5 soldiers killed, 3 missing near Mahmoudiya, south of Baghdad.-

From the terrorist sympathizers at the Associated Press:

BAGHDAD - U.S. and Iraqi troops searched house-to-house and combed fields with their bare hands Saturday after American troops and their Iraqi interpreter came under attack in the notorious “triangle of death” south of Baghdad, leaving five dead and three missing.

This is in the same area as Menchaca and Tucker’s mutiliated booby trapped bodies were found in June of last year. (Jawa Report, 2007)

From the Ace of Spades: Al Qaeda knows who its friends are.

Mohamad al-Janabi, a reputed al-Qaeda member in the nearby city of Salman Pak, said in a interview that he was unable to contact his comrades in Mahmudiyah to determine whether they were responsible for the attack.

But he added: “I can assure you that we will start pressuring Bush in a new way at the same time he is facing pressures from the Democrats and the American people. And there will be no problem to sacrifice 10 soldiers in order to abduct a single American soldier and get him on television screens begging for us to release him.”

I will get to this later…