U.S. Forces Kill 6 Iraqi Police

[NNN0LHI]

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BAGHDAD (AP) -- U.S. forces battled Iraqi police and gunmen Friday, killing six policemen, after an American raid to capture an Iraqi police lieutenant accused of leading a cell of Shiite militiamen, the military said. Seven gunmen also died in the fight.

The U.S. troops captured the lieutenant in a pre-dawn raid in Baghdad, but the soldiers came under "heavy and accurate fire" from a nearby Iraqi police checkpoint, as well as intense firing from rooftops and a church, the military said in a statement.

During the battle, 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.

[annabanana]

1. Am I right in assuming that WE trained and armed these police?

Well then.. Clearly the "Iraqi Government" just needs a little more "time and space" until they're trained and armed enough to turn over the job of running us out of the Country, right?

SET THE GODDAM TABLE, NANCY!!

[Boo Boo]

2. We're fighting the Iraqi police over there, so we won't have to fight 'em here. /nt

[The Stranger]

3. That is not just any civil war, that is one truly fucked up royal civil war.

Now U.S. forces are attacking police forces they trained, killing six of them, meanwhile six other "gunmen" (what the fuck exactly is a "gunman"?) were killed as well.

[madokie]

4. what part of you can't win does bushco* not understand