Insurgents launch attacks in Baghdad, Fallujah

[leftchick]

http://www.wavy.com/Global/story.asp?S=3630876


BAGHDAD, Iraq Militants have launched a new round of deadly attacks on Iraqi police and civilians.

Three Fallujah police officers have been found shot to death in the nearby town of Karma.

Police in Baghdad say gunmen in two cars opened fire on an Interior Ministry police colonel last night, killing him. Police also say gunmen have ambushed several Iraqi police patrols throughout Baghdad today, injuring at least three officers.

Authorities last night found the body of the third of three brothers abducted this week in northern Baghdad. The other two were found dead Thursday.

Outside Baghdad, police found the blindfolded body of a man, his corpse riddled with bullets. No word on who he was or who killed him

[dArKeR]

1. A nice sunny day to find your father's corpse

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/photo/2005/07/22/2005039450

[meganmonkey]

2. Interesting - Yesterday there was an article saying the US launched

an offensive there...I wonder which came first?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1641876
IRAQ: FALLUJAH UNDER SIEGE AGAIN

Rome, 20 July (AKI) - US and Iraqi troops have launched another offensive on the city of Fallujah in the volatile Anbar province in western Iraq. US military leaders believe a group of guerrillas has established itself in the city once more, taking advantage of the last few months of relative calm. News of the new operation comes from aid workers from the Italian Solidarity Consortium (ICS) in Iraq, who are carrying out monitoring and humanitarian assistance programmes in the area to help the many citizens displaced by the last military offensive on the city, which began in November last year.

In the last few days there have been a number of explosions in Fallujah, a statement from the ICS aid workers says, and the multinational force has closed the city, to comb it house by house. This has sparked another mass exodus of civilians. Hundreds of families have already abandoned the city, they report, "further worsening the humanitarian emergency."


:cry:

[54anickel]

9. I was just thinking the about that thread when I read this one's headline

Thanks for the link.

[Mz Pip]

3. Last throes indeed.

Maybe Cheney needs to go to Baghdad to see what a raging success our attempt at liberation has been.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[susu369]

10. Actually, I'd suggest Cheney needs to check out the town of Karma

"Three Fallujah police officers have been found shot to death in the nearby town of Karma."

[soup]

4. Remember when the warmongers were shouting "Yee-haw!

Go git 'em! Attack! Attack! Attack! Open a can of whoop-ass on 'em!"?

That can didn't contain 'whoop-ass'. It was a can of worms mislabeled as whoop-ass.

I'd love to say 'I told you so' to my idiot neighbor who literally Cheered! shock and awe. But he doesn't live there anymore and 'I told you so' doesn't make it stop or put the lid back on what's been unleashed.

[zippy890]

5. uh oh - Vietnam II

This war is unwinnable, & bushco knows it.

Bring our troops home now!

My heart aches for them, being put in this position by this criminal government we have -
and my heart aches for the Iraqis being killed because of US occupation.

[VegasWolf]

6. Maybe they will take out that group of conservative "truth-teller"

delegation that is hiding out in the Green Zone. They could
get a bunch of freepers with one shot.

[daleo]

7. I imagine that group is well protected

No expense is being spared for them by Bushco.

[pfitz59]

8. 20-30 million Iraqis?

versus 100,000 scared shitless Duh-mericans?

[Scurrilous]

11. Death toll in Baghdad car bomb rises to 22

http://today.reuters.com/News/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2005-07-24T123152Z_01_N24328714_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-IRAQ-BLAST-TOLL-DC.XML

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"A suicide car bomb outside a police station in east Baghdad killed at least 22 people and wounded 25, police and interior ministry sources said.

Television pictures showed a deep crater in the road outside the Rashad police station, in the New Baghdad district of the capital, as ambulances and fire fighters attended the scene.

There has been a campaign of more than 20 suicide car bomb attacks in and near the capital in the past 10 days, killing more than 200 people. Many of the attacks have targeted Iraqi police."