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| Insurgent Attack Foiled in Baghdad |
| 2005-08-06 |
| BAGHDAD, Iraq — U.S. and Iraqi troops repelled a series of coordinated insurgent attacks in southern Baghdad, killing six rebels and capturing 12, the U.S. military said Saturday. There were no U.S. casualties. The fighting began about 8 p.m. Friday when insurgents attacked an Iraqi army position with mortar rounds and small-arms fire, the command said. U.S. attack helicopters engaged the insurgents with rockets and gunfire. At nearly the same time, a homicide attacker drove a truck loaded with explosives into a nearby Iraqi army checkpoint, killing an Iraqi soldier. A suicide car bomber tried to attack another Iraqi position in the area, but a U.S. tank fired and hit the car, killing the driver and causing the car bomb to explode prematurely, the U.S. command said. Iraqi police said three bystanders were wounded. Minutes later, insurgents at a fourth location fired two rocket-propelled grenades and a mortar round at another Iraqi army post in south Baghdad (search). None of the rounds caused any damage, the U.S. statement said. Over the next two hours, insurgents tried to regroup for further attacks on the two Iraqi army posts but were driven off by U.S. and Iraqi fire, the statement added. "The enemy came to fight us with no success," said Maj. Listen Edge (search) of Kennesaw, Ga., an operations officer with the 48th Brigade Combat Team. |
| Posted by:Bobby |
| #7 Going out to get my Sunday paper... just know, this news report will be on the front page!!! with the headline... American GIs Once Again Foil the Terrorists Okay... so it's bedtime... and I'm attempting to channel my dreams. |
| Posted by: Sherry 2005-08-06 22:43 |
| #6 woohoo. Our guys are the best. |
| Posted by: Jan 2005-08-06 22:39 |
| #5 "U.S. tank fired and hit the car, killing the driver and causing the car bomb to explode prematurely" I hate it when that happens. Although, I think the secondary explosion was not a car bomb. I believe it is the new Zionist Halliburton Induced Time Delay 120mm shell. three bystanders were wounded" Bystanders? Riiiiight. Hopefully, a CNN or BBC crew. |
| Posted by: Poison Reverse 2005-08-06 19:55 |
| #4 Especially someone from Kennesaw: the city REQUIRES you keep a gun in the house AND get trained to use it. Guess which city has the lowest break-in rate in the country? |
| Posted by: Ptah 2005-08-06 19:18 |
| #3 don' t try too fight a GA boy |
| Posted by: Thraing Hupoluper1864 2005-08-06 18:59 |
| #2 "Major Listen Edge" Cool name. |
| Posted by: Carl in N.H. 2005-08-06 18:13 |
| #1 Good! |
| Posted by: 3dc 2005-08-06 18:01 |