Iraq Coalition Casualties

1702

Shit.

06/12/05 AP: Eight from 48th Brigade injured in mortar attack
A mortar attack injured eight from Georgia Army National Guard’s 48th Brigade Sunday morning at a forward operating base near the city of Mahmudiyah, brigade officials said.
06/12/05 AP: In other violence
In other violence, a mortar barrage intended for an Iraqi army barrack in the northern Iraqi town of Tal Afar missed its target and slammed into a house, killing a 6-year-old child and wounding five other people, police Capt. Amjad Hashim said.
06/12/05 AP: Insurgents Fire Mortar Rounds at Funeral
The mortar attack, which killed two people and wounded 11, took place Sunday evening in Baghdad’s northern Hurriyah district during a funeral for the mother of Maj. Gen. Rashid Flaiyeh, who commands the Interior Ministry’s elite police units.
06/12/05 AP: Who Keeps Tabs on Contractors in Iraq
There is no centralized procedure for monitoring scores of contracting firms rebuilding Iraq with U.S. funds, according to the military. The controls that do exist have been criticized for failing to keep track of millions.
06/12/05 FTimes: Iraqis unmoved by call to withdraw food and oil subsidies
Two years ago, when the pumps ran dry at Iraq’s petrol filling stations, angry motorists muttered that Americans were stealing the fuel to drive their tanks…
06/12/05 Reuters: At scene of Iraq air strikes, casualties unclear
Iraqis inspecting the damage of U.S. air strikes in western Iraq on Sunday challenged American assertions that the raids had killed 40 insurgents, saying there were no guerrillas in the area.
06/12/05 AP: Four U.S. soldiers killed in bomb attacks west of Baghdad
Two soldiers were killed Saturday when a bomb exploded near their vehicle outside Amiriyah, some 25 miles west of Baghdad. Two other soldiers also died Saturday when their vehicle struck a bomb near Taqaddum, 45 miles west of Baghdad.
06/12/05 AP: British troops arrest Iraqi insurgents
British troops on Sunday arrested a group of Iraqi insurgents suspected of carrying out separate roadside bombings that killed two British soldiers, the Ministry of Defense said.
06/12/05 KUNA: Insurgents’ financier turns himself in to Iraqi authorities
An insurgent responsible for financing insurgent groups in Mosul turned himself in to the Iraqi security authorities on Wednesday, said an Iraqi Government press release on Sunday.
06/12/05 Xinhuanet: Iraqi Kurds elect first regional president
The Kurdish parliament approved Sunday that Massoud Barzani, head of the Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP) was elected the first president of the Iraqi Kurdistan region.
06/12/05 AP: Iraq Struggles To Draft New Constitution
Iraqi efforts to draft a new constitution are weakened by the lack of political experience within the minority Sunni Arab community, the prime minister’s spokesman said Sunday.
06/12/05 Reuters: Iraqis find 20 bodies bound and shot in head
The bodies of 20 people, bound and shot in the head, have been found on a military firing range in the eastern suburbs of Baghdad, police said today.
06/12/05 AP: Car Bomb Injures 4 near Slovak Embassy in Baghdad
One suicide car bomb went off in front of the Slovak Embassy in Baghdad, injuring four people, as Interior Minister Bayan Jabr was wrapping up a news conference across town to tout the successes of the crackdown, Operation Lightning.
06/12/05 AP: Army investigated as criminal the deaths of two guardsmen in Iraq
The deaths of two New York National Guard officers killed in a series of explosions in their Iraqi army camp as they slept are reportedly being investigated as criminal.
06/12/05 AP: U.K. Memo Said to Question Postwar Plan
A staff paper prepared for British Prime Minister Tony Blair eight months before the invasion of Iraq concluded that U.S. military officials were not planning adequately for a postwar occupation, The Washington Post reported.
06/12/05 AFP: Kidnapped French reporter freed in Iraq
rench journalist Florence Aubenas and her Iraqi interpreter Hussein Hanun have been freed following five months held hostage in Iraq, French officials said.
06/12/05 Reuters: Air strikes in Iraq leave 40 insurgents dead
United States air strikes killed an estimated 40 insurgents in western Iraq on Saturday, the military said, but in Baghdad a suicide bomber attacked the headquarters of an elite police unit, killing three.