Iraqi killed, nine US soldiers wounded after Fallujah attack

[leftchick]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040318/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_us_attack_fallujah&cid=1514&ncid=1480

<snip>FALLUJAH, Iraq (AFP) - One Iraqi was killed, and another three were wounded, along with nine US soldiers, in an attack on the mayor's office in this flashpoint city, police and US military revealed.

Gunmen opened fire at the building as municipal council members were meeting with US forces and exchanges of fire broke out, the police said Thursday.


Police and hospital sources told AFP Omar Okaili, 18, was killed and that Waddah Jawad, 40, Aref Hadi, 60, and Rashid Hamid, 65, were hurt.


US Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt, deputy operations chief for the US-led coalition in Iraq (news - web sites), confirmed in a press conference in Baghdad that "we had an incident in Fallujah where we had a military force that was working in one of the provincial buildings."

[Barrett808]

1. So, Iraq is exploding on the anniversary of the illegal invasion

Who'd have thought?

[leftchick]

2. Exploding Indeed Barrett...

Goodmorning Iraq-Nam! :(

[pfitz59]

3. "We had an incident...."

Arms and legs blown away. Lives shattered. Dreams destroyed. "An incident"... sure...

[hatrack]

4. Well, at least the report said "wounded" instead of "injured"

"Injured" is when you stub your toe on the coffee table, or scald your thumb making tea. For a sucking chest wound, a chunk of shrapnel, a thumb blown off by an AK47, I think "wounded" is definitely more accurate.

Given the flatlining status of the press, that's about all the progress you can hope for these days.

[Barrett808]

5. Today In Iraq tallies 10 separate "incidents" so far today

War News for March 18, 2004
http://dailywarnews.blogspot.com

Bring 'em on: Two US soldiers killed, six wounded in mortar attack near Balad.

Bring 'em on: Three Iraqi journalists killed, nine wounded in attack on employees of CPA TV station near Baquba.

Bring 'em on: One US Marine killed, three wounded in mortar attack near Qusayba.

Bring 'em on: Bomb near US-funded TV station in Baquba kills three Iraqis, wounds ten.

Bring 'em on: Three rocket attacks kill four Iraqis in Baghdad.

Bring 'em on: One US soldier and two Iraqi security officers wounded by roadside bomb in Baghdad.

Bring 'em on: Three ICDC members wounded in mortar attack near Mosul.

Bring 'em on: British patrol attacked by car bomb in Basra. Five Iraqis killed.

CENTCOM reports one US soldier killed, two injured in vehicle accident near Baji.

CENTCOM reports one US soldier killed in convoy accident enroute to Kuwait.

[Warren Stuart]

6. One of those 9 wounded is probably fatal.

If you don't hear of any fatal casualities stemming from this attack, then you know they are playing games with the number of combat deaths.

Maggots.

[Barrett808]

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