U.S. Jets Strike Targets in Central Iraq

[DUreader]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-3421862,00.html



BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - U.S. warplanes struck
targets in central Iraq on Sunday, witnesses
reported, and at least three people were wounded
when mortar shells hit an oil company compound
in the northern city of Kirkuk, officials said.

Jets bombed areas around the city of Samara,
about 75 miles north of Baghdad, according to
the witnesses. The U.S. military did not
immediately confirm the strikes.

Coalition aircraft and artillery have targeted
suspected rebel areas for the past two weeks as
part of their offensive against guerrillas in central
and northern Iraq.

In Kirkuk, 150 miles north of Baghdad, the
manager of the Iraqi Northern Oil Company said a
club inside the company compound was struck
overnight by mortar shells and that three
foreigners were hurt.

[leftchick]

1. More on the Oil company blast.....

<snip>
Elsewhere, three American civilian contractors were wounded in an explosion in the northern oil center Kirkuk. First reports said the blast was from a mortar, but Lt. Col. Matt Croke said officials later concluded it was a bomb.


.....gettting harder and harder to work in Iraq..

[leftchick]

2. we will never know just how much "colateral damage" occurs

from these useless show of force bombings. Here is just one:

<snip>In Samara, about 75 miles north of Baghdad, Iraqi police said six U.S. Apache helicopter gunships blasted marshland after four rocket-propelled grenades were fired at the American military garrison at the northern entrance to the city. One Iraqi passer-by was killed in the air attack.

[Malva Zebrina]

3. targeted "suspected" rebel areas?

what is a suspected rebel area? and if it was a bomb, homemade device, how can jets bombing "suspected" rebel areas do anything?

How many more children did Bush kill today as suspected rebels?

This :


all done with Bush's lies

May he never sleep another wink without seeing this image flashing before him over and over.

[pansypoo53219]

4. unfortunately

the chimponly LOOKS at the pretty bomb explosions and the 'fireworks' of war.
i doubt he even knows how many of ours have died. Nothing but a fucking bubble boy.

[4dsc]

5. Warplanes against a guerrilla force

will never succeed.

What does this administration think its doing useing large aircraft against an enemy it cannot see?? DO they believe the unsurgents will quit because we are using the BIG GUNS now??

[Barrett808]

6. "U.S. soldiers stunned by the explosion opened fire in all directions"

Buried in the very last paragraph:

Also Saturday, a remotely detonated bomb hidden in a juice cart exploded near an American convoy in the northern city of Mosul, police and witnesses said.

No Americans were injured, but two Iraqis were hurt when, according to police, U.S. soldiers stunned by the explosion opened fire in all directions. The U.S. military said it was investigating.