{"id":1310,"date":"2004-09-16T15:00:14","date_gmt":"2004-09-16T22:00:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-09-16T15:00:14","modified_gmt":"2004-09-16T22:00:14","slug":"21-us-soldiers-killed-in-iraq-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/16\/21-us-soldiers-killed-in-iraq-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"21 US Soldiers Killed in Iraq This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE (9\/17 6:30EST): <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centcom.mil\/CENTCOMNews\/Casualty_Report.asp?CasualtyReport=20040919.txt\">One Marine killed on Friday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE (9\/16 8pm EST): <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centcom.mil\/CENTCOMNews\/Casualty_Report.asp?CasualtyReport=20040918.txt\">The number keeps rising<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, the Department of Defense and CentCom have made a habit out of not reporting US fatalities in Iraq until days if not weeks after they occur.  This week was especially bloody and silent.  Since Sunday, twenty US soldiers have been killed in Iraq.  <a href=\"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/casualties\/list.php\">They are<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>1st Lt. Tyler H. Brown<br \/>\nMaj. Kevin M. Shea<br \/>\nSgt. Jacob H. Demand<br \/>\nLance Cpl. Cesar F. Machado-Olmos<br \/>\nLance Cpl. Dominic C. Brown<br \/>\nLance Cpl. Michael J. Halal<br \/>\nStaff Sgt. Guy S. Hagy<br \/>\nSgt. Carl Thomas<br \/>\nStaff Sgt. David J. Weisenburg<br \/>\nSpc. Benjamin W. Isenberg<br \/>\nLance Cpl. Mathew D. Puckett<br \/>\n1st Lt. Alexander E. Wetherbee<br \/>\nPfc. Jason T. Poindexter<br \/>\nCpl. Adrian V. Soltau<br \/>\nCpl. Jaygee Meluat<br \/>\n1st Lieutenant Andrew K. Stern<br \/>\nLance Cpl. Drew M. Uhles<br \/>\nThree still unnamed<\/p>\n<p>The DoD&#8217;s new press tactics have helped to keep these soldiers&#8217; names under the media&#8217;s radar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE (9\/17 6:30EST): One Marine killed on Friday. UPDATE (9\/16 8pm EST): The number keeps rising. Recently, the Department of Defense and CentCom have made a habit out of not reporting US fatalities in Iraq until days if not weeks after they occur. This week was especially bloody and silent. Since Sunday, twenty US soldiers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1310"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}