[Former Military Chick]

What a day our fine military had in Iraq. May they stay healthy and return home safely.

[clee1]

Kill 'em all but six, boys, and save them for pallbearers!

[Halleck]

I just heard on the radio that attacks on U.S. forces have increased from approximately 12 per day in August to over 100 per day in September. I'm sure it's just a coincidence that the President's poll numbers were jumping up. The filthy greaseballs couldn't possibly be trying to help Kerry get elected.

[TexKat]

A U.S. army truck lies burning on the motorway west of the Iraqi capital Baghdad September 7, 2004. A roadside bomb blast near Baghdad late on Monday killed one U.S. soldier and wounded another, the U.S. military said on Tuesday. The attack will raise the official Pentagon U.S. death toll to at least 989 since the start of the war in Iraq. REUTERS/Namir Noor-Eldeen

An U.S. soldier stands guard near a burning U.S army transport vehicle after it was attacked by insurgents in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday Sept. 7, 2004. No casualty figures were available from the attack. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

A US soldier inspects two burned civilian cars that were destroyed in a homemade bomb attack in the restive city of Baquba, north east of Baghdad.(AFP/Ali Yussef)

A supporter of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr checks his RPG launcher before beginning a patrol of al-Sadr's militia controlled territory in Sadr City, Iraq, Monday Sept. 6, 2004. Top U.S. commanders have recently stressed the necessity of reclaiming the area from radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's supporters before they are able to regroup after they suffered heavy losses at Najaf. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

Supporters of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr train their RPG launchers at U.S. positions in Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday Sept. 7, 2004. U.S. forces battled al-Sadr's supporters in the Baghdad slum on Tuesday, killing at least 34 people, including one American soldier, and injuring 193. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Task Force Baghdad Soldier Killed in Attack

Baghdad -- One Task Force Baghdad Soldier was wounded in an attack in Baghdad at about 2:30 p.m. Sept. 6. The Soldier was evacuated to a medical facility and died from wounds at about 3 p.m. the same day.

The name of the Soldier killed is being withheld pending notification of the next of kin. The incident is under investigation.

Release #040907c

Soldier Killed in IED Attack

Baghdad -- One Task Force Baghdad Soldier was wounded in an improvised explosive device attack in Baghdad that took place at about 11 p.m. Sept. 6. The Soldier was evacuated to a medical facility and later died of his wounds about 2 a.m. Sept. 7.

The name of the Soldier killed is being withheld pending notification of the next of kin. The incident is under investigation.

Release #040907d

Task Force Baghdad Soldier Killed in Attack

Baghdad -- One Task Force Baghdad Soldier was killed and two were wounded Sept. 7 during a rocket propelled grenade attack that took place at about 9:30 a.m., in eastern Baghdad. The name of the Soldier killed is being withheld pending notification of the next of kin. The incident is under investigation.

Release #040907g

Improvised explosive device attack kills one

Balad, Iraq -- One 13th Corps Support Command soldier is dead as the result of an improvised explosive device attack on a convoy near Qayarrah at noon Sept. 6.

The name of the Soldier is being withheld pending next-of-kin notification. The attack is under investigation.

Release #040907e

Convoy attack kills one

Lsa Anaconda, Balad, Iraq – One 13th COSCOM soldier is dead and one is injured as the result of an improvised explosive device attack on a convoy near Baghdad at around 11:45 p.m. September 6.

The injured soldier was evacuated to the 31st Combat Support Hospital.

The name of the dead Soldier is being withheld pending next-of-kin notification.

The attack is under investigation.

Our thoughts and prayers are with the Soldier’s family, friends and fellow Soldiers.

Release #040907a

http://www.mnf-iraq.com/media-information/news-releases.htm

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REGIMENTAL PRAYER

Almighty, merciful, and loving Father,
you are the one who hears all our prayers and grants our petitions.

We ask you to remember, as we do,
the tremendous sacrifice made by those who went before us.
They have given their lives so that we might live and breathe freely.
We ask you to receive them into your hands.

Father, give us the strength and wisdom to learn from their example,
to uphold freedom and life at home and around the world.

Keep us vigilant as we guard the frontiers of freedom.

Give our leaders the wisdom and the strength to lead well.

Grant all of us courage and confidence.

Be, for all of us, troopers, a wise counsel in keeping peace
 and a strong shield for us against our enemies.

Oh heavenly Father, give us the determination
that the peace and freedom won at such a high price be lasting!

Father, hold all of the troopers in the palm of your almighty hand
 and protect them in the shadow of your wings.

Amen.

Adopted from the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment,

Regimental Prayer.

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[slowhand520]

The AP is pathetic. They report that "34 people killed". So the insurgents are not insurgents anymore they are just people? It sounds like they were just innocent bystanders. They are sub-humans! Just sad.

[TexKat]

Two Italian Women Humanitarian Workers Kidnapped in Baghdad

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1209205/posts?page=18

[TexKat]

Update:

Fierce Clashes in Iraq Kill 36; 203 Hurt

[TexKat]

Scores killed in Sadr City battles as US death toll in Iraq climbs

BAGHDAD (AFP) - Bloody clashes between US forces and Shiite militiamen left more than 40 dead in Baghdad's Islamist stronghold of Sadr City, officials said, while 11 US soldiers were killed in a spate of attacks.

Smoke was rising and US war planes roared overhead as armed members of radical cleric Moqtada Sadr's Mehdi Army ran through the streets of the Baghdad slum after a night of fighting that left one US soldier dead and scores of Iraqis killed and wounded.

The Iraqi health ministry reported that 40 people were killed and more than 270 injured as a fragile week-long truce called by Sadr unravelled.

Militia fighters killed a US soldier and wounded two others Tuesday in a small-arms and rocket-propelled grenade attack in the sprawling Baghdad district, US Lieutenant Colonel James Hutton told AFP.

The soldier's death brought to 992 the total number of US military fatalities since the US-led March 2003 invasion of Iraq that toppled Saddam Hussein.

US tanks rumbled around the neighborhood and automatic fire echoed on Sadr City's main al-Shuhader Street. Four US military vehicles blocked off al-Hay square, site of Sadr's main office.

On side streets, Mehdi army soldiers, dressed in their trademark black outfits and civilian clothes, planted bombs in the road.

Hutton reported a string of attacks overnight on US forces in the den of the young radical cleric who has organised a thousands-strong army of young and unemployed Shiite men united under a banner of Islamic fundamentalism.

Sadr aide Sheikh Naim al-Qaabi said 15 Mehdi Army fighters were killed and 62 wounded in the strife.

"Last night was the most intense shelling of Sadr City since the Americans arrived in Iraq," he said, adding heavy aircraft fire lasted from 11 pm (1900 GMT) to 4 am.

"The people are defending themselves against the occupation forces."

There was no confirmation from the Americans about air strikes in the Shiite neighborhood. A mortar landed near a school as the battle raged, the military said.

An uneasy calm had reigned in the district since the end of last month's three-week revolt by Sadr against the Americans in the Shiite shrine city of Najaf.

Sadr's men had entered negotiations with the Iraqi government to disarm and enter the political arena, but his right-hand men complained the Iraqi government had started arresting its followers last week despite the talks.

As troubles flared in the Shiite slum, the US military was mourning its dead from a flurry of anti-coalition attacks around Baghdad Monday.

In addition to the US soldier killed in Sadr city, another three were killed in a string of attacks in the capital after a car bomb killed seven soldiers and three Iraqi national guard near the restive city of Fallujah Monday, the deadliest single strike in months for US troops.

The Fallujah attack was claimed by black-hooded men, gripping assault rifles, in the name of Jordanian fighter Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi's militant group, in a video obtained by AFP.

Meanwhile, Baghdad governor Ali al-Haidri narrowly escaped a bomb assassination attempt on his life that left two civilians dead, officials said.

"There was an attempt to assassinate the Baghdad governor," said interior ministry spokesman Colonel Adnan Abdul Rahman.

A police investigator on the scene in Baghdad's western al-Adel district said the bomb was a small booby trap device planted in a pothole, although the interior ministry described it as a car bomb. Some of Haidri's bodyguards were wounded, the governor said.

The deputy director of Karama hospital in Baghdad was also shot dead, the health ministry said.

And in the northern city of Mosul, the son of governor for the northern Iraqi province of Niniveh was assassinated.

Leith Dureid Kashmula, 19, was shot several times in the chest by unknown attackers as he was alone in his car in western Mosul, said Hazem Gallawi, media adviser for the governorate.

A Turkish truck driver was killed when insurgents fired small arms at some petrol tankers parked outside Abbasi, about 22 kilometres (13 miles) from the rebel bastion of Samarra, police said.

The US military and Turkish embassy had no information about the incident.

[TexKat]

Residents of Sadr City show cars that were run over by U.S. armored vehicles, Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday Sept. 7, 2004. U.S. forces battled radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's supporters in the Baghdad slum on Tuesday, killing at least 34 people, including one American soldier, and injuring 193. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

Smoke rises over the central part the town of Falluja, following a U.S. army bombardment, September 7, 2004. U.S. forces and insurgents fought in Falluja on Tuesday, and shelling by American tanks forced some to leave homes in the Iraqi town that has been a hotbed of resistance to the U.S.-backed government, witnesses said. REUTERS/Mohammed Khodor

[TexKat]

What the hell????

A grab from a video obtained by Agence France-Presse (AFP) in Baghdad shows militants of the radical Secret Islamic Army of Iraq calling on a rival group, the Islamic Army of Iraq, to free the two French journalists held hostage since August 20.(AFP/HO)