Insurgents Kill 1 American soldier and 3 Iraqis in Attacks in Baghdad

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http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBZC9NOMVD.html

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Insurgents launched two deadly attacks Friday in Baghdad, killing an American soldier and wounding a civilian contractor in a mortar barrage on a U.S. base, and injuring three U.S. troops in a coordinated ambush in another part of the capital.

The attacks were among several in Sunni Muslim areas of Iraq following a series of deadly car bombings this week that have unnerved an Iraqi public before the transfer of sovereignty at the end of this month.

Three Iraqi civilians died in the ambush, which began when a roadside bomb exploded in the Kamalaya district of east Baghdad, the U.S. command said. Insurgents opened fire from the rooftops. U.S. troops returned fire and the insurgents "sustained moderate casualties," the statement said.

Several hours later, six mortar shells exploded at a 1st Cavalry Division camp in southern Baghdad, killing an American soldier and slightly injuring a contractor working for Kellogg Brown and Root, the military said.

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[bluestateguy]

1. Disgusting

Their war goes on and on.

I will not participate in it.

[Barrett808]

2. Kimmitt in fantasy land

"The sooner we get every person in this country understanding their responsibility to provide us intelligence on those people in their neighborhoods who they believe to be participating in these attacks," the sooner they will stop, Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt said Friday. "We need to get that intelligence from them so we can pre-empt these attacks before they happen."

[Wright Patman]

3. 'Pre-empt'?

Where have I heard that word before? Isn't it what got us into this whole Iraqi mess to begin with?

[mike1963]

4. Zackly. That Krazy Kimmet bastard is a psychotic SOB

:grr: