Breaking: 5 US Soldiers Killed by Bombs in Iraq....Plus news the MSM hasn't reported!

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Tue Nov-06-07 06:35 AM
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Breaking: 5 US Soldiers Killed by Bombs in Iraq....Plus news the MSM hasn't reported!

Edited on Tue Nov-06-07 06:54 AM by Breeze54

5 US Soldiers Killed by Bombs in Iraq

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12 minutes ago - 6:31 AM

11/06/2007

BAGHDAD (AP) �

Five American soldiers were killed in two separate roadside bomb attacks in Iraq,
a U.S. military spokesman said Tuesday.

The soldiers died Monday, said Rear Adm. Gregory Smith, director of the Multi-National
Force-Iraq's communications division.

"We lost five soldiers yesterday in two unfortunate incidents, both involving IEDs,"
Smith told reporters in Baghdad's heavily-guarded Green Zone.

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Current Time in Baghdad: 2:14:49 PM

11/06/07 Reuters: Thirty bodies found in mass graves near Baghdad
Iraqi soldiers uncovered two mass graves containing at least 30 bodies of men and women in a
former al Qaeda stronghold northwest of Baghdad, the Iraqi and U.S. military said on Tuesday.

11/06/07 AP: 22 bodies found in mass grave outside of Baghdad, U.S. says
Iraqi soldiers discovered 22 bodies in a mass grave in the Lake Tharthar area northwest of Baghdad,
the U.S. military said Tuesday. The bodies were found Saturday during a joint operation with U.S.
forces, the military said in a statement.

11/06/07 NYTimes: Iraqi Police Academy Remains Largely Unusable
More than a year after the Parsons Corporation, the American contracting giant, promised Congress
that it would fix the disastrous plumbing and shoddy construction in barracks the company built at
the Baghdad police academy...

11/06/07 Xinhua: Gunmen kill provincial council member in N Iraq
Unidentified gunmen shot dead a member of the provincial council of Nineveh in the provincial
capital of Mosul on Tuesday, a police source said. "Aref Yousif Qunber, the Nineveh council
member and chairman of the council's culture..."

11/05/07 Reuters: Six bodies found in Mosul, 3 found in Baghdad
Six people, including a woman, were found shot dead in northeastern Mosul on Monday, police said.
Some bore signs of torture. Also, a decapitated body was found in the southwest of the city...
Three bodies were found across Baghdad on Monday, police said.

11/05/07 Reuters: Roadside bomb kills 2 pedestrians, wound 7 in southern Baghdad
A roadside bomb targeting a joint Iraqi army and police patrol killed two pedestrians
and wounded seven others in the Zaafaraniya district of southern Baghdad, police said

11/05/07 Reuters: Gunmen kill senior Baghdad civil servant
Gunmen shot dead a senior Baghdad civil servant in the Ghadeer neighbourhood
of eastern Baghdad, police said.

11/05/07 DoD Announces Force Adjustment
The Department of Defense announced today that the 10th Mountain Division headquarters, based
in Fort Drum, N.Y., is scheduled to deploy in the spring of 2008 to support Operation Iraqi Freedom.

11/05/07 CNN: Soldier survives bizarre injury
It takes a few moments to notice the dent in Sgt. Dan Powers' head, a place where
he was stabbed with a nine-inch blade while patrolling the streets of the Iraqi capital.

11/05/07 KUNA: Police Lieutenant Colonel killed in Tikrit
In Tikrit, a Lieutenant Colonel and his escort policeman were killed in an ambush by unkown gunmen.

11/05/07 KUNA: Armed men kidnap two doctors from Baquba hospital
Armed men kidnapped two doctors who works in Baqouba hospital, an Iraqi police officer
in Diyali province said. Iraqi Captain Qassem Al-Zubaidi said the armed men who used
two vehicles stopped the doctors who were departing work...

11/05/07 Reuters: Iraqi translators offered help by Britain
Britain will start accepting applications for refuge and financial assistance from Iraqi
translators and others who have worked with British forces in Iraq, the British military
said on Monday.

11/05/07 Reuters: Khadhra neighbourhood council member killed by gunmen
Gunmen killed Hamad Abdul-Latif, a member of the Khadhra neighbourhood council,
in western Baghdad's Jamiaa district, a hospital source said.

11/05/07 Reuters: Insurgnet bomber captured in Ramadi
Iraqi police and U.S. forces captured an insurgent bomber and two other suspected militants
in Ramadi, 110 km (70 miles) west of Baghdad, on Sunday, the U.S. military said.

11/05/07 Reuters: Iraqi and U.S. forces detain 81 people
Iraqi and U.S. forces detained 81 people and found a large weapons cache during an operation
against al Qaeda in Iraq near Suwayra, 60 km (40 miles) south of Baghdad, on Friday, the U.S.
military said.

11/05/07 NYTimes: Christian Community in Iraq Gains a Spiritual First in Baghdad
There is neither a cross nor a sign on the heavy metal gate to indicate that this is the official
residence of one of the country�s most prominent Christians, the first in Iraq in modern times to
be elevated to cardinal by the Roman Catholic Church.

11/05/07 Reuters: Six bodies found in Mosul, 4 in Baghdad
Six bodies were found in different areas of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad,
on Sunday, police said...Four bodies, all shot, were found in Baghdad on Sunday, police said.

11/05/07 Reuters: Roadside bomb kills 1 person, wounds 3 in eastern Baghdad
One person was killed and three wounded when a roadside bomb exploded near a car in eastern
Baghdad's Baladiyat district, police said.

11/05/07 Reuters: Roadside bomb kills policeman in western Baghdad
One policeman was killed and six others wounded when a roadside bomb exploded near
a police patrol in Harthiya in western Baghdad on Sunday, police said.

11/05/07 Reuters: U.S. soldiers kill 3 insurgents trying to plant bomb
U.S. soldiers killed three insurgents who they found trying to plant a bomb on a road in
a village near Salman Pak, 45 km (25 miles) southeast of Baghdad, on Saturday, police said.

11/05/07 KUNA: US military in Iraq denies finding abducted soldier dead
The media coordinator for the Joint Multi-National Force centre, Janah Hamoud, on Monday
quashed reports that a US soldier in Iraq, abducted with other two in May, had been found dead.

11/05/07 honoluluadvertiser: Marines pulling out of Fallujah
The car bomb in Fallujah exploded in May. On that warm evening, insurgents drove a vehicle
packed with explosives into mourners of a slain local tribal leader as they wound through
a ramshackle corner of the city, killing 20.

11/05/07 AP: Nearly 2.3 million displaced

Nearly 2.3 million Iraqis�the vast majority of them women and children�have fled their homes
but remain inside the country's borders and are in urgent need of basic care, according to a
report issued Monday by the Iraqi Red Crescent.

11/04/07 Xinhua: Two PKK rebels killed in operation in SE Turkey
Two militants of the outlawed Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) were killed in a military operation
in southeastern Turkey, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported on Sunday.

11/04/07 Weau: Purple Heart Awarded to local Soldier
The Wisconsin National Guard presented Lieutenant Paul Mitchell with a Purple Heart
Sunday at the Arcadia Armory. Mitchell was stationed North of Bagdad as a Platoon Leader.
October 13th of 2005...an IED hit Mitchell's humvee.

11/04/07 dallasnews: Wounded Iraq veteran, wife lose 3rd child from car crash
Still grieving over the deaths of two of their children, Army Spc. John Austin Johnson
and his wife this week have to bury a third child... Despite his own brush with death
in Iraq, Spc. Johnson wants to return to active duty, Sgt. Schmidt said.

11/04/07 Reuters: 3 people killed by car bomb in Tikrit
A car bomb killed three people, including a child, and wounded 13 others in Tikrit,
175 km (110 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. A police source in Baghdad put the
death toll at five.

11/04/07 Reuters: Kidnapped journalist released in Baghdad
A kidnapped Baghdad correspondent for a United States-funded radio was released
after two weeks in captivity, the station said on Sunday.

11/04/07 Reuters: Iranian pilgram killed near Baghdad
An Iranian pilgrim was killed near Baghdad on Saturday. "A man sitting near a passenger bus
was accidentally shot dead and a woman was slightly wounded," an Iranian official told ISNA
news agency in Tehran.

11/04/07 Xinhua: Two suicide bombers hit police checkpoint in N Iraq
Two suicide bombers, one was driving a car while the other in a truck, struck a police
checkpoint in northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Sunday, wounding at least 14 people,
including policemen, a provincial police source said.

11/04/07 LATimes: Kurds withhold assurances on border
U.S. officials met with Iraqi and Turkish diplomats here Saturday on the crisis threatenin
Iraq's northern border, but key Kurdistan officials failed to offer assurances that they
would move against Kurdish militants attacking Turkey....

11/04/07 WaPo: Iraq Again Mulls Amnesty Plan
The Iraqi government has resumed discussions about an amnesty program to encourage insurgents
and militiamen to lay down their weapons as daily violence lessens across the country, according
to Iraqi and U.S. officials.

11/04/07 Reuters: Gunmen kill primary school principal
Gunmen killed a woman principal at al Mustakbal primary school and wounded a woman principal
at Um Qassir school, both in the southern Baghdad district of Saidiya, police said.

11/04/07 Reuters: Car bomb kills 1, wounds 4 in Baghdad's Mansour district
A car bomb killed one person and wounded four in the Mansour district of western Baghdad
on Saturday, police said.

11/04/07 Reuters: 4 bodies found in Baghdad, decapitated body found Abbasi
Four bodies were found around Baghdad on Saturday, police said...A decapitated body was found
in the town of Abbasi, 60 km (40 miles) southwest of Kirkuk, on Saturday, police said.

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