Violence in Iraq continues; One marine killed; Story buried on Page 21
Sid9
U.S.-Iraqi forces fend off attacks
7 insurgents die in fighting in Ramadi
By Jonathan Finer
The Washington Post
January 26, 2006
BAGHDAD, Iraq · U.S. Marines and Iraqi soldiers repelled coordinated attacks
on the provincial government headquarters in the western city of Ramadi
Tuesday afternoon, killing seven insurgents, the military said Wednesday.
Five insurgents -- whose assault included mortar, small-arms and machine-gun
fire -- were killed by a strike from a Marine Harrier jet as they gathered
in a nearby cemetery, according to a statement from Capt. Jeffrey Pool, a
Marine spokesman in the city.
Two other fighters died in a firefight after insurgents used a
rocket-propelled grenade to attack a military convoy entering the city's
main government compound.
No U.S. or Iraqi forces were wounded in the clashes, the statement said.
During the fighting, Mahmoud Zaal 30, a cameraman for the Baghdad TV
network, was killed by more than 20 bullets to the head, abdomen and legs,
according to Mohammed Dulaimi, a doctor at the Ramadi hospital.
Baghdad TV is owned by the country's dominant Sunni Arab political
organization, the Iraqi Islamic Party, which recently re-entered politics
after boycotting elections held a year ago.
Islamic Party official Baha Aldin Naqshabandi said Marines mistook Mahmoud,
who was sent to Ramadi to report on the condition of local residents amid
recent clashes, for a combatant while he was gathering footage in the city's
main market.
Also Wednesday
Protest in Basra: Tension mounted in the predominately Shiite southern city
of Basra as several hundred protesters took to the streets to denounce raids
conducted a day earlier by British forces in which at least a dozen people
were detained, most of them members of the city's police force. Joined by
provincial Gov. Muhammed Waili, the demonstrators, who included many members
of the tribes of the men who were detained, chanted slogans calling for
independence from the U.S.-led forces that police their region.
Rumsfeld disputes report: Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld disputed
reports suggesting that the U.S. military is stretched thin and close to a
snapping point from operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, asserting "the force
is not broken."
"This armed force is enormously capable," Rumsfeld told reporters at a
Pentagon briefing. "In addition, it's battle hardened. It's not a peacetime
force that has been in barracks or garrisons."
Rumsfeld spoke a day after The Associated Press reported that an unreleased
study conducted for the Pentagon said the Army is being overextended, thanks
to the two wars, and may not be able to retain and recruit enough troops to
defeat the insurgency in Iraq.
Cleric shot at checkpoint: In Samarra, north of Baghdad, where more than 40
police recruits were killed by gunmen this week, Sunni Arab cleric Karim
Jassim Mohammed was shot dead by police at a checkpoint on the road to the
Iraqi capital. Muhammed's mother, who was traveling with him in the vehicle,
said police "shot randomly to frighten the people and force them to go back.
I was about to tell my son to go back, but it was too late. One of the
bullets reached his head and killed him immediately."
Marine killed: The U.S. military said a Marine was killed by small-arms fire
Tuesday in Karmah, 50 miles west of Baghdad.
More kidnapping details: Kidnappers of two German engineers seized the men
only two days after they arrived in Iraq, gaining access to their compound
by pretending to be soldiers, police said. The two men arrived Sunday for a
brief assignment at a government-owned detergent plant in Beiji, 155 miles
north of Baghdad, German and Iraqi officials said.
Iraqi police initially reported the two were grabbed as they were driving to
work Tuesday. On Wednesday, two policemen said the Germans were taken from
their compound by armed men.
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Republicans...soft on crime and corruption,incompetent
in family matters, finance and foreign affairs!
Docky Wocky
"During the fighting, Mahmoud Zaal 30, a cameraman for the Baghdad TV
network, was killed by more than 20 bullets to the head, abdomen and legs,
according to Mohammed Dulaimi, a doctor at the Ramadi hospital..."
sidix forgot to include the info on who, in a typical fit of islamic rage,
over-killed the cameraman for some reason.
HINT: It wasn't the Marines, or Iraqi soldiers.
It was the nice insurgents, otherwise known as the left-wing's favorite
terrorists, who have, once again, demonstrated a tendency to behave like
animals.
It is also heartening to see no insurgents were captured. At least they are
learning that is a waste of time.
Sid9
Not only was the article buried deep into
page twenty one of my morning newspaper,
the Marine's death was similarly buried by
our right wing press deep in article:
"...Marine killed: The U.S. military said a
Marine was killed by small-arms fire
Tuesday in Karmah, 50 miles west of
Baghdad...."
Another unnecessary death in bush,jr's fiasco.
bush,jr has spread "democracy"...
...bush,jr has created a new Islamic
fascist fundamentalist state in Iraq.
bush,jr, head recruiter for Al Qaeda!