(10 US troops dead S&M) Iraq kills 14 'terrorists' after deadly gunbattle

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Iraq kills 14 'terrorists' after deadly gunbattle

by Dave Clark 7 minutes ago

BAGHDAD (AFP) - Iraqi security forces killed 14 "terrorists" and seized 22 suspects, the government said, in a spectacular follow-up to the capture of an alleged top-level Al-Qaeda leader.



Meanwhile, however, insurgents killed one US and two British soldiers in separate bomb attacks and the bullet-riddled bodies of 33 murder victims were collected from the streets of the war-torn capital Baghdad.

Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's office announced that a large force of Iraqi troops and police had descended on a suspected insurgent stronghold in the Euphrates valley south of Baghdad.

The operation took place in a region inhabited by members of the country's restive Sunni minority and is a hotbed for rebel attacks. The raid was designed to thwart attacks on Shiite pilgrims, the government said.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060904/ts_afp/iraq_060904174355

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1. 10 US troops die Sun and Monday

A total of ten US soldiers died on Sunday and Monday, one of them from "non-combat injuries" and the rest in combat, the military said.

The latest deaths brought the US military's losses in Iraq since the March 2003 invasion to 2,647, according to an AFP count based on
Pentagon figures.

Interior ministry spokesman Brigadier General Abdelkarim Khalaf told AFP that three police officers were critically wounded in a bombing in Al-Wabhiq Square in a largely Shiite and Christian district of Baghdad.

Sectarian fighting also raged on just north of the capital in Diyala province, which is in the grip of a vicious turf war between rival Sunni and Shiite factions. At least one civilian was shot dead and five more wounded.

[orpupilofnature57]

2. They seem to be capturing terrorists ,so why 1 more uninvolved person...

let alone 3 ,need to Die is beyond me.

[maddezmom]

3. rodeodance

Please add the link. :)

[rodeodance]

4. oops, sorry. I have added the link

[maddezmom]

5. thanks

:hi:

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6. AP Bodies discovered across Baghdad (33 men)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060904/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

Bodies discovered across Baghdad

By ELENA BECATOROS, Associated Press Writer 3 minutes ago

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Authorities found the tortured, blindfolded bodies of 33 men scattered across Baghdad Monday, while the U.S.-led coalition said eight troops had died — a day after Iraq said the capture of a top terror suspect would reduce violence.


In Baghdad, assailants kidnapped a popular soccer star, while a security crackdown in the capital expanded a security operation into the upscale Mansour neighborhood.

An al-Qaida-affiliated group dismissed the government's claim that the organization's second most important leader had been arrested, suggesting the man was not a senior figure and denying that the group had suffered a significant blow.

On Sunday, a smiling Mouwafak al-Rubaie, Iraq's national security adviser, announced that the arrest of Hamed Jumaa Farid al-Saeedi, also known as Abu Humam or Abu Rana, had left al-Qaida in Iraq suffering a "serious leadership crisis."

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[RUMMYisFROSTED]

7. Awful.

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8. Cnn: 40 bodies found in Baghdad; al Qaeda leader in custody

40 bodies found in Baghdad; al Qaeda leader in custody
POSTED: 12:53 p.m. EDT, September 4, 2006


BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Iraqi police found 40 bullet-riddled bodies in Baghdad Monday, an official with Baghdad emergency police said.

Most of the bodies showed signs of torture, their hands were cuffed, and some of the bodies were blindfolded, the official said.

Police could identify 17 bodies, all of them civilians, the official said.

Also Monday, two British soldiers were killed and two others were wounded when a roadside bomb struck their convoy north of Basra, a British military spokesman said.

One of the wounded soldiers is in critical condition, the spokesman said.


http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/09/04/iraq.main/index.html?section=cnn_topstories&eref=yahoo

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9. "Three U.S. troops were killed Sunday,"

.......Three U.S. troops were killed Sunday, the U.S. military said Monday.

Two Marines were killed in Iraq's Anbar province. They were assigned to Regimental Combat Team 5 and died as a result of "enemy action." A U.S. soldier was killed by an improvised explosive device near Baquba. The soldier was with the 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division.

The deaths brought to 2,644 the number of U.S. troops killed in the Iraq war. Seven American civilian contractors of the military also have died in the conflict.

A U.S. military news release Monday said Iraqi soldiers "seized a large weapons cache" Saturday after searching the Al-Nida Mosque in northern Baghdad, and U.S. soldiers detained four "suspected terrorists" Saturday after searching a home in southern Baghdad.

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10. 2,644

[krispos42]

11. There are 14 deaths on the DoD confirmation pending.

http://icasualties.org/oif/BY_DOD.aspx

[WCGreen]

12. I'm so glad we are sending the troops over there so that

the "terrorists" can kill our people there instead of here....


:sarcasm:

[TheCowsCameHome]

13. And where is this story in the MSM news? Nowhere, that's where.

Disgusting.

[bronxiteforever]

14. oh but the number two of al-Qaida was caught and that was front page

:eyes:

[TheCowsCameHome]

15. Swell. The 45th "Number Two" caught or killed since the war began.

It's like telling someone they came in second in the voting, but everyone else tied for first.

[samsingh]

16. who knows whether those killed are terrorists or just civilians?

we can't believe anything we're told anymore.