Despite formal combat end, US joins Baghdad battle

[Chris]

Despite formal combat end, US joins Baghdad battle

Despite formal combat end, US joins Baghdad battle
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
09/06/2010 03:32

Days after the U.S. officially ended combat operations and touted Iraq's ability to defend itself, American troops found themselves battling heavily armed militants assaulting an Iraqi military headquarters in the center of Baghdad. The fighting killed 12 people and wounded dozens. It was the first exchange of fire involving U.S. troops in Baghdad since the Aug. 31 deadline for formally ending the combat mission, and it showed that American troops remaining in the country are still being drawn into the fighting. The attack Sunday also made plain the kind of lapses in security that have left Iraqis wary of the U.S. drawdown and distrustful of the ability of Iraqi forces now taking up ultimate responsibility for protecting the country.

Sunday's hour-long assault was the second in as many weeks on the facility, the headquarters for the Iraqi Army's 11th Division, pointing to the failure of Iraqi forces to plug even the most obvious holes in their security. Two of the four attackers even managed to fight their way inside the compound and were only killed after running out of ammunition and detonating explosives belts they were wearing. The American troops who joined the fight and provided cover fire for Iraqi soldiers.

[Chris]

Just one more "feather of failure" to put in the clown Hussein Obama's hat. The sooner we get rid of the liberals in Washington the better we will be. Hussein Obama's policies are dangerous to America. He's about to erase all the gains we made over the last 8 years.