Five US soldiers killed in Iraq - 4 today

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.khaleejtimes.ae/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/focusoniraq/2007/August/focusoniraq_August34.xml§ion=focusoniraq&col=

6 August 2007

BAGHDAD - Five American soldiers have died in Iraq, four of whom were killed on Monday in the flashpoint city of Baquba in the troubled province of Diyala, the US military announced.

“Four US soldiers were killed today in Baquba. There were also 12 soldiers injured,” a military spokesman told AFP in an email following a query about a single attack in the restive town north of Baghdad.

Thousands of US and Iraqi forces have been pressing a massive assault in Diyala, one of the country’s deadliest regions, and its provincial capital Baquba since June in a bid to flush out Al Qaeda-linked militants.

US forces claim to have killed and captured dozens of militants, but senior commanders have said that most of the top Al Qaeda leaders in the area fled before the assault began.

[Swede]

1. This will go on,until the USA vacates Iraq.

It will fluctuate,but it will not end.

[acmavm]

2. This war and the dead used to belong to the republicans.

Now they belong to both parties.

Shame on those who enable the bush** administration!

[Bonobo]

3. Hey! Freedom isn't free! And we just got freeer by 5!

[The_Casual_Observer]

4. "troubled province of Diyala"

According to those nit-wit gop debate assholes, the surge is "working"