A hope your 75 virgins come very soon. Please don't make Allah
wait much longer.
--
Real torture is having to put up with Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and their
liberal cronies who whine and cry about everything done to keep this
nation
safe and protect our people from harm.
"no surrender" <no_surrender@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> Re****t: American Troops Weak, Stupid & Cowardly - Bush's Failed
> Presidency
> Coming To An End - The Terrorists Have Won
>
> Two American soldiers have been deliberately shot dead by a colleague in
> an
> Iraqi unit, the US and Iraqy militaries have announced.
>
> The two soldiers were on a joint US-Iraq patrol in Mosul in northern
Iraq
> when
> they were killed last week.
>
>
> It is the first time such a killing has been confirmed by the two
forces.
>
>
> "Two US soldiers killed during a combined Iraqi army and coalition
> operation in
> Nineveh province on December 26 were allegedly shot by an Iraqi
soldier,"
> the
> US military said in a statement on Saturday.
>
> Three other US soldiers and a civilian interpreter were wounded in the
> incident.
>
>
> The team had been setting up a combat outpost.
>
> "The Iraqi soldier who allegedly opened fire fled the scene but was
> identified
> by other Iraqi army personnel and was then apprehended" the military
> statement
> said.
>
> Two soldiers arrested
>
> Two Iraqi army soldiers are now being held in connection with the
> incident.
>
> The US military said it was not clear why the Iraqi soldier had opened
> fire,
> but two Iraqi generals told the Reuters news agency that the attacker
had
> links
> to Sunni Arab fighters.
>
> The patrol "was attacked by gunmen and the soldier abused the situation
> and
> killed the two soldiers. The soldier was an insurgent infiltrator,"
> Brigadier-
> General Mutaa al-Khazraji, commander of the Iraqi army's second
division,
> said.
>
> Brigadier-General Noor al-Din Hussein, commander of the Iraqi Army's
> fourth
> Brigade, second division, said that the Iraqi soldier had been in the
army
> for
> only one year and was an Arab from the Jubouri tribe.
>
> "There is some penetration [by insurgents] and we want to purify the
Iraqi
> army. Our soldiers are good and doing well. This is the first time
> something
> like this has happened," he said.
>
> In June 2004, two US soldiers were killed by Iraqi civil defence
officers
> patrolling with them. The Iraqi civil defence corps was created after
the
> US
> invasion in 2003 and was the forerunner of today's Iraqi army.
>
> Internet video
>
> The deaths come as a new video of the Baghdad sniper, also known as
Juba,
> was
> posted on the internet.
>
> The video appeared at the end of December and, like the first two films,
> is a
> compilation of footage showing US soldiers being shot dead by the
sniper.
>
> Juba is said to be from the Islamic Army in Iraq but he never appears in
> the
> videos.
>
> The commentary says it aims to tell "the truth to the American people"
> about
> their military losses in Iraq.
>
> Juba, a nom de guerre, first appeared on the internet in 2005 in a poor
> quality
> film. With his own internet site at www.baghdadsniper.net, Juba is one
of
> the
> most successful media outlets of those fighting against the US-led
forces
> in
> Iraq.
>
> Small arms casualties
>
> According to a tally by the independent website www.icasualties.org, 338
> US
> soldiers have been killed since the beginning of the war by "small arms
> fire" -
> eight per cent of total US casualties.
>
> At least 48 of them were shot by snipers.
>
> General Kevin Bergner, a US military spokesman, said that sniping "has
> been a
> threat to the security environment here for quite some time".
>
> "It is one we deal with on a recurring, routine basis.
>
> "It is one that we have periodically seen in greater numbers at times,
and
> obviously in those cir***stances we target our operations accordingly to
> counter that threat."
>
> Meanwhile a spate of roadside bombs on Saturday in Iraq's Diyala
province
> killed seven people, according to Iraqi officials.
>
>
>
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