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leftchick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 08:58 AM
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Mosul blast causes carnage (US Soldiers Wounded)
Edited on Fri Mar-18-05 09:02 AM by leftchick
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/88AF8FE4-7BB7-4807-BF25-E7773F48A6A4.htm

A car bomb blast has killed two Iraqi civilians and wounded 15 others, including six US soldiers, in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.


The US military said the soldiers wounded in the explosion on Thursday were all in stable condition. There was, however, no word on the condition of the Iraqis.

"The car bomb was driven by a suicide bomber. Two Iraqi citizens were killed. Six US soldiers and nine Iraqi civilians were injured," Sergeant John Franzen said.

Mosul, home to 1.5 million people, has been witness to frequent clashes between US-led forces and their armed opponents since November.

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blogbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 09:01 AM
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1. After All This Time It Still Doesn't Sound..
Like a 'walk in the park'..
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leftchick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 09:03 AM
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2. Mosul is BAD...
it is tough to get reports out of there but I can guarentee it is as bad as Fallujah was.
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blogbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 09:08 AM
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3. I'm sure you are right and
I'm not trying to poke fun at any suffering..but I am being sarcastic because the whole situation was and remains uncalled for. Peace!
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leftchick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 11:26 AM
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6. I understand the sarcasm...
it is the only way to get through this nightmare. :(
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ausiedownunderground Donating Member (429 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 09:16 AM
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4. Funny how American's are "only wounded" lately LOL!
Why are American's living in a "Dream". Iraq is "Democratic"!. It has a 270 member US administered "Gathering" in the "Green Zone". This is Democratic. For god sake the Murdoch media told us so!!Good luck to any American that can't "talk" their son or daughter out of "signing" up. Let them "sign up". Their fighting for Freedom and Democracy. The "Rest of the World" salutes them.!!!!!!Parents of US children have no hope!
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zanne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 09:21 AM
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5. And dead Iraqis don't count. N/T
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jmcgowanjm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-19-05 10:53 AM
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9. “Boldest Resistance attack ever” hits US ar-Rashid base south of Baghdad.
Edited on Sat Mar-19-05 10:55 AM by jmcgowanjm
IRR031805

The Resistance fighters entered the camp by using bayonets
to kill three American guards and then cutting through the
barbed wire that surrounds the base. Inside, the
Resistance fighters attacked three regular Humvees and
one armored Humvee, killing eight US troops who were near
the vehicles. The Resistance confiscated the four Humvees
and drove them out of the American camp, and from there out
of the city, taking with them all the weapons,
technical equipment, military maps, and communications
gear that was in the
vehicles.

In his dispatch posted at 12:20pm Mecca time Friday
afternoon, the Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent wrote
that correspondents for Knight-Ridder, the American
Time magazine, and several Arab and international
news agencies worked in front of the American camp and
the Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent was among them. But
it was only the Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent who relayed
the story based in part on sources in the Iraqi Resistance
and also on an interview with a member of the US military
who did not deny the story but refused to make any
statement about it.

“Friendly fire”: nervous US soldiers kill four US Marines
in ar-Rashid area following Resistance break-in at American base.

Troops in the column opened very intense fire on the Humvee,
in the belief that the vehicle was one of those taken in
a Resistance break in to the ar-Rashid base Friday
morning. The soldiers in the US column believed that
the speeding Humvee was one of the captured vehicles
being used in a martyrdom attack on themselves, hence
their fierce response.

Witnesses said that the incident left four American troops
dead and the Humvee destroyed. They said that after
opening fire on the Humvee, the Americans in the column
then saw three more Humvees pull out from a side street
behind the first. They then realized that they had shot up part of
a US Marine patrol in the area.

www.freearabvoice.org



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saigon68 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 11:47 AM
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7. "BRING EM ON" shouted the AWOL CHIMPANZEE
AWOL CHIMPANZEE=


DRAFT DODGER IN VIET-NAM


ARCHITECT OF WAR CRIMES IN IRAQ-NAM
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UpInArms Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-19-05 09:52 AM
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8. kick
:kick:

and the progress keeps going on and on and on ...
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Tansy_Gold Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-19-05 11:51 AM
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10. "only wounded" "stable condition"
WTF does that mean?

"Yes, we had to amputate both legs, but he's in stable condition now."

"No, we couldn't save her eye-sight, but she's in stable condition now."

"Well, there was significant damage to the liver and one kidney, but he's in stable condition now."

"We won't know for a few weeks how extensive the brain damage is, but she's in stable condition now."


fing assholes
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