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   From: Lilly@Shanghai.cn   
      
   oO wrote:   
   > "° Shanghai Lil °"  wrote in message   
   > news:45bc28bb$0$1947$88260bb3@free.teranews.com...   
   >> oO wrote:   
   >>> ....and the man leading the attack had blond hair   
   >>   
   >> Idiots Cheney and Bu$h get some blowback. LOL!   
   >   
   > Do you think soldiers being killed really bothers scum like Bush and   
   > Cheney? They don't give a shit, doesn't affect them.   
   >   
      
   Stay the Course !   
      
      
   >> Funny thing about paid mercenaries/assassins, they work for anyone   
   >> who'll pay ...   
   >>   
   >> America gets the payback it deserves.   
   >   
   > Wrong. What everyone deserves is to see the neo-cons being tried for   
   > war crimes.   
      
   Or another 9.11 ...   
      
   >>> 4 troops abducted, killed in Iraq attack   
   >>> By STEVEN R. HURST and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA, Associated Press   
   >>> WritersSat Jan 27, 6:24 AM ET   
   >>>   
   >>> In perhaps the boldest and most sophisticated attack in four years   
   >>> of warfare, gunmen speaking English, wearing U.S. military uniforms   
   >>> and carrying American weapons abducted four U.S. soldiers last week   
   >>> at the provincial headquarters in the Shiite holy city of Karbala   
   >>> and then shot them to death.   
   >>>   
   >>> The U.S. military confirmed a report earlier Friday by The   
   >>> Associated Press that three of the soldiers were dead and one was   
   >>> mortally wounded with a gunshot to the head when they were found in   
   >>> a neighboring province, about 25 miles from the compound where they   
   >>> were captured. A fifth soldier was killed in the initial attack on   
   >>> the compound.   
   >>> The new account contradicted a U.S. military statement on Jan. 20,   
   >>> the day of the raid on an Iraqi governor's office, that five   
   >>> soldiers were killed "repelling" the attack.   
   >>>   
   >>> The security breakdown and the dramatic kidnapping and murder of   
   >>> four soldiers leaked out just as President Bush faces stiffening   
   >>> congressional opposition over his plan to flood Baghdad and   
   >>> surrounding regions with 21,500 more American troops. Two of   
   >>> Congress's most vocal war critics, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (news,   
   >>> bio, voting record) and Rep. John Murtha (news, bio, voting record),   
   >>> were in the Iraqi capital as the news broke.   
   >>> In a statement issued late Friday, the military said two of the   
   >>> soldiers were handcuffed together in the back seat of an SUV near   
   >>> the southern Iraqi town of Mahawil. A third dead soldier was on the   
   >>> ground nearby. The fourth soldier died on the way to the hospital.   
   >>>   
   >>> The brazen assault, 50 miles south of Baghdad, was conducted by nine   
   >>> to 12 gunmen posing as an American security team, the military   
   >>> confirmed. The attackers traveled in black GMC Suburban vehicles   
   >>> (the type used by U.S. government convoys), had American weapons,   
   >>> wore new U.S. military combat fatigues, and spoke English,   
   >>> according to two senior U.S. military officials as well as Iraqi   
   >>> officials. None of the American or Iraqi officials would allow use of   
   >>> their   
   >>> names because of the sensitive nature of the information.   
   >>>   
   >>> The confirmation came after nearly a week of inquiries. The U.S.   
   >>> military in Baghdad initially did not respond to repeated requests   
   >>> for comment on reports that began emerging from Iraqi government and   
   >>> military officials on the abduction and a major breakdown in   
   >>> security at the Karbala site.   
   >>> Within hours of the AP report that four of the five dead soldiers   
   >>> had been abducted and found dead or dying about 25 miles east of   
   >>> Karbala, the military issued a long account of what took place.   
   >>>   
   >>> "The precision of the attack, the equipment used and the possible   
   >>> use of explosives to destroy the military vehicles in the compound   
   >>> suggests that the attack was well rehearsed prior to execution,"   
   >>> said Lt. Col. Scott Bleichwehl, spokesman for Multi-National   
   >>> Division-Baghdad.   
   >>> "The attackers went straight to where Americans were located in the   
   >>> provincial government facility, bypassing the Iraqi police in the   
   >>> compound," he said. "We are looking at all the evidence to determine   
   >>> who or what was responsible for the breakdown in security at the   
   >>> compound and the perpetration of the assault."   
   >>>   
   >>> The Karbala raid, as explained by the Iraqi and American officials,   
   >>> began after nightfall on Jan. 20, while American military officers   
   >>> were meeting with their Iraqi counterparts on the main floor of the   
   >>> Provisional Joint Coordination Center in Karbala.   
   >>>   
   >>> Iraqi officials said the approaching convoy of black GMC Suburbans   
   >>> was waved through an Iraqi checkpoint at the edge of the city. The   
   >>> Iraqi soldiers believed it to be American because of the type of   
   >>> vehicles, the distinctive camouflage American uniforms and the fact   
   >>> that they spoke English. One Iraqi official said the leader of the   
   >>> assault team was blond, but no other official confirmed that.   
   >>>   
   >>> A top Iraqi security official for Karbala province told the AP that   
   >>> the Iraqi guards at the checkpoint radioed ahead to the governor's   
   >>> compound to alert their compatriots that the convoy was on its way.   
   >>>   
   >>> Iraqi officials said the attackers' convoy divided upon arrival,   
   >>> with some vehicles parking at the back of the main building where   
   >>> the meeting was taking place, and others parking in front.   
   >>>   
   >>> The attackers threw a grenade and opened fire with automatic rifles   
   >>> as they grabbed two soldiers inside the compound. Then the guerrilla   
   >>> assault team jumped on top of an armored U.S. Humvee and captured   
   >>> two more soldiers, the U.S. military officials said.   
   >>>   
   >>> In its statement, the U.S. military said one soldier was killed and   
   >>> three were wounded by a "hand grenade thrown into the center's main   
   >>> office which contains the provincial police chief's office on an   
   >>> upper floor."   
   >>> The attackers captured four soldiers and fled with them and the   
   >>> computer east toward Mahawil in Babil province, crossing the   
   >>> Euphrates River, the U.S. military officials said.   
   >>>   
   >>> The Iraqi officials said the four were captured alive and shot just   
   >>> before the vehicles were abandoned.   
   >>>   
   >>> Police, who became suspicious when the convoy of attackers and their   
   >>> American captives did not stop at a roadblock, chased the vehicles   
   >>> and found the bodies, the gear and the abandoned SUVs.   
   >>>   
   >>> The military statement said: "Two soldiers were found handcuffed   
   >>> together in the back of one of the SUVs. Both had suffered gunshot   
   >>> wounds and were dead. A third soldier was found shot and dead on the   
   >>> ground. Nearby, the fourth soldier was still alive, despite a   
   >>> gunshot wound to the head."   
   >>> The wounded soldier was rushed to the hospital by Iraqi police but   
   >>> died on the way, the military said.   
   >>>   
   >>> The military also said Iraqi police had found five SUVs, U.S.   
      
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