[lbo-talk] I couldn't make this stuff up if I tried

[steve philion]

Meanwhile, gunmen in an Iraqi police vehicle shot at American troops at a
checkpoint in Baghdad on Sunday and the soldiers returned fire, witnesses
said. It was not clear if there were any casualties, and the U.S. military
had no immediate comment. The Americans have been training Iraqi police, and
it was not immediately known if the gunmen were actual police or insurgents
using the vehicle.

U.S. forces also detained nine "high value targets" in raids near Mosul, in
northern Iraq. None of the suspects were on the list of 55 most wanted
Iraqis from Saddam's old regime.

The military also announced that one soldier was killed and two others
injured early Sunday when a tractor trailer crashed accidentally into their
vehicle, which was parked at a checkpoint outside a base in Diwaniyah, 100
miles south of Baghdad. The names of the soldiers are being withheld pending
notification of next of kin.

The Army's 4th Infantry Division launched operation