U.S. attack helicopters kill 4 in Iraq

[maddezmom]

Source: AP

BAGHDAD - U.S. attack helicopters killed four suspects and wounded three in operations south of Baghdad, the military said Sunday.

The aircraft were operating in support of Iraqi army soldiers on the ground, who were engaged by insurgents, the U.S. military said in a statement. The incident took place Friday, it said.

Suspected militants fired on the helicopters as they swooped in, then ran into a nearby structure, the statement said. One of the helicopters fired on the building, destroying it.

Afterward, Iraqi soldiers found three sniper rifles, multiple hand grenades and black masks scattered amid the ruins of the building, the military said.

Elsewhere, a car bomb killed two Kurdish security agents Sunday morning in Iraq's oil-rich northern city of Kirkuk, police said.



Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070617/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_raids

[maddezmom]

1. Body of kidnapped Iraqi reporter found in Baghdad

More BAGHDAD, June 17 (Reuters) - The body of a senior Iraqi journalist kidnapped last week in Baghdad has been found, his newspaper said on Sunday.

Filaih Wadi Mijthab, managing editor of the state-run al-Sabah daily newspaper, was abducted on Wednesday while driving in east Baghdad.

His body was found beside a mosque near Sadr City, a sprawling Shi'ite slum in northeast Baghdad, and it appeared that he had been killed on Thursday, a newspaper employee said.

The media has been consistently targeted in Iraq's bloody sectarian conflict, making it the most dangerous place in the world for journalists.

more:http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/BUL733728.htm

[ChairmanAgnostic]

4. and how many journalists has the US killed?

I am still seething over Bush's threat to take out Al Jazeera

[Eagle_Eye]

2. We need to withdraw our troops.

Violence is not working in Iraq.
We need to seek a diplomatic solution.

[ClintonTyree]

3. Four bad guys killed.....

and forty bad guys waiting to take their place. Why the hell is this news? Does the Pentagon really want to get into a Viet Nam style "official body count" propaganda campaign? It worked SO WELL there, didn't it? :eyes: