Guerrillas kill two in Iraq

Reuters Mon 8 December, 2003 15:47

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A U.S. soldier and a policeman were killed in separate attacks in Iraq as the continuing violence prompted dozens of South Korean contractors to pull out of the country and Bangladesh to close its embassy.

Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt, spokesman for the U.S. Army in Iraq, said the soldier from the 101st Airborne Division was killed in a drive-by shooting in the northern city of Mosul, which has seen an upsurge in attacks on American troops. "There was a drive-by shooting by four Iraqis. They shot and killed him," Kimmitt told a news conference on Monday.

The shooting brought to 308 the number of U.S. soldiers killed in action in Iraq since they invaded in March, including 193 killed since major combat was declared over on May 1.

On Sunday, a roadside bomb blast in Mosul killed one U.S. soldier and wounded two. Last month guerrillas mortared the headquarters of the 101st Airborne, killing one soldier.

In Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad, a police bomb disposal expert was killed when a tank round planted on a busy street was detonated by remote control, a U.S. military commander in the city said.

Iraqi police and others seen to be working or cooperating with U.S. and allied authorities are increasingly the target of attacks. Last month 17 policemen were killed in twin bomb blasts in and near Baquba.

Earlier on Monday, a group of South Korean electrical workers left Baghdad for Jordan following the killing of two of their colleagues by guerrillas late last month. More than 40 contractors working for South Korea's Ohmu Electric Co Ltd on a project to rebuild Iraq's power infrastructure have left in the past two days, the latest blow to U.S.-led efforts to reconstruct the country.

Bangladesh said it had closed its embassy in Baghdad and evacuated its diplomats to neighbouring Jordan after an e-mail threat to blow up the mission.

Burp.

Nice photoshop, moonbat.

Grow up.

Yeah, but at least the dead soldier and his family and friends had the satisfaction of knowing that he died in a great cause - making safe the super profits of the oil companies and making Israel safe from crazed fanatics with their wild plans of taking back their own land.

As pithy and deep as usual, Meyer.

The individuals who are cowardly murdering American soldiers and Western diplomats and aid workers are indeed attempting to take back their own land.

They are the paid butchers and sadists of the fascist Ba'athist state, and they know that they have no future in an Iraq which is Democratic and free. Heavy will be the penalty for Saddam's henchmen under a new Iraqi regime when the trials for mass rape, torture, and murder begin - so they play the only card they have- terrorist bombings and ambushes designed to weaken the resolve of the West to stay and finish the job of reconstruction and stabilization.

But of course Meyer supports these animals because in his self-loathing he will identify with anyone - no matter how depraved - who opposes the West and the United States.

You are an apologist for genocide, and a creature of low intellect and lower morals. You would abandon the Iraqi people to slaughter and fascist slavery and you wish for the death of American soldiers. You are the lowest of cowards and traitorous dogs, Meyer.