Six Marines Killed in Bomb Attacks in Iraq (this article one as i demonstrate U.S. Department of propaganda and news manipulation does its best to distract from marines getting killed. This article was the headline in my highlight on My Yahoo! only to be replaced by the 2nd article post about 29 insurgents killed in Iraq by U.S.Marines. So within a very short time U.S. Press Release distribution center hit wires with an antidote to news they don't like on the headline internet boards, etc. Do i really think they do stuff like this? ABSOLUTELY, it isn't even a secret that we have people monitoring the news constantly and use both misinformation and fogging press releases or whatever in the government's relentless crusade to keep americans in status of "manipulate AT ALL COSTS".
<<Six Marines Killed in Bomb Attacks in Iraq By ROBERT F. WORTH and KATRIN BENNHOLD Published: October 7, 2005
Four of the marines died from an explosion during combat operations near the embattled city of Falluja, a statement said. The other two were killed the same day while patrolling near al Qaim by the Syrian border.
The latest deaths bring the number of American soldiers killed in Iraq to 1,950, according to a count by The Associated Press.
Eight days before Iraqis will vote on their draft charter, additional violence has flared up across Iraq. Sunni leaders are opposed to the constitution and Sunni-led insurgents have vowed to disrupt the voting. Over the past two weeks more than 290 people have been killed in bombings and shootings across the country, according to The A.P.
Coalition forces have stepped up their efforts to clamp down on insurgents, notably by launching operations near the Syrian border aimed at stopping foreign militants from coming into Iraq. Since the beginning of the week, coalition forces have arrested 48 terror suspects and seized weapons caches in a series of operations in northern Iraq, the military also said today.
Elsewhere, British forces arrested 12 Iraqis with suspected militant links in overnight raids in the southern city of Basra following a recent spate of attacks in the south.
Some of the detained men are members of the local police, according to Brig. John Lorimer, commander of the 12th Mechanized Brigade in Basra. Following their arrest, cooperation between British troops and the police has been suspended, Brigadier Lorimer said.
"It is very concerning to us that members of Basra Police are involved in terrorism," he said in a statement. "I very much hope that full cooperation will be resumed as soon as possible."
Brigadier Lorimer said eight British soldiers and six coalition members had been killed in attacks in the British-controlled Basra province over the past two months.
"This terrorism must be stopped," his statement said.
In the two years since the American-led invasion of Iraq the Shiite south has been relatively calm compared to the Sunni-dominated areas near Baghdad. But recently the number of insurgent attacks has increased, and tensions between coalition forces and the police have been riding high. Last month, British soldiers stormed a police station to free two of its soldiers, sparking angry demonstrations.
The number of violent incidents has multiplied in recent days.
On Thursday, a man wearing an explosive belt boarded a public minibus near Iraq's police academy in northern Baghdad and blew himself up, killing 10 passengers and wounding 11.
On Wednesday, a huge bomb outside a Shiite mosque killed 25 people in Hilla, south of Baghdad, the capital, as Shiites began celebrating the holy month of Ramadan. Insurgents have said they intend to step up attacks during Ramadan, and they are aiming to terrorize would-be voters before the nationwide referendum on Iraq's constitution on Oct. 15.
American forces carried out airstrikes in two areas near the Syrian border on Wednesday, killing at least 29 insurgents in a series of battles, military officials said. The river corridor has been a crucial route for insurgents smuggling weapons and foreign fighters from Syria to Iraq's major cities.
A central part of the American effort in Iraq has been training Iraqis to take responsibility for the country's security, and on Thursday Iraq's Sixth Army Division formally took control of four districts in northern and western Baghdad from the American Third Infantry Division. The number of Iraqi Army units working in the capital has sharply risen over the past year, though American commanders say the readiness of the units varies widely.
The bus bombing in Baghdad was one of several attacks across Iraq on Thursday. Another suicide bomber, this one in a car, struck at an American patrol in Baghdad, injuring eight civilians, Interior Ministry officials said. American officials did not report any casualties in the bombing.
In northern Baghdad, an American soldier was killed when his patrol struck a roadside bomb while conducting combat operations, military officials said.
North of the capital, insurgents attacked an Oil Ministry convoy, killing five officers and wounding four in a gun battle that lasted several hours, police officials said. The battle began when a roadside bomb exploded near the convoy in the Adeem district. Gunmen then fired on the police officers guarding the convoy, who ultimately fled in the face of the attackers' superior firepower.
The Kirkuk police said Thursday that masked assassins with silencers on their guns had killed Brig. Nabiel Sharaf Aldeen, a retired police official, on Wednesday night. Brigadier Aldeen's 2-year-old daughter was also killed, and his wife was wounded, police officials said.
A spokesman for the governor of Basra, Muhammad al-Waeli, said Thursday that the governor was still refusing to work with British forces in the city until they apologized for an incident two weeks ago in which a British tank crashed through the outer wall of an Iraqi police station in an effort to free two British officers being held nearby.
The governor has instructed all government officials not to work with the British, or even to speak to British officials by phone, the spokesman said.
The rescue effort two weeks ago became a diplomatic embarrassment for the British government. British forces raided the police station after hearing that the officers had been handed over to a hostile militia. Iraqi officials have denied that the transfer took place, and the incident has undermined British relations with the Iraqi authorities in Basra.
Sahar Najeeb and Ali Adeeb contributed reporting from Baghdad for this article,and an Iraqi employee of The New York Times, whose name has been withheld for security reasons, from Kirkuk.
Robert F. Worth reported from Baghdad for this article and Katrin Bennhold from New York.>> *************************************************************
<<US says 29 insurgents killed in west Iraq fighting 07 Oct 2005 09:36:38 GMT
Source: Reuters
By Andrew Quinn
BAGHDAD, Oct 7 (Reuters) - U.S. troops have killed at least 29 insurgents in western Iraq in their drive to root out militants waging a bloody struggle to topple the U.S.-backed Baghdad government, the military said on Friday.
About 1,000 U.S. Marines and other combat units moved into western regions of al Anbar province on the Syrian border a week ago in "Operation Iron Fist", which U.S. commanders said aimed to stop the flow of arms and foreign fighters into Iraq.
The military said at least 20 insurgents had been confirmed killed on Wednesday when U.S. aircraft bombed a three-storey hotel in the town of Husayba.
U.S. tanks killed two more gunmen in the nearby town of Karabila after moving in to support forces who had come under small arms fire. A further seven insurgents were shot dead east of the town the same day in a gunfight with U.S. marines, a military statement said.
The operation "aims to deny al Qaeda in Iraq terrorists the ability to operate freely in the Euphrates River Valley and to prevent the terrorists from influencing the local population through murder and intimidation," the statement said.
U.S. officials say the western Iraq campaign will continue at least through December, seeking to turn back a rising tide of insurgent violence before an Oct. 15 referendum on a new constitution and a vote in December for a new parliament.
The two polls, and the expected start this month of the trial of Saddam Hussein, have inflamed tensions within Iraq's Sunni Arab minority, which fears its former influence will be permanently lost to majority Shi'ites and their Kurdish allies.
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U.S. and Iraqi officials say the domestic insurgency has been augmented by foreign Islamist groups such as al Qaeda in Iraq -- one of the most feared -- which have sent fighters to the country to take on U.S. forces.
Hospital sources in the region say a number of civilians have been hurt in the fighting, which has seen U.S. troops backed by fighter aircraft pound local towns and villages thought to be insurgent strongholds.
Washington and Baghdad see the stretch of the Euphrates valley running from the Syrian border to the town of Ramadi, 110 km (70 miles) west of Baghdad, as the main entry route for arms and insurgents. Syria denies being used as a transit point.
About 4,800 U.S. forces and 4,200 Iraqi troops are engaged in campaigns throughout the Euphrates valley. Friday's U.S. statement gave no details of U.S. casualties in the operations.
In a separate statement, the military said in one wing of the campaign, dubbed "River Gate", U.S. Marines and Iraqi soldiers escaped injury when they were attacked by a roadside bomb wired from a nearby mosque in the central town of Haditha.
"Iraqi soldiers and Marines discovered the initiating device for the explosive inside the mosque. In addition, numerous artillery rounds, pre-wired and ready to use as roadside bombs, were hidden on the mosque grounds," the statement said.
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