Two F-18s crash in Iraq: 33 killed in fresh wave of violence

Two F-18s crash in Iraq: 33 killed in fresh wave of violence

RAMADI: At least 26 people including a group of Iraqi workers were killed as US forces clashed with insurgents on Monday and Tuesday, medics and the US military said.

Six people including a US soldier, one Bulgarian and four Iraqi officials died in other violence. One US Marine pilot was killed in a crash. Search teams have found the body of a US Marine pilot whose F-18 crashed in Iraq, but a second warplane is still missing, the US military said on Tuesday.

… One US soldier from the 1st Corps Support Command was killed and another injured by an improvised explosive device at the Baghdad International Airport on Monday, the US military said.

Fourteen Iraqi civilians were killed when US forces and Iraqi National Guardsmen battled insurgents Ramadi on Tuesday, a hospital official said.

… US forces killed 12 people and injured two others, including a six-year old girl, in a firefight and bombing close to the Syrian border on Monday, the US military said in a statement on Tuesday.

It said six soldiers of the US-led coalition in Iraq were injured in the fight against suspected members of Al Qaeda’s wing in Iraq, which is headed by Jordanian Abu Musab al-Zarqawi

… Three more people were killed by a coalition airstrike on the camp. An Iraqi government official was gunned down in Baghdad on Tuesday, while three policemen were killed in attacks north of the capital, security sources said.

… In Baghdad, a car bomb exploded near a police patrol in Gazaliya, wounding a policeman and a civilian, the official added.

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Whatever the Americans do to others it always comes back to them… isn’t this how the Americans backed the Mujahideen against the Soviets?

Re: Two F-18s crash in Iraq: 33 killed in fresh wave of violence

Your body count seems to be a little low. How about 67 dead Iraqis today. And not one of them killed by US troops.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Suicide bombers killed at least 67 Iraqis on Friday in escalating violence that has cast doubts over the new government’s ability to defeat insurgents.

** In the deadliest blast, a suicide car bomber struck a vegetable market in a southern Iraqi town, killing at least 58 people and wounding 44, police and hospital officials said. **

FULL STORY http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2005-05-06T172702Z_01_N0638422_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-IRAQ-DC.XML
A ** vegetable market ** for God’s sake. Undoubtedly some of those hungry Shia shoppers would one day apply for a job as a cop under the US puppet regime.