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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: kikogrey who wrote (56467)	11/4/2004 2:01:58 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

More "great" news from Dumbya's "valley of peace" : 11/04/04 British MOD: CONFIRMED: Three British Soldiers Killed ... Three British soldiers were killed, and others injured, in an attack within the Black Watch area of operations on 4 November 2004. Their next of kin are being informed. 11/04/04 AP: Three British troops slain in Iraq THREE British troops in the Black Watch regiment have been killed in an attack in Iraq, the British government said today. 11/04/04 AP: U.S. jets hit Fallujah ahead of expected offensive U.S. jets pounded parts of Fallujah on Thursday, targeting insurgents in a city where American forces were said to be gearing up for a major offensive. 11/04/04 AP: Jordanian Truck Driver Dies of Wounds Sustained in Iraq Attack A Jordanian man has died of injuries sustained in an armed attack by an unknown Iraqi militant group that also abducted three Jordanian truck drivers in the same convoy, an official at the Jordanian Truckers Association said Thursday. 11/04/04 WBNS-TV: Troops Headed To Iraq For the first time in history, about 200 members of the 211th Maintenance Unit of the Ohio National Guard are taking a combat support role overseas. 11/04/04 The Telegraph: Britain will not back Iran war, says Straw Britain will not back military action against Iran if President George W Bush decides to confront Tehran in his second White House term, Jack Straw has said. 11/04/04 Middle East Online: Lebanese American security firm leaving Iraq Iraq is becoming impossible to live in and all foreigners will be potential targets for "terrorists", the Lebanese American head of a security company said Thursday in an interview with an Italian newspaper. 11/04/04 Middle East Intl. Online: Falluja and the Iraqi Insurgency In all likelihood, American troops and the nascent Iraqi military will storm the rebel city of Falluja in the very near future ... In peril of the coming storm, hundreds of thousands of its residents have fled their homes. 11/04/04 The Scotsman: Truck Bomb Kills Three in Iraq A truck bomb killed at least three people outside local government offices in a town north of Baghdad today ... nine others were injured when a truck targeting the City Council building exploded in Dujail, 46 miles from the Iraqi capital. 11/04/04 Iraq Pipeline Watch: Attack #147: 3 Nov 2004 Attack on a pipeline network connecting the Khubbaz oil wells, 24 miles (40 km) west of Kirkuk with refineries in Bayji and Baghdad. 11/04/04 Iraq Pipeline Watch: Attack #146: 3 Nov 2004 Assassins shot to death the director general of the Iraqi oil ministry's oil byproducts distribution company, Hussein Ali al-Fattal, as he left his home in the Yarmouk area of Baghdad to go to work. 11/04/04 The Scotsman: Medical Aid Group Pulls Out of Iraq The international medical aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres – Doctors Without Borders – is pulling out of Iraq because of the escalating violence and targeting of aid workers. 11/04/04 Mooresville-Decatur Times: Martinsville man wounded At 20 years of age, Lance Cpl. Nicholas “Nick” Smith has already been in the fighting zones of Iraq twice. When he heals from the wounds he received last Sept. 30, he may be sent back there. 11/04/04 NY Times: British Civilian Dead In Iraq In other incidents on Wednesday, a car bomb exploded at a checkpoint near Baghdad International Airport, killing a British security contractor and injuring at least nine Iraqis, Western security advisers and hospital officials said. 11/04/04 Troy Record: Injured soldier may be home just in time for the holidays Spc. Ken Comstock, 23, suffered 500 small fractures to his skull when a bomb or land mine went off under his vehicle as his unit returned from patrol near Samarra, Iraq. 11/04/04 Xinhuanet: US forces continue fighting insurgents in Ramadi Fierce clashes continued Thursday between insurgents and US-Iraqi troops in the flashpoint city of Ramadi, witnesses said. Fightings broke out in the morning in Malaab Street in Ramadi and US warplanes intensified flying over the city ... 11/04/04 AP: Hamilton Soldier Killed In Iraq Army Sgt. Charles Joseph Webb, 22, of Hamilton, was killed in Iraq Tuesday after he was struck in the face by shrapnel from a bomb, family members said. 11/04/04 NYTimes: Hungary Joins Others in Pulling Troops From Iraq Hungary announced Wednesday that it would withdraw its 300 troops from Iraq, becoming the latest country in United States-led coalition to bow to public pressure and prepare to bring its soldiers home. 11/04/04 sfgate: U.S. troops tell of watching Iraqis loot ammo dump The soldiers said about a dozen U.S. troops guarding the sprawling facility could not prevent the theft of the explosives because they were outnumbered by looters. 11/04/04 CNN: Three Iraqi guardsmen 'beheaded' Arabic-language news channel Al-Jazeera has reported that kidnappers have beheaded three Iraqi national guardsmen. 11/04/04 Reuters: US bombardment kills five in Fallujah US planes and tanks bombarded Fallujah overnight, killing five people and increasing pressure on Iraq’s most rebellious city, which is braced for an all-out offensive now that the US presidential poll is ove 11/04/04 breakingnews: Three dead in bomb attack on Iraqi National Guard An Iraqi National Guard patrol was hit by a car bomb in central Iraq today, killing at least three people, Iraqi officials said. 11/03/04 AP: Iraq Gunmen Seize Second American in Week Gunmen kidnapped a Lebanese-American businessman - the second U.S. citizen seized this week in Baghdad - and videotape Wednesday showed the beheadings of three Iraqi National Guardsmen and an Iraqi officer. 11/03/04 scotlandtoday: Black Watch under rocket attack for sixth successive night Black Watch troops at Camp Dogwood in Iraq have come under rocket attack for the sixth successive night. No-one was injured in the attacks and specialists have spent most of the day clearing unexploded bombs.