Foreign-run convoy ambushed in Iraq

[leftchick]

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L10271314.htm

HABBANIYA, Iraq, June 10 (Reuters) - A foreign-run convoy of civilian trucks was ambushed west of Baghdad this week and several of those working on it may be dead, the British-based security company that supervised it said on Friday.

Reuters Television footage from near the town of Habbaniya, between Falluja and Ramadi, showed several burnt out trucks as well as documents apparently issued in Turkey.

Video distributed in the Sunni rebel stronghold of Ramadi showed the same site, apparently at an earlier time with the trucks still burning and at least seven dead men slumped in an irrigation ditch. Among personal documents displayed was an identity card issued by Hart, a British-based security company.

Hart said on its Web site a convoy of trucks escorted by Hart security vehicles was ambushed near Habbaniya on Tuesday.

A spokesman for the company said the fate of those on the convoy was still unclear but that U.S. forces had recovered "a number of bodies" which had yet to be identified.



A young Iraq boy walks past the remains of a convoy that was attacked West of Baghdad June 10, 2005. A foreign-run convoy of civilian trucks was ambushed west of Baghdad this week and several of those working on it may be dead, the British-based security company that supervised it said on June 10. Photo by Stringer/Iraq/Reuters

[Spazito]

1. I wondered what had happened as I saw a quick blip on my

Canadian news outlet, either yesterday morning or Wednesday morning, about an attack on a convoy but it never repeated, it was very strange.

Thanks for the post.

[leftchick]

2. there were actually two different convoy attacks

and both deadly. The first I saw yesterday was on a supply convoy with food and water for US Troops. It was completely burned out. Then this one from today. i wonder how many never get reported?

[Spazito]

3. Ahh, okay, thanks for the clarification

It seems to be more and more difficult to find any in-depth coverage of attacks like this. I saw, as I say, the blip on yesterday's attack early in the morning but it never repeated and I have my Canadian version of Headline news on all day. I have yet to see today's attack covered at all.

[leftchick]

4. Almost all convoy attacks I learn about, I see here first.....

Iraqis examine trucks destroyed in an insurgent's ambush near Khaldiyah, some 90 kilometers (55 miles) west of Baghdad, Friday, June 10, 2005. Insurgents on Thursday ambushed the convoy carrying U.S. supplies destroying several trucks and SUVs, there were an unspecified number of casualties. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

http://news.yahoo.com/photos/ss/events/iraq/082701iraqplane/im:/050610/481/bag10106101018;_ylt=AmS0HzvqCaXq4VvRf6cYk2PlWMcF;_ylu=X3oDMTA5bGcyMWMzBHNlYwNzc25hdg--

The Iraq Yahoo photo gallery tells a lot more about the chaos in Iraq than any story most days.

[Spazito]

5. Thanks, leftchick, for the excellent tip

I will check the Yahoo gallery from now on.

[Selatius]

6. It looks like most if not all of the convoy was annihilated

I didn't think the resistance fighters had that kind of firepower.

[leftchick]

9. psst....

where do you suppose all of the looted ammo went to from the several dozen munitions depots that the US FAILED to secure?? Just a thought!

[teryang]

7. If you can't secure the roads, you're losing n/t

[leftchick]

8. exactly teryang

and the US of A has secured not one fucking thing in Iraq. Not even the oil pipelines!