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Iraq
Rocket attack kills four in BaghdadÂ’s Green Zone
2007-05-04
BAGHDAD - Four US government contractors, all from Asia, were killed in a rocket strike on the heavily fortified Green Zone compound in Baghdad on Wednesday, the US embassy said on Thursday. “It is with a profound sense of sadness and regret that we announce the loss of four US government contractors as the result of a rocket attack on the International Zone in Baghdad, Iraq on May 2nd, 2007,” the embassy said in a statement.

The embassy had initially identified those killed as all being from the Philippines. It said in a later statement revising their nationalities that one was from the Philippines, two were from India and the fourth was from Nepal.

Sunni Arab insurgent group the Islamic Army in Iraq claimed responsibility for the attack. It said on its Web site the attack was an attempt to hit the US embassy with two rockets. “Thanks God, the hit was precise and led to great casualties among occupation troops who were at this location,” it said.
Posted by:Steve White

#4  Old Patriot, everyone knows Allah supplied the dhimmis to provide all that Muslims need for their contentment. That's why there are so many unbelievers -- to be sheared like sheep as needed.

/end hatefulness.
Posted by: trailing wife   2007-05-04 23:24  

#3  Glenmore - earning a living is unislamic. You're supposed to depend upon allan for everything. That's just one of many reasons why everywhere islam is the majority religion, the place is a hellhole.
Posted by: Old Patriot   2007-05-04 15:14  

#2  "great casualties among occupation troops "

Given the nationalities of the victims, they weren't 'troops', or even particularly high-level contractors. Just some poor folks from around the world trying to earn a living.
Posted by: Glenmore   2007-05-04 07:51  

#1  Sunni usually means from the south (Dora). I'm kinda surprised if Sunni nitwits are still able to hit the IZ - their 'hoods, in range, should mostly be pretty well watched by now. Then again launching a few rockets, one time, from a rooftop or vehicle in a city like Baghdad is almost impossible to stop every time. I feel badly for the contractors' families. Some of those guys from the Phillipines and Nepal were the nicest folks you've ever met. People took up a collection for the Pakistani workers after the quake last year. Not much visible problem between the American occupiers of Iraq and their Muslim cafeteria staff - quite the opposite. In a strange way, al Qaeda's ultimate nightmare ...
Posted by: Verlaine   2007-05-04 01:03  

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