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| You'll Never See This on CNN or in the New York Times |
| 2005-08-15 |
| WASHINGTON, Aug. 12, 2005 – Iraqi citizens tipped off U.S. soldiers patrolling the northwest part of Baghdad about the whereabouts of two roadside bombs Aug. 10. The Iraqis told a Task Force Baghdad patrol at 9:15 a.m. the bombs were placed near a major highway in the area. The Americans found two landmines and two mortar rounds wrapped in detonation cord. The soldiers secured the site and called in an explosive ordnance disposal team to safely detonate the munitions. A suicide car bomber attacked another American unit patrolling west Baghdad four hours later. The bomb detonated prematurely, 10 feet from the soldiers' vehicles. The car's driver was killed in the attack, but no one else was killed or injured. Timing is everything! The soldiers also stopped a suspicious vehicle following directly behind the car bomb. When they searched the vehicle and the two occupants inside they found a loaded AK-47 assault rifle. One occupant also had a cellular phone that could have been used to communicate with the suicide bomber or videotape the attack. Mebbe they were the timers? Both men where taken into custody for questioning. At 4:45 p.m., a third task force unit found two 100-pound bombs hidden under some grass laid on a major highway in northwest Baghdad. The soldiers secured the site and called in an EOD team. The U.S. soldiers then noticed some people gathered around a car about 100 yards away from the bomb. The soldiers questioned the group to determine the car's owner. After the owner was identified, the soldiers searched the vehicle's trunk and found the same kind of grass used to cover the bombs. Explosive materials were also found in the car. There's returning to the scene of the crime, then there's never leaving the scene! The vehicle's owner and three other men were taken into custody for questioning. Later in the day task force soldiers found and safely disabled three more roadside bombs in northwest, central and south Baghdad before they could be used against Iraqi citizens or coalition forces. And Iraqi police and U.S. soldiers teamed up Aug. 9 to capture two kidnappers and return a 2-year-old child to his parents in the Bayaa district of south Baghdad. The combined patrol was patrolling the neighborhood around 2 p.m. that day when a white van drove by. One van occupant fired six shots from an AK-47 at the patrol. How to draw attention to yourself, when you should be trying to blend in! When the assailant's vehicle sped around a corner to flee, an Iraqi police undercover unit met it. The police fired four shots into the rear tires of the van and stopped it. The combined patrol investigated and found a 2-year-old child who had been kidnapped from his home just minutes before. The Iraqi police arrested the driver and the passenger, impounded the van, and returned the child to his parents. Somebody ought to tell the MSM about this site! |
| Posted by:Bobby |
| #13 Easy Bigjim. When you live in an alternate universe, you actually do believe the earth is the center of it all, and the sun/moon/planets/stars all revolve around it. When the math doesn't add up, you just keep coming up with excuses why it 'should' be that way instead of investigating the underlying assumptions of how the universe really operates. And before you think that is just cute, remember we still say 'sunrise' and 'sunset' even in this post Copernicus/Galileo/Kepler world. |
| Posted by: Jirt Omager7355 2005-08-15 15:29 |
| #12 I just read an article about Newsweek, they can't even figure out why their sales have gone down. Can you believe that, they can't figure it out. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2005-08-15 15:01 |
| #11 actually the NYT had a pretty decent article on Sunday about the Iraqi force thats taken over the Haifa street district in central Baghdad from American forces. for those without NYT passwords, you can see the article via Yahoo. again, i see no reference to this in the WaPo or elsewhere. Which shows an interesting pattern. Good news stories from Iraq ARE written by reporters in the field, and make it into the papers. But nobody at those papers is trying to pull those together into a coherent strategic analysis - overviews are typically left to the Washington bureaus, NOT the Baghdad bureaus, and are slanted (like Sundays WaPo article by Robin Wright). |
| Posted by: liberalhawk 2005-08-15 11:46 |
| #10 Raj, click on the 2 year view, and you see the decline begins in early 2004. Wonder what was happening then? Anyone know? Bueller? |
| Posted by: Steve White 2005-08-15 10:53 |
| #9 Here is something worse. NYT exec's dumping stock or as the analysts say, "exercising options." Riiight! Keep a count of the number of red "S". S=sell. You can count the green "B" on one hand. Here is the link... |
| Posted by: Poison Reverse 2005-08-15 10:43 |
| #8 Lol, Raj! Reminded me of this killer Iowahawk post, originally written in 2003, where he literally eviscerates them, heh. |
| Posted by: .com 2005-08-15 10:25 |
| #7 NYT, 6 month chart. It's gotta suck being long on that stock. |
| Posted by: Raj 2005-08-15 10:14 |
| #6 Though not detailed enough to compete with Lh (heh), here's a handy-dandy reference some might be interested in checking out from time to time. |
| Posted by: .com 2005-08-15 10:08 |
| #5 what's worse for the LA Times and NYT and WAPO is not only do they not carry the stories of the day, but when they do - I question the reliability of their version of events. If you have stock - sell, baby, sell. The chances of them recovering are getting slimmer each day. |
| Posted by: 2b 2005-08-15 09:36 |
| #4 AFAICT the rest of the press has not picked up on yesterdays WaPo story about Ramadi, which may be the most significant good news of all - that members of the Sunni Dulaimi tribe, attempting to protect their Shia neighbors from ethnic cleansing, chased Zarq's thugs out of town. |
| Posted by: liberalhawk 2005-08-15 09:30 |
| #3 Both men where taken into custody for questioning. NYT Headline: Journalists targetted and kidnapped by US Forces |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2005-08-15 09:29 |
| #2 The car's driver was killed in the attack, but no one else was killed or injured. HA! HA! No virgins for you! |
| Posted by: JerseyMike 2005-08-15 09:24 |
| #1 Rock on, guys! I still love to hear about our troops doing good from someone else BESIDES them. |
| Posted by: mmurray821 2005-08-15 09:23 |
