Death toll mounts (10 killed, 26 wounded, tankers torched in Latifiya)

[Barrett808]

(Al-Mashriq) – Ten people were killed and another 26 wounded in an attack on tankers in Latifiya area. The manager of Hilla hospital said they received four corpses and another 23 injured people. A police officer in Alexandria police station, Mohammed Masoodi, said armed assailants shot the tankers which were accompanied by some National Guardsman and set them on fire. Meanwhile, in Baghdad, one man was killed and another four wounded in a mortar attack on Karrada area.
Al-Mashriq is published daily by Al-Mashriq Institution for Media and Cultural Investments.)

http://www.iwpr.net/archive/ipm/ipm_163.html

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. Looks as though the tankers were being protected by the

National Guard, not attacked by them.

[Barrett808]

2. Er -- thanks, Casual.

That was embarrassing.

[othermeans]

3. Great little paper not an organ of the gov't or america

[leftchick]

4. this happened yesterday morning....

I saw a little blip in one non-ameriKan news source on it. Sitting on all of that good news again....