A huge bomb exploded near a bus filled with Iraqi soldiers returning from leave Tuesday, killing at least three and wounding at least 44 in an attack that showed how even a payroll issue in Iraq can turn deadly.
The Iraqi soldiers were en route to a U.S. base here from the city of Sinjar, where they had dropped off their monthly pay. Because Iraq's banking system cannot accommodate direct deposits, recruits are given a week's leave each month to carry their money home -- a system that has created chronic security problems and hampered the U.S. military's efforts to develop Iraq's new army.
But hey, that whole democratization and post-invasion thing, it's going swimmingly...
posted by Jo Fish on 04.06.05 at 01:13 AM
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A week off in boy's town. So much time so few burkas to violate.
The percentage of these Iraq contractors/soliders who are foreign?
The insurgents are on our side and the media will not call this fact out. Stay in the green zone, regurge the old stories.
Get this- nephew's stoolie commander never got out of his sandbagged tent, is getting check of PTSD and leave. The SOB never left the base.
posted by: Mr. Murder on 04.08.05 at 05:26 PM [permalink]
