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May 15, 2006
A Little Payback: 41 "Insurgent" Cockroaches Exterminated In Raids
Finally, some good news. I just wish the American and Iraqi forces hadn't martyred all these people.
After all, that's giving them just what they want. Couldn't they have captured them and kept them in a supermax prison, which, I'm reliably informed, is "worse than death"?
Unfortunately, one helicopter was downed and two US soldiers were killed.
American forces killed more than 40 insurgents, and a known al-Qaida operative, in five raids south of Baghdad.
Militants downed a US helicopter during the fighting, killing the two soldiers aboard, the US command said today.
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Four of the US military raids occurred on Saturday and Sunday around Latifiyah, 20 miles south of Baghdad, the US command said.
American soldiers and helicopters killed 16 suspected al Qaida rebels, including one militant who allegedly had led an April 1 militant attack that downed an AH-64 U.S. Apache helicopter and killed the two soldiers aboard in the Youssifiyah area, about 12 miles south of Baghdad.