13 US marines wounded in mortar attack south of Baghdad

[leftchick]

http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?ID=34518

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BAGHDAD, Nov 29 (AFP) - Thirteen US marines and two civilians were wounded Monday when mortar shells struck a military base south of Baghdad, a marine spokesman said.

The spokesman could not immediately reveal further details on the location or the circumstances of the attack.

On November 23, US marines backed by British and Iraqi forces, launched a vast sweep of the lawless area south of Baghdad which had become known as the "death triangle".

Two marines and at least three rebels were killed on Sunday in Operation Plymouth Rock, during which more than 180 suspected insurgents have been captured so far.

[NNN0LHI]

1. I think this confirms that the few dead-enders are getting desperate

At least that is what Rumsfeld keeps telling me. Oh, almost forgot. They hate us for our freedoms too.

Don

[maddezmom]

2. no no no...

it's our "policies" now. :shrug: Either way...they hate us. :(

[PurityOfEssence]

4. Hey, I hate us for our freedoms, too...

Freedom to subjugate anyone we please
Freedom to kill at will.
Freedom from the need to justify our actions.
Freedom to steal other peoples' resources.
Freedom to make bizarre and sweeping pronouncements about alleged supreme beings.
Freedom from dissent.
Freedumb; ya gotta love it.

(Actually, they hate us for our libertines, but the ruling tightasses hate them, too...)

[hadrons]

3. wasn't the back of the insurgency broken a few weeks ago???

[Bigmack]

5. This story could really be telling...

.. us a lot more than it intends.

13 wounded from one mortar attack is a LOT of wounded. Usually, when everybody hears the first incoming (or the first round leaving the tube) everybody scrambles for cover.

Could the Freedom Fighters/Terraists learning curve be getting steeper? Could they be dropping a couple of rounds from several tubes all at once onto a rich target, then beating feet before counterbattery blows their shit away?

Nice to know we're helping to train the Iraqis... just too bad it's the wrong ones.

[daleo]

6. Who comes up with these names?

Operation Plymouth Rock? Wasn't that where the Pilgrims (a fundamentalist Christian sect, if I recall) landed in America and helped to establish European superiority, eventually occupying the continent and exterminating a large percentage of the natives in the process. If the U.S. is serious about winning hearts and minds, what kind of public relations is that?

[leftchick]

7. certainly is fitting isn't it?

hearts and minds was never a serious strategy anyway. I personally like the first name of the Iraq invasion... OIL...Operation Iraqi Liberation!

[against all enemies]

8. Operation Crusade was Bush's first choice.

[ogradda]

11. it would be

he probably envisions himself riding into battle, sword and cross in hand...:eyes:

[maddezmom]

9. and AP slips it in under headline: Insurgents Kills 7 Iraqi Security Force

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Insurgents stepped up attacks on Iraq (news - web sites)'s fledgling security forces, killing seven Iraqi police and guardsmen Monday in a suicide bombing hours after storming a police station north of the capital. The military reported five new U.S. deaths.


Thirteen Marines were wounded Monday in a mortar south of Baghdad, the military said. No further details were released.

~snip~

Two American soldiers from Task Force Baghdad were killed and three wounded Monday in a roadside bomb explosion in northwestern Baghdad, the U.S. command said. One American soldier died and two were injured in a vehicle accident 30 miles northwest of the town of Kut in eastern Iraq, the military said.


In addition, two U.S. Marines were killed in a weekend bombing south of the capital, a U.S. official said Monday. U.S., British and Iraqi forces have been sweeping through the area to clear Sunni insurgents from a string of towns and cities between Baghdad and the Shiite shrine cities of Najaf and Karbala.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=736&e=1&u=/ap/20041129/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

[dArKeR]

10. "Liberal Press" or "Lying Press"? Here are the facts and AP should be sued

and/or an investigation why such a title was chosen. All of us know but the Sheeple don't.

[maddezmom]

12. kick

[pfitz59]

13. Accurate mortar fire is not easy to obtain....

These "dead-enders" are dead-on with their hit and run mortar attacks. Perhaps they have VC advisors?

[blackhorse]

15. Sounds like ...

someone on the inside was pacing the compound, doesn't it? Amazing what accurate measurements can be obtained from a steady pace.

BH

[Just Me]

14. Damnit. *sigh*

There will be NO easy route to cleaning up this hell those arrogant freaks called "neocons" (a make-believe term made up by imperialists who are neither representative of Republicans or conservatives) have imposed upon their country, the country of Iraq and this world.

They SUCK!!! :puke:

[leftchick]

16. Update: Three Motar rounds....

Playing with the numbers again....



US Marines evacuate a wounded comrade from their forward base in south central Iraq (news - web sites). At least nine people were injured as the US Marine base was hit by three mortar rounds(AFP/Odd Andersen)

[Kellis]

17. Americans are kept in the dark

Its as though this war isn't even happening.

Nothing to see here Folks-Move On.


While our soldiers are dying and being maimed and wounded on a daily basis.
Shame on this President and his criminal cronies for denying these soldiers the respect they deserve.