Suicide Bomber Rams U.S. Convoy in Iraq

[maddezmom]

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A car bomb exploded Tuesday next to a U.S. military convoy on Baghdad's dangerous airport highway, authorities and witnesses said.


Several casualties were seen lying next to a damaged vehicle, according to a witness who arrived on the scene before troops sealed off the stretch of road where the blast occurred. A military ambulance drove up minutes later to evacuate the casualties.


Iraqi police Capt. Talib al-Alawani said the attack was carried out by a suicide bomber who drove his car into the convoy. The U.S. command confirmed that the attack occurred but had no further details.


The highway linking the Baghdad to the city's international airport is considered one of the most dangerous roads in Iraq (news - web sites). Multinational troops use it daily to commute between the huge military base at the airport and the city center.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=736&e=1&u=/ap/20041130/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_bombing

[bluestateguy]

1. This is what the American people voted for

And now they are getting it.

[pa28]

3. That's right.

I remember the joy when the shooting started last year. War fever and no dissent allowed.

Now the options in Iraq are down to a ten-year political and economic "Marshall Plan" or a "ready or not we're leaving" evacuation.

The choice is a massive expense in lives and treasure or a destabilizing cut and run that will throw the whole region into chaos. All this based on a lie about "weapons of mass destruction".

I guess that's why dissent is supposed to be allowed in this country.

[pauliedangerously]

2. This comes as no surprise to Nation readers...

David Corn wrote a great column entitled "The Road to BIAP." (That's Baghdad International Airport).

Here's the link:

http://www.thenation.com/capitalgames/index.mhtml?bid=3&pid=2023


More reading!!
Less television!!
If 9/11 surprised you, then you watch too much television.
Television BAD!
Television leads to impotence.

But you can do whatever you want...because YOU'RE AN AMERICAN.

[leftchick]

4. So That Is What Happened!

Thank you for the link, I had not seen this article. This particular incident I saw in photographs on Yahoo about a month ago. I posted them here and suspected it was mercenaries in the SUVs....

~snip~
He encountered no trouble. But he had in his mind an ambush that happened a few months back on the BIAP road. Two SUVs were carrying private security contractors who work for Blackwater Security Consulting. (In April, four Blackwater employees were killed in Fallujah; the bodies of two of them were burnt by mobs and hung from a bridge.) A van came flying down an access road and pulled alongside the lead SUV. The door to van opened and machine-gun fire blasted the SUV, which came to a halt. The rear SUV was forced to a stop. A pitched battle ensued, with the Blackwater employees firing back until the fuel tanks of their vehicles exploded. At least three Blackwater employees were killed. My source says he was told four were killed. (There was little media coverage of this incident.) And all the insurgents escaped. "This was in the afternoon!" my friend exclaimed. "Nothing stops them from attacking. Nothing stops them from getting away. Imagine this on the road to Dulles. There must have been at least fifteen of them, pulling off a classic L-ambush. Now what does this tell the Iraqi people? That the Americans cannot secure a small stretch of highway. It runs straight from the airport to the entrance of the Green Zone. And it's not secure. That says it all."

[purduejake]

5. Uh, why can't we secure one damned road?

It would seem to me that this is one of the most basic things you can do in war... secure the supply line and major transportation routes. If we can't even do that, how in the heck does anybody think we can win this war?

[maddezmom]

6. don't think anyone here thinks we can

:(

[leftchick]

7. very simply....

You can't. This occupation was lost before it started. Bring the Troops Home Now!

[Guitarman]

9. Not enough troops

Simply put. There are not enough troops on the ground to do the job. There never has been. And the military leadership is so afraid of the administration, that they do not want to ask for more.

[wicket]

8. And now this month is the most deadly for the US forces...

...since the invasion. :(

BRING THEM HOME NOW!