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Title: Baghdad bomb kills five US troops
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BBC
URL Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7287917.stm
Published: Mar 10, 2008
Author: BBC
Post Date: 2008-03-10 11:51:57 by robin
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Comments: 10
Three other troops and an Iraqi interpreter were also injured in the blast, an army statement said. The attack is one of the most deadly strikes on US forces in Baghdad since last summer's US troop surge. It came hours after a Sunni tribal leader, Thaer Ghadban al-Karkhi, was killed in a suicide bomb attack at his house near Baquba, north of Baghdad. Most vulnerable Iraqi army spokesman Maj Gen Qasim Ata told AFP news agency: "A terrorist wearing an explosive vest blew himself against a dismounted US patrol. The US military told the BBC that the attack took place in the Mansour district of the capital. The strike takes the number of US troops killed since the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 close to 4,000, says the BBC's Hugh Sykes in Baghdad. As the invasion's five-year anniversary approaches, many Baghdad neighbourhoods have witnessed security improvements, with the number of attacks on American soldiers significantly down from last year. The bomber had targeted the US military at their most vulnerable, as military patrols around the Iraqi capital are often conducted in armoured vehicles, our correspondent says. But the US cannot function unless they get out of their armoured vehicles and engage with the people, he adds. In the earlier attack, a woman detonated an explosives vest as Mr al-Kharki answered his door, killing him, his daughter and two guards. He was a member of the mainly Sunni Arab Awakening councils, allied with the US military against al-Qaeda in Iraq. Sunni militias have been credited with helping to bring down the level of violence in Iraq in recent months.
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Five US soldiers have been killed by a suicide bomb attack while on patrol in Baghdad, the US army has said. 
"We remain resolute in our resolve to protect the people of Iraq and kill or capture those who would bring them harm," Col Allen Batschelet, chief of staff of US forces in Baghdad, told Reuters news agency. 
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#1. To: Cynicom (#0)
ping I would hate to see a surge that wasn't working.
'He will make Cheney look like Gandhi.' Shame we have to read this on U.K. news. Perhaps five young men dying is no longer news?
I first read of this on Yahoo! It came up when I checked my Yahoo! email account, so it IS being reported here. I didn't read it that closely. Was the suicide bomber perhaps an exploding dog taking revenge for the puppy video?
“I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.” - Sam Houston
I dont yahoo but found it on UK. Just enlist five more replacements.
Perhaps five young men dying is no longer news? We have become numb. Remember the weekly scorecard every Friday evening during the Vietnam war?
'He will make Cheney look like Gandhi.' This ruling government does not care. Worse yet, American voters have voted overwhelmingly for people that advocate more war.
McCain wants a 100 year war.
The one man that called for all of the troops to come home was mocked, ridculed on national TV and the people laughed and cheered.
I heard it explained this way. "We cannot withdraw because then we would 'lose face' with the Eastern world." Since when did we become Asiatics? Probably some of those soldiers DID just literally "lose face." So we can say we are "losing face there" so we don't have to "lose face here."
“I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.” - Sam Houston
When the draft is instituted, watch the mood change.
U.S. conservative pundit Pat Buchanan, imagining presidential hopeful John McCain in the White House.
#2. To: robin (#1)
#3. To: Cynicom (#2)
#4. To: Sam Houston (#3)
#5. To: Cynicom (#2)
Shame we have to read this on U.K. news.
U.S. conservative pundit Pat Buchanan, imagining presidential hopeful John McCain in the White House.
#6. To: robin (#5)
#7. To: Cynicom, robin (#6)
This ruling government does not care. Worse yet, American voters have voted overwhelmingly for people that advocate more war.
#8. To: TwentyTwelve (#7)
#9. To: Cynicom (#8)
#10. To: Sam Houston (#9)
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