AP: 3 Killed in Second Bomb Attack in Iraq (also 2 US soldiers killed in Baghdad)

[Eugene]

3 Killed in Second Bomb Attack in Iraq

BY QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA

BAGHDAD, Iraq Oct 31, 2006 (AP)— A car bomb killed three people and wounded
five others in Baghdad's Sadr City section early Tuesday, a day after a bombing
killed at least 33 people in the overwhelmingly Shiite neighborhood.

The U.S. military announced the deaths of two soldiers, raising the number
of U.S. troops killed in Iraq fighting this month to 103.

-snip-

(regarding security cordon around Sadr City)

In a statement addressed to local supporters on Monday, al-Sadr warned of
unspecified action if the military's "siege" continues. He also criticized
what he called the silence of politicians over actions by the U.S. military
in the district on Baghdad's northeastern edge, which is home to about 2.5
million people.

-snip-

One Baghdad-based soldier was killed at about 5:00 p.m. on Monday after being
hit by small arms fire in a western district of the capital. A second Baghdad-
based soldier was killed at around 5:30 p.m. when the vehicle he was riding
in was struck by a roadside bomb just south of Baghdad, the military said
in a brief statement.

-snip-

Full article: http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=2617603

[democrank]

1. How can there be a single American

still cheering for this war?

[acmavm]

2. I have absolutely no idea. This attack on al Sadr's territory makes me

wonder who's behind the power play? Just the American idiot generals? Is the Iraqi government trying to undercut him because he's so powerful? Another sect? al Maliki think that al Sadr alive and breathing may be hazardous for HIS health?

Every ignorant, stupid, bloody move over there has hidden motives and consequences. And then there's Camp Falcon. How many died?

[Eugene]

3. Reuters: Iraq's PM orders checkpoints lifted in Sadr City

Iraq's PM orders checkpoints lifted in Sadr City
31 Oct 2006 10:44:03 GMT
Source: Reuters

BAGHDAD, Oct 31 (Reuters) - Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al- Maliki on Tuesday
ordered that all checkpoints in Baghdad's Shi'ite stronghold of Sadr City and
other parts of the capital be lifted to allow traffic to flow.

Iraqi and U.S. troops have for the past week been manning checkpoints and
mounting raids in Sadr City, home of the feared Mehdi Army militia of radical
Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, in the hunt for a U.S. soldier of Iraqi origin
who was abducted in central Baghdad last Monday.

Maliki had given the order "to lift all barriers and checkpoints to open roads
and ease traffic in Sadr City and other districts of Baghdad", a statement from
Maliki's office said. U.S. Lieutenant Colonel Christopher Garver told Reuters he
was unaware of the order.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IBO138402.htm