[RetiredArmy]

Until Saddam and sons are caught or killed this crap is going to continue. They are the key. Until these guys see that these three are finished, it will continue.

[AAABEST]

Isn't this special.

Not good at all.

[Lijahsbubbe]

Ya know what, I think most of them hate us. They are not grateful, and I don't believe this is just some of "Saddam's men, or Arabs from other countries.

[Destro]

fyi

[DoctorMichael]

At some point here we are going to have to tell the Iraqis that this is THEIR country and we need them to contribute to the cause by leading us directly to all Baathist members and foreign fighters immediately, instead of standing around in the streets like a bunch of gawking dogs. Freedom is not FREE, ragheads.

Just because Americans are there doesn't mean that Democracy is going to suddenly break out all over the place.

On the other hand, we could completely depopulate the country in a few weeks, put in Palm Springs-like subdivisions with names like Rancho Vista, Camino de Real and Buena Vista for our senior citizens. Add a few golf courses designed by Arnold Palmer with some great sand traps and you have a wonderful retirement community for the baby boomers.

[joesnuffy]

Islam is the problem....and unless you eliminate it...this will continue
To allow CAIR and the Wahhabi lobby to access our political system and
influence our leaders decsions
Is to cut our own throats ...and those of our troops...
Get serious or get out

[Smogger]

The title of the article would lead one to believe that 4 US troops were killed as a result of hostile fire.

If you read the article you discover that one was killed by a remote bomb, while another died in a traffic accident. The two others that were killed were Iragi civilians.

At least they correctly reported 19 have died since the war was officially declared over instead of the 50+ number which inludes accidents they have been touting for the last couple of weeks.

[MichaelP]

Do we have to excerpt everything? I thought just LAT and WP. It's annoying in the extreme. This is just AP for gosh sakes!

Mike

[Prodigal Son]

Rest of article (they get gone sometimes)

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On Wednesday afternoon, ambushers dropped grenades from a Baghdad overpass onto a passing convoy of Army Humvees, said Marine Corps Maj. Sean Gibson. There were no serious injuries.

In Hilla, 45 miles south of Baghdad, three Marines were wounded Wednesday in an ambush, a U.S. military statement said. One Marine was killed and two were injured when their vehicle - part of a quick reaction force dispatched in response to the ambush - rolled over on the soft shoulder on the way to the scene.

On Thursday, two Iraqi employees of the national electricity authority were killed when their U.S.-led convoy came under a grenade attack in west Baghdad, U.S. soldiers and Iraqi police said.

The convoy included U.S. Humvees at the front and the back and two Iraqi civilian vehicles in the middle. The soldiers and Iraqi police said the two Iraqis who were killed were traveling in the same car.

U.S. troops evacuated the two bodies from the badly damaged vehicle, which was covered with blood and broken glass.


(AP) A British soldier checks cars entering Basra's airport in southern Iraq, Wednesday, June 25, 2003....
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None of the names of the injured or killed Americans were available.

At least 19 U.S. soldiers have died in hostile fire since major combat was officially declared over in May.

On Tuesday, six British soldiers were killed in southern Iraq during a shooting rampage by townspeople furious over the killing of four neighbors during a demonstration, apparently at the hands of British troops.

That attack, in the town of Majar al-Kabir, 180 miles southeast of Baghdad, had shattered the peace that had reigned in Shiite-dominated southern Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein - and spurred British authorities to consider requiring troops to wear body armor and helmets.

On Thursday, 11 pickup trucks filled with armed men from the local security force patrolled the city on their own, with no British troops in the town center.

Recent attacks on U.S. forces near Baghdad have been blamed on remnants of Saddam's regime or his Sunni followers, but the Majar al-Kabir attack came in the mostly Shiite south, where resentment toward Saddam Hussein's government had been strong.

The Shiite gunmen were enraged by the death of their neighbors - allegedly at the hands of British troops during a demonstration earlier in the day - and over weapons searches in homes with women.

On Tuesday, about 100 residents protested the British weapons sweeps in a four-hour demonstration outside the mayor's office, where a dozen British troops were posted, witnesses said. Protesters threw rocks, and British troops fired back with rubber bullets before switching to live ammunition, the witnesses said.

Local police said four Iraqis were killed, and that armed residents then killed two British military policemen. Then, witnesses said, some Iraqis went to their homes to get weapons. At least 20 armed Iraqis stormed the police station, where four British military police were located along with Iraqi policemen.

British forces in Iraq have been reduced from 45,000 during the war to 15,500 now, two-thirds of them ground forces. The United States has brought home some 130,000 troops from the region; 146,000 American forces remain in Iraq.