Rebels attack; Int'l groups bolt Baghdad (Military Freight Train attacked)

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2003-10-30-iraq_x.htm

Insurgents blasted a freight train west of Baghdad and exploded a bomb near a convoy in a northern city, injuring a U.S. soldier, on Thursday as international organizations continued their exodus from Iraq.

In Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit, U.S. soldiers also raided six houses after receiving "reliable intelligence" that the inhabitants were helping to establish a "new terrorist network there and planning terrorist attacks against coalition forces," a military spokesman said.

The freight train was carrying military supplies near Fallujah west of Baghdad, when an improvised bomb set four containers ablaze. No casualties were reported, but the attack sparked a frenzy of looting by Iraqis who carried off computers, tents, bottled water and other supplies.

A soldier from the 2nd Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division was slightly wounded early Thursday when a bomb exploded near a U.S. convoy in the northern city of Mosul, the military said

[loudnclear]

1. I feel like I am watching a bad cowboy movie.

When do we learn that these people don't want us there and they are smarter than we are?

[Bridget Burke]

3. "Lawrence of Arabia" wasn't a cowboy movie....

Blowing up trains is not a new idea...

[Tansy_Gold]

4. That was my very first thought on reading this

Someone needs to tell the bushnazis, "It's the lessons of history, stupids!"

[underpants]

6. "Hey Butch you think you used enough dynamite there?"

Jesus they are taking out trains.

[rocktivity]

2. We have seen the enemy--too bad the Pretzel-Dunce won't

They're attacking TRAINS now? And the press STILL calls them them "insurgents" as if they were a handful of gnats to be brushed away? The U.S. has a full-time, full-fledged enemy here, just as much as they did in the previous world wars. THERE IS A WAR GOING ON, and the Preztel-Dunce is losing!


rocknation

[underpants]

5. Doctors without Borders is pulling out too

The United Nations said Wednesday it was temporarily pulling its remaining international staff out of Baghdad, joining other organizations in withdrawing after Monday's deadly suicide car bombing at the Baghdad headquarters of the Red Cross.

The International Committee of the Red Cross and Medecins Sans Frontieres, or Doctors Without Borders, said they too were pulling their workers out of Baghdad.

She said it was not an "evacuation" and staff in the north would remain.

[burrowowl]

7. If Doctors without Borders

is leaving, it really must be bad.

[underpants]

8. That is exactly what I thought too

I can't say I know a LOT about them but I always understood they went just about anywhere. Yikes.

[gratuitous]

9. And we've seen a preview of how the corrupt will spin this

I don't recall if I saw it here or in the paper, but some loathesome creature claimed that the Red Cross and Doctors Without Borders were pulling out of the hot spot areas solely to embarrass Chimpy, and these organizations weren't interested in helping the Iraqi people at all.

The sentiments of the Loony Right are more reliable than a whole bottle of ipecac!

[underpants]

10. It's just all about George isn't it?

Wasn't that sort of one of the reasons they gave for Saddam not using WMD that he didn't have anyway?

~'He only didn't use them to embarass the US and PRESIDENT Bush"

Something like that.

Yeah Doctors without borders is NOT going to administer medicine and care to embarass one person. Puhllleeeeeeeease. And the Red Cross too?

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