Another grim milestone was reached on Sunday with the deaths of two more American soldiers in Iraq. Despite the recent American pullout, the deaths occurred in the city of Fallujah, bringing the death total above 800. UPI reports:Two U.S. soldiers were killed and five...
UPI reports: U.S. and coalition forces will leave Iraq if asked to do so by an interim Iraqi government, a State Department official told the House Thursday.while a coalition sponsored poll reports:Four out of five Iraqis report holding a negative view of the U.S....
Hidden under an obscure photo on Yahoo! News, one finds this interesting fact: An anonymous note slipped under a superior's door by a part-time soldier from Pennsylvania triggered the Iraq prison abuse scandal now engulfing the US military and administration.Any...
Petty Officer 2nd Class Michael C. Anderson, along with four other soldiers, died in a mortar attack outside of Fallujah. His mother desperately asks: "What is a builder doing there, staying in a hot spot? He shouldn't have been there. How do they explain that? . . ....
$100 billion for new pipelines, private security firms, Haliburton contracts, but not nearly enough for ammunition:Cpl. Richard Stayskal, a 22-year-old Marine from San Jose, Calif., arrived in Landstuhl Tuesday after being wounded by automatic weapon fire in Ramadi,...
Though the numbers are still somewhat inconclusive, a total of nineteen soldiers have been killed in Iraq in less than 24 hours. First, CentCom reported that three soldiers died from combat on April 5th:Three Task Force 1st Armored Division soldiers were killed during...
With the recent death of an American soldier by improvised explosive device, the total number of Americans killed in Iraq reached 555. This combat death follows three other incidents in Iraq: March 8th: soldier dies of a "non-combat cause." March 7th: soldier dies of...
Nestled inside another Economist article is this little tidbit about the Iraqi governing council's take on freedom of the press: Though appointed and not elected, the council is reasonably representative of Iraq's various groups. But it also has its flaws, one of...
The current count of Americans killed in Iraq is 548. According to The Economist, the number would be much higher if the military was not outsourcing the more dangerous jobs: What the figures suggest is that the number of attacks is going up even more sharply, though...
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