U.S. forces kill 6 Iraqi police in Baghdad raid -US

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

U.S. forces kill 6 Iraqi police in Baghdad raid -US
13 Jul 2007 08:39:06 GMT

BAGHDAD, July 13 (Reuters) - U.S. soldiers killed at least
six Iraqi policemen and seven suspected militants during a
dawn raid in east Baghdad on Friday to arrest an Iraqi police
lieutenant accused of militant links, the U.S. military said.

A U.S. war plane made an air strike during the fighting after
U.S. soldiers were attacked with "heavy and accurate" gunfire
from an Iraqi police checkpoint, rooftops and a nearby church,
the military said in a statement.

The police lieutenant was detained in the raid. The U.S. said
he was suspected of planning roadside bomb and mortar attacks
on U.S. forces, and of close ties with Iranians accused by
Washington of fomenting violence in Iraq.

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Source: Reuters

FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, July 13
13 Jul 2007 05:52:06 GMT

July 13 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq
at 0545 GMT on Friday:

DOUR - Four Iraqi policemen and two soldiers were killed when
gunmen attacked their checkpoint in Dour, a small town near the
northern city of Tikrit, police said.

BAGHDAD - Twenty eight bodies were found dumped in different
parts of Baghdad on Thursday, police said.

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Read more: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L13544176.htm

[Eugene]

1. Five Iraqi guards die in Baghdad shooting -police

Source: Reuters

Five Iraqi guards die in Baghdad shooting -police
13 Jul 2007 07:32:08 GMT
Source: Reuters

BAGHDAD, July 13 (Reuters) - Gunmen killed five Iraqi
government guards outside the ministry of the interior
in central Baghdad on Friday, police said.

Police said nine other guards were wounded in the early
morning machinegun attack on a watchtower at the main
gate of the ministry's heavily fortified compound.

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Read more: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/BUL326833.htm

[Massachusetts]

2. Who's on first? What's on second.....

[Barrett808]

3. What an appalling, unbelievable clusterf*ck.

Thanks, George.

[Enrique]

4. now those Iraqi police can't follow us back here

I'll be that much safer in my shopping mall.

[saigon68]

5. YES I FEEL SAFE TODAY

Thank goodness for those wonderful troops making freedom in amerika possible

[Purveyor]

6. U.S. Troops Battle Iraqi Police, Gunmen

Source: Associated Press

(07-13) 07:21 PDT BAGHDAD, (AP) --

U.S. forces battled Iraqi police and gunmen Friday, killing six policemen, after an American raid captured a police lieutenant accused of leading an Iranian-backed militia cell, the military said.

Seven gunmen also died in the fight, a rare open street battle between American troops and policemen. Washington has demanded the government purge its police force of militants, and U.S. and Iraqi authorities have arrested officers in the past for militia links. But the Bush administration said in an assessment Thursday that progress on that front was "unsatisfactory."

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As the Americans fired back, U.S. warplanes struck in front of the police position, without hitting it directly, "to prevent further escalation" of the battle, it said. There were no casualties among the U.S. troops, but seven gunmen and six of the policemen firing on the Americans were killed, the statement said.

The captured lieutenant was a "high-ranking" leader of a cell suspected of helping coordinate Iranian support for Shiite extremists in Iraq as well as carrying out roadside bombings against mortar attacks on U.S. and Iraqi forces, the military said. The lieutenant is believed to be linked to the Quds Force, a branch of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards, it said.




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[Warren Stupidity]

7. Yeah Team! Go USA! We Are Winning!

Oh fuck it. This is just never going to end, is it?

[Robbien]

8. "U.S. warplanes struck"

nice euphanism for

warplanes made bombing runs once again over occupied territory ignoring Geneva convention rules that state bombing occupied countries is a war crime.

[SayWhatYo]

15. Curious.

Where in the geneva convetion does it state that? I tried looking it up, but nothing like that stood out.

*I'm not asking because I don't think it's in there, I'm asking because I want to know, and I've never heard that before.

[Magleetis]

9. All the progress

in Iraq makes me very optimistic. All the hard work in this tough war is paying off with success.

:sarcasm:

[TransitJohn]

10. So is this the progress

that Bush* alluded to the other day? You know, with half the political benchmarks being met by the Iraqi government. If the Iraqi government's own security forces are working to undermine the Iraqi government by being moles for the militias, WHAT THE FUCK are our troops supposed to do? The stupidest thing Bush* and team did was disband Saddam's army after the invasion. It could at least have imposed order.

[underpants]

11. Wow ANOTHER side closes in on our troops?

Well ain't that just dandy.

[Doctor_J]

12. It's now complete chaos in Baghdad

our soldiers can't tell the allies from the enemy.

[tblue37]

13. They are standing up--so they can shoot us down. (eom)

[bvar22]

14. Hey, at least the TRAINING is working.

"...U.S. soldiers were attacked with "heavy and accurate" gunfire
from an Iraqi police checkpoint..."


Gotta look on the bright side.
All that training of Iraqi police is having an effect.
I would call this a GREAT success,
maybe even a "Benchmark" achieved!

[rodeodance]

16. U.S. kills six Iraqi policemen in Baghdad raid

Source: reuters



U.S. kills six Iraqi policemen in Baghdad raid

By Alister Bull Sat Jul 14, 8:20 AM ET

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. soldiers killed at least 13 people including six Iraqi policemen after coming under fire from a police checkpoint in Baghdad on Friday, the U.S. military said.

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A U.S. warplane made a strike during the raid in mainly Shi'ite east Baghdad after U.S. soldiers came under "heavy and accurate" gunfire from a police checkpoint, rooftops and a church, the military said in a statement.

Seven suspected militants were also killed during the clash, in which U.S. soldiers detained an Iraqi police lieutenant on suspicion of planning roadside bomb and mortar attacks on U.S. forces. The military accused him of links with Iranians accused by Washington of fomenting violence in Iraq.

"When they (U.S. forces) went to arrest this lieutenant, some of the police who were with him began firing on our folks," Marine Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of U.S. military's Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters in Washington.

"That turned those individuals into enemy and legitimate folks for our troops to take on in combat."..............

"When they (U.S. forces) went to arrest this lieut

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