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5/10/07 Reuters: 56 insurgents arrested near Ramadi
Iraqi police cleared al Qaeda militants from a town near the city of Ramadi,
110 km (68 miles) west of Baghdad, police colonel Dawud al-Faraji said. They
arrested 56 insurgents, seized 950 passports and found a mass grave.
05/10/07 AP: Violence mars once calm oasis in Baghdad
Three months into Baghdad's security crackdown, sectarian violence is back
on the rise - this time, in a mixed neighborhood that had previously been
relatively calm while Sunni-Shiite strife tore apart other parts of the
Iraqi capital
05/10/07 Centcom: MNC-I Soldier dies from wounds
An MNC-I Soldier was severely wounded by small arms fire at approximately 5
p.m. Thursday in Diwaniyah. The Soldier was evacuated for treatment at the
Coalition hospital in Baghdad but later died of his wounds.
05/10/07 Centcom: MND - Baghdad patrol attacked - 1 Soldier killed
While conducting combat security operations in a southern section of the
capital, a Multi-National Division - Baghdad patrol was attacked with small
arms fire, killing one Soldier May 10.
05/10/07 MCT: Mortar fire kills 3 civilians in Baghdad
In the afternoon mortar fire hit Doura neighborhood twice injuring 2 in the
first attack and killing 1 civilian in the second one.
05/10/07 MCT: 20 Bodies found in Baghdad
20 dead bodies were found in Baghdad: 16 bodies were found in west Baghdad;
5 in Doura, 4 in Bayaa, 4 in Amil, 3 in Hurriya. 4 bodies were found in east
Baghdad; 1 in Tunis, 1 in Hussainiya, 1 in Qahira (Cairo neighborhood), 1 in
Bab Al-Mua'adham.
05/10/07 ABCNews: Coalition Forces Destroy Terrorist Camp
U.S. Air Force F-16s obliterated three truck-mounted anti-aircraft weapons
and killed 10 to 14 al Qaeda operatives near Fallujah on Tuesday, according
to the military. The military believes they were al Qaeda terrorists engaged
in an operation...
05/10/07 MCT: Civilian killed by crossfire in Basra
Around 8 pm, clashes took place between gunmen and a British patrol near the
Iranian consulate, killing one civilian who was driving a motor bike and
injuring two others, all of them were passersby.
05/10/07 MCT: Iraqi forces arrest 4 in wanted men in Hawija
Early morning (about 6 am) , a joint forces (Iraqi army and police) raided
on Hay Al- Askari and Tanak in Hawija (west of Kurkuk), arresting 4 wanted
men, one from Bani Saad in Diyala.
05/10/07 MCT: Head found during raid in Hawija
A joint forces (Iraqi army and police) raid in Hawija (west of Kirkuk) had
found a head cut off without the rest of the body, discovering later that it
belongs to a captain in the Iraqi army who was kidnapped two weeks ago by
gunmen.
05/10/07 DoD Identifies Army Casualty
Spc. Dan H. Nguyen, 24, of Sugar Land, Texas, died May 8 in Tahrir, Iraq,
when his unit came in contact with enemy forces using small arms fire. He
was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 12th Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat
Team...
05/10/07 SFC: Experts tally Iraq war's health cost
Few saw it coming, but six years into combat in Iraq and Afghanistan, health
care providers are overwhelmed by the demand of returning veterans suffering
from mental health stress or traumatic brain injury.
05/10/07 LATimes: Security crackdown leaves Samarra without basic
necessities
U.S. and Iraqi troops have imposed a strict security crackdown in Samarra, a
city at the center of the Sunni insurgency, prompting residents to complain
that basic necessities such as drinking water have not reached the city for
seven days.
05/10/07 local12: Visitation Today for Fallen Hillsboro Soldier
Family and friends pay their respects today to a soldier killed in Iraq.
20-year-old private first class Zachary Gullett collapsed during exercises.
His family is still waiting for an official cause of death. [Confirmation
from DoD still pending]
05/10/07 AP: Al-Qaida group shows killings of 9 Iraqi officers
An al-Qaida front organization posted a video Thursday showing the killings
of nine Iraqi security officers who were lined up blindfolded with their
hands bound behind them and shot in the back of the head.
05/10/07 KUNA: MNF troops destroy plant for car bombs in Anbar
A plant to set up booby-trapped cars with chlorine gas explosives was
destroyed and a terrorist was killed during busting operations in Al-Anbar
province in western Iraq, said a statement for the Multi-National Force
(MNF) Thursday.
05/10/07 Centcom: Multi National Force-West atacked - 1 Marine killed
A Marine assigned to Multi National Force-West was killed May 9, while
conducting combat operations in Al Anbar Province.
05/10/07 Reuters: Bodies of 2 policemen found in Mosul
The bodies of two police officers were found in Mosul, police said.
05/10/07 Reuters: 21 Bodies found in Baghdad
Police said they found the bodies of 21 people shot dead in different
districts of Baghdad on Wednesday.
05/10/07 Reuters: 2 Bodies found in Mahaweel, 3 in Mosul
The bodies of two people shot and tortured were found in the town of
Mahaweel, 75 km (50 miles) south of Baghdad, police said...A hospital
received the bodies of three people, two women and a man, from one family in
the northern city of Mosul
05/10/07 Reuters: Roadside bomb wounds 5 people in Iskandariya
A roadside bomb wounded five people on Wednesday in the town of Iskandariya,
40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.
05/10/07 Reuters: U.S. troops kill 3 insurgents, detained 4 in Sadr City
U.S. forces killed three insurgents and detained four others suspected of
being involved in the smuggling of weapons from Iran into Iraq during raids
in the Sadr City district of Baghdad, the U.S. military said.
05/10/07 Reuters: Gunmen kill policeman in Hawija
Gunmen killed a policeman while he was heading to work in the town of
Hawija, 70 km (40 miles) southwest of Kirkuk, police said. |
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| Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 9:18 am Post subject: Re: BUSHIES IRAQ WAR PLAN....(works better for AL QAEDA) 338 |
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In article <yFN0i.11453$s7.672@trndny05>,
"HMFIC@1369.COM" <UNKNOWWHO@UKNOWWHERE.COM> wrote:
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and the W.H. is working on Plan B.
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Bush's Farewell Tantrum
By Paul Campos
The Rocky Mountain News thanks to Truthout.org
Tuesday 01 May 2007
A story in The New York Times makes it clear White House officials
are giving off-the-record interviews designed to dampen expectations
regarding Iraq. These officials are saying that the administration will
make no interim reports on the situation until September, and that in
any event people shouldn't expect much in the way of military or
political progress by then.
This is a welcome dose of realism after months of optimistic
statements from the Bush administration, claiming we would know by the
end of the summer if the latest troop escalation was "working." As Lt.
Gen. David Petraeus, the commander of the American military in Iraq has
emphasized, the kind of counterinsurgency campaign his troops are now
fighting takes years to "work" in any meaningful sense, assuming it ever
does.
Of course the purpose of this ratcheting down of expectations is to
try to forestall the political firestorm over Iraq that gets closer with
every passing month. That effort is almost certainly doomed to fail: Six
months from now things in Iraq are likely to look very much as they do
now. Furthermore, the odds that any marked change will be for the worse
are far higher than it will be for the better (in a context like Iraq,
real progress takes years under the best of circumstances, while all-out
chaos is always just around the corner).
The hard political reality is that anything like "success" in Iraq,
even as that term is defined down to levels that would have seemed
wildly pessimistic when President Bush gave his "Mission Accomplished"
speech four years ago, will require several more years of all-out
commitment. That commitment will cost, at a minimum, the lives of
several thousand more of our troops, along with tens of thousands of
serious injuries, and hundreds of billions more tax dollars.
And of course this immense sacrifice might very well fail to achieve
even the relatively modest goals the White House is now pursuing (the
word "victory" has become noticeably absent from the president's
speeches).
Whatever one thought of the original decision to invade Iraq, the
political question the nation now faces could not be clearer: Should we
ask our troops to continue to fight this war, and our children to pay
for it through future tax increases? (The option of paying for it
ourselves would require some sacrifice on the part of the average voter,
so it never seems to have been considered seriously).
The American people have already answered that question, and their
answer is "No." The Republicans lost 30 Congressional seats in last
fall's election, while the Democrats lost none, largely because the
American people were voting against the war. Every opinion poll shows
that, by large majorities, Americans support the efforts of Democrats to
force President Bush to begin withdrawing our troops.
That pressure will only grow. As increasingly panicky Republicans
are all too aware, this is still a democracy, which means America will
begin to withdraw from Iraq no later than January of 2009, even if
bringing this about requires an electoral rout of the Republican Party
in November of next year.
In the end, President Bush's failure to heed the will of the people
isn't so much an act of principle, but rather an outburst of sheer
peevishness. With Democrats in control of Congress, he's no longer
getting a blank check to fund his military adventures. He finds this
frustrating, so he's stamping his foot, covering his ears, and taking
his party down with him.
All this is exactly what one would expect in the way of a political
farewell gesture from a spoiled rich kid who never grew up. Future
generations of historians will note George W. Bush made a mess of every
real job he ever had - and, unfortunately for America, the presidency of
the United States proved to be no exception.
Paul Campos is a professor of law at the University of Colorado
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050207E.shtml |
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