3 U.S. airmen die in Baghdad car bombing

[rodeodance]

3 U.S. airmen die in Baghdad car bombing

http://news.yahoo.com/

Iraqis carry a coffin with the body of their dead relative in front of Baghdad's Yarmouk hospital morgue, Iraq, Sunday, Jan. 7, 2007.

Bombings and shootings killed at least 14 people across Iraq on Sunday, as Iraqi troops waged a fresh battle to oust militias and pacify the capital. (AP Photo/Samir Mizban)
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Three U.S. airmen died Sunday in a car bombing in Baghdad — among at least 17 people killed in violence across Iraq as Iraqi troops launched a fresh battle to oust militias and pacify the capital.

[NMDemDist2]

1. they are so hard up for troops they are using AIRMEN to patrol?

they aren't trained for that at all

:banghead:


:cry:

[rodeodance]

2. there is not much of an article at this point-but sure seems so.

[rodeodance]

3. more info now: 3011is the total AP reports

A car bomb in Baghdad on Sunday killed the three airmen assigned to the 447th Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron's Explosive Ordnance Division, the U.S. military said. A soldier died Saturday after coming under fire in the capital, and another soldier died Friday from combat wounds sustained in Iraq's volatile western Anbar province.

With the deaths, at least 3,011 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Among Sunday's attacks:

• A barrage of mortars killed four civilians and wounded five others in central Baghdad after a roadside bomb missed an Iraqi police patrol and killed two pedestrians, police said.

• Gunmen drove through a marketplace in southwestern Baghdad, spraying bullets into food and clothing stalls and killing three Sunni Muslim shopkeepers, a police officer said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media. Another drive-by shooting targeted four guards for the Iraqi Finance Ministry, killing one of them.

[saigon68]

30. "BRING EM ON" shouted the AWOL BAGHDAD CHIMPANZEE

"OH MY GOD MY SON IS DEAD", cried the NEW GOLD STAR MOTHER.

"OH GOODY ---- HALLIBURTON IS UP ON THE NYSE TODAY", cried the Chicken Hawk
KILLER "5 Deferments" CHENEY

[lpbk2713]

4. Thousands of Air Force and Navy personnel are in Army & Marine assignments

They're called 'augmentees' ....


Link to an article in today's Stars and Stripes: http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=41492&archive=true


"More than 10,400 sailors are serving on the ground in U.S. Central Command and more than 4,300 are assigned to Iraq. About half, Mullen estimated, are IAs filling gaps in combat support billets with solo assignments away from parent commands."


BushCo finds it serves their needs better to take people already in the region and shuffle them around into combat positions even if they don't have combat training rather than to have it leak out to the media that they have increased the Army and Marine boots on the ground. It doesn't matter whether or not the augmentees know what they are doing as long as BushCo can avoid looking any worse than they already do.

[rodeodance]

5. are these augmentees' .... Counted as the 140,000 or so troops that

is generally mentioned by the news?

[lpbk2713]

10. I wish I could tell you.

I *searched* through the Stars & Stripes recent articles, searched thru Google news, searched Pentagon press briefings and news releases and found nothing pertinent. It leads me to believe BushCo has a tight lid on the numbers of troops deployed, how many and where.





It was over three years ago Shit-for-Brains announced
"Mission Accomplished". To this day he is still wreaking
havoc in Iraq with his monumental cluster-fuq.

[sanskritwarrior]

22. Yes there are

n/t.......there is a DOD link somewhere......

[sanskritwarrior]

21. No they are using AF SP's

they have the same training as MP's......Air force SP's go to Iraq for 6 months unlike th 4 month standard for other Air force personnel........Still a tragedy, but they aren't sending runway repair guys to patrol Baghdad. This has been going on since 2003........

[rodeodance]

6. kick for the troops and their families

[rodeodance]

7. k again

[rodeodance]

8. k again

[rodeodance]

9. k again

[rodeodance]

18. and again

[rodeodance]

19. once more---------

[VegasWolf]

11. "Bring 'em on!" screeched the chimpanzee as it tried to hide his banana from Dick Cheney. nt

[Omaha Steve]

12. 3 U.S. Airmen Among 17 Deaths in Iraq (at least 3,011 members of the U.S. military have died)

http://apnews.excite.com/article/20070107/D8MGKSE80.html

3 U.S. Airmen Among 17 Deaths in Iraq
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Jan 7, 2:46 PM (ET)

By SINAN SALAHEDDIN

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Three U.S. airmen died Sunday in a car bombing in Baghdad - among at least 17 people killed in violence across Iraq as Iraqi troops launched a fresh battle to oust militias and pacify the capital.

The sectarian attacks continued despite the major drive to tame Baghdad. The Iraqi army reported killing 30 militants late Saturday in a Sunni insurgent stronghold in the center of the city, just to the north of the heavily fortified Green Zone.

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, speaking only hours earlier at a ceremony marking the 85th anniversary of the Iraqi army, announced his intention for the relentless and open-ended bid to crush militant fighters bedeviling Baghdad.


Iraqis carry a coffin with the body of their dead relative in front of Baghdad's Yarmouk hospital morgue, Iraq, Sunday, Jan. 7, 2007. Bombings and shootings killed at least 14 people across Iraq on Sunday, as Iraqi troops waged a fresh battle to oust militias and pacify the capital. (AP Photo/Samir Mizban)

Hassan al-Suneid, a key aid and member of al-Maliki's Dawa Party, said the Iraqi leader had committed 20,000 soldiers to the operation that would call upon American troops and airpower only when needed.

FULL tory at link.

[malaise]

13. Kick to expose the war criminals

Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld et al

Sp.

[Omaha Steve]

14. my apology to all

I searched under the title and didn't see the original story until just now. I wouldn't post a dupe on purpose.

[rodeodance]

15. US Iraq losses now more than 3,000

US Iraq losses now more than 3,000
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070107/pl_afp/iraq_070107184012

by Jay Deshmukh 42 minutes ago

BAGHDAD (AFP) - US military losses in
Iraq crossed the 3,000 mark with the death of three airmen in Baghdad amid reports that another 20,000 troops will be rushed to stabilise the violence-wracked capital.
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According to the New York Times, the extra troops are expected to be part of a revised security plan announced by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Saturday.

The US military announced the the death of three airmen in a roadside bombing in Baghdad, taking its total losses in Iraq to 3,003 since the March 2003 invasion to topple
Saddam Hussein, according to an AFP count based on
Pentagon figures.

Earlier on Sunday it announced the death of a soldier, also in the capital, which took US losses to the 3,000 mark.

Of the fatalities, 2,418 were killed in combat and 585 died from "non-hostile" causes, according to the Pentagon. More than 22,700 have been wounded.

[liberal renegade]

16. it's to bad

someone will have the honor of being the last service member kia'd in Iraq for a big, fat, lie,told by a blood thirsty, piece of human excrement. Never im my entire being have I felt so much rage for one person. I knew the moment he came out of nowhere and was thrust upon us by a bunch of handpicked scumbags called the SCOTUS, we we're in fucking trouble.

I just want to know one thing people, when does the Revolution begin?

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

17. must have been some car bomb...

to knock three F-16's out of the sky...:mad: /sarcasm

So much for the people who think joining the airforce will keep them out of the line of fire in Iraq.

[rodeodance]

20. or the NAVY------a navy medic died a while back also.

[sanskritwarrior]

24. There is one navy Medic

in every single Marine Platoon in existence. Marines do not have an MOS for medics, all Marine medics are Navy personnel.........

[sanskritwarrior]

23. Air Force SP's join to fight

they know full well they are going to Iraq.

[maddezmom]

25. 5 more U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq

~snip~
In other developments, the U.S. military said three airmen were killed in Baghdad Sunday by a car bomb, a soldier was killed by small arms fire in Baghdad a day earlier, and another soldier died in combat in western Anbar province on Friday. A British soldier also died in a traffic accident.

At least 14 Iraqis died Sunday in bombings and shootings, including three Sunni Muslim shopkeepers gunned down in a busy marketplace and a Shiite cleric and his son killed en route to a mosque, police said. Twenty-three bodies turned up in hospitals and morgues around the country, officials said.

A new battle for Iraq's capital was under way with Iraqi forces mired in gunfights with insurgents and U.S. helicopters hovering over an area where some 30 people died in fighting the previous night.

The fighting is part of a military operation announced Saturday by the prime minister and intended to quell sectarian violence.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070108/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

[NV1962]

26. Isn't it weird how the headline and the first 3/4 of that article don't jibe?

The headline is, as you quote: "5 more U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq". But oddly, it starts off with the macabre musical chairs played with the two others who were supposed to be executed together with Saddam, then reflections of international human rights organizations protesting the executions, and then, near the bottom, the oblique "In other developments...".

But the most absurd case of burying news occurs right at the very last sentence:

Iraq's parliament speaker Mahmoud al-Mashhadani, the government's highest-ranking Sunni official, said Sunday he objected to the new plan for "legal reasons," and said parliament must vote on it.

Waittaminute, so now the highest ranking Sunni in Iraq's government is objecting against an operation presumably aimed at getting those nasty unruly Sadr people in line? HELLO!?

What's really going on here!?

Well, let's see what this Mahmoud al-Mashhadani is about... According to another AP article on MSNBC:

With 30 lawmakers and five cabinet ministers loyal to anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr boycotting the government and parliament for nearly two weeks, Parliament Speaker Mahmoud al-Mashhadani added to al-Maliki’s troubles on Monday.

A Sunni Arab and a sharp government critic, al-Mashhadani suspended his membership in a top-level state policy council. He walked out from a council meeting Monday after a heated argument with President Jalal Talabani over the Iraq Study Group report, according to the speaker’s spokesman, Mohannad Abdul-Jabar. The specifics of their disagreement was not disclosed.

“This government cannot continue in office if its failure to deal with problems continue,” prominent Kurdish legislator Mahmoud Othman said in an interview. “The prime minister keeps saying that his hands are tied. If this is the case, then he should resign.”

So, who else believes Maliki will be able to serve out his term?

Methinks Bush will have to quickly find another general prime minister willing to stick to his song book and stay the course (into the abyss, but who's counting blessings).

[leftyladyfrommo]

27. I just checked - our dead are now up to 3014.

115 killed in December. 10 more so far this month.

Something like 1752 Iraqis died last month. And 337 more so far in January.

So much for the Iraqi crackdown this week.

[leftyladyfrommo]

28. And Iraqi Health Ministry reports that 17,300 Iraqi civilians and police

were killed in the last six months. The first six months of last year just over 5400 Iraqis were reported killed - the violence is really escalating.

[goforit]

29. Forgive me, but the airforce has always been detatched from their destruction

that this does shock me that any of them would loose blood in this war.

And it is the US Airforce that allowed the attacks on the World Trade Center to occur.

[Bigmack]

31. Here's a pic of the first AF female...

killed in Iraq.
I guess I'm just a sexist pig, but I think this sucks. Pretty young women with their whole lives ahead of them shouldn't die for nothing. Ugly young guys, too!

Note the date and that she was doing convoy support.

This country has no soul!
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Airman killed in Iraq

9/30/2005 - SAN ANTONIO (AFPN) -- An improvised explosive device killed a female Airman during a convoy mission supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Airman 1st Class Elizabeth Jacobson, 21, was providing convoy security Sept. 28 near Camp Bucca, Iraq, when the vehicle she was riding in was hit by an improvised explosive device.

The Riviera Beach, Fla., native was assigned to the 17th Security Forces Squadron at Goodfellow Air Force Base, Texas. Airman Jacobson had been in the Air Force for two years and had been deployed to Iraq for more than three months.

She is the first female Airman killed in the line of duty in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?storyID=123011980