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| Iraq |
| Shootings, bombings, kill at least 32 across Iraq |
| 2006-10-18 |
| US troops on Tuesday patrolled a city north of Baghdad where a surge in sectarian fighting has killed close to 100 people, while bombings and shootings across Iraq killed at least 32 others. The fighting in Balad, a town near a major US air base an hour's drive north of the capital, began Friday with the slaying of 17 Shi'ite Muslim workers. Revenge-seeking Shi'ite death squads then killed 74 Sunnis, causing people to flee across the Tigris River to the nearby Sunni-dominated city of Duluiyah. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 SpecOp, I hate to read about your US boys getting killed when they are hell bent on mutual slaughter. Yep, let them first sate themselves according to their proclivity. |
| Posted by: Duh! 2006-10-18 15:11 |
| #2 I don't give a rat's ass if it's a thousand per day. If they exterminate each other, that makes controlling the place easier. What bothers me is that US troops keep getting reinjected back into these shitholes and are not allowed to shoot the dogs as required. Thus, our people keep getting ambushed and hit by IED's. There is no sense to this. Get back and let them have their free-for-all. When Sunni sect is greatly depleted, it will shrink back or disappear. This entire area should have been under strict martial law for years. There is no reasoning with these f**kwits. |
| Posted by: SpecOp35 2006-10-18 11:54 |
| #1 So it's 100? or 100 plus the 32? Staring Friday, but does that include Friday? What about Tuesday, is that included? It sounds like increasing quagmirification to me! Either that or it's 20 a day, a vast improvement over July's 100+ per day. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2006-10-18 06:32 |