Two Policemen Dead, 36 Missing After Attack in Iraq

[leftchick]

I believe this is a different incident from the bus slayings today.

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=7529495

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Two Iraqi policemen were killed, 14 wounded and at least 36 were missing after an ambush while they were on their way to Baghdad from southern Iraq on Thursday, police said.

They said the policemen had been traveling from Diwaniya, 180 km (112 miles) south of Baghdad, to the capital to collect new vehicles when they were ambushed.

Officials in Diwaniya confirmed that a large group of policemen had left the town to travel to Baghdad.

U.S. forces sealed off the site of the ambush, near the Abu Ghraib area on Baghdad's western fringes.

[Cocoa]

1. I think it's different too

the bus happened in Kirkuk.

This is shaping up to be a pretty horrific day in Iraq. Good thing the media has moved on.

[leftchick]

2. Reuters:Militants Ambush 50-Strong Iraqi Police Convoy

But the Iraqis voted and wolfie says there is no "nationalist" insurgency... :puke:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/iraq_dc


Attacking 50 armed (I am assuming here) IP??? How the hell many fighters does that take?

[Cocoa]

3. just one

it's Zarqawi acting alone, and he's getting desperate since the election! All those dyed fingers are freaking him out.

[lindsayg]

4. I don't believe it

How can this be? Things were supposed to magically get better after the elections.

[Journeyman]

8. Everything *is* magically better after the "election" . . .

(pay no attention to that British aircraft falling from the sky a half hour after the polls closed)

[TomClash]

5. Don't you know?

Our Maximum Leader says:

". . . we will increasingly focus our efforts on helping prepare more capable Iraqi security forces -- forces with skilled officers, and an effective command structure. As those forces become more self-reliant and take on greater security responsibilities, America and its coalition partners will increasingly be in a supporting role."

"Our generational commitment to the advance of freedom, especially in the Middle East, is now being tested and honored in Iraq. That country is a vital front in the war on terror, which is why the terrorists have chosen to make a stand there."

[Kikosexy2]

6. just...

another "free and sovereign" day in Iraq, n'est-pas?

[AlCzervik]

7. The last time this happened they were found in a ditch

with large bullet holes in their skulls.

[lebkuchen]

9. Now we'll watch Iraq unravel

the rest of the way. This is what the news out of Iraq will be, until the helo units start evacuating the Green Zone from the US embassy rooftops.