo123]

Another terrorist propogandist and collaborator is AP Photo/Karim Kadim.

[nuconvert]

who's kenny?

[F14 Pilot]

Ba$tard

The line under Sadr's face reads: Allah, Tell infidels that we don't worship what they worship!

[milemark]

May the Hammer now come down mightily

Why continue saying such things knowing it will never happen?

[Rokke]

"Why continue saying such things knowing it will never happen?"

Maybe you could define what you would consider to be a mighty hammer.

[I_killed_kenny]

the guy I killed.

[nuconvert]

Oh....that clears things up