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| Iraq |
| 7 al-Qaeda captured, 50 held |
| 2006-05-01 |
| US and Iraqi forces on Saturday attacked buildings being used by foreign insurgent groups such as Al Qaeda in Iraq, and captured seven militants and detained more than 50 suspected ones, said the US command on Sunday. Also, three British contractors were killed when a roadside bomb struck their convoy, a spokesman for the British military said on Sunday. “The attack occurred about 30 kilometres northwest of Basra,” the spokesman said of the violence on Saturday. American and Iraqi forces have killed more than 20 foreign insurgents, some wearing suicide vests, during raids in and around Youssifiyah, an area being used by militants to stage attacks in Baghdad, said the US military. Also, Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said Sunday that the United States was in promising talks with seven insurgent groups. “The Americans have entered into negotiations with some of these groups with my blessing and I think it is possible to reach an agreement with the seven armed organisations,” Talabani said in a statement released by his office. He did not name the groups but said they were fighting what they regarded as US-led occupation. There was no immediate reaction from US officials. Meanwhile, insurgent attacks continued in Iraq killing three Iraqis. The bullet-ridden bodies of seven Iraqi men were also found. Despite the violence, Prime Minister-designate Nouri al-Maliki continued to meet with politicians to choose his cabinet for Iraq’s new national unity government. Al-Maliki has promised to finish the job in the next two weeks, but it could be difficult for him to fill top Cabinet posts with politicians who are not affiliated with parties that have maintained armed militias being blamed for sectarian violence. A roadside bomb killed a US soldier southwest of Baghdad on Saturday, raising the American death toll for April to at least 70. But the US military would not give the precise location of Saturday’s attack, or say whether it was related to the coalition raids in and around Youssifiyah. In Baghdad, two drive-by shootings killed Talib Niama, an employee in the Trade Ministry, and the owner of an auto parts shop, police said. The bullet-ridden bodies of seven men were found in three areas of the capital. All of them had been tortured and killed in captivity, police said. Such sectarian violence by Sunni Arab and Shia death squads has become common lately in Baghdad. A roadside bomb hit a US military convoy in Tikrit, the hometown of former President Saddam Hussein, said Police Maj Ahmed Awad said. He said the blast set a Humvee on fire, causing US casualties, but the US command could not immediately confirm that. In Ramadi, gunmen attacked three policemen travelling in a car carrying the salaries of police in Fallujah, killing one, wounding another, and kidnapping the third with the bag of money, police said. Two roadside bombs targeting separate Iraqi police patrols exploded within a half hour of each other, wounding two policemen and a civilian driving nearby, police said. In Sadr City, a bomb exploded aboard a minibus near a gas station, wounding three Iraqi civilians, said Police Lt Thair Mahmoud. Many Iraqis pay small fees to travel around the capital in privately owned minibuses. A roadside bomb in Musayyib missed a police patrol but wounded a civilian, said police Capt Muthana Khalid said. A roadside bomb exploded near a US convoy in Rawah, said witnesses but casualties were not immediately reported. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #5 Inside job, like so many. Rememeber, we're talking Arabs here. |
| Posted by: wxjames 2006-05-01 14:39 |
| #4 In Ramadi, gunmen attacked three policemen travelling in a car carrying the salaries of police in Fallujah, killing one, wounding another, and kidnapping the third with the bag of money, police said. Bad proceedures or an inside job? |
| Posted by: Unaise Thavigum5816 2006-05-01 12:03 |
| #3 Denial is a powerful motivator. If you could admit to your readers that these 'militants' were really terrorists, then you might be forced to acknowledge that the "so called" War on Terror is for real; and that George Bush might be right; and that John Kerry and the rest of the Dems are wrong; and that the MSM is misleading the public. Logic is a bitch. So militants they remain. War on Militants sound so childish, so unimportant. |
| Posted by: john 2006-05-01 10:55 |
| #2 A militant is a PO'd butchy femnist Don't do things like that when I'm not expecting it -- it took a bit before I could start breathing again! :-) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2006-05-01 09:25 |
| #1 "captured seven militants and detained more than 50 suspected ones" WHEN is the press going to stop doing this and use the word that describes what they are: TERRORISTS. With the press, until it can call our enemy what it is, they have already surrendrered by giving in ot the terrorist's terms and info warfare strategy. This pisses me off so much wehenever I see it! A militant is a PO'd butchy femnist. Guys that behead teachers, murder women and children with suicide bombs, and crash airplanes into buildings are terrorists. Call things what they are - lying for the enemy does the world harm by clouding the debate with false terminology. |
| Posted by: Oldspook 2006-05-01 03:16 |