Suicide Bomber Kills 5 US soldiers in Baghdad

Victor Sabujo
Soc st
3/12/08

1.Citation: Suicide Bomber Kills 5 US soldiers in Baghdad.The source is from a New Zealand newspaper and the date is Tuesday March 11, 2008.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/2/story.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10497397

2.Summary:The article is talking about the suicide bombings in Baghdad.Five U.S. soldiers died in a suicide bombing in Baghdad.Even a couple of citizens were wounded and a Iraqi police officer.The worst suicide bombing is when a couple of U.S. soldiers were killed when they were going on their patrol in June.U.S. troops are being withdrawn from Iraq thanks to the pentagon plan.This plan is to withdrawn five brigades of soldiers by July 31.Monday there was another suicide bomber attack that was a woman who killed a Arabic Sunni tribal chief and his two guards were wounded.Al Qaeda has been using mostly women as suicide bombers because of the tight security in Iraq.The violence in Iraq has gone down because of the patrol bases all over Iraq.Seven soldiers had died this month.The number of deaths have lowered since last year.

3.Reactions:A)This article relates with the AP theme of Changes in functions and structures of states and in attitudes toward states and political
identities, including the emergence of the nation-state.
B)This issue is about the Iraq war that has been going for many years between the U.S. and Al Qaeda.This war is about 9, 11 when Al Qaeda had destroyed the twin towers and killed many lives on that day.U.S. wants to capture whose who are involved with Al Qaeda at 9,11.The country is trying to bring down Al Qaeda for good.
C)The point of view of the article is from a New Zealand male who is an insider.
D)The author’s point of view has some bias by telling that Al Qaeda is using more females and less male are being suicide bombers because of the death of the tribal chief.Also he is saying that the Iraqi police wont be able to control the situation of bombings.
E)A missing voice that I need is a from an Iraqian woman.This would help understand if the women in Iraq are afraid of this news or might have a different reaction to it.
F)My reaction to this article is that I’m glad that the troops are coming back home.Also that this whole war will soon be over.I think that Problems in Iraq won’t go away soon and the police officers will have trouble with this.