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Syria Here We Come...
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» basdini replied on Mon May 9, 2005 @ 8:58pm |
 Coolness: 146145 | BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- American forces in Iraq battled "insurgents and foreign fighters" this weekend near the nation's border with Syria, the U.S. military said Monday, killing at least 75 people in 24 hours.
The operation began Saturday in Anbar province north of the Euphrates River, said Col. Bob Chase, a Marine operations officer based at Camp Blue Diamond in Ramadi. The area has "basically [been] a sanctuary" for insurgents, he said. In a statement, the military said the fighting was located in the Al Jazirah Desert, a region known as a smuggling route. Insurgents, have been using "known points of entry and 'rat lines,' as we call them, to bring in weapons illegally," Chase said. Based on their "equipment and dress," Chase said most of the insurgents are believed to be foreign fighters rather than Iraqis. Casualties from the battle have been " extremely light on the coalition side," Chase said, "and conversely there have been a lot of enemy casualties." Many of the fighters "are starting to flee, and we are continuing to press the attack." The battle includes coalition and Marine Corps aircraft and forces from the U.S. Army, Navy and Marines, the military said. U.S. death toll passes 1,600 The number of U.S. troops killed in the Iraq war passed 1,600 on Sunday, according to military reports, when two soldiers were killed near Khaldiya and a third died in Samarra. All three were killed by roadside bombs, the U.S. military said. To date, 1,603 American forces have been killed since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003, according to U.S. military reports. In all, 1,780 coalition forces -- not counting Iraqi forces -- have been killed. The U.S. death toll passed 1,000 in September 2004. (Full story) According to news reports compiled by Pat Kniesler of the Web site [ iCasualties.org ] more than 2,000 Iraqi soldiers, police and guardsmen have been killed since U.S.-led troops began working with Iraqis to build a security force under the Coalition Provisional Authority in 2003. The number of Iraqi civilians killed in the war remains unknown. Data compiled by the Web site [ iraqbodycount.org ] suggests that between 21,000 and 25,000 civilians have been confirmed killed. Other developments Insurgent bombings doubled in April following a lull in February, the U.S. military said on Monday. About 300 people have been killed in bombings in the last 10 days. The military said it believes insurgents used the time following Iraq's general elections on January 30 to stockpile explosives. In southern Baghdad on Monday, a suicide car bomb detonated at a police checkpoint killing at least four people, including two police and two civilians, police said. The attack wounded six police and two civilians. Police said three people who were inside the suicide vehicle also were killed in the blast. The U.S. military said Sunday that an aide to terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi had been captured by Iraqi security forces in Baghdad. U.S. forces identified him as Ammar al-Zubaydi, also known as Abu Abbas. Al-Zubaydi was captured Thursday, the military said. He was responsible for many recent suicide car bombings and an attack on Abu Ghraib prison in April that wounded U.S. troops and detainees at the facility, the military said. (Full story) Information provided by al-Zarqawi associate Ghassan Muhammad Amin Husayn al-Rawi -- who was captured April 26 -- helped U.S. and Iraqi forces kill six insurgents Sunday and capture another 54 in western Iraq near the Syrian border, the U.S. military said. Iraq's Shiite Muslim and Kurd-dominated National Assembly reached out to minority Sunni Arabs on Sunday, approving four more of their number to serve in the transitional government. The ministries of defense, industry and human rights are to be headed by Sunnis, and a newly named deputy prime minister is a Sunni. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» moondancer replied on Tue May 10, 2005 @ 5:12am |
 Coolness: 93210 | It`s funny how fighting for the freedom of your country makes you a terrorist |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» basdini replied on Tue May 10, 2005 @ 12:05pm |
| Coolness: 146145 | yup |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Screwhead replied on Tue May 10, 2005 @ 12:06pm |
 Coolness: 686535 | *thinks of seperatists*
:lol |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» basdini replied on Tue May 10, 2005 @ 12:31pm |
| Coolness: 146145 | ya man the seperatists were terrorists back in the day, the FLQ thing in the seventies was pretty tight... |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Screwhead replied on Tue May 10, 2005 @ 2:17pm |
| Coolness: 686535 | Yeah, I know, that's what I was referencing kinda. It's a rather fine line between protesters with ideals, and terrorists. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» basdini replied on Tue May 10, 2005 @ 7:07pm |
| Coolness: 146145 | my freedom fighter is your mercinary anarchist |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» moondancer replied on Wed May 11, 2005 @ 4:56am |
| Coolness: 93210 | not after these fuckers come out of nowhere from the other side of the world, throw bombs on you and rape and kill your people for no apparent reason. Maybe the protesters can still be considered terrorists but ummmm.. WHO is the bigger terrorist? honestly.. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» nothingnopenope replied on Wed May 11, 2005 @ 10:54pm |
 Coolness: 202170 | The differences between terrorists and armies the is people in the army fight as a career and are paid to do what they do (or forced if it's a draft or mandatory service), while terrorists fight purely on their ideals. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» basdini replied on Fri May 13, 2005 @ 5:32pm |
| Coolness: 146145 | ya i agree scott
mercinaries are way better than people dying for something they beleive in... douche... ;° |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» moondancer replied on Fri May 13, 2005 @ 6:14pm |
| Coolness: 93210 | Originally posted by SCOTTYP...
The differences between terrorists and armies the is people in the army fight as a career and are paid to do what they do (or forced if it's a draft or mandatory service), while terrorists fight purely on their ideals. wasnt reffering to the soldiers, i was reffering to the people who sent them |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» basdini replied on Sat May 14, 2005 @ 6:52pm |
| Coolness: 146145 | allah akbar!!!! |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» nothingnopenope replied on Sat May 14, 2005 @ 10:41pm |
| Coolness: 202170 | Oh.. well the people who send the soldiers are ussually sitting back safe while the soldiers die horribly... It's always been like that though... War is just chess between very powerful people |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» basdini replied on Sun May 15, 2005 @ 6:52am |
| Coolness: 146145 | one day the game will end |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» basdini replied on Tue May 17, 2005 @ 8:09pm |
| Coolness: 146145 | and then life maybe can start again |
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