More "wonderful" news from "liberated" Iraq :
8/06/04 Reuters: British troops battle Iraqi fighters
Clashes between British troops and fighters loyal to a radical Iraqi Muslim cleric have intensified this evening in the southern city of Basra.
08/06/04 ABC News: Some Charleston Airmen Will Drive Trucks For Army
Twenty-nine men and women from Charleston Air Force Base are getting ready to head overseas. Five of them will drive Army vehicles in Iraq, a job far more hazardous than loading or repairing airplanes.
08/06/04 AP: Marine from Milford killed in Iraq
Gunnery Sgt. Elia P. Fontecchio, 30, died Wednesday in a battle in the Sunni-dominated region west of Baghdad, the Department of Defense announced. He was scheduled to return home in about two weeks, said his uncle, Dana Fontecchio of Milford.
08/06/04 The Advocate: Former Newark resident killed in Iraq
Former Newark resident Lance Cpl. Joseph Nice was killed Tuesday while serving in the Marine Corps in Iraq, according to family members.
08/06/04 UPI: Iraqis, U.S. launch patrols near Syria
Iraqi and U.S. forces have launched a major operation along the border with Syria, WorldTribune.com reported Friday.
08/06/04 Reuters: U.S. marines clash with Iraqi militia
A spokesman for radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr denied that [300] fighters had been killed. He said 36 militiamen had been killed in several Iraqi cities from clashes that have fuelled fears of a new rebellion of radical Shi'ites.
08/06/04 AFP: US Planes Pound Holy City As Clashes Rage Across Central, S. Iraq
More than 300 people are believed to have died in two days of heavy fighting between foreign troops and Shiite Muslim militiamen as US planes pounded the central Iraqi holy city of Najaf on Friday.
08/06/04 AP/FOXReno.com: Radical Cleric Al-Sadr Calls Followers To Arms
Firebrand Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, whose militia is locked in a fight with U.S. and Iraqi forces, called the United States the enemy of the Iraqi people on Friday and blamed it for all the violence plaguing the country.
08/06/04 AP: Survey: Poles souring on Iraq mission
A new survey finds three out of four people in Poland oppose keeping soldiers in Iraq. Poland's a key member of the coalition, with 24-hundred troops on the ground.
08/06/04 the-messenger.com: County soldier wounded in Iraq
Christopher Williams, 27, of Nortonville, was shot in the leg by Iraqi militants, according to his wife, Saundra Scisney-Williams.
08/06/04 The Desert Sun: More local troops head for war zone
About 100 local Marines bid farewell to loved ones in the California desert as they deployed Thursday to another desert ... The Marines, from 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion were deployed as part of Operation: Iraqi Freedom.
08/06/04 Al Jazeera: US planes strike Najaf amid fierce fighting
US planes have pounded the central Iraqi city of Najaf as intense clashes rage on between occupation troops and Shia Muslim leader Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army in the worst fighting since a truce was agreed upon in June.
08/06/04 Xinhuanet: Four killed, 10 injured in clashes in Iraq's Nasiriyah
Four people were killed and 10 others wounded in overnight clashes between Shiite militiamen and Italian troops in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah, 375 km south of Baghdad, police said Friday.
08/06/04 NTV-MSNBC: Iraq-Turkey pipeline hit again
Iraq’s northern oil export pipeline, which runs to the Turkish Mediterranean coast, has again been sabotaged, with yet another bomb blast damaging the line Thursday.
08/06/04 British MOD: Accident Victim Is Identified
It is with deep regret that the Ministry of Defence has to confirm that Private Christopher Gordon Rayment died in a tragic accident at Al Amarah on 4 August 2004.
08/06/04 DOD: 3 Marine Deaths Identified
Cpl. Dean P. Pratt, 22, of Stevensville, Mont., died Aug. 2 ... Gunnery Sgt. Elia P. Fontecchio, 30, of Milford, Mass., died Aug. 4 ... Lance Cpl. Joseph L. Nice, 19, of Nicoma Park, Okla., died Aug. 4 ...
08/06/04 CENTCOM: 2 Marines Killed In Action in An Najaf Province
Two Marines from the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit were killed as a result of enemy action in the An Najaf province Aug. 5.
08/06/04 Reuters: Four Lebanese drivers taken hostage in Iraq
Four Lebanese drivers have been taken hostage in Iraq, a source in Beirut's Foreign Ministry says.
08/06/04 Reuters: U.S. Forces Target Guerrillas Near Town of Samarra
At least three people were killed in the Iraqi town of Samarra on Friday during an operation by U.S. forces to crack down on insurgents around the town, a U.S. military spokesman said. |
