U.S. Finds Cache in Series of Iraq Raids

[Judi Lynn]

U.S. Finds Cache in Series of Iraq Raids
U.S. Forces Arrest 19 Suspected Resistance Members in Iraq, Find Weapons in Series of Raids

The Associated Press



TIKRIT, Iraq Aug. 6 —
U.S. forces said Wednesday they arrested 19 suspected members of the anti-U.S. resistance and killed another, and found a huge stockpile of weapons in a series of raids in northern Iraq. But the big prize Saddam Hussein remained elusive.

Iraq's postwar recovery continued: In Baghdad, the U.S.-installed Governing Council asked for U.S. help in creating desperately needed jobs, while to the south in Diwaniyah, Spanish soldiers began setting up a base for troops from Spain and four Latin American countries to replace U.S. forces heading home.

For the fifth straight day, no U.S. military personnel were reported killed in attacks. Military combat deaths had been coming almost daily, with 52 U.S. soldiers killed in combat since May 1, when U.S. President George W. Bush declared major combat over.

The U.S. military announced the arrest of a man it said was organizing guerrilla attacks against American soldiers. The man, nabbed Sunday by Iraqi police officers, was the brother of a Saddam bodyguard captured by U.S. forces on July 29, said Lt. Col. Steve Russell of the 4th Infantry Division. (snip/...)

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20030806_838.html

[Trajan]

1. Weapons of Little Destruction ....

WLD's ......

Weapons of PUNY Destruction ???? .....

WPD's ???? ....

[stopthegop]

4. unless it's your son killed...n/t

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[w13rd0]

2. Yesterday...

...US forces captured the cousin of the ex-wife of the neighbor of one of Saddams doormen. News at 11!

[Neutrino]

3. I think the plan is to kill every man, woman, and child in Tikrit--

to send the message that "liberation" means subjugation and
subserviance to the iron rule of the Colonial Master.
But it seems to me that it will not work because Iraq is
an Islamic country, and from what I have read on Islamonline,
all Iraqi people must fight for their country. I'm certainly
not an expert on Islam because I'm not one, but I know that
all American people would fight to the death for America if
we were invaded and colonized. makes sense. but not to the
neocons because they never apply any rationality to their
obsessions. go figure.

[Barrett808]

5. For the fifth straight day, no U.S. military personnel were reported kia

But plenty have been wounded. Nice spin.

[frylock]

6. bush went on vacation five days ago..

coincidence?! Wouldn't look good to report troop casualties while fucko's away "clearing brush".

[FubarFly]

7. Actually two soldiers have died in the last three days.

One from a "fall" in Mosul, the other from a heart attack in Kuwait.

http://lunaville.org/warcasualties/Summary.aspx

[frylock]

9. any deaths reported from the black plague?

Sounds like "fell from a building" is the new "traffic fatality" for this month.

[damnraddem]

8. A huge cache of weapons -- but, this is funny, ...

no WMDs. Go figure!

[yellowcanine]

10. Did they find any blunderbusses or catapaults?

Is this the same "cache" that included 3 swords and 2 axes? What, no blunderbusses or catapaults?