U.S., Iraq Troops Kill at Least 5 Rebels

[maddezmom]

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All told, Thursday's violence across Iraq left at least 19 civilians killed and 37 wounded.

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Thursday's gunbattle was fought in western Baghdad's al-Jamaa neighborhood, where Sunni and Shiite professionals live. "I woke up to the sound of intense gunfire," said one resident who declined to give his name because of the precarious security in the capital.

The house caught fire and then exploded during the gunbattle, the military said.

Footage shot by Associated Press Television News showed large sections of the house razed to the ground and partial damage to the house next door.

Afterwards, dozens of residents gathered as U.S. troops loaded one Humvee with heavy machine-guns, rocket propelled grenades, rifles and belts of ammunition found inside. Iraqi police put bodies onto a pickup truck.

The insurgents were associated with Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, head of al-Qaida in Iraq and the most notorious terrorist in Iraq, the military said.
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more:http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050623/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_14

[samsingh]

1. we have no proof these are rebels

some of them could be civilians.

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. We have no proof of anything that they report.

[Kraklen]

3. And we've no proof it happened at all.

The US always inflates it's enemy casualty figures.

[unhappycamper]

4. Was this at the Five O'Clock Follies? n/t

[ElectroPrincess]

5. More Enemy Body Count Statistics?

Hot damn, maybe the Neo-Cons honestly believe that they can KILL THEM ALL? Sorry, during the Vietnam War we tried to bomb them back to the stone age and free fire zones ... hell, some villages were completely burned down ... but ya know what?

We couldn't KILL THEM ALL! :spank:

[daleo]

6. I wonder how the Iraqi police feel

Picking up the bodies of their countrymen, shortly after they have been killed by occupation forces.