Three U.S. Marines, two interpreters killed in Iraq

[sabra]

Source: Reuters

BAGHDAD, June 26 (Reuters) - Three U.S. Marines and two interpreters were killed in a suicide bombing at a tribal council meeting in Iraq's Anbar province on Thursday, the U.S. military said.

The five were "killed in action against an enemy force in Anbar province," a U.S. military statement said. The U.S. military said earlier that al Qaeda was likely behind the attack in the town of Garma, 30 km (20 miles) northwest of Baghdad.

Police have put the death toll from the attack at 20.

Read more: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L26535690.htm

[bluestateguy]

1. Disgusting

This war was wrong. It was a failure.

I opposed it from the very beginning.

[Texifornia]

2. GODDAMMIT!!!

MORE FUCKIN' BLOOD ON THAT FUCKIN' APE'S HANDS.

I hate Bush at a molecular level.

[babylonsister]

3. That surge...that surge... nt

[butterfly77]

4. So is this what ...

McInsane means about the surge working?

[LynnTheDem]

5. "killed in action against an enemy force"...

We are the "enemy force".

Coz contrary to the bush regime thinking, Iraq doesn't actually belong to us.

[tanyev]

6. I wonder if this will even rate a mention on tonight's evening news.

:(

[lebkuchen]

7. I thought this happened on Tuesday

a repeat "performance?"

[DesertRat]

8. Horrible

:cry:

[struggle4progress]

9. Bombs in Iraq claim 38 lives

A BOMB killed 20 people at a tribal council meeting in Iraq's Anbar province yesterday, days before the US military transfers control of security in the vast western region to Iraqi forces.

In the northern city of Mosul, a car bomb in a crowded street left 18 people dead and wounded.

http://news.scotsman.com/world/Bombs-in-Iraq-claim-38.4229170.jp

[struggle4progress]

10. American grad student dies in Iraq

(CNN) -- An American graduate student who went to Iraq to find ways to help ordinary citizens persevere in a transitioning government was one of two American civilians killed in a Sadr City bombing.

Nicole Suveges, a married political scientist from Illinois, was part of a program that embeds academics into military units to help personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan navigate the local environment, according to her employer, BAE Systems.

Suveges, who started her tour with Human Terrain System in April, had been assigned to support the 3rd Brigade Combat Team for the 4th Infantry Division in "political, cultural, and tribal engagements," a statement from the program said.

She was one of four Americans to die in the Sadr City bombing Tuesday. Two U.S. soldiers and a State Department employee, Steven Farley, who worked with the provincial reconstruction team, also were killed in the blast ...

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/06/26/iraq.american.death/?iref=mpstoryview