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To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (20589)	6/7/2005 7:41:23 PM
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After the Downing Street Memo: The Case for Impeachment Builds bellaciao.org

To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (20589)	6/8/2005 12:39:40 PM
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More sickening news from Bush's VIETNAM Insurgent attacks kill 4 U.S. troops TAL AFAR, Iraq (CNN) -- Iraqi insurgents have killed four U.S. troops in attacks in the past 24 hours, the U.S. military said Wednesday. The latest death occurred Wednesday at noon just south of Tikrit. A roadside bomb killed a soldier in a vehicle while on patrol in near Ad Dawr, the military said. Ad Dawr, where Saddam Hussein was captured by U.S. troops in 2003, is about 90 miles (144 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad. On Tuesday night, the military said two soldiers with the 42nd Infantry Division were killed during an "indirect fire attack" around 10 p.m. (2 p.m. ET) at a coalition base in Tikrit. In a separate incident, a roadside bomb exploded Tuesday near a U.S. Army vehicle on patrol in northern Baghdad. A soldier from the 1st Corps Support Command was pronounced dead at a military medical facility. The overall death toll of U.S. troops in the Iraq war is 1,682. Meanwhile, gunmen in the Dora neighborhood of Baghdad killed Iraqi National Assembly member Fereydoun Abdul Qader and two of his security guards on Wednesday. Qader, who represents the Kurdish National Assembly, was killed outside of his home. A suicide car bomb exploded Wednesday morning at a gas station in Baquba, killing three people and wounding one, Iraqi police said. Four cars were destroyed in the attack, which happened on the eastern outskirts of Baquba, 36 miles north of Baghdad, police said. Tal Afar offensive The attacks came as U.S. and Iraqi forces continued an offensive against insurgents in the northwestern city of Tal Afar -- not far from the Syrian border. Soldiers from the U.S. Army's 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, along with hundreds of Iraqi Army soldiers, began the operation in a particularly violent neighborhood just before dawn Tuesday. The were backed by tanks, Bradley fighting vehicles and Apache helicopters. One American soldier and four insurgents have been killed in the operation, CNN's Jane Arraf reported. U.S. and Iraqi forces have detained 23 suspected insurgents. Other developments # Iraqi President Jalal Talabani and Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari honored the Badr Organization's role in fighting Saddam Hussein's regime Wednesday. Some Sunnis blame the group for the killings of Sunni clerics. (Full story) # A series of car bombs in the Hawija area near Kirkuk on Tuesday killed 14 people, including four Iraqi soldiers, an Iraqi Army official told CNN. The blasts wounded 39 people -- 30 of them were civilians. # Police in Baghdad said a Foreign Ministry official and an Iraqi commando were killed in separate drive-by shootings while a third shooting left an Iraqi police official critically wounded. # Police in Musayyab in Babil province -- which is south of Baghdad -- said they stormed a terrorist hideout in Jurf al-Sakhr on Tuesday and seized a weapons cache that included mortar rounds, rockets, fuses and small arms munitions. CNN's Jane Arraf, Kianne Sadeq and Mohammed Tawfeeq contributed to this report.