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25 Insurgents Are Killed During Attack on U.S. Base in Mosul

"American troops and warplanes killed at least 25 insurgents who used car bombs and rocket-propelled grenades in a brazen but failed effort to overrun an American combat outpost in Mosul this afternoon..."

Zero Americans killed. Given that blame is so easily assigned when things go wrong all the way up to Rumsfeld, I'm sure that credit will at least be given to the people who oversee the defense of this outpost. Right.

Other interesting tidbits which can be gleaned from the article include the ruse used by terrorists on a successful attack on the Iraqi police yesterday:

The attackers used two subterfuges to set the trap for the police, Iraqi officials said. A Sudanese who lived in the house began firing a semi-automatic weapon at people in the neighborhood, leading neighbors to call police to the scene...

Must be one of those Sudanese-Iraqi freedom fighters since we know the insurgents are fighting to liberate "their" country.

Meanwhile, some proof that yes, Virginia, there are Iraqis on our side.

Abu Marwan, a 33-year-old commander in the Mosul terrorist group Abu Talha, which is affiliated with Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, was seized on Dec. 23 based on tips from Iraqi citizens, they said.