Five U.S. soldiers die in Baghdad bomb blast

[Barrett808]

Source: Reuters

BAGHDAD, March 10 (Reuters) - Five U.S. soldiers were killed and three others wounded in a bomb blast in central Baghdad on Monday, the U.S. military said, in the worst single attack on U.S. forces in Baghdad in months.

An Iraqi interpreter was also wounded in the explosion, which hit the soldiers while they were on foot patrol, the military said in a statement.

Iraqi police said the soldiers had been walking in the street in Mansour district when a suicide bomber wearing an explosives vest walked up to them and blew himself up.

A police official at Baghdad's Yarmouk hospital said nine wounded Iraqis had been admitted, including a policeman. They had spoken of a suicide bomber who had exploded among the Americans, he said.

The U.S. military said four soldiers were killed in the blast and one died later of wounds. It did not confirm the cause of the explosion.

"We remain resolute in our resolve to protect the people of Iraq and kill or capture those who would bring them harm," said Colonel Allen Batschelet, chief of staff of U.S. forces in Baghdad.

(Writing by Ross Colvin, editing by Paul Tait)

Read more: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/COL051860.htm

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. K&R this, please. If this is not front page worthy, all is lost.

Critically important to every one of us.

[acmavm]

3. I was number 4. And it is front page worthy. More than a lot of the

trash that ends up on there.

[Stuart G]

6. I agree..K &R..This is the most important news.

We cannot forget what is going on now...Right Now

The decisions that were made years ago, by people who lied, stole, and cheated, are still with us, right now. Killing right now.

We... cannot change the past, yet we can change now, tomorrow, and tomorrow after that. Yet they won't.

So, we must.................

,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,We must not forget........................

[Massachusetts]

2. May OUR Troops RIP

FUBAR!

Wake Up Um...arica!

[Sabriel]

4. K&R. I hope we never become blase about this. n/t

[Barrett808]

5. "Resolute in our resolve"

The death of irony may be the worst collateral damage from the Bush mob's wars.

[Binka]

8. The Beat Goes On

RIP Troops :cry:

[Supersedeas]

13. sadly so

[LibDemAlways]

7. "We remain resolute in our resolve to protect the people

of Iraq...."

Colonel Batschelet's name seems oddly appropriate as it reminds me of "Batshitcrazy." If he really believes that the US military is over there to protect Iraqis, he's certifiable.

RIP soldiers. You were used and abused by your own country and lost your lives for nothing.

[endarkenment]

12. protect the people who seem oddly determined to kill us

even at the certain cost of their own lives. They simply do not understand the essential contradiction of our occupation of Iraq, even when it quite literally blows up in their faces.

[Stuart G]

9. I hope we give this some attention..it is important ... nt.

[formercia]

10. There is no protection from this kind of attack.

Junior and his gang have made so many enemies of people who have nothing left to lose.

Put Junior on point, six stars on his helmet and a big radio.

[Stuart G]

11. Yes...Junior on point,..with a big radio...and shooter at his side,..

just a little back, with his great big rifle......perhaps he and Junior will get a ....."feeling" for what it is like out there.......

[subsuelo]

14. Thanks Hillary for voting for this

[sabra]

15. 5 GIs Killed In Baghdad Attack

Source: CBS News/AP

U.S. Soldiers On Foot Patrol Hit By Bomb; Blast Wounds Three Other Soldiers

(CBS/AP) Five American soldiers on a foot patrol were killed Monday in an apparent suicide bomb attack in central Baghdad, the U.S. military said.

Four of the soldiers died at the scene and the fifth died later from wounds, the military said in a statement. The blast also wounded three U.S. soldiers and an Iraqi interpreter, the military said.

The statement said the soldiers were killed "when their dismounted patrol was struck by an explosion" and "initial reports indicated the explosive device was a suicide vest."

The name of the soldiers were being withheld pending notification of next of kin.

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/10/iraq/main3921125.shtml

[TwilightGardener]

16. Very sad. RIP, troops, and thank you for your service.

[ckramer]

20. You think she cares?

Flat chance.

[wildwww2]

17. Just think 100 more years of this if John Insane steals the Whitehouse!

And the war crime that Bu$h Inc. started keeps on killing. Are my fellow Americans as ashamed of this idiocy as I am? I guess not. America, land of the free home of the brave? It makes me free to have my military occupying a country on the other side of the planet? And what kind of bravery does it take to sit back and let this unwinnable war crime continue? My answer: None. Fear keeps this awful war crime going. And it is shameful. RIP to our troops who continue to be used as cannon fodder.
Peace
Wildman
Al Gore is My President

[JoFerret]

18. While the rest of us squabble...

...this horror continues.
Brings them home. We need plans now to end the war(s)

[superconnected]

19. Send their bodies to hillary and obama. Bush will do nothing and

and all we can do now is beg one of them to give up their corporate interest by finding some compassion, and stop this in 2009 when a thousand more are dead and before another thousand get killed.

[txaslftist]

21. Spring is coming to Iraq.

[scarface2004]

22. just a number tony snow sneered!

can t wait for the cancer to take out that asshole!

[maseman]

23. Who cares

There's a Democrat Gov somewhere screwing a hooker...extra extra read all about it.