Of course Dumbya is not lying when he says things in Iraq are getting better. I agree -- things are getting "better" and "better" everyday!
(Btw, you do know that the best case scenario as projected by a government intelligence report is the current mess to go on and on? And that is the "best" case scenario).
09/17/04 ArabicNews.com: Three Iraqi truck drivers were assassinated
... a website on the Internet issued a statement for the " al-Sunnah supporters army" confirming that it kidnapped and executed last Monday three Iraqi truck drivers who were transporting supplies to the American forces.
09/17/04 CBS: Maryland Soldier Burned in Iraq
Twenty-three-year-old Sergeant Travis Manning was burned over 40 percent of his body and has needed skin grafts to both legs. He was also burned on his hands and face.
09/17/04 Reuters: France, Belgium stall Nato deal on training Iraqis
France and Belgium on Friday stalled plans by NATO to launch a training academy for senior military officers in Iraq, diplomats and officials said.
09/17/04 AP: Rochester Army Reserve Training Unit Headed To Iraq
The Army Reserve is sending a unit to Iraq that has never been deployed overseas before ... The non-combat unit doesn't even have its own weapons or vehicles ...
09/17/04 AAP: Corpse found in Iraq river: report
Australia's embassy in Baghdad is investigating a report that the body of a western man has been found in the Tigris River in central Iraq. Reports from Iraq indicated the man was tall and had blond hair.
09/17/04 PA News: Iraqi Killed for Working with British Troops
Gunmen attacked two men who had been working with the British military in southern Iraq, killing one and wounding another. Three men entered the Basra apartment where the two lived and shot them, said police Captain Alaa Khalil.
09/17/04 CBS: Twin Blasts Rock Baghdad
A car bomb exploded in downtown Baghdad Friday as a police convoy drove by, officials said, killing 5 people and wounding 20 others.
09/17/04 AP: Explosions rock central Baghdad
A series of explosions rocked central Baghdad on Friday afternoon during a day of violence in the capital. The cause or exact location of the blasts was not immediately clear.
09/17/04 DOD Identifies Marine Casualty
Cpl. Jaygee Meluat, 24, of Tamuning, Guam, died Sept. 13 due to enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. He was assigned to 3rd Assault Amphibian Battalion, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, Calif.
09/17/04 AFP: Kidnappings, murders push Iraq's universities to brink
Iraqi universities, once among the most prestigious in the Arab world, are facing potential catastrophe, with rampant kidnappings and murders causing the post-Saddam Hussein intelligentsia to flee abroad en masse.
09/17/04 Al Jazeera: UPDATE: US air raid toll mounts
A fresh US aerial onslaught near Falluja in Anbar province has killed at least 56 people and wounded 40, according to hospital sources.
09/17/04 Aljazeera: Syrian truck driver freed
A Syrian truck driver has been released, one day after he was kidnapped on the road from Kirkuk to Mosul in northern Iraq, police said.
09/17/04 AFP: At least 32 killed in Fallujah airstrikes
US forces have killed at least 32 people near the radical bastion of Fallujah in a fresh overnight onslaught against the network of extremist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, as fighting flared this morning in a Baghdad neighbourhood loyal to Saddam Hussein.
09/17/04 AP: U.S. troops battle insurgents in central Baghdad
American and Iraqi forces raided suspected insurgent hideouts in the Iraqi capital on Friday, sparking a gunbattle on a main Baghdad thoroughfare, the Interior Ministry said.
09/17/04 AFP: Five killed, 20 wounded in car bombing
Five people were killed and another 20 wounded when a suicide car bomb targeted a police patrol in Baghdad on Friday, the Health Ministry said.
09/16/04 DOD Identifies Marine Casualty
Lance Cpl. Drew M. Uhles, 20, of DuQuoin, Ill., died Sept. 15 from injuries received due to enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. He was assigned to 1st Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, Twentynine Palms, Calif.
09/16/04 CENTCOM: Three Marines Die In Al Anbar Province
In three separate incidents, one Marine assigned to I Marine Expeditionary Force was killed in action and two died of wounds sustained in action Sept. 16, while conducting security and stability operations in the Al Anbar Province.
09/16/04 DOD Identifies Ninth US Death on Sept. 13th
Cpl. Adrian V. Soltau, 21, of Milwaukee, Wis., died Sept. 13 due to enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. He was assigned to 3rd Assault Amphibian Battalion, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, Calif.
09/16/04 Mahmoudiyah ... A Dangerous Drive
A 15-mile stretch of road south of Baghdad has become the most dreaded in Iraq after a series of high-profile kidnappings and deadly ambushes targeting foreign journalists and prominent politicians.
09/16/04 AFP: US forces strike Fallujah, sweep Ramadi
United States forces launched a double onslaught on two of Iraq's hotspots overnight, striking a target connected to their most wanted man Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi in Fallujah and sweeping the city of Ramadi. |
