Insurgents attack US patrol, medical team in Baghdad (unknown # of US casu

[leftchick]

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-02/21/content_2601328.htm

BAGHDAD, Feb. 21 (Xinhuanet) -- Insurgents detonated a roadside bomb at a US military patrol in Baghdad on Monday and attacked a medical team sent by a helicopter to evacuate the wounded, the US military said.

The attack took place at Dora neighborhood in southern Baghdad, but it was not clear how many US soldiers were wounded or killed in the incident, the military said.

Also in Baghdad, three Iraqis were killed, including an Iraqi intelligence officer, police said.

"A police patrol found a body riddled with bullets, inside a car in eastern Baghdad," a police officer said, adding that "after investigations we identified the victim as an officer from the new Iraqi intelligence."

Elsewhere in the capital, a female official and her driver, working for a mobile communication company, were shot dead by unknown gunmen who fled the scene after the attack, police said

[Straight Shooter]

1. Attacking a medical team is low. Very low.

I really wish bush would visit Iraq and get his boots on the ground, wander around Iraq a bit, see a bit of combat action, so he would stop talking nonsense about how the resistance is losing.

[dandrhesse]

2. he couldn't do that his own army would probably attack him

[DemoTex]

7. Very low indeed.

The Red Cross on the nose and doors of UH-1 Huey medevac helicopters was used as an aiming point for VC and NVA gunners. Many medevac helicopters were shot down in that war.

[NIGHT TRIPPER]

9. about as low as BOMBING HOSPITALS while INVADING a country

and KILLING 200 thousand civilians--
Could be even lower that attacking medics...just think of all the doctors and wounded and sick killed by bombing the hospitals.
The U.S. should leave now-
BYE BYE- forget the oil-screw Halliburton--too late now--
The damage they've done to Iraq is never going to be forgiven-
NEVER-
All guerrilla resistance is "unfair"-
-but wasn't the using of "low" tactics how the American Revolution was won?
another unsuccessful occupation

[Barrett808]

11. Yes, saw Dahr Jamail last night -- confirmed US war crimes in Fallujah

Bombing the hospital and clinic that stored medical supplies; arresting patients and doctors in another hospital; snipers firing on ambulances.

[atreides1]

8. The US Military set the parameters.

Abu Ghraib, Fallujah, this is what the insurgents have as an example.

This doesn't come as a surprise to most people here at DU, most of us knew that soemthing like this was coming, we just didn't know when.

Is it justified? No it isn't justified, but we can now expect it to get worse.

[DrWeird]

10. Isn't that standard operating procedure for the US?

Wound a guy, wait for his friends to come out from cover and rescue him, then shoot them too?

[ckramer]

3. But Hillary said insurgents are weakened!

[leftchick]

4. photos of the aftermath....

A truck tows a humvee damaged by an improvised explosive device which was triggered as a military convoy was driving past in the Dora district in southern Baghdad February 21, 2005. REUTERS/Akram Saleh



U.S. soldiers secure the scene of a blast which overturned a Humvee in the Dora area of Baghdad Iraq (news - web sites) Monday, Feb. 21, 2005. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

[Randi_Listener]

5. More Meat for the Machine

The soldiers are merely grist for the fucking mill now.

[Magleetis]

6. Still

bringing it on.

[leftchick]

12. 3 US Soldiers Dead (1482)

Three US soldiers have been killed and eight wounded in a bomb attack in Iraq, the US military said.

"At approximately 8.00am (0500 GMT) on 21 February, three US soldiers were killed and eight were wounded when an IED (improvised explosive device) detonated during a medical evacuation of a soldier," a statement said on Monday.

"The soldier was injured in a convoy accident caused by a civilian vehicle," it added, without specifying where the attack took place.

The death brings to 1482 the number of US military personnel killed in Iraq since the US-led war in March 2003

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/1A2B5130-3578-4A67-BE8F-4A20578E6CC1.htm

Military Fatalities: By Time Period

Period US UK Other* Total Avg Days
4 46 0 1 47 2.14 22
3 579 26 27 632 2.93 216
2 717 27 58 802 1.89 424
1 140 33 0 173 4.02 43
Total 1482 86 86 1654 2.35 705

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Time Periods Defined
Latest Fatality: Feb 21, 2005


Military Fatalities: By Month
Period US UK Other* Total Avg Days
2-2005 42 0 1 43 2.05 21

http://icasualties.org/oif/