By Steve Hynd
Because the last "combat brigade" has been removed from Iraq, we're to believe:
As many as five suicide bombers killed 12 people on Sunday at an Iraqi army complex in Baghdad, with US troops among those who fired back in a bid to repel the coordinated attack.
American involvement in the response was the first such engagement for US forces in Baghdad since they declared an end to combat operations in Iraq four days ago.
...Lieutenant Colonel Eric Bloom said an American team of military advisors had been stationed at the complex and when the attack occurred, their security team provided "suppressive fire."
"The team was there, and there was a small security element with them, and they did provide suppressive fire," Bloom told AFP.
"They provided suppressive fire while the Iraqi army got into position to go in (to a building two insurgents had entered). There was some return fire -- the insurgents were firing down into the compound.
"It went on for mere minutes, it was over very quickly."
Under the terms of a bilateral security pact, US soldiers are allowed to return fire in self-defence, and take part in operations if requested by their Iraqi counterparts.
...He added that the US military had provided bomb disposal support as well as surveillance with drones and Apache helicopters.
Fuck, don't you hate being so obviously lied to? If politicians are going to tell lies for crass political purposes, is it really too much to ask that they at least make their lies plausible? Where's the professional pride?
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