Insurgents Blow Up Small Shiite Mosque (3 more US troops killed/died)

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060402/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq;_ylt=AknfHjJQO5FL0Mobdjd8AQWs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA2Z2szazkxBHNlYwN0bQ--


Insurgents Blow Up Small Shiite Mosque

By VANESSA ARRINGTON, Associated Press Writer 9 minutes ago

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Insurgents blew up a small Shiite mosque northeast of Baghdad on Sunday, while police reported the discovery of nearly 40 bodies in several neighborhoods of the Iraqi capital. The U.S. military reported the death of three American soldiers.


The status of the crew of a U.S. helicopter that crashed Saturday southwest of Baghdad remained unclear.

The violence came as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw made a surprise visit to press Iraqi politicians to speed up the formation of the government.


.....Two American soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb while on patrol in central Baghdad late Saturday, the U.S. military said. Another soldier from the 101st Airborne Division died Thursday from non-battle related injuries suffered in northern Iraq. No names were released.

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1. all shot and bound

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060402/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq;_ylt=AknfHjJQO5FL0Mobdjd8AQWs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA2Z2szazkxBHNlYwN0bQ--
The bodies found in Bagdad were all handcuffed and had been shot in the head or chest, said police Maj. Falah al-Mohammedawi. They apparently were victims of revenge killings between Sunni and Shiite Muslims.

Also Sunday, six insurgents died while manufacturing a homemade bomb inside a house in Madain, about 14 miles southeast of Baghdad, police said.

Two American soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb while on patrol in central Baghdad late Saturday, the U.S. military said. Another soldier from the 101st Airborne Division died Thursday from non-battle related injuries suffered in northern Iraq. No names were released.

Elsewhere, the U.S. military also said joint U.S.-Iraqi troops killed four insurgents and wounded another Saturday after two failed attacks near Balad, 50 miles north of Baghdad.

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2. US troops dying are mostly not headlines anymore (embedded in another

story)!! damm

[saigon68]

3. "BRING EM ON" shouted the AWOL CHIMPANZEE

"Its only a few dead enders", proclaimed President Cheney, as received his Halliburton dividend check.

[UpInArms]

4. does it seem to anyone else that they (the media) have begun

identifying the word "insurgent" with Sunni?

Thus, if that is the case, the military is also targeting Sunni-Iraqis, together with the Shiite led so-called Iraqi government.

Man, oh, man, this whole fiasco just keeps becoming a larger mess.

:(

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12. Throw three more on to the stack!

Grass Bush

Pile the bodies high in Austerlitz and Waterloo Iraq
Shovel them under and let me work--
I am the grass; bush; I cover all.

And pile them high in Gettyburg Baghdad
And pile them high in Ypres and Vedum Mossoul and Al Fallaujah

Two years, ten years, and passengers ask the conductor:
What place is this?

I am the grass bush.
Let me work.

Carl Sandburg


Support the war - Donate a Son a daughter
The GOP working for a better America
God Bless America

[KoKo]

5. Didn't a US Copter crash yesterday? Any more news on that?

Heard Condi and Jack Straw made a visit to Iraq yesterday. Or, maybe it was really Istanbul....:-(

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7. artl. says no news about the helio.

[IndianaGreen]

8. MSNBC just said on breaking news that the chopper was shotdown

it was not mechanical failure and that the crew is feared dead.

This has the smell of a coverup! Are they saying that a surface to air missile destroyed the chopper and that there are no bodies?

[saigon68]

9. SOMETHING ABOUT THIS SMELLS

In the past they always said 2 or 3 or how many ever were dead.

This time there is nothing except we are notifying the families.

Its either very bad or they are trying a new tack to

"Minimize the Unpleasantness"

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11. the helicopter was shot down according to the military

[IndianaGreen]

6. Still no word on the chopper crew?

Are they dust on the ground or is it that they cannot be found (POW/MIA)?

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10. mission accomplished, baby! we got us a civil war!

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13. It is just a little misunderstanding, damn it! 'Tis not a civil war.

Things couldn't be going better. The Iraqis love us. (I think)