27 killed in attacks as Iraqi forces launch crackdown

[NeoConsSuck]

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi police fought pitched battles with insurgents Sunday as thousands of security forces backed by American troops swept through Baghdad's streets to flush out militants responsible for killing more than 720 people since Iraq's new government was announced in April.

Insurgents lashed back — killing at least 30 people, including a British soldier — and a senior U.S. military intelligence official acknowledged there are few indications they "are packing their bags.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2005-05-29-iraq_x.htm

[still_one]

1. talked to my freeper associate at work who was in Nam

and he said they tried the same thing, and it failed badly. They still were able to infiltrate.

How do you tell an insurgant from an Iraqii?

How do you tell a south Vietnamese from a Viet Cong?

How do you tread water?

[hiley]

2. Wonder how many are really Insurgents ?

AP - Fri May 27,12:49 PM ET
Iraqis burn British, Israeli and U.S. flags as they demonstrate against the alleged mishandling of Islam's holy book Quran by American military personnel at a U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, which U.S. authorities have denied, in the southern town of Basra in Iraq Friday, May 27, 2005. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)



How often do you hear of MIA's now ?

U.S. Air Force General Richard Myers (C), Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and his wife Mary Jo Myers (R) accept memorial baseball-style cards from Carolyn Maupin (L), mother of missing U.S. Army Sgt. Matt Maupin, at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, May 29, 2005. Maupin, who was taking part in a Rolling Thunder Memorial Day biker rally, said her son was captured in fighting outside of Baghdad, Iraq, on April 9, 2004. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst


hmm, it was quite a battle to get these pics above...


They block them after you download them to use , somehow.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x1815123

[delete_bush]

5. Myers is really dressed appropriately

for such a solemn occasion, isn't he? Blue jeans and a flag shirt. Can you imagine the outrage if a Dem, say Kerry or Dean, showed up like this?

I'm strongly against an amendment to ban flag desecration, but if that's what it takes to stop assholes like Myers from dressing like this then maybe it's worth it.

[rodeodance]

3. 1, 657 US troops dead (Marine killed Saturday)

.........About 4 p.m., gunmen attacked Khadra police station during a 15-minute firefight, police Lt. Majid Zaki said.

Separately, the U.S. military announced the end of Operation New Market, a four-day offensive centered on Haditha, 140 miles northwest of Baghdad, aimed at disrupting insurgent activities. At least 14 insurgents were killed and more than 30 suspects detained in the operation, which also left two U.S. Marines dead.

U.S. forces said a Marine was killed Saturday when a roadside bomb struck his vehicle near Haqlaniyah, 85 miles northwest of Baghdad. Another soldier who was wounded May 4 died on May 25, it added. At least 1,657 U.S. military members have died since the Iraq war began in March 2003, according to an AP count.

The British soldier died and four others were injured when a British military convoy was attacked in southern Iraq, the Ministry of Defense said in London.

[maddezmom]

4. the number of dead has been creeping up all day,,started at 17, now 30

By PATRICK QUINN, Associated Press Writer
33 minutes ago



BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraqi police fought pitched battles with insurgents Sunday as thousands of security forces backed by American troops swept through Baghdad's streets to flush out militants responsible for killing more than 720 people since Iraq's new government was announced in April.

Insurgents lashed back — killing at least 30 people, including a British soldier — and a senior U.S. military intelligence official acknowledged there are few indications they "are packing their bags."

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's al-Qaida in Iraq claimed responsibility for nearly all the attacks in Internet statements that could not be independently verified.

In their biggest coup of "Operation Lightning," Iraqi and U.S. soldiers arrested a former general in Saddam Hussein's intelligence service who was also a member of his Fedayeen secret police during a raid in western Baghdad, the scene of some of Sunday's heaviest fighting.

~snip~
more: http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=802239&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312

[Yupster]

6. It seems to me

the only way it can end is in Civil War.

[bemildred]

7. The only way it can end is when the COW leaves. nt