Bang, reality strikes again:
By the looks of it the Humvee is really quite a crappy vehicle in Iraq. But the violence hasn’t seemed to have stopped in Iraq. Although in Iraq things are getting more restive, and that scares me to a certain extent. These new Iraqi forces (as stated in the article) are taking over the reigns from the US in Najaf. But are they effective? If the 100 police men who ran away in Southern Iraq, and certainly some of these Iraqi forces are dualistic in their motives, and loyalties. If the Iraqi’s are unable to secure security (on their own), and disregarding the interim govt in Iraq, there will be problems.BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Five U.S. soldiers were killed and five others wounded Friday afternoon when an explosion ripped through a Humvee in eastern Baghdad, a U.S. military spokesman said.
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The deaths bring the number of U.S. troops killed in Iraq to 825 since the war began, including 605 in combat. http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/06/04/iraq.main/index.html