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| 2004-05-17 |
| U.S.-led forces in Iraq have killed 51 guerrillas, including 20 in an air strike on insurgents loading and unloading weapons from vehicles in southeastern Iraq, the U.S. military said Monday. Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt told a news conference U.S.-led forces had killed 17 militiamen loyal to rebel Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr near shrines in the holy city of Kerbala in the past 24 hours. Thirteen Sadr militiamen were killed in other areas, he said. Insurgents had fired rocket-propelled grenades, mortars and automatic rifles on U.S. forces in the city, 110 km (68 miles) south of Baghdad, Kimmitt said. "Sounds of fighting in the downtown area could be heard for much of the night," he said. One other insurgent was killed Monday in Najaf when U.S.-led forces were sent to defend police stations which had come under attack, he said. Fighters from Sadr's militia say U.S.-led forces in Iraq routinely exaggerate casualties. U.S.-led forces are trying to crush Sadr's uprising before handing sovereignty to a new Iraqi government on June 30. |
| Posted by:Lux |
| #9 Carl, I bookmark major media reports then correlate these with Centcom briefings, the English language Iraqi media, and various first hand reports, including Iraqi bloggers and individual soldiers. |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2004-05-17 11:56:31 PM |
| #8 AC, any tips on how to keep score for those of us following along on home, or is (shudder) actual work involved ? |
| Posted by: Carl in N.H. 2004-05-17 4:45:50 PM |
| #7 wow 1345 is excellent,keep the totaliser running,im gonna try counting too,lol counting the rag heads getting shredded that is not just counting. |
| Posted by: Shep UK 2004-05-17 2:09:26 PM |
| #6 Shep, my incomplete count (no figures from Fallujah after 17-4) makes it 1345 insurgents killed since 1-4-04. In assembling its own much lower figures two weeks ago, AP completely ignored known insurgent deaths in Baghdad. |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2004-05-17 2:01:26 PM |
| #5 great score this,anyone got a totaliser that keeps track of all the Islamozoid deaths just as the western media love to whore over American death numbers.Bet they've lost about 300 in the last month if not more and yet are media still tell us were losing and in a quagmire! Bet the red cross would say they were all innocents,mainly women and children.If we lost 51 troops in Iraq in one day our media would be screaming and bawling that its a disatster etc etc, yet they lose 51 men and they barly report it, it makes me sick with rage at the media propaganda campaign! Anyway sweet that we zapped 20 in one hit :) |
| Posted by: Shep UK 2004-05-17 1:48:59 PM |
| #4 The actual count is 3,672 virgins supplied in paradise. What we need is one of those old signs that McDonald's Hamburgers used to have. "Billions and Billions Served" |
| Posted by: BigEd 2004-05-17 1:47:02 PM |
| #3 Maybe that figure can be more than doubled next week. |
| Posted by: Mark Espinola 2004-05-17 1:27:39 PM |
| #2 Should they be called "good" insurgents? BTW, I liked Rice's comparison of them to Klansmen after the Civil War. I wonder if referring to them as "Klansmen" would change the debate? |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2004-05-17 1:13:53 PM |
| #1 U.S.-led forces in Iraq have killed 51 guerrillas, including 20 in an air strike on insurgents loading and unloading weapons from vehicles in southeastern Iraq, the U.S. military said Monday makes my Monday a little more sunny ;-) |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-05-17 1:13:31 PM |