Iraq Has Deadliest Day in A Month - Attacks Kill 3 GIs & Diplomat

[cthrumatrix]

Iraq Has Deadliest Day in A Month
Attacks Kill 3 GIs, Diplomat, 8 Police
By Karl Vick and Rajiv Chandrasekaran
Washington Post Foreign Service
Friday, October 10, 2003; Page A01


BAGHDAD, Oct. 10 (Friday) -- A Spanish diplomat was assassinated outside his home, three U.S. soldiers were killed in ambushes, and eight Iraqis perished in a car bomb explosion in Baghdad on Thursday, the deadliest day in Iraq in more than a month.

The diplomat, whom the Spanish Foreign Ministry identified as an intelligence officer, was chased down a city street in his underwear by an assassin whose accomplice had politely rung the diplomat's doorbell.

Two U.S. soldiers were killed and four were wounded Thursday night when their patrol was ambushed in a predominantly Shiite Muslim Baghdad slum known as Sadr City, the U.S. military said early Friday. Earlier, another soldier died after a 2 a.m. attack on a convoy in Baqubah, a town 30 miles northeast of Baghdad where U.S. forces say they face attempts on their lives almost every day.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1759-2003Oct9.html

[DannyRed]

1. hmmmm,

ambushes in Sadr City?

Are the Shi'ia starting their push?

[Zech Marquis]

2. much better progress than you think

at least that's what * whistleass said yesterday :eyes:

[leftchick]

3. pay no attention to this...

aWol says all is well in Iraq! Let's keep the news "upbeat" there WP!

[amber dog democrat]

4. Things are going to improve

Now that Condasleeza is more involved in managing things.
Glad to know we are making progess.

[catmandu57]

5. It's different this time

If you'll notice this time around it's the religio crazies doing the killing telling us to fuck off. Whoever thinks we control Iraq is fucking crazy.
I don't care what condi the liar, bremer, wolfowitz, darth rummy, the white house, pentagton, says. Anyone with any sense could look at the 326 dead americans, 2000 wounded, and the latest bill for services and tell you it's throwing money down a rathole.
It goes back to the old George Carlin Vietnam bit " Pull out that don't sound manly to me ".
Well the chimp* has proven he's got a bigger one than poppy and can sleep with that old bitch dog of a mother when he wants so it time to getr the fuck out now.

[ReadTomPaine]

6. And of course... barely a murmur in the US press.

Too busy studying Arnold's butt.