Clashes in Mosul between US troops and insurgents

[Barrett808]

Baghdad, 13 June (AKI) - New clashes are reported to have broken out between Iraqi guerrillas and US troops on Monday in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, leaving scores injured. The Kuwaiti news agency Kuna reported eyewitnesses as saying that armed insurgents attacked American and Iraqi soldiers as they patrolled Liberation Square, in the west of the city.

The witnesses said the US troops then surrounded the whole area, attacking the insurgents with helicopter support from above. The nearest hospital said that following the clashes, around 50 people, most of them civilians, were taken in to be treated for injuries sustained during the fighting. No statement has been issued by the Iraqi security forces and it is not known how many troops and insurgents have been injured in the clashes.

http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level.php?cat=Security&loid=8.0.176754950&par=0

[DavidDvorkin]

1. Thousands of insurgents dead

Two American soldiers suffered minor scratches.

Light at end of tunnel clearly visible!

[hadrons]

4. Light at end of tunnel clearly visible!

too bad its from an oncoming frieght train

[Barrett808]

6. Yes, "last throes" n/t

[oblivious]

10. Got to keep rubbing that in.

As recently as two weeks ago, in a Memorial Day interview on CNN's "Larry King Live," Vice President Dick Cheney said the insurgency was in its "last throes."

http://www.sltrib.com/nationworld/ci_2798774

[ixion]

2. every day, more war crimes are committed in our name

Welcome to the new 'Murika, where we shoot first and then ask no questions. :cry:

[Roland99]

3. And more and more collateral damage winding up in hospitals.

[Barrett808]

5. And these hospitals are severely strained, lacking basic medical supplies

In addition to the brain drain of doctors and other professionals.

[wookie294]

7. Killing one Iraqi fighter creates three more

"We can't kill them all," Lt. Col. Frederick P. Wellman said. "When I kill one I create three."

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/krwashbureau/20050612/ts_krwashbureau/_bc_usiraq_military_wa_1

[Barrett808]

8. Army: Soldiers in Mosul detain insurgents, rescue hostage, find caches

MOSUL, Iraq (Army News Service, June 13, 2005) -- Coalition forces detained 36 suspected terrorists in Mosul, Iraq this past week, rescued a hostage and found seven weapons caches.

A cordon and search operation in southeastern Mosul June 9, conducted because of a lead provided by an Iraqi citizen, led to the rescue of a local reporter who was being held hostage.

To rescue the hostage, the Iraqi Intervention Force overcame a small-arms fire attack from terrorists leaving the house. The IIF also detained an individual suspected of being involved in the kidnapping. The hostage was treated for minor injuries sustained during the kidnapping. The IIF confiscated a number of weapons and other material from the kidnappers’ house.

Coalition forces detained the leader of the Mosul-based Ansar Al-Sunnah terror cell, Mullah Mahdi, and four of his associates during cordon and search operations in Mosul June 7.

Mahdi is wanted in connection with multiple terror attacks in Mosul including kidnappings, attacks on polling stations, mortar attacks on Multi-National Forces and the suspected murder of local government officials.

http://www4.army.mil/ocpa/read.php?story_id_key=7452

[Just Me]

9. Things are improving in Iraq?

How long are these poor people going to take being subjected to this chaos before there's a full-scale uprising?

We should NOT have gone in there!!! WE SHOULD NOT BE THERE!!!

[oblivious]

11. Iraq's quisling prime minister might be the most naive person alive.

He's suggesting the resistance lay down their arms and join the quisling government. I remember Iraq disarming to satisfy the "international community", thereby leaving itself basically defenceless, and as a reward it was invaded and destroyed.

And this quisling expects the resistance to fall for this a second time?

Withdrawal plan urged as insurgency takes more lives
Laith Kuba, Al-Jaafari's spokesman, said many militant groups were reaching out to the government. He urged them to lay down their arms.

Kuba said some insurgents want to end their resistance following the election of an Iraqi government that put the American presence in the background.

"Now is the right time for any group to lay down their weapons and take part in the (political) process," he said.

http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20050613/1028580.asp

[leftchick]

12. The USA is Rounding Up Women in Mosul! Perhaps that is a problem?

A crying Iraqi woman and a child cry after their mother was taken away by the U.S. military in Mosul June 12, 2005. Thirty four, seven of which were women, were arrested during a U.S. army raid at a district in Mosul. Picture taken June 12, 2005. REUTERS/Namir Noor-Eldeen

[llmart]

13. This war was lost a long time ago......

let's admit it. We lost - again. First, VietNam and now Iraq. And we're not doing so great in Afghanistan either though we didn't even give that a half-hearted effort.

Oh, the mighty US military has lost again, all because the idiots in charge don't know the first thing about world history, other cultures or running the military. Bush is nothing but a wealthy brat who was given an expensive toy to play with and he broke it.