Fighting Surges in Iraq; 2 U.S. Troops Die

[maddezmom]

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Heavy fighting surged Friday in the Euphrates River city of Ramadi, police and hospital officials said, and the U.S. military reported the deaths of two more soldiers around the militant stronghold, scene of nearly one-quarter of 29 American deaths this month.

In Baghdad, a suicide bomber on a public minibus set off an explosives belt on Friday as the vehicle approached a busy terminal Friday, killing at least five people and wounding eight, police said. Elsewhere in the capital, a roadside bomb killed a U.S. Army soldier whose convoy was patrolling southeastern Baghdad Friday night, raising to at least 1,913 the number of U.S. service members who have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003.

Gunmen also killed a member of the commission charged with ensuring former members of Saddam Hussein's Baathist regime are banned from the Iraqi government, police said. Thirteen commission members have been killed since it was created two years ago.

The U.S. military declined to say if it was conducting a large offensive against Ramadi, but police and residents have reported heavy fighting there during the past week. Seven service members have died in or near the city since Sept. 1.

more:http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050924/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

[rodeodance]

1. as we have wall to wall coverage of reporters getting smacked

by the wind and rain.

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. The part where they stand in the rain is getting to be cliche

Nobody in their right mind stands out in the rain like that for no good reason. It is absolutely bogus sensationalism.

[WCGreen]

3. Yawn... click.... Stupid idiots don't know enough to come out of the rain

[sam sarrha]

4. I heard today that only 10% of insurgents are "foreign fighters"..

it looks like an anti-colonial movement.. bad news