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Iraq-Jordan

Nuggets from Iraq

2004-12-11

Deadly ambushes, suicide car bombings and roadside bomb blasts took place across the country, killing at least 10 Iraqis and wounding six U.S. soldiers.

Ramadi hospital ambush
U.S. soldiers were ambushed late Friday in Ramadi, a hotbed of anti-American violence 70 miles west of Baghdad, by insurgents firing rocket propelled grenades and small arms from the city's hospital and medical academy, the Marines claimed in a statement Saturday. Insurgents hid inside the Ramadi General Hospital and Medical College and in nearby areas waiting for the soldiers to move into their ambush zone, said Capt. Bradley Gordon, spokesman for the 1st Marine Division of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force. "Some of the muzzle flashes of insurgent firing positions were observed as originating from windows within the hospital," he said. Officials from both the Ramadi General Hospital and Medical College, rejected the U.S. claims that they were used in the ambush, but said fighting occurred nearby.
I categorically reject it!

"No, no! Certainly not! Those flashes were reflections off the Christmas ornaments!"

Two Iraqi civilians, including judge Omar Abdul Aziz Rashid, were killed during fighting, but no U.S. casualties were reported. "It was very hard to identify my husband's body, because it was charred inside the car," the judge's wife, Dr. Eman Abdul Qadre, said.

Missing: Sudanese men
Separately, police on Saturday found seven bodies apparently killed several days ago and dumped near a highway about 20 miles west of Ramadi. Lt. Col. Ziyad al-Jubouri said the seven were dark-skinned and didn't look Iraqi, while a hospital official said two Sudanese men asked about the bodies at the morgue. The Sudanese Embassy said it has heard of the grisly finds and sent an official to investigate.

Little far from home, aren't they? Musta gotten lost in a snowstorm.

Various ambushes and booms

Gunmen also killed two Iraqi police, including a colonel, in an ambush north of Beiji, 155 miles north of Baghdad, on Saturday, killing one of each as they traveled to work, U.S. military spokesman Maj. Neal O'Brien said.
Another two police officers were killed, including one captain, and two more wounded by militants while patrolling Baghdad's northern Azamiyah suburb late Friday, police Lt. Mohammed al-Obeidi said.
In the nearby Shula neighborhood, Shiite cleric Salim al-Yaqoubi was killed by gunmen near his house early Saturday, a police spokesman said.
A second Shiite cleric, Sheik Ammar al-Jibouri, was slain on Friday near Mahmoudiya, about 25 miles south of Baghdad, as he was driving to the capital. Al-Jiborui once headed a religious court of followers of anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in the southern holy city of Najaf. Al-Sadr aide Sheik Ali Smesim said al-Jibouri's killing was aimed at "flaring a sectarian war between Iraqis."
In the central Iraqi city of Samarra, a mortar shell slammed into a car, killing one occupant and injuring another, U.S. military spokesman Master Sgt. Robert Powell said. The attack happened late Friday near a river ferry terminal and a mile from a U.S. military base.
In northern Iraq, a suspected suicide car bomber wounded two U.S. soldiers in Beiji, 155 miles north of Baghdad, while two more were wounded in a car bomb blast near Kirkuk, about 60 miles to the north.
Two more U.S. soldiers were wounded by a roadside bomb outside of Hawija, near Kirkuk.
Elsewhere, a car bomb in Mosul exploded near a U.S. military convoy, killing a civilian but causing no American casualties, witnesses said.

Posted by:(-Cobra-)

#2 Good question, PR. Kevin Sites has a blog site:
http://www.kevinsites.net/ However, his last posting was a November 21 letter to the "Devil Dogs of 3/1", the unit to which he was embedded.

Posted by: GK 2004-12-11 5:38:00 PM

#1 Speaking of sweet little nuggets from Iraq. Have anyone at RB made any Kevin Sites sightings (no pun intended) lately?

Posted by: Poison Reverse 2004-12-11 3:49:03 PM

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