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Mon 6 Sep, 2004 05:58 am
WSVN Miami reports 7 US Marines killed. Our thoughts are with theri families.
Casualties in Falluja car bomb
Monday, September 6, 2004 Posted: 7:08 AM EDT (1108 GMT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- A car bomb exploded in the Falluja area Monday, causing several U.S. casualties, a U.S. military spokesman said.
It was not immediately clear if the casualties included deaths.
Meanwhile, a Turkish driver taken hostage in Iraq was freed by his captors Monday.
Mithat Civi, who was captured on Saturday, was released in Iraq "as a result of our intense efforts," Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul told reporters in Ankara, The Associated Press said.
Al Arabiya television also reported Civi had been released, Reuters said.
The release came a day after the driver's company said it would comply with the kidnappers' demands and withdraw from Iraq.
Car Bomb Near Fallujah Kills 7 Marines
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 8:04 a.m. ET
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- A massive car bomb exploded on the outskirts of Fallujah on Monday, killing seven U.S. Marines and wounding several others, a U.S. military official said.
The strength of the blast sent the engine from the vehicle used in the bombing flying ``a good distance'' from the site, a military official said on condition of anonymity.
Wounded troops were being treated Monday afternoon, the official said.
U.S. forces have not patrolled inside Fallujah since April, when U.S. Marines ended a three-week siege. The city has since fallen into the hands of insurgents who have used it as a base to manufacture car bombs and launch attacks on U.S. and Iraqi government forces.
The U.S. military has retaliated by launching several airstrikes on insurgent safe houses in the city.
Witnesses said the attack took place nine miles north of Fallujah and destroyed two Humvees.
Medical teams in helicopters swept into the dusty barren site to ferry away the injured. Troops sealed off the area surrounding the wreckage.
With Monday's deaths and those of two U.S. soldiers in a mortar barrage outside Baghdad a day earlier, 985 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq in March 2003, according to the Defense Department.
The conflict in Iraq has taken on the same flavor as the one in Israel. That could very well be describing an incident between the Palestinians and Israeli's.
The difference however, the Israeli's would never appease the Palestinians as the US has. With those people or any adversary you either deal with strength or not at all.
I was a strong advocate against the attack on Iraq. However, the die is cast and it would seem we should either $hit or get off the pot. At what point are enough casualties enough?
Bush, those are not just numbers they are America's children.
Curiously, if you have had CNN on the last two hours, you wouldn't even know this happened.
Two hours later, CNN finally decides to report this.
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