At Least 1 Soldier Killed in Attacks on Convoys near Samarra

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20031202/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_us_samarra_attack&cid=1514&ncid=1480

<snip>RIGGA, Iraq (AFP) - At least one US soldier was killed when two almost simultaneous bomb attacks hit convoys near the Iraqi town of Samarra, scene of deadly clashes between troops and insurgents two days ago, a US officer at the scene told AFP.

"There was one soldier killed," said the clearly distressed officer, who declined to give his name or elaborate.

Reporters said the convoy was escorting a truck carrying a damaged Apache helicopter from Samarra south to Baghdad. The aircraft had a large hole in its rear but it was unclear whether it was accidental or through enemy action.

Witness Kanaan Kanel Kanaani told reporters that the last vehicle in the dozen-strong convoy, a Humvee, was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade or a mine.

"The driver lost control and the vehicle veered across the road, crashing into a parked pickup loaded with oranges," said Kanaani. "One soldier was killed."

Nice job of releasing the news. It seems like the U.S. Army learned a few lessons from PRAVDA over the past few months.

Disgusting

The news doesn't change much these days.....still soldiers dying, Iraqis dying, fuzzy numbers and details from the US. Thank goodness for LBN to help us sort fact from fiction!

:hi:

It does look that way. Every day one or two. Sometimes more--sad and depressing. The only way this will stop is for the economy to go in the tank. The population is getting used to these deaths like it accepts highway fatalities.

KEEP THE FAITH

And thanks:-)

since the fall of the Soviet Union. They are more or less trusted news agency now.
As for the incident, the question arises "Do they take us for idiots or what? Where was this chopper shot? How many people died there?

I guess Pravda is more repected now.
I should have said more like FAUX .

Then email it to someone. Get it onto Yahoo's front page.

but the bodies just disappeared, damn that Saddam!!!

. . "aircraft had a large hole in its rear but it was unclear whether it was accidental or through enemy action. "

????

Large hole in the rear - not likely "accidental"

anyone explain to me how a large hole could "appear" in the back of a HeliChopper by "accident"

oh

They "accidentaly" got hit ?

Methnks the USA is playing down it's vulnerability to fighting their "occupants"

They did that for 10 years in Viet Nam, and cost almost 60,000 young Americans their lives, nevermind how many hundreds of thousands American lives were ruined as well -

Just My Humble Canuk Opinion

just how REALLY bad things are when they keep trying to hide the obvious.......

...that's the ticket.

The news is not coming out right any more. George is worried and they need to clean up what we hear. It is like we hear one thing and other things are really going on. Very sad.The men shot are often dead in a week and we do not hear that, and they just tell us who was killed if they have to do that.

...said one Florida veteran. This one is an etc.

If I didn't know where to look I wouldn't know anything about this. I have to go to lunaville directly now to find out what in the hell has happened over night.
They had the report of another American soldier killed, Yahoo is trumpeting the story that one of saddam's top guys was either arrested or killed they hadn't filled out the report yet.
I see also where they are bringing back the body count, that should really endear us to the arabic world. Fifty nine to five hundred dead, think we'll be there by christmas? Think anyone will give a rat's ass?

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The diplomat also noted that Saruman's
"extensive history of successful orc management
should provide him with excellent experience as
he deals with the rather brutish Iraqi rabble." The
move also allows the embattled Bush administration
to shed an increasingly unpopular military
conflict "without kowtowing to those insufferable
fairies at the UN," the diplomat added.

http://www.thebrainstrust.co.uk/article.70.2965.html

I just saw on CNN, they reported that the evacuation helicopter was given the wrong coordonates and got to this person way too late.....
:(