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GEOKARJO 
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Posted on: Sep. 13 2010,11:12 am |
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U.S. troops in Iraq fired on insurgents Sunday while supporting Iraqi forces, marking the second time American troops have been in a combat situation since the declaration of an official end to combat operations on Sept. 1, The New York Times reported.
Three people were killed in the fighting in Hudaidy, a village about 50 miles (80km) from Baghdad -- an Iraqi soldier, an Iraqi police officer and one insurgent. There were no American casualties.
The U.S. military did not confirm its involvement in the incident, but Iraqi officials and civilian witnesses described American helicopters and ground troops taking part in the attack at the request of Iraqi forces after Sunni insurgents placed bombs around the perimeter of a palm grove to halt Iraqi troops and fired at police and troops with sniper rifles.
“This support was necessary to deal with some of these targets,” said Isam Shakar Mizher, a member of the security committee of the Diyala Provincial Council.
A spokeswoman for the U.S. military said “releasable information on this incident” is pending.
On Sept. 5, four days after the end of combat operations was declared, U.S. troops provided “suppressive fire” for Iraqi troops to repel a coordinated suicide attack on an Iraqi army complex that killed at least 18 people and injured 36.
There are currently just under 50,000 American troops in Iraq, tasked with training and advising Iraqi security forces in advance of U.S. military withdrawal at the end of 2011.
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Wolfie
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Posted on: Sep. 13 2010,12:08 pm |
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I dont understand your complaint George. What your telling me is if there are US troops backing up the Iraqi's and when the bullets start flying you want the US troops to just stand there and HOPE the Iraqi's hit what they are aiming at if they don't run away first. People with attitudes like your are going to rehash the same crap as what happened to the Vietnam Vets, they go to the Legion or the VFW and you tell them that your war was more honorable or some crap and then tell them they arent wanted. Crap attitudes like that really piss me off. Before you speak from your glass house maybe you might want to think that not everybody got the memo or better yet maybe they were covering their own ass, so they could bring it home.
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GEOKARJO
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Posted on: Sep. 13 2010,12:28 pm |
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Oh I am not complaining but to say the combat operations are over is misleading the American People not to mention, American Soldiers are still in harms way being deployed into a combat situations. You read too much into what I did not write.
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