Terrorist Deathtrap

HAQLANIYAH, Iraq - Some 2,500 U.S. troops along with Iraqi forces launched their second major offensive in western
Iraq in a week Tuesday, sweeping into three towns to take them back from insurgents who had killed Marines there last month. The U.S. military announced its first casualties of the offensives, with four troops killed by roadside bombs during the fighting and a fifth elsewhere.
In Baghdad, a suicide attacker set off a car bomb at the main entrance to the heavily fortified Green Zone, a district of Iraqi government buildings and the U.S. and British Embassies. The powerful blast killed two policemen.
The attack came on the first day of Ramadan, the holy Islamic month of fasting. Al-Qaida in Iraq called on its followers to step up attacks against U.S. and Iraqi forces and make it a "month of victory for Muslims and a month of defeat for the hypocrites and polytheists."
The military launched its latest offensive in a cluster of cities in the Euphrates River valley about 140 miles northwest of Baghdad. Code-named "River Gate," it was the largest U.S. offensive in the troubled Anbar region of western Iraq this year, the military said. It also included hundreds of Iraqi troops, the largest such contingent of any of the offensives this year.
Airstrikes by U.S. warplanes and dozens of helicopters set off explosions that lit up Haqlaniyah, Parwana and Haditha before dawn Tuesday. Barrages of gunfire also were seen in the night sky. Large sections of Haqlaniyah's power were knocked out.
The military launched a similar offensive on Saturday, 93 miles upriver, by the Syrian border. Operation "Iron Fist," which continued Tuesday, concentrated in the towns of Sadah, Karabilah and Rumana, aiming to uproot al-Qaida in Iraq insurgents who receive reinforcements and supplies from inside Syria. At least 57 militants have been killed in that operation.The military said a Marine was killed Monday by a roadside bomb in Karabilah, the first U.S. death in Operation Iron Fist. In the hours before Operation River Gate began, a roadside bomb hit U.S. troops in Haqlaniyah on Monday, killing three, the military said.

Of course liberals would rather have our families buffer these Muslim terrorists in our homes rather than our military overseas - you see, Iraq DID become a magnet for these people, I conceded - these Muslim fundies are going towards it like flies towards electric lights and die in 100s, while our casualties remain minimal - this is great success in Iraq campaign in greater struggle against terrorism

GOD BLESS AMERICA, GOD BLESS THE TROOPS, AND GOD BLESS SKILLED AND BRILLIANT COMMANDER G.W. BUSH