6 troops killed in Iraq today

[mudesi]

No, this is not an April fool thread.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L01142031.htm

But the biggest April fool of all is the idiotic notion that the "surge" is working.

God curse George W. Bush. :mad:
May he burn in hell.

[tblue]

1. Oh he will. He will. Sad, isn't it, that this isn't even Page 1 news anymore?

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. According to "official sources" it's bound to get better someday.

We just have to give it more time.

[ismnotwasm]

3. "Surge" = more troops available to die

Or be maimed, psychologically damaged etc. All the while coming home to inadequate--or perhaps non existent health care. I'm still in amazement over Walter Reed. Not that it happened. I'm amazed anyone was surprised. I'm a nurse, I've asked many I know in health care, "Were you surprised?" Not a one. Not a nurse, MD, social worker. And I live across the country from Walter Reed


So all those freeway walkway flag wavers "supporting the troops," what's up with that? Haven't they even been inside their Local VA hospital or nursing home? They had no idea?

Makes me ill.

RIP to those who gave their lives.

[Breeze54]

4. That bites ..hard! U.S. Deaths Confirmed - 3252

U.S. Deaths Confirmed By The DoD: - 3243
Reported U.S. Deaths Pending DoD Confirmation: - 9
Total - 3252
DoD Confirmation List

http://icasualties.org/oif/

It's April Fool's everyday in Iraq it seems...and at the WH!!! :grr:

04/01/07 AP: Police report killing 21 al-Qaida members near Syrian border
Iraqi security forces, backed by Sunni tribesmen, clashed Sunday with a united of al-Qaida
fighters near the Syrian border, killing at least 21 members of the terrorist organization,
police said.

04/01/07 MNF: Marine dies from non-combat related incident
A Marine assigned to Multi National Force-West died April 1 in a non-combat related incident
in Al Anbar Province.

04/01/07 MNF: 4 U.S. soldiers killed southwest of Baghdad on April 1
Four additional Soldiers were killed when a second improvised explosive device detonated near
a separate unit responding to the initial IED strike southwest of the Iraqi capital April 1.

04/01/07 MNF: 2 U.S. soldiers killed southwest of Baghdad on March 31
While conducting a combat security patrol, two MND-B Soldiers died and two others were wounded
when an improvised explosive device detonated near their unit southwest of the Iraqi capital
March 31.

04/01/07 MoD: Soldier from The Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment killed in Iraq.
It is with great sadness that the Ministry of Defence must confirm the death of a soldier from
2nd Battalion The Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment in Iraq earlier today, 1 April 2007.

04/01/07 Reuters: Gunmen kidnap 19 civilians near Baquba
Gunmen kidnapped 19 civilians after stopping cars at a fake checkpoint near the city of Baquba,
Iraqi police said. Police said those kidnapped, all men, were from a Shi'ite village near Baquba,
65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad.

04/01/07 Reuters: Gunmen kill police lieutenant-colonel in Tikrit
Gunmen killed an Iraqi police lieutenant-colonel and wounded his driver in the city of Tikrit,
175 km (110 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. Police also found two bodies in the city's east.

04/01/07 Reuters: In Baghdad - 10 bodies found Saturday, 16 found Sunday.
The bodies of 10 people were found shot in different districts of Baghdad on Saturday, police said...
Police said 16 bodies were found in Baghdad on Sunday.

04/01/07 Reuters: Gunmen kill Iraqi contractor
Gunmen killed an Iraqi contractor and his son when they stormed his office in the city
of Diwaniya, 180 km (110 miles) south of Baghdad on Saturday, police said.

04/01/07 Reuters: Gunmen wound 2 children
Gunmen wounded two children when they threw a hand grenade at a playing field in the southern
Zaafaraniya district of Baghdad on Saturday... A roadside bomb wounded two people in eastern
Baghdad on Saturday, police said.

04/01/07 Reuters: Gunmen kill al-Sadr official
Gunmen killed an official in the office of radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr in the town of Jibla
near the southern city of Hilla, on Saturday, police said. Gunmen also killed the guard of a
Sunni mosque and set the mosque on fire in Jibla, police said.

04/01/07 ireland.com: Two killed in Mosul bomb attacks
Two suicide truck bombs killed two people and wounded 17 at an Iraqi army base east of the
northern city of Mosul today. Police said the two dead were civilians while most of the wounded
were soldiers. Clashes had broken out in the Sinaea area...

04/01/07 KUNA: Violence overwhelms Mosul city -- security source
Iraq's northern city of Mosul on Sunday came under a cycle of violence with the explosion
of four booby-trapped cars in addition to the outbreak of clashes in several parts of the city,
a security source said.

04/01/07 thisisleicestershire: British soldier wounded in Iraq
A British soldier has been seriously wounded by small-arms fire while on patrol in Basra,
a military spokeswoman said. The spokeswoman did not give further details but said he was wounded
in Basra's central neighbourhood of Ashar.

04/01/07 Reuters: 2 truck bombs wound 15 at Iraq army base
Two suicide truck bombs wounded 15 people when they exploded at an Iraqi army base east
of the northern city of Mosul on Sunday, police said, citing initial reports.
Police also said clashes had broken out in the Sinaea area...

04/01/07 AP: Two suicide vests found unexploded in heavily fortified Green Zone
Two unexploded suicide vests have been found in Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone.
A U-S military spokesman says the discovery "reflects the nature of the security challenge"
that U-S forces are facing.

04/01/07 LATImes: Five killed in hospital blast in Baghdad
As people flocked yesterday to a hospital in a Shiite Muslim district of the capital to visit
loved ones injured in recent attacks, a car bomb tore through the crowd of well-wishers,
killing five people and wounding two dozen others.

04/01/07 KUNA: Two leading Iraqi figures survive bid on their lives near Baghdad
Two leading Iraqi figures escaped a bid on their lives near the Iraqi capital on Sunday,
police said. Police said the futile assassination attempt targeted Omar Al-Jabbouri, the
advisor of the vice president, and Omar Abdel Sattar Al-Karbouli...

04/01/07 Reuters: Iraq second most dangerous place in the world for minorities
Iraq, along with Somalia and Sudan, are the three most dangerous places on the planet to be
a member of a minority group, a new report from a human rights NGO in the United Kingdom says.

04/01/07 Reuters: Half US troop reinforcements now in Iraq -military
About half of the nearly 30,000 additional U.S. troops being sent to Iraq in a new effort
to stabilise the country have now been deployed, a senior U.S. military official said on Sunday.

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gheesh!! It's been a very 'busy' day in Iraq. Surge working well. :sarcasm:

[madrchsod]

5. great way to start off april...did`t johnny boy everything

was a-ok? opps he must have been wrong..

[AnotherMother4Peace]

6. Barely mentioned in the "news", Bless these soldiers & their families.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

7. Six more Americans died in Iraq today. The word "troops" takes the humanity out of the facts.

Maybe that's why the use it.

6 Americans that most like have left loved ones grieving for them, and now these loved ones lives will never be the same.