Five Americans killed in Iraq violence (includes 3 from earlier articles)

[fed-up]

Source: Los Angeles Times

By Ned Parker and Raheem Salman, Los Angeles Times Staff Writers
6:26 PM PDT, April 6, 2008
BAGHDAD -- Rocket attacks killed three American soldiers in Baghdad on Sunday, while fighting between Shiite cleric Muqtada Sadr's Mahdi Army militia and U.S.-led forces paralyzed the capital's Sadr City neighborhood and left up to 22 Iraqis dead.

Just hours before the violence erupted, the Iraqi government issued a call for the radical cleric to dissolve his militia. Two U.S. military personnel were killed when rocket fire hit the Green Zone, home to the Iraqi government and the American Embassy. An attack on the Rustamiya base in east Baghdad claimed the life of a third soldier, the military said. The attacks wounded 31 people.

A fourth U.S. soldier died in a roadside bombing in the northeastern province of Diyala, while a fifth was killed in a noncombat incident, the military said.

At least 4,018 American soldiers have been killed in Iraq since March 2003, according to the independent website icasualties.org.

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Read more: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-iraq7apr07,1,2052657.story

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Yes, this deserves its own thread

FY GWB and all those that voted for the IWR

[Kool Kitty]

1. Well, it looks like things are going just fine in Iraq.

This has to end, and soon. Kicked and rec'd. Sad. All this senseless death and destruction and for what?

[Amonester]

2. here is for what: the fat cat$' (BFEE + Cheney's options) war-profits

+ big oil (of course...)

[Massachusetts]

3. RIP Troops

FUBAR!