Gunmen who killed 5 GIs were disguised

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The gunmen who killed five U.S. troops in the Shiite holy city of Karbala wore military uniforms and used vehicles commonly driven by foreign dignitaries — an apparent attempt to impersonate Americans, Iraqi officials said Sunday.

The local governor said the gunmen stormed into the provincial headquarters building during a U.S.-Iraqi meeting to discuss security measures ahead of the Shiite Ashoura festival.

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In Karbala, provincial Gov. Akeel al-Khazaali, who was not at the security meeting, said the SUVs were able to get through a checkpoint on the outskirts of the city, 50 miles south of Baghdad, because police assumed it was a diplomatic convoy and informed headquarters that it was coming.

"The group used percussion bombs and broke into the building, killed five Americans and kidnapped two others, then fled," the governor said, adding that Iraqi troops later found one of the SUVs with three bodies dressed in military uniforms.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070121/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

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[madokie]

3. yes tell me more

[leftchick]

5. The US occupiers are denying it

probably until after the asshat speaks on Tuesday.

[Doctor_J]

2. It's getting more like Nam every day

there is no way for our soldiers to distinguish the enemy from the ones on our side. This war is a loser.

[madokie]

4. we knew that from the get go

we are fighting an idealogical war in the worst imaginable way one can be fought. We're stealing the Iraqi oil is what is happening. maybe not yet but that is the intent, methinks

[dipsydoodle]

6. What a truly dastardly trick

to pull against an occupying force.:sarcasm: