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Matek
Because those are young kids, most of whom are
blacks who refused to go to school and decided to go to the army for it is fun.
Why can't we waste them if it will mean our getting gas to drive our
SUV's?
Em
The
Mulindwas Communication Group
"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in
anarchy"
Groupe de communication Mulindwas
"avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans
l'anarchie"
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Sent: Saturday, July 26, 2003 9:17
PM
Subject: Re: [Ugandacom] THE NUMBERS ARE
STILL COMMING IN
ED
I hear there are two of dictator Saddam Hussien
Republican Guard division which simply melted away in
Iraq!!! This fellow did not even fight....They simply disappeared!
If I were Rummy ( US Secretary of Defense
Donald Ramfield) I would be worried sick as to what this two Iraq Army
divisions are up too.
But then our friend Rummy is not concerned about
such trivial issues. So do the policy makers in Washington led by GW B
.
The question still remained: why should young American
GI's die to defence America's insatiable appetite for
Oil....
Matek
In a message dated 7/26/2003
8:40:38 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Four U.S. Soldiers Die in Iraq Attacks
1 hour, 12 minutes
ago
By MATT MOORE, Associated Press Writer
BAGHDAD,
Iraq - A grenade attack Saturday killed three U.S. soldiers and wounded four
as they guarded a children's hospital northeast of Baghdad, scuttling hopes
a widespread guerrilla insurgency might lose strength after the deaths of
Saddam Hussein (news
- web
sites)'s elder sons.
Another U.S. soldier died and two others
were wounded later in the afternoon when their convoy was attacked west of
Baghdad near the Abu Ghraib prison.
In Mosul, engineers with
the 101st Airborne Division tore down the badly damaged villa where Odai and
Qusai Hussein were killed Tuesday in a four-hour gunbattle with U.S. forces.
The home belonged to Sheik Nawaf al-Zaydan Muhhamad, a
regional tribal leader and Saddam cousin who neighbors said tipped American
troops that the Hussein brothers were at his house.
The U.S.
occupation administration had offered $15 million each for information
leading to Saddam's wanted sons and $25 million for Saddam. It was believed,
although not confirmed by occupation military commanders, that Muhhamad was
in protective custody.
Since the killings of Odai and Qusai,
the U.S. military said more Iraqi informants have been coming forward with
tips. And with the arrest Friday of some of Saddam's bodyguards in Tikrit,
his hometown and powerbase, American forces say they are closing in on the
deposed dictator.
The soldiers killed outside the hospital
Saturday morning were part of the 4th Infantry Division, which came under
grenade attack in Baqouba, 45 miles northeast of Baghdad. Witnesses told an
Associated Press photographer that the soldiers were guarding the hospital
because some of their wounded comrades were being treated there.
Maj. William Thurmond, a coalition military spokesman, said
three of the injured soldiers were treated and returned to their unit, the
fourth was evacuated to a military hospital.
In the second
attack, about two hours later, an engineer unit attached to the 3rd Infantry
Division was attacked with small arms and rocket propelled grenades, the
U.S. military said. Two soldiers were evacuated to a combat hospital, where
one died. A third was treated at the scene and returned to duty.
The deaths brought to 162 the number of troops killed in
action since the start of the war, 15 more than in the 1991 Gulf War (news
- web
sites). The guerrilla attacks on American forces have averaged 12 a day,
according to the military.
In Baghdad, the commander of Iraq
(news
- web
sites)'s national police academy was wounded while leading a raid
against suspected hijackers, police told AP.
Brig. Ahmed
Kadhim, 56, was shot in the leg around 1 a.m. while police were trying to
arrest five suspected carjackers, said his assistant, Capt. Mushtak Fadhil.
Five other police were wounded, one critically, and five men were arrested.
The violence marred an otherwise quiet day as Iraqi
civilians continued to debate the authenticity of video images of the bodies
of Odai, 39, and Qusai, 37.
The video was shot by
journalists who viewed the autopsied bodies Friday, part of a U.S. military
effort to convince Iraqi people that the brothers — two of the most feared
men in the ousted regime, second only to Saddam — were really dead.
The video appeared to have been more believable than still
photographs published Thursday of the brothers shortly after being killed.
The photos showed only their heads and shoulders, their faces obscured by
heavy beards, blood and gashes; the video showed the entire bodies, the
faces shaved and reconstructed to appear lifelike.
"When I
saw them on TV, I was sorry. I hoped that they hadn't died too quickly,"
said Yassir Hussain, 45, a day laborer. "Odai took my innocent cousin to
prison in 1984. Since then we haven't heard anything about him."
Others said they looked forward to seeing the body of
Saddam.
"We were very happy to see their
dead bodies on TV, and by the will of God we will see their father's corpse
on TV soon," said Halla Karim Numan, a 35-year-old homemaker.
The
display appeared to be a calculated gamble by coalition authorities, who may
have produced more convincing evidence but also offended Muslims in Iraq and
elsewhere by altering the bodies and delaying burial.
Baghdad
erupted in celebratory gunfire after news of the brothers' death was
reported. The Al-Mutamar newspaper reported Saturday that the bullets
falling to the ground killed 31 Iraqis and injured 76 others, though the
report could not be confirmed.
Results of the DNA testing on the
bodies of Odai and Qusai at a military lab in Washington could be completed
by next week. A final report on the deaths is expected in about six weeks,
the medical personnel said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Also
Saturday, aides to two members of Iraq's American-picked Governing Council
said the group would name cabinet ministers and set up a committee to start
drafting a constitution within two weeks. Both spoke on condition of
anonymity.
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