Insurgents kill, behead 10 Iraqi Army soldiers

[maddezmom]

Source: AFP

BAGHDAD: Insurgents attacked an Iraqi Army checkpoint in Diyala Province north of Baghdad on Monday, killing 10 soldiers, the US military said. It blamed Al-Qaeda "terrorists" for the attack, in which another 13 soldiers were wounded.

An Iraqi security official said the victims had their heads cut off after the shooting.

"After killing the soldiers, the gunmen beheaded them," the official from Baquba in Diyala province said on condition of anonymity.


Diyala is one of the most dangerous regions of Iraq where US and Iraqi forces are battling Al-Qaeda in Iraq militants.

Despite a series of military assaults, Al-Qaeda militants have managed to carry out spectacular attacks in the province.



Read more: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=91767

[Parche]

1. Al-Kida Is Really Ahead In Killings For This Region

:sarcasm: :sarcasm:

:hi:

[bemildred]

2. RIP soldiers.

This doesn't really seem like and al Qaeda sort of operation though.

[Torn_Scorned_Ignored]

3. good thing the economy is in shambles

:shrug:

[ohio2007]

4. In Diyala Province , most of the soldiers are from the Sunni tribes of the awakening

and it seems that AQ is trying to say 'the honeymoon is over;

snip
Last week, two suicide bombers struck a wedding party in the town of Balad Ruz, killing 35 people. Scores of others were wounded.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=91767

Let the Sunni chieftains take in this news and decide what to do about all this AQ gibberish that label these brave deeds ;
"attacking of collaborators and killing of crusader spies".

imo, AQ sympathizers are going to have to pony up some blood money for these incidents before long.

[ohio2007]

5. Iraq: Al-Qaeda used 6,000 suicide bombers, say documents (Diyala )

Baghdad, 6 May (AKI) - Al-Qaeda has used 6,000 suicide bombers in Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein, according to records discovered in a terrorist training camp in Diyala, northeast of Baghdad.

A spokesman for the local Sunni tribal militias, Sheikh Shaker al-Shamri, told the Iraqi newspaper al-Sabah, his men entered an al-Qaeda training camp for female suicide bombers near Baaquba.

In the camp they found correspondence belonging to a group of leaders from the terrorist organisation that calculated the suicide attacks conducted by the group since 2003.

The majority of the 6,000 suicide bombers used by al-Qaeda until now are Arab and Afghan citizens, not Iraqis. The documents confirmed claims made by Iraqi secret services.

According to the document many young people, in particular 15 women were recruited to carry out attacks in the Sunni province.



http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=1.0.2136971790

If each one of those 6,000 killed an average of 15 people (civilians mostly attending funerals, religious services,shopping ect), the Sunni virgin hunters could have accounted for about 90,000 .


This website shows about 42,000 civilians in Iraq have been killed since Jan '05



http://icasualties.org/oif/IraqiDeaths.aspx


But
Iraq body count estimates deaths since 2003;
83,447 – 91,012

http://www.iraqbodycount.org/graphs/dbtimeline.php

http://www.iraqbodycount.org/database/

[Bush_MUST_Go]

6. Boy the surge worked as well as everything else bush touched.