Humvee destroyed in Sadr City on Sat...anyone hear anything on casualties?

[maddezmom]

A U.S. attack helicopter hovers over the smoke from a burning military vehicle in the Shiite slum of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, May 5, 2007. A U.S. Humvee was destroyed in a roadside bomb attack and there was no immediate information about casualties. (AP Photo/Ali al-Khazali)


A U.S. military vehicle burns in the Shiite slum of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, May 5, 2007. A U.S. Humvee was destroyed in a roadside bomb attack and there was no immediate information about casualties. (AP Photo/Ali al-Khazali)

Then there is this story:

Iraqis wounded in Sadr City raid 10 minutes ago



BAGHDAD - U.S. and Iraqi forces raided the Shiite neighborhood of Sadr City on Sunday, bombing four houses and wounding six civilians, Iraqi police said.

The operation began early in the morning, when U.S. forces backed by Iraqi troops began searching houses in the area, a stronghold of the notorious Mahdi Army militia of anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.

Aircraft flew over the neighborhood during the raid and carried out airstrikes on four houses, reducing one to a pile of bricks and rubble, police and witnesses said. The occupants of the destroyed house had apparently fled before the raid. Several cars were also charred and badly damaged.

more:http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070506/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_raid

But these pictures from Saturday...so have the raids been going on since Saturday am or Sunday am? :shrug:


Iraqis take part in a funeral procession for victims of a helicopter rocket attack, in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, May 5, 2007. Residents and police in a Shiite area in eastern Baghdad said U.S. helicopters early Saturday fired on three houses, killing six men and wounding a woman and five children. The U.S. military, which says it does its best to avoid civilian casualties, said it was looking into the report. (AP Photo/Ali al-Khazali) Email Photo Print Photo

[Up2Late]

1. Could be this: Car bomb kills 7 near Baghdad market: police (Reuters)

(This just popped up in my Rss Reader)

Car bomb kills 7 near Baghdad market: police

Sun May 6, 2007 4:23am ET147

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A car bomb killed seven people and wounded 15 others near a crowded market in Baghdad on Sunday, Iraqi police said.

They said the attack took place in the Shi'ite neighborhood of Bayaa.

U.S. and Iraqi forces launched a major security crackdown in Baghdad nearly three months ago. The offensive has reduced sectarian death squad killings but car bombs blamed mainly on Sunni Islamist al Qaeda still plague the city.

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[maddezmom]

2. found this:

US soldiers at a nearby base responded to the attack, killing several insurgents, and two soldiers sustained minor wounds, according to an Agence France Presse correspondent in the camp.

Some half dozen seriously wounded Iraqi policemen were evacuated by helicopter to a US medical facility.

The attack began with volleys of gunfire directed at the base at 9 am (1300 GMT), followed 15 minutes later by the explosion of the massive car bomb.

One US armored Humvee that pursued the attackers was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade, while a second reported being charged by an insurgent wearing a suicide vest, who blew himself up and damaged the vehicle.

The attack was the latest in a series of assaults against the Iraqi police services recruited from local Sunni tribes.

more:http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20070506-051441-2352r