Attacks, Fighting Break Out in Baghdad

[dawgman]

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Insurgents attacked a police station Saturday in a Sunni Muslim neighborhood in Baghdad where U.S. and Iraqi troops raided a major mosque the day before in a crackdown on Sunni militants. Iraqi officials were trying to identify four decapitated bodies found in Mosul.

Also, insurgents attacked a U.S. Army patrol Saturday in Baghdad, killing one American soldier and injuring nine others, the U.S. military said. The unit came under coordinated attack, which included roadside bombs, small arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades, the military said.

In downtown Baghdad, a suicide car bomber detonated his vehicle, killing one civilian and injuring another, witnesses said, as a thunderous rumble of explosions reverberated elsewhere in the Iraqi capital.

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Violence Breaks Out All Over Baghdad

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Baghdad exploded in violence Saturday, as insurgents attacked a U.S. patrol and a police station, assassinated four government employees and detonated several bombs. One American soldier was killed and nine were wounded during clashes that also left three Iraqi troops and a police officer dead.

Some of the heaviest violence came in Azamiyah, a largely Sunni Arab district of Baghdad where a day earlier U.S. troops raided the capital's main Sunni mosque. Shops were in flames, and a U.S. Humvee burned, with the body of what appeared to be its driver inside.

U.S. forces and insurgents also battled in the Sunni Triangle city of Ramadi, where clashes have been seen almost daily. Nine Iraqis were killed and five wounded in Saturday's fighting, hospital officials said.
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[luaneryder]

1. Lies!!

We all know the Chimp n Chief said things were rosey in Iraq. Why oh why does the media hate our Chimp?

[maddezmom]

6. Baghdad violence erupts as Iraqi-US troops press on with sweep of Mosul

BAGHDAD (AFP) - Baghdad was again rocked by violence as rebels launched an assault on a police station and four civil servants were assassinated, while US and Iraqi troops took the battle against insurgents from Fallujah to Mosul.


Gunmen launched an assault on a police station in Baghdad's Adhamiya neighbourhood, a day after US and Iraqi troops rounded up more than 30 suspects following Friday prayers in one of Iraq (news - web sites)'s most important mosques.


One policeman was killed and another wounded in the attack, which saw US helicopters deployed in response, amid fears that insurgents who managed to flee the massive anti-insurgency operation in Fallujah were regrouping in Baghdad.


The group of Al-Qaeda frontman in Iraq Abu Musab al-Zarqawi -- one of the main targets of the Fallujah campaign -- claimed responsibility for the assault against the police in a statement posted on the Internet.

more: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20041120/ts_afp/iraq&cid=1503&ncid=1480

[dawgman]

7. It seems to be rapidly deteriorating over there.

Fallujah brought it to a head and now the dam seems to have burst.

[Sugarbleus]

2. !!!!

:cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry:

[saigon68]

3. "We have broken the back of the insurgency",

 "We have broken the back of the insurgency", disrupting rebel operations across the country, a
senior U.S. commander Lt. Gen. John Sattler said on Thursday. Nov 18,2004

On Edit: YOU FUCKING LIAR-- YOUR TROOPS ARE BEING ZAPPED EVERY DAY
YOU WITLESS BOOTLICK CHENEY BUTT BOY.

[tmooses]

4. Sattler is a disgrace to the men who serve under him...

a shill for Shrub. His own men disagree with him and today he's already backing off his remarks. The attack on a Sunni mosque has only added to the anger over the slaughter in Fallujah. These people are not going to vote in an election for a government they feel is run by Shiites and the US. Instead, it looks more like a scenario for civil war.

[TahitiNut]

5. Sattler got his third star just this year from the Busholini regime.

June 16, 2004

"Marine Corps Maj. Gen. John Sattler to be given a third star and assigned as commander of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force, replacing Lt. Gen. James Conway, who has held the position since November 2002. The 1st Marine Expeditionary Force was the Marine element of the U.S. ground force that invaded Iraq in March 2003 and toppled the Saddam Hussein regime in Baghdad. Sattler is currently the director of operations for Central Command, based in Doha, Qatar."

http://www.showmenews.com/2004/Jun/20040616News020.asp

[natrat]

8. damn if these idiots want to be fascists war mongers

cant they at least do it intelligently ? WTF copy ghengis kahn or something

[Moderator]

9. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1007632

( I think this is the same police station. It's hard to tell with the mess over there. Alert on Moderator if this is not the same incident)