Jan 10, 2005
Insurgents Using Bigger Bombs; Zarqawi Group Claims Killing of Deputy Baghdad Police Chief
By Nick Wadhams
Associated Press Writer
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - A roadside bomb destroyed a second heavily armored Bradley Fighting Vehicle in less than a week Monday, killing two U.S. soldiers, wounding four others and indicating that insurgents have increased the power of the explosives they are using against American troops.
The blast came hours after gunmen in a passing car assassinated Baghdad's deputy police chief and his son while they drove to work, part of a campaign to target Iraq's security forces. Al-Qaida in Iraq, the group led by Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, claimed responsibility.
American officials have cautioned that insurgents will escalate attacks in a bid to scuttle Jan. 30 elections. After a roadside bomb struck a Bradley on Thursday and killed seven soldiers, the Defense Department warned that militants were increasing the size and power of their bombs.
The attack Monday on a Bradley in southwest Baghdad followed the same pattern.
"It's fair to say that they are afraid of the elections, they are afraid of what the outcome will be and they want to do everything they can to derail that process because that's just one more step toward their demise," U.S. military spokesman Lt. Col. James Hutton said. "This is probably an indication of their increase in effort and investment to derail the vote."
The attack was one of several acts of major violence Monday.
A suicide attacker detonated a bomb in a fake police car at a police station courtyard in Baghdad, killing at least four officers and wounding 10 during a shift change, police and witnesses said.
A roadside bombing killed three Iraqi National Guard soldiers and wounded six during a joint patrol with U.S. troops in the restive northern city of Mosul, said Maj. Andre Hance, a U.S. military spokesman. He said there were no American casualties.
In a suggestion that the insurgents were looking for new ways to intimidate voters, a militant group posted threats in at least two towns warning it would deploy "highly trained" snipers to target voters around Iraq during the elections.
The statement, signed by the previously unknown Secret Republican Army, said 32 snipers will stalk voters outside polling in Wasit, a largely Shiite province south of Baghdad that includes Kut, Numaniyah and Suwaiyra. It did not say how many would be sent elsewhere.
Sheik Fassal Raikan al-Gout, the governor of Anbar province, said he was aware of the circulated posters but dismissed their importance.
"We do not care about such statements," he said. "We will continue to do our best and what we see fit to maintain security."
A number of election officials and government leaders have already fallen victim to brutal terror attacks, and many have received death threats. The most prominent victim in recent weeks was the governor of Baghdad, Ali al-Haidari, who was slain with six bodyguards on Jan. 4.
On Monday, attackers shot and killed Baghdad's deputy police chief, Brig. Amer Ali Nayef, and his son, Lt. Khalid Amer, also a police officer. They were slain in Baghdad's Dora district while traveling in a car on their way to work, Interior Ministry spokesman Capt. Ahmed Ismail said.
Gunmen sprayed machine-gun fire from two cars driving parallel with the police chief's vehicle close to his home before fleeing, police said. The two were alone in the car.
Al-Qaida in Iraq claimed responsibility for the Baghdad assassinations in a statement posted on the Internet, describing Nayef and Amer as foreign "agents." The statement warned that other Iraqis cooperating with the U.S.-led military would meet the same fate.
The authenticity of the statement could not be verified, but the Web site has been used by militant groups in the past to claim responsibility for and show videos of attacks in Iraq.
The government sought to strike back against the insurgents with its own media campaign Monday. Interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi said authorities have captured 147 suspected insurgents in Iraq, including the new leader of an insurgent group.
Allawi identified the man as Raad al-Doury, who just days earlier had taken over the top post of Jaish Muhammad - Arabic for Muhammad's Army - from a man detained in November. Allawi has accused Jaish Muhammad of killing and beheading a number of Iraqis, Arabs and foreigners in Iraq.
"Every day the terrorists name a new leader we capture him and they will stand trial," Allawi said.
Soon after, the Al-Arabiya television station showed footage of four Iraqis confessing that they had carried out killings and beheadings of Iraqi intellectuals as well as members of Iraq's security. The four said they were forced to do the job or otherwise get killed.
One said he kept refusing to work with insurgents until "they tried to assassinate me more than once."
In other developments Monday:
- The U.S. military said its forces accidentally killed a 13-year-old Iraqi girl and wounded a 14-year-old boy near Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad.
- A roadside bomb attack in Samarra hit a joint U.S.-Iraqi patrol, killing two Iraqi soldiers and wounding one Iraqi soldier and two Americans.
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Associated Press writers Rawya Rageh and Bassem Mroue contributed to this story from Baghdad.
AP-ES-01-10-05 1554EST
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Jan 10, 2005
Insurgents Using Bigger Bombs; Zarqawi Group Claims Killing of Deputy Baghdad Police Chief
By Nick Wadhams
Associated Press Writer
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - A roadside bomb destroyed a second heavily armored Bradley Fighting Vehicle in less than a week Monday, killing two U.S. soldiers, wounding four others and indicating that insurgents have increased the power of the explosives they are using against American troops.
The blast came hours after gunmen in a passing car assassinated Baghdad's deputy police chief and his son while they drove to work, part of a campaign to target Iraq's security forces. Al-Qaida in Iraq, the group led by Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, claimed responsibility.
American officials have cautioned that insurgents will escalate attacks in a bid to scuttle Jan. 30 elections. After a roadside bomb struck a Bradley on Thursday and killed seven soldiers, the Defense Department warned that militants were increasing the size and power of their bombs.
The attack Monday on a Bradley in southwest Baghdad followed the same pattern.
"It's fair to say that they are afraid of the elections, they are afraid of what the outcome will be and they want to do everything they can to derail that process because that's just one more step toward their demise," U.S. military spokesman Lt. Col. James Hutton said. "This is probably an indication of their increase in effort and investment to derail the vote."
The attack was one of several acts of major violence Monday.
A suicide attacker detonated a bomb in a fake police car at a police station courtyard in Baghdad, killing at least four officers and wounding 10 during a shift change, police and witnesses said.
A roadside bombing killed three Iraqi National Guard soldiers and wounded six during a joint patrol with U.S. troops in the restive northern city of Mosul, said Maj. Andre Hance, a U.S. military spokesman. He said there were no American casualties.
In a suggestion that the insurgents were looking for new ways to intimidate voters, a militant group posted threats in at least two towns warning it would deploy "highly trained" snipers to target voters around Iraq during the elections.
The statement, signed by the previously unknown Secret Republican Army, said 32 snipers will stalk voters outside polling in Wasit, a largely Shiite province south of Baghdad that includes Kut, Numaniyah and Suwaiyra. It did not say how many would be sent elsewhere.
Sheik Fassal Raikan al-Gout, the governor of Anbar province, said he was aware of the circulated posters but dismissed their importance.
"We do not care about such statements," he said. "We will continue to do our best and what we see fit to maintain security."
A number of election officials and government leaders have already fallen victim to brutal terror attacks, and many have received death threats. The most prominent victim in recent weeks was the governor of Baghdad, Ali al-Haidari, who was slain with six bodyguards on Jan. 4.
On Monday, attackers shot and killed Baghdad's deputy police chief, Brig. Amer Ali Nayef, and his son, Lt. Khalid Amer, also a police officer. They were slain in Baghdad's Dora district while traveling in a car on their way to work, Interior Ministry spokesman Capt. Ahmed Ismail said.
Gunmen sprayed machine-gun fire from two cars driving parallel with the police chief's vehicle close to his home before fleeing, police said. The two were alone in the car.
Al-Qaida in Iraq claimed responsibility for the Baghdad assassinations in a statement posted on the Internet, describing Nayef and Amer as foreign "agents." The statement warned that other Iraqis cooperating with the U.S.-led military would meet the same fate.
The authenticity of the statement could not be verified, but the Web site has been used by militant groups in the past to claim responsibility for and show videos of attacks in Iraq.
The government sought to strike back against the insurgents with its own media campaign Monday. Interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi said authorities have captured 147 suspected insurgents in Iraq, including the new leader of an insurgent group.
Allawi identified the man as Raad al-Doury, who just days earlier had taken over the top post of Jaish Muhammad - Arabic for Muhammad's Army - from a man detained in November. Allawi has accused Jaish Muhammad of killing and beheading a number of Iraqis, Arabs and foreigners in Iraq.
"Every day the terrorists name a new leader we capture him and they will stand trial," Allawi said.
Soon after, the Al-Arabiya television station showed footage of four Iraqis confessing that they had carried out killings and beheadings of Iraqi intellectuals as well as members of Iraq's security. The four said they were forced to do the job or otherwise get killed.
One said he kept refusing to work with insurgents until "they tried to assassinate me more than once."
In other developments Monday:
- The U.S. military said its forces accidentally killed a 13-year-old Iraqi girl and wounded a 14-year-old boy near Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad.
- A roadside bomb attack in Samarra hit a joint U.S.-Iraqi patrol, killing two Iraqi soldiers and wounding one Iraqi soldier and two Americans.
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Associated Press writers Rawya Rageh and Bassem Mroue contributed to this story from Baghdad.
AP-ES-01-10-05 1554EST
This story can be found at: http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBDW7X4T3E.html
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Insurgents Using Bigger Bombs; Zarqawi Group Claims Killing of Deputy Baghdad Police Chief
By Nick Wadhams
Associated Press Writer
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - A roadside bomb destroyed a second heavily armored Bradley Fighting Vehicle in less than a week Monday, killing two U.S. soldiers, wounding four others and indicating that insurgents have increased the power of the explosives they are using against American troops.
The blast came hours after gunmen in a passing car assassinated Baghdad's deputy police chief and his son while they drove to work, part of a campaign to target Iraq's security forces. Al-Qaida in Iraq, the group led by Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, claimed responsibility.
American officials have cautioned that insurgents will escalate attacks in a bid to scuttle Jan. 30 elections. After a roadside bomb struck a Bradley on Thursday and killed seven soldiers, the Defense Department warned that militants were increasing the size and power of their bombs.
The attack Monday on a Bradley in southwest Baghdad followed the same pattern.
"It's fair to say that they are afraid of the elections, they are afraid of what the outcome will be and they want to do everything they can to derail that process because that's just one more step toward their demise," U.S. military spokesman Lt. Col. James Hutton said. "This is probably an indication of their increase in effort and investment to derail the vote."
The attack was one of several acts of major violence Monday.
A suicide attacker detonated a bomb in a fake police car at a police station courtyard in Baghdad, killing at least four officers and wounding 10 during a shift change, police and witnesses said.
A roadside bombing killed three Iraqi National Guard soldiers and wounded six during a joint patrol with U.S. troops in the restive northern city of Mosul, said Maj. Andre Hance, a U.S. military spokesman. He said there were no American casualties.
In a suggestion that the insurgents were looking for new ways to intimidate voters, a militant group posted threats in at least two towns warning it would deploy "highly trained" snipers to target voters around Iraq during the elections.
The statement, signed by the previously unknown Secret Republican Army, said 32 snipers will stalk voters outside polling in Wasit, a largely Shiite province south of Baghdad that includes Kut, Numaniyah and Suwaiyra. It did not say how many would be sent elsewhere.
Sheik Fassal Raikan al-Gout, the governor of Anbar province, said he was aware of the circulated posters but dismissed their importance.
"We do not care about such statements," he said. "We will continue to do our best and what we see fit to maintain security."
A number of election officials and government leaders have already fallen victim to brutal terror attacks, and many have received death threats. The most prominent victim in recent weeks was the governor of Baghdad, Ali al-Haidari, who was slain with six bodyguards on Jan. 4.
On Monday, attackers shot and killed Baghdad's deputy police chief, Brig. Amer Ali Nayef, and his son, Lt. Khalid Amer, also a police officer. They were slain in Baghdad's Dora district while traveling in a car on their way to work, Interior Ministry spokesman Capt. Ahmed Ismail said.
Gunmen sprayed machine-gun fire from two cars driving parallel with the police chief's vehicle close to his home before fleeing, police said. The two were alone in the car.
Al-Qaida in Iraq claimed responsibility for the Baghdad assassinations in a statement posted on the Internet, describing Nayef and Amer as foreign "agents." The statement warned that other Iraqis cooperating with the U.S.-led military would meet the same fate.
The authenticity of the statement could not be verified, but the Web site has been used by militant groups in the past to claim responsibility for and show videos of attacks in Iraq.
The government sought to strike back against the insurgents with its own media campaign Monday. Interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi said authorities have captured 147 suspected insurgents in Iraq, including the new leader of an insurgent group.
Allawi identified the man as Raad al-Doury, who just days earlier had taken over the top post of Jaish Muhammad - Arabic for Muhammad's Army - from a man detained in November. Allawi has accused Jaish Muhammad of killing and beheading a number of Iraqis, Arabs and foreigners in Iraq.
"Every day the terrorists name a new leader we capture him and they will stand trial," Allawi said.
Soon after, the Al-Arabiya television station showed footage of four Iraqis confessing that they had carried out killings and beheadings of Iraqi intellectuals as well as members of Iraq's security. The four said they were forced to do the job or otherwise get killed.
One said he kept refusing to work with insurgents until "they tried to assassinate me more than once."
In other developments Monday:
- The U.S. military said its forces accidentally killed a 13-year-old Iraqi girl and wounded a 14-year-old boy near Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad.
- A roadside bomb attack in Samarra hit a joint U.S.-Iraqi patrol, killing two Iraqi soldiers and wounding one Iraqi soldier and two Americans.
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Associated Press writers Rawya Rageh and Bassem Mroue contributed to this story from Baghdad.
AP-ES-01-10-05 1554EST
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Lemmeeseenow: There were those 380 metric tons of RDX that BushCorp's "Shockandawe" (or was it (Awe Shucks) brigades never bothered to secure. That's a lot of explosive power. RDX is "Rapid Detonation Explosive." A pound of this stuff was enough to take down Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie.
Maybe Ronald Dumsfeld should have had a better plan.
QUOTE(jeffmoskin @ Jan 10 2005, 08:36 PM)
Lemmeeseenow: There were those 380 metric tons of RDX that BushCorp's "Shockandawe" (or was it (Awe Shucks) brigades never bothered to secure. That's a lot of explosive power. RDX is "Rapid Detonation Explosive." A pound of this stuff was enough to take down Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie.
Maybe Ronald Dumsfeld should have had a better plan.
jeffmoskin Maybe Ronald Dumsfeld should have had a better plan.
LOL - you got it, they are not playing fair with bigger bombs! LOL We (U.S.A.) would never think of using "BIGGER BOMBS" -- no way Jose! LOL You think maybe they might just have a few weapons we gave them from the Iran - Iraq conflict? Just a thought ! Cannot get over that dirty play of bigger bombs. That there is a two minute penalty for unnecessary roughing! Maybe the "SHRUB" or his Bro' Rum-Dum can sell them smaller bombs to use. Hey, it is an obtion! Hang Tough -
QUOTE(jeffmoskin @ Jan 10 2005, 06:36 PM)
Lemmeeseenow: There were those 380 metric tons of RDX that BushCorp's "Shockandawe" (or was it (Awe Shucks) brigades never bothered to secure. That's a lot of explosive power. RDX is "Rapid Detonation Explosive." A pound of this stuff was enough to take down Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie.
Maybe Ronald Dumsfeld should have had a better plan.
Maybe Ronald Dumsfeld should have had a better plan.
You are referring to the stolen explosives that Rummie let sit unsecured right? I don't remember the specifics of that but I think you are right, that this may be where they are getting some of their explosives!
I shutter to think of what will happen the day prior and the day of the Iraq election. It is going to be a bloody mess.
QUOTE(ultraist @ Jan 10 2005, 10:31 PM)
You are referring to the stolen explosives that Rummie let sit unsecured right? I don't remember the specifics of that but I think you are right, that this may be where they are getting some of their explosives!
I shutter to think of what will happen the day prior and the day of the Iraq election. It is going to be a bloody mess.
ultraist I shutter to think of what will happen the day prior and the day of the Iraq election. It is going to be a bloody mess.
Think you just might have a point there - for sure. Wonder if they will use "BIGGER BOMBS" just before that election? That is not playing fair, is it! LOL One more time- There are no rules in War and it is very sukky business! Hang Tough- and behave ultrist! LOL
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