America, when are you finally going to smell the steaming stench of the BULLSHIT?!!!
"US raid kills 5 militants in Iraq; Air strike targets suspected house of foreign fighters" by Robert H. Reid, Associated Press | June 10, 2008
BAGHDAD - American soldiers called in an air strike yesterday during an attack on a house believed used by foreign fighters, killing five militants and capturing more than a dozen others, the US military said.
The firefight broke out early yesterday when American soldiers, acting on information from an Iraqi prisoner, came under heavy gunfire as they approached the suspected hideout in a remote area of northwestern Iraq, the military said in a statement.
Soldiers called in an air strike, which destroyed the house, triggering secondary explosions from the weapons and explosives stored inside, the statement said.
Five men were confirmed dead, and multiple suicide vests and heavy machine guns were found in the ruins of their hideout, it said.
The statement did not give a precise location for the raid. But northwestern Iraq has long been used by Al Qaeda and other Sunni militant groups as an infiltration route for smuggling weapons and fighters into the country from Syria, according to the military.
Yesterday's battle was among a series of raids over the past two days in northern Iraq against Sunni militants, who remain active despite suffering severe setbacks last year in fighting with US and Iraqi forces in Baghdad.
In Beiji, an industrial city about 150 miles north of Baghdad, American soldiers detained five suspects yesterday in an operation against a militant bombing network.
An alleged Al Qaeda in Iraq bomber was captured with another suspect in Mosul, and five others were arrested south of the city, the military said.
The Al Qaeda in Iraq "emir" of Tikrit, a Sunni Arab city north of the Iraqi capital, was arrested late Sunday along with three other suspects, the statement said. Two other Al Qaeda suspects were picked up in Baghdad.
US officials have said Al Qaeda and other Sunni groups have been trying to undermine efforts to reconcile Shi'ite, Sunni, and Kurdish communities in the north and pressure Sunni tribesmen against cooperating with the Shi'ite-led government in Baghdad...."
That's all I can stand; the stench is overwhelming me.
