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"Harry Hope" |
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21 Jan 2007 10:09:38 AM |
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US soldiers arrive in Baghdad as violence rages on. |
http://news.monstersandcritics.com/middleeast/news/article_1249418.php/US_soldiers_arrive_in_Baghdad_as_violence_rages_on__Roundup_
Jan 21, 2007
US soldiers arrive in Baghdad as violence rages on
Baghdad -
Unrest and violence raged on in Iraq Sunday as an additional 3,200 US
soldiers arrived in Baghdad under a Washington- backed extended
security plan.
The forces would begin operations on February 1, spokesman General Ray
Odierno said.
Forces are to be beefed up around Baghdad and joint US-Iraqi forces
are expected to crack down on militants in extensive
neighbourhood-by-neighbourhood raids.
The death toll of US soldiers killed over the previous 24 hours rose
Sunday to 22 - including 12 in a helicopter crash - as five soldiers
died in a militia attack on a security centre in Karbala and five
soldiers elsewhere, the US military said.
It revised downwards from 13 to 12 the number killed when the
helicopter crashed in a region north-east of Baghdad inhabited by
Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds.
US soldiers had been able to secure the crash site and seal it off.
The circumstances of the crash were as yet unknown and an
investigation was underway, a spokesman said.
In Karbala, an 'illegally armed militia group' attacked the Provincial
Joint Coordination Centre where US and Iraqi forces hold security
meetings, killing five US soldiers.
At the time of the attack, US and Iraqi soldiers had been meeting to
develop a security plan for Shiites attending Ashura commemorations,
said Brigadier General Vincent K Brooks, Deputy Commander of coalition
forces in Baghdad.
'The attack ... was aimed at coalition and Iraqi security forces
working together toward a better future for the citizens of Karbala,'
said coalition spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Scott R Bleichwehl.
Police said three kidnapped US soldiers were killed in Mahaweel, near
Karbala, around 80 kilometres south of Baghdad as US and Iraqi troops
tailed vehicles believed carrying militants from Karbala.
One soldier was reported wounded in the operation during which the
forces, according to police, managed to catch up with the vehicles
containing the three soldiers' bodies.
The militants fled.
Authorities believe the militants had kidnapped the three and killed
them inside the vehicles when their escape from Karbala was
interrupted.
One US soldier died Saturday of wounds sustained when a roadside
improvised bomb detonated near his vehicle in northern Iraq, and
another died in northern Baghdad.
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The monthly death toll through Jan. 20 is 45
3,046 American troops are dead, 22,951 have been wounded, over 650,000
innocent Iraqis are dead and wounded
Harry
How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for Bush's legacy?
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