Bomb Kills Coalition Soldier, 2 civilians in Iraq

[leftchick]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&ncid=578&e=2&u=/nm/20031028/ts_nm/iraq_basra_dc

<snip>"There were two explosions in Basra city today. One explosion killed an Iraqi civilian, a non-Iraqi civilian and a coalition soldier," a British military spokeswoman told Reuters. She said there were no casualties in the second blast.


..... I thought Basra was all peaceful and happy!

[Brucey]

1. Wow, the activity has really picked up in the last few weeks.

How long can this continue?

[davhill]

3. How long have the Palestiniand been fighting?

[Spazito]

5. The Russians were in Afghanistan 10 years.....

so I think that might be one measure to use for how long the US might be there if Bush is re-elected.

[underpants]

2. MORE evidence of W's SUCKcess

Way to go f**ko

[leftchick]

4. there was also this from Aljazeera earlier...

Two Attacks on US Forces in Iraq

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/FD48BA22-BC32-4040-941F-D1AA255FE9CB.htm

<snip>
US forces have come under two separate attacks in the Iraqi city of Samarra, north of Baghdad.

Witnesses told Aljazeera’s correspondent that a US military camp was targeted in the first attack on Tuesday morning. In the second incident, an explosive device hit a US patrol in the al-Mafraq area, south of Samarra, damaging a tank.

[Military Brat]

6. Basra peaceful and happy, while ...

... here in America, we're all prosperous, joining hands and singing Kumbaya

Disgorge George

[Kinkistyle]

7. And so it begins....

How long before we get hushed up re-enactments of My-Lai in Vietnam or the the massacre under the No Gun bridge in Korea.....

or have they already happened in triplicate?

[Sagan]

8. so it's "Coalition" soldiers now?

Was it an American? A Pole? British? Nicaraguan?

[wtmusic]

9. A Brit

Brits are in Basra