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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (234725)	6/30/2007 2:42:16 PM
From: c.hinton	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Nadine !Bad lazy girl! You have not bothered to do your home work...give us a break! Middle East Bomb Kills Dozens in Baghdad Amid U.S. Offensive NPR.org, June 19, 2007 · A truck bomb exploded near a Shiite mosque in Baghdad Tuesday, killing at least 78 people and wounding more than 200 others, police said, as about 10,000 U.S. soldiers northeast of the capital battled their way into an al-Qaida sanctuary. The attack took place as some 10,000 U.S. troops launched a major offensive northeast of Baghdad. The car bomb's thunderous explosion, which occurred just before 2 p.m., sent smoke billowing over concrete buildings in central Baghdad, two days after the expiration of a curfew aimed at preventing retaliatory violence after last week's bombing of a Shiite mosque in Samarra. Gunfire erupted shortly after the blast, which a police officer said went off near the Khillani mosque in the commercial area of Sinak. A police officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of security concerns, said the car that exploded was parked in a lot near the mosque and it damaged the outer wall of the building. Police and hospital officials said at least 78 people were killed and more than 200 were wounded, adding that the toll could rise as bodies were pulled from the debris. It was not the first time the Sinak area has been hit. A suicide car bomber killed at least 21 people there on May 28. Meanwhile, U.S. soldiers using armored personnel vehicles and backed by airstrikes began "Operation Arrowhead Ripper", fighting their way into an al-Qaida sanctuary in Baqouba, the capital of Diyala province northeast of Baghdad. The operation was still in its opening stages, the military said in a statement. The operation was part of new U.S. and Iraqi attacks north and south of Baghdad, which military officials said were aimed at clearing out Sunni insurgents, al-Qaida fighters and Shiite militiamen who had fled the capital and Anbar during a four-month-old security operation. A senior U.S. military official said Monday that American forces were taking advantage of the arrival of the final brigade of 30,000 additional U.S. troops to open the concerted attacks. Al-Qaida has conducted public executions in the Baqouba main square and otherwise sought to enforce an extreme Taliban-style Islamic code. Those actions have caused some Sunni militants in the province, with American assistance, to turn their guns on the group. Some militant Shiites are likewise joining government forces in a bid to oust the foreign fighters and Muslim extremists. Separately, the U.S. military on Tuesday announced the death of an American soldier in Baghdad. The soldier was killed by small arms fire during combat in an eastern section of the capital, a military statement said. No other soldiers were wounded in the attack, which took place Monday, it said. The death brought to at least 3,528 the number of U.S. military personnel who have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes seven military civilians. At least 2,889 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers. In southern Iraq, police and hospital officials said the death toll reached 22 in clashes that continued into a second day between Mahdi Army fighters and Iraqi security forces in Nasiriyah, about 200 miles southeast of Baghdad. More than 60 people were injured, mostly policemen, authorities said. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because of security concerns. From NPR reports and The Associated Press

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (234725)	6/30/2007 3:19:26 PM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

The term "Arrowhead Ripper" has not yet appeared on an NPR headline, for example. I bet you never heard of it. You would have lost that bet. And I assure you that I didn't get it from Fox. But I'm not sure that it's even good journalism to put a operation codename in the title of an article. Isn't it obvious that when you introduce an operational codename people don't know what it is? It's like using an acronym before you spell it out. What's news? That the space shuttle landed safely or the codename of the space shuttle that landed safely? Now if you're telling me that the only news your absorb is the "headlines", then you're probably in trouble. It's impossible to notice the bias from one's ONLY sources of news. As most of my news reading starts here: newsnow.co.uk what's the issue you're babbling about? The slant being not in what the list of headline includes, but what it excludes. You're right I didn't catch the porn star/police officer story on NPR or PBS. I think I can live without that one. jttmab