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The War
Profiteers - War Crimes, Kidnappings, Torture and Big Money |
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Iraq: IED Attack (IX) Against U.S. Stryker Vehicle -
January 2007 |
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Background “[…] Pentagon planners this week warned President George W. Bush that
his ‘troop surge’ plan could double U.S. casualties in Iraq in the coming
year and result in 10,000 or more American deaths by the end of 2008. In a
classified assessment memo, military experts predicted violence against U.S.
troops will increase ‘at a sustained pace’ and concluded that increasing the
use of soldiers for house to house searches in Baghdad will ‘dramatically
alter’ the ‘ratio of casualties to actions’ in that civil-war torn city, says
a military source familiar with the memo. The Pentagon report admitted battle
weary soldiers are more prone to mistakes that lead to casualties and noted
that military personnel sent to Iraq for third and possibly fourth tours
increase the odds that those soldiers will become casualties of war. […]” Excerpt of a Capitol
Hill Blue article from
January 12th, 2007. |
IED attack against Stryker |
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The Video |
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External view: link file format: .mpg |
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Scenes from Iraq in January of 2007 |
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Baghdad |
Ramadi |
Sadr City, Baghdad |
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Video & Photo
Credits The Video 1) The video features an IED attack against an U.S. Stryker vehicle in
Iraq. The video has been published by the insurgent group “Islamic Army in
Iraq” in January 2007. An exact date and location was not given. Iraq in January 2007 1) A US military Apache
helicopter flies above smoke rising from Baghdad's notorious Haifa Street
area. - January 9th, 2007 - Ali Yussef/Agence France Press; 2) Residents gather
outside a damaged building after clashes between U.S. forces and insurgents
in Ramadi, 100 km (60 miles) west of Baghdad. Coalition Forces' press office
said seven separate exchanges of gunfire took place in Ramadi. - January 20th,
2007 - Stringer/Reuters; 3) An Iraqi child
holds a framed photo of Muqtada al-Sadr, Imam Ali and Mohammed Sadiq al-Sadr
during Friday prayers in the Shiite enclave of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq
Friday. U.S. and Iraqi forces arrested one of Muqtada al-Sadr's top aides
Friday in Baghdad, his office said, as pressure increases on the radical
Shiite cleric's militia ahead of a planned security sweep aimed at stemming
the sectarian violence ransacking the capital. - January 19th,
2007 - Adil al-Khazali/Associated Press; |
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