Smooth!!!!
"Rockets strike complex near Iraq airport; at least 5 killed"
"by Kim Gamel, Associated Press | February 19, 2008
BAGHDAD - Rockets slammed into an Iraqi housing complex near the Baghdad international airport and a nearby US military base yesterday, killing at least five people and wounding 16, including two US soldiers, officials said.
I thought Baghdad was secure because of the surge?
WTF?
American troops arrested six Iraqi suspects near the apparent launching sites, a military official said.
The brazen attack followed a weekend in which US and Iraqi officials touted the security gains of a year-old operation in Baghdad that included an influx of some 30,000 extra American troops. Rocket and mortar attacks were once a daily occurrence but have tapered off with a general decline in violence in the capital.
Twelve 107 mm rockets fell in and around the airport and the nearby Camp Victory, the main US military base on the western outskirts of Baghdad, the US military official said, speaking on condition of anonymity ahead of the official release of the information.
He said that Camp Victory was hit and two soldiers suffered light injuries but that most of the casualties were in a housing complex for airport employees, about half a mile from the airport.
Five Iraqis were killed and 14 wounded, including children who were taken to a nearby US medical facility, the official said.
Yeah, we are so nice even though there are 1.2 million Iraqis dead since the invasion, mainly due to the U.S. military's 75 air raids a day, and the five-fold increase in air bombings.
Also see: Story Iraq: MSM Lied About Death Tolls
Memory Hole: 600,000 DEAD!
Occupation Iraq: One Million Dead Iraqis
The US military did not respond with fire but sent a team in the direction of the launching sites, arresting six people in the area, the official said. One unexploded rocket also was recovered, according to the military.
Residents in the housing complex said it includes 250 to 300 trailers primarily occupied by airport employees. They said two trailers were destroyed in the attack.
"One of these two families lost four of its sons, three of them were buried under the debris," one resident said, adding that those killed were between 10 and 20 years old.
Iraqi police earlier reported that six to 13 rockets also struck the US-protected Green Zone yesterday afternoon, but the US military official denied that report.
WTF?
Baghdad under rocket attacks?
That damn AmeriKan MSM LYING about the "SURGE SUCCESS!"
They have LIED ABOUT IRAQ from the start!
In other violence, a roadside bombing in the northwestern city of Mosul killed three civilians and wounded four others, police said. The US military has described Mosul as the last major urban stronghold of Al Qaeda in Iraq.
Earlier yesterday, US troops captured a Shi'ite militia leader suspected of being a powerful criminal boss and providing Iranian weapons to fighters in western Baghdad, the military said.
The arrest occurred a day after a US military spokesman said that in the past week, Iraqi and US forces had captured 212 weapons caches around the country, with growing evidence of an Iranian link. "This is a significant capture of a top special groups leader," said Navy Captain Vic Beck, a military spokesman.
Oh, here you go again today.
Let's SHIFT that JUSTIFICATION for OCCUPATION, shall we?
"Special groups" is a term the United States uses to describe Iranian-backed Shi'ite militias that it says have broken with cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and refuse to follow his cease-fire order, which expires at the end of the month."
