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Title: U.S. Reports Five Soldiers Killed In Iraq
Source: United Press International
URL Source: http://www.postchronicle.com/news/b ... ingnews/article_21268681.shtml
Published: Mar 12, 2007
Author: UPI
Post Date: 2007-03-12 13:26:55 by Brian S
Keywords: None
Views: 2866
Comments: 96

Mar 12, 2007

The U.S. military said Monday five of its soldiers were killed and two others were injured in separate incidents in Iraq on Sunday.

Three of the deaths were not combat-related, Kuwait's KUNA news agency reported.

In Baghdad, gunmen opened fire on the motorcade of Iraq's minister of agriculture, killing one of his bodyguards and injuring another, CNN reported.

Security officials said 21 bodies had been found scattered around the city on Sunday, most of which showed signs of torture.

Sectarian fighting between Shiite and Sunni Muslims has plagued the Iraqi government's attempts at reconstruction for more than 14 months.

About 60 miles from Baghdad in Muqdadiya, a New York Times correspondent said sectarian fighting turned to arson during the weekend. As many as 100 homes and other buildings were torched, the report said.

Victims from both sects blamed Sunni extremists who have taken over several towns in the area and are demanding protection money, the report said. (c) UPI

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#1. To: Brian S (#0)

Sectarian fighting between Shiite and Sunni Muslims has plagued the Iraqi government's attempts at reconstruction for more than 14 months.

Sectarian violence has kept the number of attacks on US troops down as insurgents have to allocate resources, time, and manpower to fighting each other. So, in other words, the US occupation benefits from this violence and is more than likely responsible for many of these "Car bombs".

Burkeman1  posted on  2007-03-12   13:32:06 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

Sectarian fighting between Shiite and Sunni Muslims has plagued the Iraqi government's attempts at reconstruction for more than 14 months.

Sectarian violence has kept the number of attacks on US troops down as insurgents have to allocate resources, time, and manpower to fighting each other. So, in other words, the US occupation benefits from this violence and is more than likely responsible for many of these "Car bombs".

BAC was busy defending the use of white phosphorus and DU, so he asked me to handle his response to you.

So typical of you, Burqaman, to resort to innuendo and slander against our troops when you have no evidence of wrongdoing. You have no evidence that Negroponte ordered Shia death squads to operate against Sunni. It was just a coincidence that Blackbridge went to Iraq and Iraq went to hell. And the rumors about the "Salvador option" are baseless slanders that have unjustly and tragically kept Negroponte from enjoying vacations in Central America for years. While you hide behind your keyboard and smugly ask "cui bono?", our brave troops are fighting and dying and playing video games in the holy ground of American sacrifice. Why do you hate America?

How's that, BAC? This time, I don't want to hear about a pipeline or a backlog; I want that check in my mailbox tomorrow.

leveller  posted on  2007-03-12   17:06:54 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

BAC was busy defending the use of white phosphorus and DU

Has he really tried to defend this?

robin  posted on  2007-03-12   17:16:19 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

leveller - BAC was busy defending the use of white phosphorus and DU

Has he really tried to defend this?

... when its use will save the life of our soldiers.

BeAChooser  posted on  2007-03-12   19:25:06 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

leveller - BAC was busy defending the use of white phosphorus and DU

Has he really tried to defend this?

... when its use will save the life of our soldiers.

It was worse than I had remembered!

leveller  posted on  2007-03-12   20:57:42 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

... when its use will save the life of our soldiers.

It was worse than I had remembered!

DU is killing our soldiers. White phosphorus has underlined our new reputation as war criminals, so Israel isn't the only war criminals anymore.

robin  posted on  2007-03-12   21:42:45 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

DU is killing our soldiers.

Your proof for this?

Because health physicists ... who are the experts in such matters ... say it isn't.

In fact, I couldn't find one who says it does.

BeAChooser  posted on  2007-03-12   22:15:22 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

robin: DU is killing our soldiers.

BeAChooser: Your proof for this?

Because health physicists ... who are the experts in such matters ... say it isn't.

In fact, I couldn't find one who says it does.

Seems there's rumbling coming out of Europe, too...

Uranium 'killing Italian troops'

By Christian Fraser BBC News, Rome 10 January 2007, 09:59 GMT

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/ europe/6247401.stm

Italian soldiers are still dying following exposure to depleted uranium in the wars in Bosnia and Kosovo, their relatives say.

Troops who served during the wars in the 1990s believe they have contracted cancer and other serious illnesses from extended exposure to the munitions.

The US says it fired around 40,000 depleted uranium rounds during the Bosnian and Kosovo conflicts.

A pressure group says 50 veterans have died and another 200 are seriously ill.

Depleted uranium is used on the tips of bullets and shells. Because of its density it can pierce the armour plating on tanks.

But when it explodes it often leaves a footprint of chemically poisonous and radioactive dust.

The Italians who served in Bosnia and Kosovo were involved in the clear-up of battlefields and came into close contact with exploded ammunition.

Children with disabilities

The association representing the soldiers, known as Anavafaf, says many of those who have died or are ill have contracted cancer.

In 2002 the Italian defence ministry published a report compiled by independent scientists which found a higher than average number of servicemen were suffering from cancer.

It said there was an excessive number of Hodgkin's disease victims among Italian Balkan peacekeepers.

A number of children fathered by the soldiers have been born with disabilities.

There are similar reports from soldiers' associations in Belgium, Spain, Portugal and the Netherlands.

Both the US and Britain acknowledge the dust from depleted uranium can be dangerous if inhaled but they insist the danger is short-lived and localised.

scrapper2  posted on  2007-03-14   18:10:52 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

#51. To: scrapper2, All (#46)

Any Italian health physicists step forward? Or are their experts pretty much your *experts*?

BeAChooser  posted on  2007-03-14 18:50:24 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

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