7 U.S. Troops Die in Iraq; U.S. Intelligence Chief Visits

[rodeodance]

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/04/world/middleeast/04iraq.html?ref=world&pagewanted=print

November 4, 2006
7 U.S. Troops Die in Iraq; U.S. Intelligence Chief Visits
By SABRINA TAVERNISE
BAGHDAD, Nov. 3 — John D. Negroponte, the director of national intelligence, met here with Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki on Friday, the second high-level visit by an American official in a week.

The American military, meanwhile, announced the deaths of seven more American troops. All were killed Thursday, three in a roadside bomb in eastern Baghdad and four in the roiling western province of Anbar in sniper and bomb attacks.

Hidden killing continued across the capital, with 83 bodies and a severed human head found in the two days ending Friday. At least nine other Iraqis died in violence on Friday, Reuters reported, including a freelance journalist, a singer, a taxi driver and a gas station employee.

Mr. Negroponte did not make any public comments in Baghdad, but Mr. Maliki’s spokesman, Yaseen Majeed, said that the two “discussed the need for the Iraqi armed forces to have enough numbers and equipment to take charge of the security portfolio.”

[CrazyOrangeCat]

1. Security portfolio???

What a lot of horseshit--this is a full-blown civil war!!!

:wtf:

[burrowowl]

2. Negroponte

Should be in PRISON for the killing he unleashed in Central America!
What kind of killing is he unleashing in Iraq?

[Lautremont]

3. Just hearing those occupations - journalist,

singer, taxi driver, gas station attendant - brings it home that much more. I wonder if it does so for big freeper warmonger pricks? Or are they all just 'ragheads,' or whatever their stupid dehumanizing slurs are, and good riddance?