Ivan Ho <IvanHo@terminus.net> wrote in message news:<ih7hgvsbbt3o1t0orevkaru2io9nghm9ba@4ax.com>...
The Insurrection is only just beginning. In Iraq, and elsewhere.
Oh yes, the stage is set for the *BIG* finale, the likes of which have
not
been seen since the dramatic end of World War II......
As the French would say:
C'est le commencement de la fin
La fin du moyen âge
C'est un fait accompli
Au revoir mon ami
}:-(
(Better start dusting off the ol' fallout shelter, and stocking up BIG
TYIME on plenty of food and water)
On Sun, 06 Jul 2003 21:54:26 GMT, Mike T <mkiketrt@hotmails.com>
wrote:
Great job. They are robbers squatting on a sovereign country illegally after a
war justified on a lie (WMD).
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U.S. Soldier Shot and Killed in Baghdad
By JAMIE TARABAY, Associated Press Writer
BAGHDAD, Iraq - An assailant shot and killed a U.S. soldier waiting to buy a
soft drink at Baghdad University on Sunday, firing once from close range in the
third such assault in nine days.
The style was coldly similar to the killing of the young British freelance
cameraman, who was shot in the head outside a Baghdad museum on Saturday.
U.S. troops on patrol in Baghdad and other areas have been attacked several
times a day, and Iraqi police and civilians perceived to be working with the
occupying forces also have been targeted. In the most serious such attack, a
bomb blast in the western town of Ramadi killed seven Iraqi police recruits as
they graduated from a U.S.-taught training course on Saturday. Dozens more were
injured.
U.S. Army Maj. William Thurmond said it was too early to tell whether a pattern
was emerging that would suggest insurgents are targeting foreign civilians, but
he said such a strategy could thwart news gathering and humanitarian relief
efforts.
"Hopefully they're isolated events and we won't have to face them in the
future," Thurmond said. "It might work to the advantage of someone who's trying
to fight the coalition."
The killing of the television cameraman, 24-year-old Richard Wild, occurred
around midday, while the victim was carrying no apparent sign that he was a
reporter.
Wild, who arrived in the country two weeks ago aiming to be a war correspondent,
was killed by a single pistol shot fired into the base of his skull from close
range, colleagues said. The assailant fled into the crowd and was not
apprehended.
The U.S. soldier killed Sunday at Baghdad University also was shot at close
range. The soldier from the Army's 1st Armored Division was evacuated to a
combat support hospital after the midday shooting. He died later, the U.S.
military said.
In a similar incident, an assailant with a pistol shot and critically injured a
U.S. soldier in the neck on June 27 as he shopped on a Baghdad street.
On Saturday, insurgents fired a rocket-propelled grenade at the U.N.'s
International Organization for Migration office in Mosul, 240 miles northwest of
Baghdad. The grenade slammed into a wall and damaged several cars, said Hamid
Abdel-Jabar, a spokesman for the U.N. special representative in Iraq (news - web
sites).
"There's no place for that in any civilized part of the world," Thurmond said.
"As soon as we get hold of them, they're gone. We'll find them. We'll attack
them. And if necessary we'll kill them."
Turkey and the United States struggled Sunday to resolve a diplomatic crisis
over the detention of Turkish special forces in Iraq by the U.S. military, a
standoff that strained efforts by the NATO allies to repair relations frayed
over the Iraq war.
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and other officials discussed the dispute
with Vice President ***** Cheney for about half an hour Sunday, Turkish officials
said. The conversations appeared to be aimed at making sure relations didn't
deteriorate further.
In the northern town of Sulaymaniyah, Iraqi Turks and Turkish army officers
suggested a local U.S. military commander overstepped his authority in ordering
the raid.
Some two dozen Iraqi Turks were detained, less than half Turkish soldiers.
A Turkish paper said the raid came amid reports that Turks were planning to kill
an unnamed senior Iraqi official in Kirkuk. Gul has denied any Turkish plot.
_ A group calling itself Wakefulness and Holy War claimed responsibility on
Sunday for attacks on U.S. troops in Fallujah, a Sunni Muslim-dominated town 35
miles west of Baghdad. "We are carrying out operations against the American
occupation here in Fallujah and other Iraqi cities," said the statement,
released on Iran-financed al-Alam TV in Baghdad. "Saddam and America are two
faces of the same coin."
_ U.S. forces killed two insurgents who fired a rocket-propelled grenade as they
drove toward an army outpost in the capital on Saturday.
_ Insurgents fired a rocket-propelled grenade into a U.S. Army compound in the
town of Abu Sada al-Sagra early Sunday, lightly injuring one soldier.
_ The military announced the end of a seven-day sweep dubbed Sidewinder, in
which 30 Iraqis were killed and 282 detained, while 28 U.S. soldiers were
wounded. The military said it confiscated ammunition stocks and hundreds of
weapons.
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