http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/05/bush-were-kicking-ass-in-iraq/Bush: ‘We’re kicking ass’ in Iraq.
Upon arriving in Iraq yesterday, President Bush told the Australia’s Deputy
Prime Minister Mark Vaile, “we’re kicking ass” in Iraq. His comments come
in spite of a new Government Accountability Office report that finds the
escalation has failed to improve the security situation.
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Look @ all the ass that got kicked today
http://warnewstoday.blogspot.com/index.htmlWar News for Wednesday, September 05, 2007
(1) MNF-Iraq is reporting the deaths of three Multi-National Division - Baghdad soldiers when an explosively formed penetrator detonated near their patrol in an eastern neighborhood of Baghdad on Tuesday, September 4th. Two other soldiers were wounded in the incident.
(2) MNF-Iraq is also reporting the death of a Multi-National Division - Baghdad soldier due to enemy action in a western neighborhood of Baghdad on Tuesday, September 4th. Two other soldiers were wounded in the attack.
(3) The Combined Joint Task Force - 82 website is reporting the death of a U.S.-led coalition servicemember in a non-hostile, unspecified incident in Paktia Province on Tuesday, September 4th. At this point, we are assuming the death to be separate and distinct from this NATO death reported earlier.
(4) The AFP news service is reporting the deaths of two NATO soldiers from enemy action while on patrol in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday, September 5th. Another NATO soldier and an Afghan interpreter were wounded in the incident. As usual, the nationalities of the NATO servicemembers were not revealed. No other details were provided.
(5) The DoD has announced a new death, not previously reported by CENTCOM. Army Sergeant Kevin A. Gilbertson, 24, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was seriously wounded in enemy action in Ramadi, Al Anbar Province, on August 29th. He was airlifted to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany, but died there on Friday, August 31st. The Des Moines (Iowa) Register reports that Gilbertson was known as "an upbeat, rabble-rousing, ball of fire", always on the go ... but completely dedicated to his wife and 8-month-old son. He graduated from high school in 2001 and decided to join the army to earn a college education when he got out ... to earn a degree to better support his family. He was on his second deployment to Iraq.
(6) The DoD has announced another new death, not previously reported by CENTCOM: Specialist Christopher G. Patton, 21, of Lawrenceville, Georgia. He died from a non-hostile, unspecified cause in Baghdad on Saturday, September 1st. His unit, the 2nd Battalion of the 5th Cavalry Regiment (1st Cavalry Division out of Fort Hood, TX), had been operating out of the Abu Ghraib area just west of Baghdad.
(7) MNF-Iraq is reporting the deaths of two Multi-National Division - Baghdad soldiers from enemy action in an eastern neighborhood of Baghdad on Wednesday, September 5th. Another soldier was wounded in the incident.
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Security incidents:
Baghdad:
#1: A Multi-National Division-Baghdad Soldier was killed and two others wounded during combat operations in a western section of the Iraqi capital Sept. 4.
#2: Three Multi-National Division-Baghdad Soldiers were killed and two others wounded when an explosively-formed penetrator detonated on their patrol during combat operations in an eastern section of the Iraqi capital Sept. 4.
#3: a roadside bomb rocked an eastern Baghdad Shiite neighborhood early Wednesday, killing at least 11 people and injuring 19 others when it exploded next to buses used by morning commuters, police and hospital officials said. which went off in the predominantly Shiite neighborhood of Baladiyat just before 8 a.m.
#4: Two Multi-National Division-Baghdad Soldiers were killed and another wounded during combat operations in an eastern section of the Iraqi capital Sept. 5.
#5: 2 civilians were wounded in an IED explosion in Bayaa neighborhood south west today afternoon.
#6: Police found 11 unidentified bodies in Baghdad today. 9 bodies were found in Karkh, the western side of Baghdad in the following neighborhoods (3 bodies in Amil, 2 bodies in Bayaa, 2 bodies in Saidiyah, 1 body in Kadhemiyah and 1 body in Shurta the 5th.) 2 bodies were found in Rusafa, the eastern side of Baghdad in the following neighborhoods (1 body in Sleikh and 1 body in Amin.)
Diyala Prv:
#1: A member of Kurdistan region guards know as Beshmarga was killed yesterday evening when gunmen attacked one of the guards’ centers in Qarataba village north of Baquba city.
Kirkuk:
#1: 5 civilians were injured when gunmen attacked Al Basheer village south of Kirkuk with mortar shells and machineguns yesterday evening.
#2: 7 policemen were injured in an IED explosion that targeted their patrol downtown Kirkuk city today afternoon.
Mosul:
#1: "Iraqi troops managed, today, to kill three gunmen in al-Maash market in western Mosul, after the gunmen did not obey soldiers' instruction to stop their vehicle for a search," Lieutenant-Colonel Haji Maher, assistant commander of the Iraqi Army 2nd Brigade, told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq
#2: In another incident, Lieutenant-Colonel Maher said "an army force also killed a gunman in al-Yarmouk neighborhood, western Mosul
#3: "Police forces, today, defused four explosive charges planted in different parts of al-Baaj district, seemingly to target the security forces' patrols in the distrct," Abdul Rahim al-Shemmari told VOI.Mosul, capital city of Ninewa province, is 405 km north of Baghdad.
#4: A policeman was killed and a number of civilians were wounded when a booby-trapped truck went off on Wednesday afternoon targeting a mosque in southeastern Mosul, a police source said. "A suicide bomber blew up a truck crammed with explosives targeting al-Sabreen mosque in al-Wehda neighborhood in eastern Mosul on Wednesday, killing a policeman and injuring an unknown number of civilians," the chief of the Ninewa police department, General Watheq al-Hamadani, told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq The chief of al-Nasr police department Colonel Hassan al-Juburi said that "unidentified gunmen fired a number of mortar shells after the attack near the blast scene, while other armed group opened fire against policemen who rushed to the area," adding that the attack left no casualties. "The explosion also collapsed a large part of the mosque, around 70 per cent of its structure, in addition to damaging a number of nearby stores and houses," the colonel noted.
#5: A member of the PDK party was killed by gunmen in Mosul city last night.
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