Every day a little death, and you hardly feel a thing…
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Baghdad Hostile – hostile fire – IED attack
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Baghdad Hostile – hostile fire – IED attack
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Baghdad Hostile – hostile fire – IED attack
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Baghdad (Southwest of) – Babil Hostile – hostile fire – IED attack
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Baghdad Hostile – hostile fire – small arms fire
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Baghdad Province Hostile – hostile fire – IED attack
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Baghdad Province Hostile – hostile fire – IED attack
US Lance Corporal Benjamin D. Desilets Al Anbar Province Hostile – hostile fire
US Corporal Julian M. Woodall Al Anbar Province Hostile – hostile fire
05/23/07 spiegel: Escaping a Baghdad Death Sentence
Mahir’s bad luck was doing something to help improve Iraq. The electrical engineer became a target for helping repair power substations. He left for Sweden after seeing his colleague gunned down on the streets of Baghdad.
05/23/07 spiegel: Death Threats and Academia in Iraq
There is a formula in Iraq: The more education you have, the more at risk you are. Kais, a doctor and professor of medicine, left his homeland after his name appeared on The List. Insurgents had decided he was too smart to live.
05/23/07 KUNA: Opium – Iraq”s deadly new export
Farmers in southern Iraq have started to grow opium poppies in their fields for the first time, sparking fears that Iraq might become a serious drugs producer along the lines of Afghanistan, it was revealed here Wednesday.
05/23/07 DoD Identifies Marine Casualties (part 2)
Cpl. Julian M. Woodall, 21, of Tallahassee, Fla…assigned to 3rd Battalion, 10th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, N.C…died May 22 while conducting combat operations in Al Anbar province
05/23/07 DoD Identifies Marine Casualties (part 1)
Lance Cpl. Benjamin D. Desilets, 21, of Elmwood, Ill…assigned to 3rd Battalion, 10th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, N.C…died May 22 while conducting combat operations in Al Anbar province
05/23/07 Reuters: Mortar fire kills 3 children in Khan Bani Saad
Three children were killed and three wounded in a mortar attack in the town of Khan Bani Saad, near Baquba, 65 km north of Baghdad, police said.
05/23/07 Reuters: Car bomb kills 3, wounds 9 near Iskandariya
At least three people were killed and nine wounded by a suicide car bomber in a popular market in the town of Jbela, near Iskandariya, 40 km south of Baghdad, police spokesman Captain Muthana al-Maamouri said.
05/23/07 Reuters: Suicide bomber kills 20, wounds 30 in Mandali cafe
MANDALI – A bomber wearing a suicide vest killed 20 people and wounded 30 in a cafe in Mandali, about 100 km (60 miles) northeast of Baghdad on Wednesday, police said.
05/23/07 Reuters: 5 Bodies retrieved from two rivers near Kut
The bodies of five people were retrieved from two rivers near the city of Kut, 170 km (100 miles) southeast of Baghdad on Tuesday, police said.
05/23/07 Reuters: 33 Bodies found in Baghdad on Tuesday
The bodies of 33 people were found shot in different districts of Baghdad on Tuesday, police said. Twenty- seven of them were found in the predominantly Sunni Arab western Karkh side of Baghdad.
05/23/07 Reuters: Nine US warships enter Gulf in show of force
Nine US warships carrying 17,000 personnel entered the Gulf on Wednesday in a show of force off Iran’s coast that navy officials said was the largest daytime assembly of ships since the 2003 Iraq war.
05/23/07 GannettNews: 3 from Oshkosh-based Army unit hurt in Iraq
Three soldiers from the Wisconsin Army National Guard’s 1157th Transportation Company were injured while conducting convoy operations over the weekend in Iraq.
05/23/07 Reuters: Iraqi police day body of missing U.S. soldier found in river
The half-naked body of one of three missing U.S. soldiers was found on Wednesday in the Euphrates River in the town of Mussayab south of Baghdad, police said. The U.S. military said it was investigating reports that a body had been found…
05/23/07 MNF: Patrol encounters IED attack – 3 soldiers killed, interpreter wounded
Three Multinational Division Center Soldiers were killed and two were wounded in action when their patrol was struck by multiple improvised explosive devices May 22..
05/23/07 MNF: Patrol struck by IED southwest of Baghdad – 1 soldier killed
A Task Force Marne Soldier was killed and another wounded when their dismounted patrol was struck by an IED southwest of Baghdad Tuesday.
05/23/07 MNF: MND-B patrol receives small arms fire – 1 killed
An MND-B Soldier was killed when his patrol was attacked with small arms fire in a western section of the Iraqi capital May 22.
05/23/07 MNF: Task Force Lightning Soldiers attacked – 2 killed, 3 wounded
Two Task Force Lightning Soldiers were killed in Baghdad Province, Tuesday when an explosion occurred near their vehicle. Three other Soldiers were also wounded in the incident and were taken to a Coalition Forces’ medical treatment facility
05/23/07 MNF: MNF-W forces attacked – 2 Marines killed
Two Marines assigned to Multi National Force-West were killed May 22 while conducting combat operations in Al Anbar Province.
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Thank you for posting this. I am ashamed to admit that I couldn’t read the whole thing tonight. I just couldn’t.
Ok, after I posted I made myself go back and read every word.
It was a particluarly gruesome day. BUt 9 troop deaths and they didn’t even make the major headlines… and so many lives lost every day, and for what? So Bush can play king of the hill?
It’s all so stupid.