1 US SOLDIER, 30 IRAQIS KILLED: 76 IRAQIS WOUNDED

A number of bombings rocked Mosul and Fallujah today, leaving dozens of casualties.

Overall, 30 Iraqis were killed and another 76 were wounded across the country. Also, one American soldier was killed and another two were wounded in Samarra.

http://www.antiwar.com/updates/?articleid=13112

In Mosul, eight people were killed and 41 were wounded during a bomb attack on a convoy carrying the commander of army forces in Ninevah province. Gunmen killed two policemen in a separate incidents. A soldier was shot and wounded in the al-Islah al-Zeraei neighborhood.

Another bombing wounded an Iraqi soldier. Late in the day, yet another bombing wounded two women. Mosul is considered al-Qaeda's last urban stronghold in Iraq. Also, a wanted suspect was captured and two weapons caches were confiscated.

Six people were killed and 18 more were wounded during a bomb attack outside a bank in Fallujah. Retirees were waiting in line to receive their pensions when the first bomb was detonated. A second bomb blasted the first responders who arrived to help bomb victims. U.S. forces reported a third bomb as well. This double-bombing tactic has been used frequently in Iraq. Anbar province is currently suffering from a slight surge in violence.

In Baghdad, six people were killed and eight more were wounded when a gunman shot at worshippers in an Abu Ghraib mosque. At least 32 suspects were captured. Three hostages were freed. Also, one dumped body was found in Talbiyah.

A roadside bomb killed four people traveling in a funeral procession near Baquba. The "mastermind" of a bombing was captured.

The body of a young girl was found in a ditch near Kut.

A body was found in Tuz Khormato.

Two civilians were injured in a shooting near Makhmour.

A suspect was killed during a police raid in Udhaim.

In Kirkuk, a cell phone tower was destroyed.

A child was freed in Karbala and her kidnappers were arrested. Three other suspects were detained.

A man headed to Karbala was arrested at a checkpoint in al-Dibla. He was carrying a "hallucinogenic" substance that would be combined with perfume and given to pilgrims.

Fourteen detainees were released in Diyala province after they proved their innocence.
A rocket attack wounded three members of an Awakening Council in Bishkan.

Gunmen wounded two physicians driving near Hawija.

WASHINGTON POST: U.S TROOPS EXPECTED TO SUFFER HEAVY CASUALTIES AS NEW WEAPON IS UNLEASHED IN IRAQ

U.S. Troops in Iraq Face A Powerful New WeaponUse of Rocket-Propelled Bombs Spreads

By Ernesto LondoñoWashington Post Foreign ServiceThursday, July 10, 2008; A01

http://tinyurl.com/64f3tp

BAGHDAD, July 9 -- Suspected Shiite militiamen have begun using powerful rocket-propelled bombs to attack U.S. military outposts in recent months, broadening the array of weapons used against American troops.

U.S. military officials call the devices Improvised Rocket Assisted Munitions, or IRAMs. They are propane tanks packed with hundreds of pounds of explosives and powered by 107mm rockets. They are often fired by remote control from the backs of trucks, sometimes in close succession. Rocket-propelled bombs have killed at least 21 people, including at least three U.S. soldiers, this year.

The latest reported rocket-propelled bomb attack occurred Tuesday at Joint Security Station Ur, a base in northeastern Baghdad shared by U.S. and Iraqi soldiers. One U.S. soldier and an interpreter were wounded in the attack.

U.S. military officials say IRAM attacks, unlike roadside bombings and conventional mortar or rocket attacks, have the potential to kill scores of soldiers at once. IRAMs are fired at close range, unlike most rockets, and create much larger explosions. Most such attacks have occurred in the capital, Baghdad.

CNN BREAKING NEWS: IRAN TEST FIRES MORE MISSILES ONE DAY AFTER TEST FIRING 9 MISSILES

Reports: Iran test-fires more missiles

Story Highlights
Iran test-fires more missiles, says Iran's Press TV, one day after other test-fires
Rice: U.S. determined to prevent Iran from threatening its interests or those of allies
Adds that missile defense shield in Eastern Europe could help head off threat
Rice to Iran: Get on the right side of the international community, accept incentives

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/10/us.iran/index.html#cnnSTCText

(CNN) -- Iran test-fired more missiles Thursday, according to Iran's Press TV, one day after it tested a long-range Shahab-3 and other missiles in the Persian Gulf region.

The test came only hours after U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said the United States is determined to prevent Iran from threatening its interests or those of its allies.

At a news conference in the Georgian capital of Tblisi, Rice said the United States has been working with allies to "make certain that they are capable of defending themselves" against any threat from Iran.

"We take very strongly our obligation to help our allies defend themselves and no one should be confused about that," Rice said.

She said a missile defense shield the United States hopes to create in Eastern Europe would be another way to head off any threat from Iran.

See where Iran's missiles could strike »

"These are all elements of America's intention and determination to prevent Iran from threatening our interests or the interests of our friends and allies, and I don't think the Iranians are too confused, either, about the capability and the power of the United States to do exactly that," she said.

The forces of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps had test-fired a Shahab-3 missile and several others during war games in the Persian Gulf, an Iranian commander said Wednesday.
The exercises came a month after Israel conducted a military drill in the eastern Mediterranean involving dozens of warplanes and aerial tanks.

The tests prompted condemnation from the United States and Israel. It is believed the longer-range Shahab-4 missile, when finished, would have the capability to hit parts of Europe, a U.S. intelligence official said.

Rice encouraged Iran to "get on the right side of the international community" by accepting a package of incentives put forward by China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States -- the permanent members of the U.N. Security Council -- as well as Germany.

Iran "ought to be talking about that, not about threats against America or threats against America's allies because frankly it's not going to do them any good."

Rice's comments came a day after U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said that Iran's test of a long-range missile shows the need for the United States to expand its missile defense system into Europe.

"We've been saying as we talk about missile defense in Europe that there is a real threat, and the test this morning underscores it," Gates said hours after Iran's test.

Watch Gates call Iran a 'real threat' »

CNN BREAKING NEWS: 21 BODIES FOUND AT IRAQI SCHOOL SITE

21 bodies found buried at Iraq school site

Story Highlights
Relatives say some were al Qaeda in Iraq kidnap victims
School in western Iraq's Anbar province is under construction
Coalition soldier killed in explosion in northern Iraq's Salaheddin province
Mosul suicide bombing targets Iraqi soldiers; eight civilians killed

http://tinyurl.com/6dn3vm


BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Twenty-one decomposed bodies were found buried at a school under construction in Anbar province, Iraqi authorities said Wednesday, and family members say some of the victims were kidnapped two years ago.

The bodies were found in the Adala neighborhood of central Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province west of Baghdad, an Iraqi Interior Ministry official said.

Laborers working at the construction site found the corpses, which Iraqi security forces transferred to a morgue.

Family members have identified some of the bodies, the official said.
Largely Sunni Anbar province was once dominated by insurgents, including members of al Qaeda in Iraq. But in the past two years, an anti-al Qaeda tribal movement called "the awakening" has managed to reduce their numbers in the province's Euphrates River valley area.
U.S.-backed groups called Awakening Councils have spread across Iraq.

Also on Wednesday, a soldier with the U.S.-led coalition was killed in an explosion in Salaheddin province in northern Iraq, the U.S. military said. Two other coalition soldiers were wounded.
The nationalities of the casualties were not clear. Two other coalition soldiers, both Americans, have been killed this month.

Watch when U.S. troops might leave Iraq »

In northern Iraq, a suicide car bomber targeting soldiers killed eight civilians and wounded 42 other people in Mosul, the capital of Nineveh province, an Interior Ministry official said.
The attacker targeted an Iraqi army convoy carrying Lt. Gen. Riyadh Jalal Tawfiq, chief of operations in Nineveh province. He escaped unharmed, but seven of his guards were wounded.

CNN BREAKING NEWS: IRAN TEST FIRES 9 LONG RANGE MISSILES

The United States moved closer to war with Iran after Iran test fired 9 long range and medium range missiles on Wednesday.

The action is only going to push Vice President Dick Cheney and other warmongers like Sen. Joseph Lieberman who have been saying the U.S. should attack Iran to save Iran from striking Israel.

Sen. John McCain is also on board for an attack on Iran and everyone will remember when McCain jokingly sang "Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran." The only problem was it was not a joke with McCain. He is in lockstep with the Bush White House on going to war with Iran.

Sen. Barack Obama has insisted on diplomacy should be used with Iran before using the military operation.

Anyone who is planning on voting for Sen. John McCain and has military age children should insist their children or grandchildren enlist in one of the branches of the United States military because there isn't anyway we can engage Iran in war without more troops.

And if the "brave" right wingers won't send their OWN children off to the military, then there should be a military DRAFT and everyone of military age goes without any excuses or deferments for college or any other Mickey Mouse excuse.

This blogger was DRAFTED in 1951 into the United States Army and served as a Squad Leader and Combat Engineer in the Korean War and knows only too well the current military cannot possibly take on war with IRAN without a DRAFT.

FOX NEWS WAS REPORTING ON THE CHRISTIE BRINKLEY AND A-ROD DIVORCES EARLY WEDNESDAY MORNING RATHER THAN THIS IMPORTANT NEWS STORY.

Commentary by BILL CORCORAN, editor of CORKSPHERE, url: http://corksphere.blogspot.com

Iran test fires missiles in riposte to U.S., Israel
Story Highlights
Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards test fire nine long and medium range missiles
Officials say war games are in response to U.S. and Israeli threats
Drill conducted in the Persian Gulf and the strategic Strait of Hormouz
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/07/09/iran.missiles/index.html

TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- Iran has test-fired nine missiles in response to what it says are threats from Israel and the United States, state-run Iranian media says.
The Islamic Republic News Agency and Press TV reported that the naval forces of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Wednesday test-fired a Shahab-3 missile during war games in the Persian Gulf.
The exercises come a month after Israel conducted a military drill in the eastern Mediterranean involving dozens of warplanes, and the latest Iranian activities prompted concern from Israel and condemnation from the United States.
Iran occasionally tests missiles, but this firing comes amid international tensions over its nuclear aspirations.
"The war game was aimed at improving the combat readiness of Iran's armed forces. The 2,000-kilometer-range Shahab-3 missiles were tested to demonstrate Iran's capability in hitting its enemies accurately at the early stages of their probable attacks against the Islamic Republic.
"Domestic and foreign political and military analysts believe that Shahab-3 is able to reach targets in the occupied lands in case of the Zionist regime's probable attacks against Iran's nuclear sites," the Islamic Republic News Agency said. Watch footage of the missiles being fired »
Iran's Press TV said the Iranian forces "successfully test-fired new long and mid-range missiles." It mentioned the Shahab 3, "which can hit any targets within a range of 2,000km." It said the Shahab 3 "is equipped with a one-ton conventional warhead."
"Nine highly advanced missiles with improved accuracy were simultaneously tested including the Zelzal and Fateh missiles with ranges of 400km and 170km respectively."
Press TV said ground forces were also involved in the war games.
World powers, which have long suspected Iran is intent on building nuclear weapons, have offered economic and other incentives in exchange for the suspension of its enrichment program.
Iran, which says its nuclear program is to produce energy, defends its right to proceed with enrichment.
There are worries that Israel, which has long been concerned about an Iranian attack, is pondering a unilateral strike.
Israel's military exercise over the eastern Mediterranean Sea in June was in part an effort to send a message that it has the capability to attack Iran's nuclear program.
It involved dozens of Israeli warplanes, including F-15s, F-16s and refueling aircraft, an official said.
The distance involved in the exercise was roughly the same as would be involved in a possible strike on the Iranian nuclear fuel plant at Natanz, a U.S. military official said.
In 1981, Israel attacked a nuclear facility in Iraq. Israel also struck a site in Syria that some say was a nuclear reactor under construction.
One Israeli Cabinet member, Shaul Mofaz, recently said the Jewish state "will attack" Iran if it did not halt its efforts to develop nuclear weaponry,
Last week, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander, Gen. Mohammed Ali-Jaafari, said any strike against Iran's nuclear facilities would be regarded as the beginning of war.
At the same time, Iranian leaders are discounting the possibility of war. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in Malaysia this week for a conference, told reporters Iran was trying to prevent but not foment confrontation.
"We are making all-out efforts to expand peace and security in the world. You should not be concerned about a new war," he said on Tuesday.
Mark Regev, spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, said: "Israel seeks neither conflict nor hostilities with Iran, but the Iranian nuclear program and the Iranian ballistic missile program must be of concern for the entire International community."
The White House reacted strongly to the missile test.
"Iran's development of ballistic missiles is a violation of United Nations Security Council resolutions and completely inconsistent with Iran's obligations to the world," said National Security Council spokesman Gordon Johndroe.
Johndroe said that the U.S., Britain, France, Russia, China and Germany "are committed to a diplomatic path, and have offered Iran a generous package of incentives if they will suspend their uranium enrichment activities."
"They should also refrain from further missile tests if they truly seek to gain the trust of the world. The Iranians should stop the development of ballistic missiles, which could be used as a delivery vehicle for a potential nuclear weapon, immediately."

SOLDIER HOLDING IRAQI CHILD IN THIS PICTURE DIED FROM OVERDOSE AFTER SUFFERING FROM PTSD

There has been some news coverage of this tragic story, but not enough and so this link will provide you with more details of how this brave GI shown here with a wounded Iraqi child returned from IRAQ with PTSD and eventually killed himself with an overdose.

Another untold story of how a soldier returning from Iraq with PTSD was letdown by the VA.

http://www.balloon-juice.com/?p=10786

U.S. SOLDIER KILLED IN BAGHDAD. MORE VIOLENCE IN IRAQ.

With all this violence and death of a U.S. solider and wounding of four other U.S. soldiers in Baghdad, the mainstream media and FOX NEWS continue to LIE to their readers and viewers by telling them things are improving Iraq.

The mainstream media and FOX NEWS are NOW the biggest enemy the United States military are facing.


Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Source: http://warnewstoday.blogspot.com/

War News for Tuesday, July 08, 2008
Caption: Ted Rall.The DPA is reporting the death of a U.S. soldier soldier in a roadside bombing in an western neighborhood of Baghdad on Tuesday, July 8th. Four other soldier were wounded in the attack.NATO is reporting the death of an ISAF soldier in a roadside bombing in Kunar Province on Tuesday, July 8th. Four other soldiers were wounded in the attack. No other details were released. At this time we believe these to be American soldiers.

July 6 airpower summary:The Battle of the Strait of Hormuz?Panel calls for new war powers legislation:

Iran holds military manoeuvres in Gulf:Reported Security incidents:

Baghdad:#1: A U.S. unmanned aircraft on Tuesday came down in southern Baghdad, a U.S. army media adviser said, linking the incident to technical reasons. "The plane fell on Monday due to technical reasons and has been restored. It was not shot down," Abdul Lateef Rayyan told Aswat al-Iraq - Voices of Iraq. Meanwhile, the so-called 'Al-Jihad wal Taghyeer (Jihad and Change) Front' claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement published on its official Web site. The front said that its members downed a U.S. unmanned aircraft in Baghdad's southern area of al-Mahmoudiya on Monday.

#2: Five suspects were arrested, and stolen vehicles and explosive charges were seized during two search-and-raid operations in eastern and northern Baghdad, an official spokesman for the capital's operations command said on Tuesday.

#3: On Monday, gunmen killed Dr. Salih Abed Hassoun, dean of college of law of Al Qadisiyah University, as he was driving his car in central Baghdad.

#4: Around 10 a.m. guards of ministry of labor and social affairs injured 10 civilians when the guards started shooting in the air to disband men and women gathering to receive salaries in Al Waziriyah neighborhood.

Diyala Prv:#1: In Diyala, north-east of Baghdad, separate twin bomb blasts left six people injured, three of them policemen, security sources told the Voices of Iraq (VOI) news agency. No further details were available.

Baquba:#1 Three gunmen were killed on Tuesday when clashes erupted between them and Iraqi police in the province of Diala, a security source said. The clashes broke out in the village of al-Makhisa, Abi Sayda district, and left three members of al-Qaeda killed," the source, who asked not to have his name revealed, told Aswat al-Iraq – Voices of Iraq, not giving more details.Balad

Ruz:#1: "A short while later, another IED went off near an Iraqi police patrol on the main street linking the district of Baladruz, (45 km) southwest of Baaquba, to the district of Kanaan inside the city, wounding three policemen," the source added.

Kut:#1: A civilian man was killed in an attack by unidentified gunmen on his store in downtown al-Kut city on Tuesday, a police source in Wassit said."Three unidentified gunmen opened their fire at Ammar Shakir inside his store selling and changing auto oil, killing him instantly," the source, who did not want to be named, told Aswat al-Iraq – Voices of Iraq – (VOI), not giving further information on the incident.

Tikrit:#1: In nearby Tikrit, a policeman was killed by a bomb overnight, the security official said. The incident occurred when the policeman, driving the car of the province's police chief, was on patrol in Arbin street at 2:00 a.m. (Monday, 2300 GMT).

Sharkat:#1: In the northern Salahaddin province, a US force stormed Monday night the house of an officer in the former Iraqi army in the village of al-Sheikh in the Shirkat area, a local security official told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa. The troops killed the officer, ordered his family out and set the house ablaze, the official said. The ex-officer was working as a lorry driver in the area, according to the official.

Kirkuk:#1: A roadside bomb wounded one woman and a policeman outside a court building in Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, a police chief Brigadier-General Sarhat Qadin said.A policeman and three civilians, including a woman, were wounded when an improvised explosive device (IED) went off near a courthouse downtown Kirkuk province on Tuesday, a security official said.Ninevah Prv:

Mosul:#1: The U.S. military says a roadside bomb has killed four contractors and injured eight others in northern Iraq. The military says in a statement that the bomb struck a convoy carrying the contractors Monday near the northern city of Mosul, 225 miles (360 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad.

#2: Gunmen killed two people in two separate incidents in western Mosul on Monday, police said.

BUSH AND STATE DEPT. POOH POOH TROOP WITHDRAWAL FROM IRAQ. IRAQI PM MADE TO SOUND LIKE "BAGHDAD BOB"

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is being made to sound like the infamous of "Baghdad Bob" of the early days of the war by the Bush White House and the State Department when the PM suggested he wanted a timetable for U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq.

"Baghdad Bob" was the propaganda merchant for Saddam Hussein during "Shock and Awe" and was always painting a rosy picture of how well the Iraqi troops were doing against the U.S. troops even when the U.S. troops were driving into Baghdad

No sooner had the new broke yesterday than al-Maliki was contemplating a timetable for U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq but the Bush White House and the State Department sprung into action and virtually cut the legs out from underneath the PM by saying conditions on the ground would determine when U.S. troops pullout of Iraq and not the Iraqi Prime Minister.

The move by the Bush White House and the State Department makes clear the Bush administration wants to keep the war going right through the election and perhaps for many, many more years.

COMMENTARY BY BILL CORCORAN, editor of CORKSPHERE

Iraq raises idea of withdrawal timetable

The Associated Press
updated 9:03 p.m. CT, Mon., July. 7, 2008
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25576993/

BAGHDAD - Iraq's prime minister said Monday his country wants some type of timetable for a withdrawal of American troops included in the deal the two countries are negotiating.

It was the first time that Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has explicitly and publicly called for a withdrawal timetable — an idea opposed by President Bush.

He offered no details. But his national security adviser, Mouwaffak al-Rubaie, told The Associated Press that the government is proposing a timetable conditioned on the ability of Iraqi forces to provide security.

In Washington, the State Department declined to comment on the ongoing negotiations and said officials in Washington were not yet entirely sure what al-Maliki had said.

"This falls in the category of ongoing negotiations, and I'm not going to talk about every single development, every single development in the negotiations," spokesman Sean McCormack told reporters.

Al-Maliki said in a meeting with Arab diplomats in Abu Dhabi that his country also has proposed a short-term interim memorandum of agreement rather than the more formal status of forces agreement the two sides have been negotiating.

IF YOU CAN TAKE IT WATCH THIS VIDEO OF A FINAL SALUTE TO OUR SOLDIERS IN IRAQ

The mainstream media in the United States, and especially the Bush White House propaganda machine FOX NEWS, wants you to think the war has ended in Iraq or is close to ending.

THAT IS A FLAT OUT LIE AS THIS GRAPHIC VIDEO DEPICTS THE FINAL SALUTE TO MANY OF THE BRAVE (AND FORGOTTEN) HEROES OF THE IRAQ WAR.

IF THIS VIDEO TRIBUTE TO OUR TROOPS DOESN'T BRING TEARS TO YOUR EYES NOTHING WILL.

http://www.youtube.com/v/WIw-BP4zfW4&hl=en&fs=1

ARMY TIMES: PFC PUTS LIFE IN SHAMBLES BY TAKING WAR SPOILS: A MUST READ STORY

This story from the ARMY TIMES is a must read for anyone interested in what our troops go through in Iraq.

Pfc. puts life in shambles by taking war spoils

By Billy Cox - Special to the TimesPosted :

Monday Jul 7, 2008 12:37:38 EDT
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/07/military_coffey_070508w/

SARASOTA, Fla. — After nearly three weeks of desert combat and enough death to jangle his brain for a lifetime, Pfc. Earl Coffey arrived in Baghdad in April 2003 thinking he had discovered an oasis.

It was Palace Row, one of the most exclusive tracts of real estate in Iraq, and not even major bomb damage could dim the luster of a tyrant’s decadence. Coffey was among the first U.S. troops to secure Saddam Hussein’s inner sanctum, the postwar “Green Zone” now hosting diplomats and government authorities. Its allure was intoxicating.

Coffey recalled his awe at seeing gold-rimmed toilet seats, 30-foot wide chandeliers, and Swarovski crystal collections. Over the next few days, he sampled one revelation after another: the Dom Perignon champagne, the Monte Cristo Cuban cigars, even the lion’s roar of captive pet carnivores.

He watched as a Bradley Fighting Vehicle rammed and collapsed the wall of a windowless bunker just outside Saddam’s palace. The building concealed bundles of U.S. currency stacked floor-to-ceiling and wrapped in binding that read “Bank of America.”

To a man who had grown up in the bleak shadows of Kentucky’s coal mines, staring down all that money “was like hitting the lottery,” Coffey said.

His career was about to drown in a flood of American dollars.

The family business
Today, adrift and troubled in Sarasota, the 34-year-old is worlds away from what he once was — a trained sniper who took his first shot with a .22-caliber rifle his father gave him when he was 7 or 8 years old in rural Harlan County. At first, he practiced on tin can lids nailed to a fence post 80 yards away. When that got too easy, he began targeting the nails. And other things.
“I could shoot the fire off cigarettes from 40 to 50 yards,” he said. “I could shoot the head off a match.”

Coffey had other interests, like football. He played linebacker and tailback at tiny Everts High School. But looking back, he said his course was set the first time he picked up a gun. His father was a Vietnam veteran; his grandfather survived World War II.

“I wanted to go to the Army,” he said. “It was an honorable profession.”
So he volunteered at age 17. Duty sent the small-town boy around the world: Kuwait, Germany, Scotland, Curacao, Somalia, Saudi Arabia, the Azores.

Still a teenager, Coffey found himself in Mogadishu pr
oviding cover fire during the bloody “Black Hawk Down” street battles in 1993. “None of us thought we were coming out alive,” he said.

Using a .50-caliber sniper rifle, he and a spotter stalked targets from as far away as three-quarters of a mile. By then, Coffey had become a deadly expert, with enough experience to have his own theory on how quickly his targets would die.

“It’s all according to how full of rage or how full of energy they are,” he said.
A normal man dies instantly. In Mogadishu; he shot a man standing on a balcony 960 meters away.

“I hit him right above the eye,” Coffey said. “But he walked a good 15 feet before he finally went down.”

At age 19, this son of a coal miner and truck driver had come a long way from home and a childhood spent, for a while, without indoor plumbing.

“We had an outhouse,” Coffey said. “I remember packing water from natural springs way down at the end of the road. Our bath was a galvanized metal tub.”

Continue reading this story here: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/07/military_coffey_070508w/

WASHINGTON POST: CALM ENDS IN IRAQ AS VIOLENCE TAKES 16 LIVES

Relative Calm in Iraq Ends as Attacks Take 16 Lives

Iraqi police officers pass U.S. troops at the site of a Baghdad car bombing. (By Karim Kadim -- Associated Press)

By Zaid SabahWashington Post Foreign Service

http://tinyurl.com/5su8n4

Monday, July 7, 2008; Page A10

BAGHDAD, July 6 -- A wave of attacks in Baghdad and areas north of the capital Sunday shattered a relative lull in violence, killing 16 people and injuring 15 a day after Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki declared that Iraq's government had defeated terrorism.

WASHINGTON POST: IRAQ PRIME MINISTER WANTS TIMETABLE FOR U.S. TROOP WITHDRAWAL

The Bush administration has long opposed any timetable for a troop withdrawal from Iraq, but Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki wants to set a timetable for U.S. troops to leave Iraq.

How are the Bush administration and FOX NEWS going to "spin" this news?

Iraq's Maliki Suggests Setting Timetable for U.S. WithdrawalU.S. Has Consistently Opposed

Establishing Timeline for Troop Drawdown

By Sudarsan RaghavanWashington Post Foreign Service
Monday, July 7, 2008; 1:22 PM
http://tinyurl.com/6fhpbo

BAGHDAD, July 7 -- Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has for the first time suggested establishing a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops, a step that the Bush administration has long opposed.

Maliki floated the idea on Monday during a visit to the United Arab Emirates, where he spoke with Arab ambassadors about a security pact being negotiated to determine the future role of U.S. troops in Iraq. The agreement would replace a U.N. mandate authorizing the presence of the troops, which is set to expire Dec. 31.

Maliki said that Iraq has proposed a short-term memorandum of understanding with the United States instead of trying to forge a longer term pact on an issue that has spawned opposition across Iraq's political divides.

"The current trend is to reach an agreement on a memorandum of understanding either for the departure of the forces or a memorandum of understanding to put a timetable on their withdrawal," Maliki said, according to a statement released Monday by his office that did not specify how long a period a memorandum would cover. "In all cases, the basis for any agreement will be respect for the full sovereignty of Iraq."

THE LATEST CAR BOMBINGS FROM IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN: CITIZENS FOR A LEGITMATE GOVERNMENT

Lori Price and her excellent Citizens for a Legitimate Government site http://www.legitgov.org/ provided us with this breaking news out of Iraq and Afghanistan which is more proof that FRED BARNES and BILL KRYSTOL of FOX NEWS are lying to the American public.


Car bomb kills six people in Baghdad 06 Jul 2008 Six people have been killed and 14 injured in a car bombing in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. Officials say the bomb went off in a mainly Shia district in the north-east of the city. Reports say the attack targeted a police patrol car.

Suicide Car Bomb Hits Afghan Capital 07 Jul 2008 A suicide car bomb exploded outside the Indian Embassy in central Kabul on Monday, killing 28 people and wounding 141, officials said. The massive bomb exploded near a row of metal turnstiles outside the embassy, where dozens of Afghan men line up every morning to apply for visas. The embassy is located on a busy, tree-lined street near Afghanistan's Interior Ministry in the city center.

20 die in coalition missile strike in Afghanistan 06 Jul 2008 At least 20 people have been killed in a missile strike by 'coalition' forces in Afghanistan. Local people say that the group was a wedding party, and most of the dead are said to be women and children. However the US has said that those killed were militants involved in previous mortar attacks on a NATO base. [Yeah, the bride was a busy little bee in June. You know, planning her wedding, planning mortar attacks....]

FOX NEWS' FRED BARNES AND BILL KRYSTOL BRAG ABOUT CONDITIONS IN IRAQ, BUT HERE IS THE TRUTH: ONE U.S. SOLDER,26 IRAQIS KILLED, 43 IRAQIS WOUNDED

FRED BARNES, and BILL KRYSTOL where guests on FOX NEWS SUNDAY and without batting an eye both of them claimed the mlitary victory by U.S. forces in Iraq will go down in history as one of the greatest military victories in the last 50 years of American troops engage in combat overseas.

It is obvious that neither BARNES or KRYSTOL know how to read or they would have known the following:


Sunday: 1 US Soldier, 26 Iraqis Killed; 43 Iraqis Wounded

Updated at 12:10 a.m. EDT, July 7, 2008
http://www.antiwar.com/updates/?articleid=13098

The workweek in Iraq began with several deadly attacks. At least 26 Iraqis were killed 43 more were wounded across the country. The biggest attacks were in Baghdad and Jalawla. Meanwhile, an American soldier died of non-combat related causes.

In Baghdad, six people were killed and 14 more were wounded when a car bomb blew up in Shabb; a second car bomb was defused at that spot. This was the third attack in four days near the Yarmuk Hospital A separate car bomb wounded five in Jamiya; the injured may have been policemen defusing a bomb.

Also, three security personnel were wounded during operations, and two dumped bodies were found.

Several neighborhoods in Sadr City were cordoned off after clashes that occurred overnight. The arrest of a Sadrist official set off the confrontations. No casualties were reported.

Seven relatives were killed when a roadside bomb blasted the family of a local Kurdish official in Jalawla. The official and as many as 11 others were wounded. Some sources later reported that the official died as well.

One Iraqi soldier was killed and four others were wounded during an IED attack in Kanaan.
Clashes between Awakening Council (Sahwa) members and Iraqi army troops in Baquba left two dead civilians.

A roadside bombing in Haswa killed one person and wounded another.

An Iraqi merchant was killed in Kut. The man held U.S. nationality and had arrived recently.
A female body bearing gunshot and torture marks was found in Mussayab.

Two schoolgirls were kidnapped in Talkif, a predominantly Christian unaccustomed to violence.
In Kirkuk, 20 gunmen turned themselves over to police. A "key" al-Qaeda leader was captured. Four Iraqi policemen were injured during a roadside bombing.

A bomb was placed on a car belonging to the head of a Sahwa council in Iskandariya. He was killed shortly after meeting with U.S. forces.

Gun released six captives in Khanaqin after negotiations with relatives.

In Zubayr, one child was killed and another was injured in a landmine blast. The landmine is believed to date from the Saddam era. Officials estimate that Iraq has 4000 landmine fields within its borders. That is 25% of the total number of mines worldwide.

A civilian was shot and killed in Mosul.

Gunmen killed an Iraqi army officer on his way home to Dhuluiya. Two suspects were arrested.

So FRED BARNES and BILL KRYSTOL of FOX NEWS are LYING through their teeth when they say everything is wonderful in Iraq.

ECHOES OF VIETNAM: WAIT UNTIL YOU READ WHAT THE VA IS DOING TO VETERANS

Echoes of Vietnam: VA Stalls, Dissembles While Vets Suffer and Die

By Penny Coleman, AlterNetPosted on July 4, 2008, Printed on July 6, 2008

http://www.alternet.org/story/90251/

On June 10, U.S. District Judge Samuel Conti ordered the Department of Veterans Affairs back into court. Conti is presiding over a lawsuit brought by veterans against the VA, charging the agency with systematically denying veterans the services and support they so desperately need. Conti demanded that the VA explain why it had failed to produce certain critical (and incriminating) documents.

Among those documents was an e-mail written by the now-infamous Norma Perez. It read: "Given that we have more and more compensation-seeking veterans, I'd like to suggest that you refrain from giving a diagnosis of PTSD straight out. Consider a diagnosis of adjustment disorder, R/O [ruling out] PTSD."

Bob Filner, chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee, said it was inconceivable that a low-level staffer like Perez could have written such an e-mail on her own authority. Barack Obama called it "unacceptable" and "tantamount to fraud." John McCain called it "not too important."

Lost somehow in the high-decibel rhetoric of the moment is a historical dimension of this story that I think deserves some attention. This is not the first time the VA has acted as adversary rather than advocate. Thirty years ago, almost to the day, Max Cleland, then head of the VA, circulated an equally directive memo to his staff that read:

In view of the remaining uncertainties on the long-term effects of the defoliants, all VA personnel should avoid premature commitment to any diagnosis of defoliant poisoning. Similarly, entries in medical records should not contain statements about the relationship between a veteran's illnesses and defoliant exposure unless unequivocal confirmation of such a connection has been established.

(The defoliants Cleland refers to were Agent Orange and other dioxin-based chemicals the United States sprayed over Vietnam.)

In the meantime, Cleland instructed VA staff to deny all Agent Orange claims. He also refused to undertake any kind of epidemiological study because, he claimed, the necessary outreach to veterans would only cause them "needless anxiety."

Then, as now, veterans' "anxiety" was a hot topic at the VA. In testimony before the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee in February 1980, Cleland justified the agency's practice of first, and often exclusively, giving veterans with dioxin-related symptoms psychiatric exams. Obviously, he explained to the committee, if "in FY 1979, 46 percent (of veterans) had received care for psychiatric disorders," that proved, ipso facto, that psychiatric care was what they needed. They were suffering from "post-Vietnam syndrome." All their symptoms were in their heads. Veterans tried to sue the VA over its "no health effects" policy, but the agency took the rather astonishing position that veterans had "no standing" to challenge the policies. They were allowed to sue the chemical manufacturers, but not the U.S. government, the entity that bought the poison and ordered it spread -- in concentrations four times that recommended for civilian use and with total disregard for the health and safety of its own soldiers and Vietnamese citizens. Veterans' lawyers suggested that the VA's position would lead "to a government of men, not law."

A prescient observation.
In a manner usually associated with totalitarian regimes, veterans were called "crazy" and thus dismissed, stigmatized and silenced. Paul Reutershan, who courageously initiated the class-action lawsuit against the chemical companies in 1978, told a television audience at the time, "My government killed me in Vietnam, and I didn't even know it." Five months later, Reutershan was permanently silenced when he died of his illnesses. The longer the VA stalled, the more veterans died.

Reutershan was not, however, the original whistleblower. In 1977, Maude DeVictor, a VA caseworker in Chicago, began to notice a pattern of unusual birth defects in Vietnam veterans' children. She began to keep a log of these cases, at least initially with her supervisors' permission, accumulating a devastating, if circumstantial, body of evidence suggesting a strong link to dioxin poisoning. Suddenly, without explanation, her boss ordered her to stop. DeVictor decided to go to the media. On March 23, 1978, WBBM, the CBS television affiliate in Chicago, aired an hourlong documentary on the health effects of Agent Orange, including interviews with veterans and scientists. DeVictor was fired from her job and banned from full-time government work.

Which brings us back to today.
Veterans for Common Sense, one of the plaintiffs in the latest lawsuit, called Judge Conti's recent ruling "an important victory for veterans." And I suppose that it might be, if the VA can be forced to start doing its job. After seven years of preposterous, viciously cruel and far-too-often lethal gamesmanship, it would feel good to see the bad guys slapped around -- even just a little bit. And the fallout from such a court order, if one could be made binding, would certainly ease the betrayal and perhaps even the suffering of veterans. It might also help convince Americans that our big-stick militarism is a far more expensive solution to our international problems than they have been led to believe.

But what has really changed?
I find it deeply ironic that the very physical effects of dioxin were once dismissed as merely psychological, not compensable service-connected injuries. With the inclusion of posttraumatic stress disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, such psychic injuries are acknowledged, yet the VA is still using the same tools of denial and obfuscation to refuse treatment to injured vets. The agency has proven itself over time to be far more committed to protecting the bottom line for "a government of men" than to protecting its rightful charges. Perhaps if the agency were no longer the fiefdom of political appointees, its policies would not be so predictably callous and politically expedient.
And where are the Maude DeVictors in this generation's VA? How is it that policies are set and directives come down from above, stinking of injustice, and yet a staff that, at least in my experience, is largely made up of honorable, compassionate professionals carries them out without protest? Since this generation of soldiers began coming home, psychically injured in numbers never seen (or acknowledged?) before, a steadily increasing number of reports accuses the agency of everything from indifference to gross medical malfeasance. That's corporate for "murder." The VA may be tantamount to a corporation, but those who individually carry out those policies and directives have also chosen. Like Maude DeVictor, they could have said no.
On the entrance to the Washington, D.C., headquarters of the Department of Veterans Affairs is a metal plaque that bears these words, taken from Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural address: "To care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow, and his orphan."
That plaque is an affront and an offense to those who have been so heartlessly treated, and someone should order it taken down. Or, maybe it's time to take matters into our own hands. Maybe, to paraphrase Abbie Hoffman, it's time to steal this plaque.

Penny Coleman is the widow of a Vietnam veteran who took his own life after coming home. Her latest book, Flashback: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Suicide, and the Lessons of War, was released on Memorial Day 2006. Her website is Flashback.
http://www.alternet.org/story/90251/

WHAT IS IRAQI PM AL-MALIKI SMOKING?

Whatever Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is smoking I want some.

Iraqi PM says government has defeated terrorism

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http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/buzz/5873141.html

BAGHDAD — Iraq's prime minister said Saturday that the government has defeated terrorism in the country, a sign of growing confidence after recent crackdowns against Sunni extremists and Shiite militias.

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki launched the crackdowns to extend the authority of the government over areas in Baghdad and elsewhere that have largely been under the control of armed groups since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.

"They were intending to besiege Baghdad and control it," al-Maliki said. "But thanks to the will of the tribes, security forces, army and all Iraqis, we defeated them."

He was speaking at ceremonies marking the fifth anniversary of the 2003 assassination of Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, a leading opponent of Saddam Hussein who was killed in a truck bombing in the southern Iraqi city of Najaf after returning from exile in Iran.

SO MAYBE THE NEW "BAGHDAD BOB," PRIME MINISTER AL-MALIKI CAN EXPLAIN THESE INCIDENTS IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN---IRAQ:

Reported Security incidents:Baghdad:
Source: http://warnewstoday.blogspot.com/

#1: A bomb attached to a car killed two people and wounded eight others on Friday in the Yarmouk district of western Baghdad, police said.

#2: Friday Two bodies were found in Baghdad on Friday, police said.

#3: A roadside bomb targeting a police patrol wounded one policeman and one civilian in the Karrada district of central Baghdad, police said.

Diyala Prv:#1: On Friday evening gunmen planted a bomb near a house at Shuhdaa neighborhood in Jalwlaa (northeast Baquba). Six people from one family were injured when the bomb exploded (a wife, four daughters and a son).

Mahaweel:#1: One body was found with gunshot wounds and signs of torture on Friday in a house in Mahaweel, 60 km (35 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

Basra:#1: Gunmen killed Salim al-Daraji, an official of the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council (SIIC) in northern Basra, 420 km (260 miles) southeast of Baghdad on Friday, police said.

Tikrit:#1: Iraqi police killed four militants, two of them foreigners, just south of Tikrit, 150 km (95 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

Irbil:#1: Two unidentified bodies showing signs of having been shot were found in the northern Iraq district of Makhmour on Saturday, police said."The bodies, found in the village of al-Qadiriya, al-Kuweir district, (30 km) west of Makhmour, were taken to a morgue in the city," the source, who did not want his name mentioned, told Aswat al-Iraq – Voices of Iraq. Makhmour, 68 km southwest of Arbil, is one of the districts administratively disputed by Arbil, 349 km northeast of Baghdad, and Ninewa, 405 km northeast of the Iraqi capital.

Mosul:#1: Meanwhile, a civilian was killed and six others, including two policemen, were injured in a car bomb attack that targeted their vehicle in northern Mosul city.

#2: Militants shot dead two off-duty policemen in a market in eastern Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.Al Anbar Prv:

Fallujah:#1: An Iraqi Sunni Arab politician escaped a bomb explosion with wounds in the city of Fallujah in Anbar province on Saturday, a local police source said. A roadside bomb detonated near the car of Khaled al-Ubeidi, head of the Iraqi Islamic Party in central Fallujah on Saturday morning, wounding him, his driver and a bystander, the source toldXinhua on condition of anonymity.A roadside bomb wounded Khalid Mohammed, an official of the Iraqi Islamic Party in Falluja, and three other people, 50 km (30 miles) west of Baghdad, police said

WHY WE NEED A MILITARY DRAFT: SIX OUT OF TEN YOUNG AMERICANS CAN'T FIND IRAQ ON THE MAP

There are many reason why we need a military draft not the least of which is six out of ten young Americans according to a National Geographic study can't find Iraq on the map.

But there are more reason why need a draft.

We are fighting two wars. The Iraq war and the Afghanistan war and according to Adm. Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, we don't have enough troops for the exploding situation in Afghanistan.

Every war the U.S. has been involved in since World War II we had a military draft. There was a draft for the Korean War. I should know I was drafted in 1951 into the U.S. Army. There was a draft for the Vietnam War, but the Iraq and Afghanistan wars have been fought by an all volunteer military.

But now that same all volunteer military is stretched beyond the breaking point and even though 1200 troops in Iraq "re-upped" on the Fourth of July doesn't mean a damn thing.

What that means is they heard from back home how the economy is tanking and jobs are hard to find and so they decided to stay in the military rather than come home and end up out of work.

So bring on the DRAFT. It is time EVERYONE of military age know what it is like to serve in one of the branches of the United States military.

American flag lapel pins are out. Standing under the American flag in a military uniform are in.


Maybe then they will know where Iraq is on the map.

COMMENTARY BY BILL CORCORAN, EDITOR OF CORKSPHERE

Six out of 10 young Americans cannot find Iraq on a map

By Andrew Buncombe in WashingtonWednesday, 3 May 2006
http://tinyurl.com/5mepez

The US may be the world's only true superpower but global domination does not equal global knowledge. A new survey shows young Americans have what can only be described as shoddy geography skills, with six out of 10 unable to locate Iraq on a map and almost half incapable of pointing to the state of Mississippi.

Traditionally, the US has bowed to the idea of isolationism, hoping that geography in the form of vast oceans can help act as a protection from other nations. But the survey suggests that such an attitude- both culturally and in terms of interest in overseas travel - is having a woeful impact on Americans' ability to learn about the wider world.

The survey shows that, despite having invaded Iraq three years ago, six out of 10 Americans aged 18 to 24 cannot locate the country. Two-thirds do not know that the October 2005 earthquake that killed 70,000 people struck in Pakistan. Indeed, more than 40 per cent cannot locate Pakistan in Asia.

But it is not just overseas knowledge that is lacking. The survey shows that domestic geography is also poor. Despite the chaos caused by Hurricane Katrina, which killed hundreds of people and cost billions of dollars when it struck the Gulf Coast last August, one-third of those questioned were not able to find Louisiana on a map of the US. When asked to point on a map to a location that avoids hurricane strikes - ie, the north-west of the US - around a third pointed in the wrong direction.

"It's not good ... It shows the knowledge is pretty appalling," said John Fahey, president of the National Geographic Society, which commissioned the survey. "I think this is born out of a sense that [people believe] 'I can be isolated here - culturally and geographically. I don't need to think too much about what's happening in the rest of the world'."

He added: "Geographic illiteracy impacts our economic well-being, our relationships with other nations and the environment, and isolates us from our world. Geography is what helps us make sense of our world by showing the connections between people and places. Without it, our young people are not ready to face the challenges of the increasingly interconnected world of the 21st century."

The survey, carried out in December 2005, also found fewer than three in 10 think it is important to know the locations of countries in the news; only 14 per cent believe another language is a necessary skill; 47 per cent could not find India on a map and 75 per cent could not locate Israel.

While the geography skills of young Americans are unimpressive, however, they may be improving. A similar study carried out in 2002 found only 13 per cent could point to Iraq on a map. Almost one in 10 could not even point to the United States.

That survey also found that young people who have travelled abroad and speak another language are likely to have better geography skills than those who do not. Young adults who obtained international news from newspapers as opposed to television alone were likely to score better, as were respondents who regularly used the internet.

The National Geographic Society has released the results of the survey to coincide with a campaign to improve "geographic literacy". Entitled My Wonderful World, and led by a group of business, non-profit and education leaders, the aim is to highlight ways that children and parents can help build geography skills.

Central to the campaign is a website at www.Mywonderfulworld.net which contains suggestions for outdoor family activities, links to geography games and classroom materials.

WARNING! WARNING! MARINES IN FALLUJAH: GRAPHIC VIDEO OF U.S. MILITARY VEHICLE DESTROYED IN ENEMY ATTACK

The mainstream media doesn't want the American public to even know there is war going on in Iraq, but this extremely graphic video shows what took place right after a U.S. military vehicle was destroyed by an IED near Fallujah injuring a number of U.S. Marines.

WARNING: This video may not be suitable for minors.

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DOUBLE IED DESTROYS U.S. TANK. NEW VIDEO: WARNING: EXTREMELY GRAPHIC: NOT SUITABLE FOR MINORS

This video is taken from an Arabic news station and shows a double IED destroying a U.S. tank recently in Iraq.

WARNING: The scenes following the attack are extremely graphic.

THIS VIDEO MAY NOT BE SUITABLE FOR MINORS

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http://www.youtube.com/v/A7hTwQBZ5MA&hl=en&fs=1

IED ATTACK ON U.S. MILITARY VEHICLE: WARNING: VERY GRAPHIC

The video is in Arabic because it was posted on an Ararbic news station and shows an IED attack on a U.S. military vehicle in Iraq.

WARNING: The scenes are very graphic.

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http://www.youtube.com/v/Pv51hR-0tW0&hl=en&fs=1

INSURGENT VIDEO: M1 ABRAMS TANK DESTROYED BY IED

This video is from an Arab TV news source and shows an M1 Abrams tank destroyed by an IED. The scenes are very graphic and come with a WARNING.

The incident happened less than two week ago in Iraq.

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http://www.youtube.com/v/hBAjgg0sbi8&hl=en&fs=1

REUTERS: U.S. LED AIR RAID KILLS 22 AFGHAN CIVILIANS

ASADABAD, Afghanistan, July 4 (Reuters) - Twenty-two civilians, including women and children, were killed in an air strike by U.S.-led forces on Friday in Afghanistan's eastern province of Nuristan, an official said.

REUTERSReuters North American News Service
Jul 04, 2008 09:28 EST
http://wiredispatch.com/news/?id=239408

The attack happened on a road in Want district while the noncombatants were traveling in two vehicles, the district chief, Zia-Ul Rahman, told reporters.

"The civilians were evacuating the district as they were told by the U.S.-led troops to do so because they wanted to launch an operation against the Taliban," he said.

"The civilians were in two vehicles when killed by the air raid," he added.

The U.S. military confirmed the mission, but said there was no report of civilian injuries. It said the strike was in response to an attack by militants against NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) troops. "An ISAF RC-East combat outpost in Nuristan province received indirect fire from militants today. Coalition helicopter support was used to locate the militants," it said in a statement.

"The militants were moving in two vehicles when Coalition attack helicopters were used to destroy (them) killing the combatants. No reports of noncombatant injuries" were received, it added.

The incident comes amid an upsurge of violence in Afghanistan in the past two years, the bloodiest period since the overthrow of Taliban's government in 2001. The issue of civilians killed by foreign troops is a sensitive one in Afghanistan as it undermines public support for the presence of around 71,000 international troops in the country and the government of President Hamid Karzai.

In the first six months of this year, 698 civilians were killed, 255 of them by Afghan government and foreign forces. In the same period last year, a total of 430 civilians were killed, the United Nations said last week.

DEATH DOES "NOT" TAKE A HOLIDAY IN IRAQ: 5 KILLED AND 8 WOUNDED BY NOON FRIDAY

It may be the Fourth of July in the United States, but in Baghdad and other parts of Iraq it is just another day of violence as 5 people have been killed and 8 wounded by Noon on Friday.

5 killed, 8 wounded until Friday afternoon

Baghdad - Voices of Iraq
Friday , 04 /07 /2008 Time 6:55:06

http://tinyurl.com/63y32j

BAGHDAD, July 4 (VOI) - Five persons were killed and eight others were wounded in acts of violence that took place in Iraq until Friday afternoon, security sources said.

In Baghdad, Iraqi police said four people were killed and eight others wounded when a car bomb went off near a gate of the al-Yarmuk hospital in western Baghdad.In Babel, a police source said, a police force captured eight wanted men while another force found an unidentified body in two separate security operations in al-Iskandariya district, 50 km northern Babel province.

THE HOTTEST VIDEO ON THE INTERNET: PRODUCED BY 15-YEAR OLD LIZZIE PALMER ABOUT OUR TROOPS IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN.

This film was made by a 15 year old girl. The following is the hottest thing on the Internet and on Fox News today. Lizzie Palmer who put this YouTube program together is 15 years old. There have been over 3,000,000 hits as of this morning. In case you missed it, here it is. Watch all of it.......and, pass it on!!

Http://www.youtube.com/v/ervaMPt4Ha0&autoplay=1 or click on this link

http://tinyurl.com/63qt2x

VIDEO OF FIREFIGHT IN AFGHANISTAN. FILMED 3 DAYS AGO. GRAPHIC FOOTAGE AND LANGUAGE

The newest fight for U.S. troops is now in Afghanistan and this video filmed just three days ago shows what our troops are going through Afghanistan. WARNING: The video and language are GRAPHIC.

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http://www.youtube.com/v/-5QP2guJLoY&hl=en&fs=1

THE WAR IN IRAQ (MUSICAL VIDEO) GRAPHIC CONTENT

Even though the mainstream media doesn't cover the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan anymore, we feel it is important on the 4th of July for Americans to know our troops are still fighting in Iraq and Afganistan.

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GRAPHIC MUSICAL VIDEO OF LOTS OF WAR FOOTAGE

With Americans celebrating the 4th of July it seems only appropriate to pause and see in this video what our troops are going through in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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FOURTH OF JULY MUSICAL VIDEO TRIBUTE TO OUR TROOPS IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN: "HURT" BY JOHNNY CASH

The late Johnny Cash sings "Hurt" as the background for this video of our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. A fitting tribute to our troops on 4th of July.

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