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Title: Tuesday: 143 Iraqis, 5 GIs Killed; 124 Iraqis Wounded
Source: AntiWar.com
URL Source: http://www.antiwar.com/updates/?articleid=10703
Published: Mar 21, 2007
Author: AntiWar.com / Agencies
Post Date: 2007-03-21 14:09:17 by Brian S
Keywords: None
Views: 175
Comments: 12

During a second day of increase violence, at least 143 Iraqis were killed or found dead and 124 more were injured. Most of the incidents were small in nature with the exception of a clash near Fallujah that left almost 60 people dead. Also, two American servicemembers were killed when an explosive device blasted their vehicle during a security patrol in Baghdad. The U.S. military also released the names of three previously unreported GI deaths that occurred on Mar. 17 in separate events in Baghdad, Tikrit, and Muqdadiyah.

Former vice-president under Saddam Hussein, Taha Yassin Ramadan, was executed before dawn for crimes against humanity. He is the third Saddam aide to be executed since the former leader’s execution in December.

A combined force of police and tribal fighters battled in Amariya with gunmen believed linked to al-Qaeda. Nine tribal fighters and eight policemen were killed along with 39 of the gunmen. Seventeen people were also wounded.

In Baghdad, a car bomb near a mosque in the Ubaidi area killed one and injured three more. Three people were killed and seven injured during a car bomb attack near a Karrada area bridge. A separate car bomb near a police station killed seven and wounded 20 more. Four were injured when a bomb when of in a mini-bus traveling through eastern Baghdad. Mortars fell in the Abu Dsheer neighborhood where they killed seven and wounded 20 others. Another mortar wounded a man in Zaafaraniya. One person was killed and six others wounded during a bomb in the al-Mashan trade center. A suicide car bomber drove into a checkpoint in western Baghdad where he killed one soldier and wounded another. During a U.S-led raid in Hurriya, three gunmen were killed. Two police officers were injured during a drive-by shooting in the Mahdiya area. Captain Hussein Abdulilah was gunned down in the Mansour district. Also, 32 bodies were recovered mostly in western neighborhoods.

The body of a man was discovered in Fallujah.

A car bomb west of Fallujah in Halabsa left at least 10 dead and seven injured.

Just north of Baghdad on Monday, mortars injured five people while south of Baghdad mortars wounded four more.

A body was found in Kirkuk; the victim had been stabbed and tortured.

A policeman was gunned down on a main road near Kirkuk. Last night, nine civilians were injured during a car bomb blast near a girls school.

Also, the Iraqi army reported killing three gunmen in different locations.

Gunmen killed a man and wounded another in the town of al-Zab.

A woman and child were injured during a mortar attack in Iskandariya.

Two policemen were killed when a bomb exploded near their vehicle in Haditha.

In Mosul, clashes erupted between U.S. troops and gunmen.

A motorcycle bomb injured no one when it blew up in Madaen.

Ten civilians were injured during a drive-by shooting in Bani Saad.

During clashes in Tikrit, four gunmen and one civilian were killed, while four others were injured.

A previously unreported death occured during an attack in Samarra last night.

Several members of the the Shirqat police force were injured during a roadside bomb blast.

The bodies of two brothers were recovered in al-Touz.

Two truck drivers were kidnapped near Akreesh.

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#1. To: Brian S, ALL (#0)

Just so you know who we are up against, Brian...

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http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=070320203409.spj83omw&show_article=1

Iraq insurgents used children in car bombing: general

Mar 20 03:34 PM US/Eastern

Insurgents in Iraq detonated an explosives-rigged vehicle with two children in the back seat after US soldiers let it through a Baghdad checkpoint over the weekend, a senior US military official said Tuesday.

The vehicle was stopped at the checkpoint but was allowed through when soldiers saw the children in the back, said Major General Michael Barbero of the Pentagon's Joint Staff.

"Children in the back seat lowered suspicion. We let it move through. They parked the vehicle, and the adults ran out and detonated it with the children in the back," Barbero said.

The general said it was the first time he had seen a report of insurgents using children in suicide bombings. But he said Al-Qaeda in Iraq is changing tactics in response to the tighter controls around the city.

A US defense official said the incident occurred on Sunday in Baghdad's Adhamiyah district, a mixed neighborhood adjacent to Sadr City, which is predominantly Shiite.

After going through the checkpoint, the vehicle parked next to a market across the street from a school, said the official, who asked not to be identified.

"And the two adults were seen to get out of the vehicle, and run from the vehicle, and then followed by the detonation of the vehicle," the official said.

"It killed the two children inside as well as three other civilians in the vicinity. So, a total of five killed, seven injured," the official said.

Officials here said they did not know who the children were or their relationship to the two adults who fled the scene. They had no information about their ages or genders.

"The brutality and the ruthlessness of this enemy hasn't changed," said Barbero, deputy director of regional operations of the Joint Staff. "They are just interested in slaughtering Iraqi civilians, to be very honest."

Attacks on Iraqi civilians are down by a third and sectarian murders have fallen by 50 percent since mid-February when US and Iraqi forces began moving into Baghdad as part of a new security crackdown, the general said.

On the other hand, there has been no let-up in attacks on US forces by Al-Qaeda in Iraq and other Sunni extremist groups, he said.

The incidence of car bombings and suicide attacks, which are typically carried out by Sunni extremist groups against Shiites, also have gone up even though their effectiveness is down, he said.

"As our checkpoints, and control points have been more effective, as they try to execute these high profile attacks with these vehicle-borne IEDs (improvised explosive devices) in Baghdad, we're stopping a lot of them at these checkpoints and they are not getting to their intended targets," he said.

But he said they will change their tactics.

Barbero pointed to the recent use of chlorine bombs as another example of the shifting tactics.

Three trucks with chlorine were blown up by suicide bombers over the weekend in Al-Anbar province, killing two policemen and releasing toxic fumes that sickened an estimated 350 people.

Barbero said Al-Qaeda in Iraq appeared to be resorting to use of chlorine bombs to intimidate tribal leaders that have turned against them in Al-Anbar.

"We assess those as relatively ineffective. However, that is an emerging tactic that we are seeing."

"We think it will continue to be exercised in Iraq. Chlorine is readily accessible and we've had a number of these," he said.

He said US commanders remain concerned about the Shiite militias led by radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, even though US forces are now operating freely in Sadr City and his Mahdi army militia is quiet.

Sadr is still in Iran but in communication with leaders of his movement in Iraq, he said.

"Where we are with the leaders of his movement is at a pretty delicate point, and I probably don't want to talk any more about his followers, and where we are in our relationship with them," he said.

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BeAChooser  posted on  2007-03-21   14:22:28 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

Whaddaya mean "we"?

My conclusion is that "they" are willing to fight to regain control of "their" country by any means necessary. I think the U.S. under a similar siege would have already given up most of its territory by now.

The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government. - Sam Houston

Sam Houston  posted on  2007-03-21   15:25:15 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

This "suicide bombing" has all the markings of a planted expolsive/cell phone blast. 'Let them through because kids were in the car'....A new, but very laughable cover.

“Yes, but is this good for Jews?"

Eoghan  posted on  2007-03-21   15:37:59 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

Whaddaya mean "we"?

Oh that's right ... you are on their side.

BeAChooser  posted on  2007-03-21   18:46:12 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

"they" are willing to fight to regain control of "their" country by any means necessary

Including murdering their own children.

BeAChooser  posted on  2007-03-21   18:46:52 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

This "suicide bombing" has all the markings of a planted expolsive/cell phone blast.

Or someone elses.

BeAChooser  posted on  2007-03-21   18:47:53 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

Appearing more to be a Lincoln Group contractual agreement...Any further sources to indicate the incident actually occurred?

“Yes, but is this good for Jews?"

Eoghan  posted on  2007-03-21   18:50:38 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

I am in favor of nation-states retaining sovereignty and resisting illegal invasions by New World Order forces. This applies across the board. You are NWO and are no doubt proud of it. You are the enemy of free people and nations all across the globe.

The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government. - Sam Houston

Sam Houston  posted on  2007-03-22   9:34:42 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

I am in favor of nation-states retaining sovereignty and resisting illegal invasions by New World Order forces.

How about the invasion of Kuwait by Iraq?

Was that ok with you because Saddam wasn't NWO?

Did Saddam not give up some *rights to sovereignty* by doing that?

Was he not in violation of the agreement his country signed to stop that conflict?

Shouldn't there be some consequences for breaking that agreement?

Or are we just the bad guys all-around in your mind?

You are NWO and are no doubt proud of it.

Define NWO. Let's see if I really fit the label you've applied.

BeAChooser  posted on  2007-03-22   9:52:39 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

Those who resort to the aggressive use of force under false pretenses are bad guys. Iraq was a chronic "bad guy" nation by invading Iran (although there is some evidence we goaded Saddam into that one also) and also by invading Kuwait (clearly there is evidence April Glaspie encouraged that one).

I adhere to the principles set out in George Washington's Farewell Address. You do not and no one of any influence in our federal government (Ron Paul is an exception, but he has no real influence) does either and that is why the U.S.-led NWO will soon implode of its own contradictions (a major one is the coming North American Union, which VERY FEW so-called "conservatives" are willing to sign up for, but which will be announced as a fait accompli in 2010, whether any of us like it or not).

I wasn't aware Iraq had reinvaded Kuwait sometime between 1991 and 2003. Iraq was in compliance with a WAY higher percentage of UN Security Council and/or General Assembly resolutions than Israel ever has been.

But, of course, in a unipolar 'PNAC version of the NWO' world, there is no such thing as international law and national sovereignty. PNAC chooses a target and its minions go to work to deploy its NWO "shock troops" to dispatch with Israel's latest "enemy of the week."

Iraq was "rewarded" for having complied with most of the UN resolutions by being "conquered" by a lying administration in Washington, D.C. It has the right and even the duty to throw off the tyranny being imposed upon it by the knaves who ordered it invaded.

The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government. - Sam Houston

Sam Houston  posted on  2007-03-22   10:37:35 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

outstanding post, Sam.

christine  posted on  2007-03-22   11:07:58 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

Iraq was a chronic "bad guy" nation by invading Iran (although there is some evidence we goaded Saddam into that one also) and also by invading Kuwait (clearly there is evidence April Glaspie encouraged that one).

NONSENSE.

Tariq Aziz, who was at the meeting in question, stated in an interview with PBS (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gulf/oral/aziz/2.html) that "She didn't tell us anything strange. She didn't tell us in the sense that we concluded that the Americans will not retaliate. That was nonsense you see. It was nonsense to think that the Americans would not attack us. In the early hours of the 2nd of August, the whole apparatus of the leadership took precautions for an American speedy immediate retaliation." He went on to say "So we had no illusions that the Americans will not retaliate against being in Kuwait because they knew that this was a conflict between the two of us-- Iraq and the United States."

Aziz told the New York Times on 31 May 1991 that "She didn't give a green light, and she didn't mention a red light because the question of our presence in Kuwait was not raised. ... And we didn't take it as a green light ... that if we intervened militarily in Kuwait, the Americans would not react. That was not true. We were expecting an American attack on the morning of the second of August."

USA Today reported that "Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz says neither he nor Saddam Hussein thought U.S. Ambassador April Glaspie gave Iraq a green light to invade Kuwait in a notorious July 1990 meeting". It quoted Aziz saying "We didn't have any false illusion about the position of the United States. We knew the United States would have a strong reaction against that. So we didn't have any false expectations the United States would sit and watch" the invasion. It quoted him saying that "At that stage we knew that it would lead to a conflict. And later on, when they sent troops, we knew it would lead to a war."

Tariq Aziz had no possible motivation that I can see to lie about these things at the time he said them. He said these things at a time when Saddam was still in power and he still held his high position in the Iraqi government. He was still under the thumb of Saddam at a time when Saddam still considered himself and his country to be at war with the United States.

You base this entire claim on a transcript produced by Saddam's regime ... who we all know weren't above manipulating the facts. Glaspie testified under oath that the transcript was a fabrication. She testified that she told Saddam that the US would not accept anything but a peaceful solution to their dispute with Kuwait. And Tariq Aziz admitted to western journalists that the transcript was "incomplete". Furthermore, are you aware that there are TWO DIFFERENT Iraqi produced transcripts of the meeting. That proves that one or the other OR BOTH are not accurate.

I adhere to the principles set out in George Washington's Farewell Address.

"We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience." - George Washington.

"To err is natural; to rectify error is glory." - George Washington.

"It is better to be alone than in bad company." - George Washington.

"Make the most of the hemp seed and sow it everywhere." - George Washington (couldn't resist).

Iraq was in compliance with a WAY higher percentage of UN Security Council and/or General Assembly resolutions than Israel ever has been.

Oh ... so this is really all about your dislike of Israel. I see. Well there's a difference between the Iraq case and Israel's case. Israel never launched a war of aggression against a decidedly inferior opponent and lost. Israel never used WMD against another country or its own people. Israel never signed an agreement not to even research WMD.

And by the way, I'm still waiting for you to define NWO.

BeAChooser  posted on  2007-03-22   13:55:02 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

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