2 U.S. soldiers die in battles with Shiite militia in Iraq

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.buffalonews.com/180/story/49169.html

BAGHDAD — U.S. warplanes blasted a militia team firing rocket-propelled grenades Saturday, the second day of heavy fighting in a major offensive to drive Shiite Mahdi Army militiamen out of Diwaniyah, a farm-belt city south of Baghdad.

The U.S. military reported Saturday that two U.S. soldiers were killed and seven others were wounded Friday in separate bomb explosions around Baghdad.

North of the capital, in the increasingly dangerous Diyala provincial capital of Baqouba, police reported finding 21 more bodies dumped in the streets, victims of the intense sectarian warfare. All were shot execution-style and many had been tortured. At least 62 bodies have been found in or near Baqouba since Tuesday.

A total of 58 people were killed or found dead across Iraq on Saturday in the eighth week of the U.S.-Iraqi security crackdown on the capital and surrounding cities and towns.

[Lester222]

1. I don't get it....

... I thought we were shooting the Sunnis, not the Shia :shrug:

[HCE SuiGeneris]

It's all that progress we are making...

:mad:

[Swamp Rat]

2. Heck of a job McCain! n/t