{"id":2181,"date":"2005-06-24T15:22:16","date_gmt":"2005-06-24T22:22:16","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-06-24T15:22:16","modified_gmt":"2005-06-24T22:22:16","slug":"in-the-safest-iraqi-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/24\/in-the-safest-iraqi-city\/","title":{"rendered":"In the safest Iraqi city"},"content":{"rendered":"

The US military is admitting to “casualties” after a car bomb attack on a Marine convoy in the “safest city in Iraq.”<\/a> Xinhua <\/a>is claiming to have spoken to an eyewitness:<\/p>\n

An overnight roadside bomb blast struck a US military patrol in Iraq’s western city of Fallujah, destroying a US armored vehicle and causing several casualties, witnesses said on Friday.<\/p>\n

“The blast took place on late Thursday near the main US military checkpoint at the eastern entrance of the city, destroying a US Humvee, killing and wounding the US soldiers aboard,” Ahmed Salih, a Fallujah resident told Xinhua.<\/p>\n

A US military statement on Friday confirmed the attack, without giving precise casualties and further details.<\/p>\n

Separately, a suicide bomber blew up his explosive-laden vehicle near the house of a tribal leader in the southern neighborhood of Fallujah on Thursday night, witnesses said.<\/p>\n

The suicide bomber was killed in the blast which caused no other casualties, they said, adding that Sheikh Khamis Hasnawi al-Eifan, chieftain of Albu Issa tribe, escaped the assassination attempt unharmed.<\/p>\n

Eifan and his family member refused to talk about the reasons behind the attack. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Meanwhile, General John Abizaid,<\/a> the top U.S. commander in the Middle East, practically calls US VP Dick “Last Throes”<\/a> Cheney a liar. And that was before<\/i> the Marines in Fallujah were bombed.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: Wonkette<\/a> on Cheney’s “Clintonesque” response to Abizaid’s statement.<\/p>\n

And, the US military’s statement<\/a> on the Fallujah bombing:<\/p>\n

Jun 24, 2005 \u2014 BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Two U.S. Marines were killed, 13 were wounded, and four other troops were listed as missing following a powerful suicide car bomb attack on a U.S. convoy, the U.S. military said on Friday.<\/p>\n

“Three Marines and a sailor believed to be in the vehicle are currently listed as Duty Status Whereabouts Unknown pending a positive identification,” the Marines said in a statement that also listed the two dead and 13 wounded.<\/p>\n

Sailors attached to Marine units are normally medics.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Missing?<\/I><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The US military is admitting to “casualties” after a car bomb attack on a Marine convoy in the “safest city in Iraq.” Xinhua is claiming to have spoken to an eyewitness: An overnight roadside bomb blast struck a US military patrol in Iraq’s western city of Fallujah, destroying a US armored vehicle and causing several […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2181"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}