More "wonderful" news from Dumbya's "valley of peace"....
10/10/04 Reuters: Group Frees 10 Turks After Company Quits Iraq -TV
Iraqi kidnappers have released 10 Turkish hostages they had held for over a month after their Turkish employer said it would leave Iraq, Al Jazeera television said on Sunday
10/10/04 heraldm: Terrorist groups offer rewards for kidnapping soldiers, residents
South Korean troops and citizens in Iraq have been told to maintain a high-alert level following intelligence that terrorist groups, including one linked to al-Qaida, have offered a reward for kidnapping Korean nationals.
10/10/04 DoD Identifies Army Casualty
Staff Sgt. Michael S. Voss, 35, of Aberdeen, N.C., died October 8 near Tikrit, Iraq, when his convoy vehicle encountered an improvised explosive device and small arms fire
10/10/04 DoD Identifies Army Casualty
SGT Andrew W. Brown, 22, of Pleasant Mount, Penn., died October 8 in Baghdad, Iraq, of injuries sustained on October 1 when his patrol vehicle was struck by an improvised explosive device
10/10/04 Reuters: Iraq's Green Zone Turns Redder by the Day
over the past year, and especially in recent weeks, life in the Green Zone has grown steadily more precarious..."It's definitely getting riskier," said one British official who lives and works in the zone but declined to be named.
10/10/04 WaPo:For Marines, a Frustrating Fight
The Marines' opinions have been shaped by their participation in hundreds of hours of operations over the past two months. Their assessments differ sharply from those of the interim Iraqi government and the Bush administration...
10/10/04 Reuters: Update - Blasts Kill Up to 18
Two blasts killed up to 18 people, including an American soldier, in Baghdad on Sunday hours before Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld arrived to gauge efforts to calm violence ahead of January elections
10/10/04 KRT: Mahdi Army threats now felt by civilian workers
The letters are turning up on more front doors every day: Quit your job, or, in the name of Allah, we will kill you, burn your home and slaughter your family.
10/10/04 AP: Clashes flair in Iraq Sunni unrest
Clashes broke out yesterday in Ramadi, another centre of Sunni resistance west of Fallujah. U.S. troops traded gunfire with insurgents in at least three neighbourhoods of the city 110 km west of Baghdad
10/10/04 wkyt: Kentucky Soldier Injured in Iraq
Ryan Hobbs...was riding near Baghdad in was hit Wednesday by a car bomb that injured his face.
10/10/04 AFP: Turkish driver kidnapped, another wounded in north Iraq ambush
A Turkish driver was taken hostage and another injured when their convoy was attacked near the restive city of Baiji in northern Iraq on Saturday, a police officer said.
10/10/04 wmich: WMU gearing up for influx of injured soldiers
For the first time since the Vietnam War, blindness and low vision experts, including those at Western Michigan University, are gearing up for an influx of newly blinded veterans, this time from Iraq
10/10/04 AP: Donald Rumsfeld Visits Troops In Iraq
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld greeted U.S. Marines at a dusty air field in Iraq's western desert Sunday morning, telling them it was unlikely the United States would pull out any troops before Iraq's elections in January
10/10/04 AP: U.S. Soldier Killed in Iraq Attack
A U.S. soldier was killed and another wounded Friday when their patrol was attacked with a homemade bomb, the U.S. command said in a statement.
10/10/04 cjtf7: Soldier Killed by Car Bomb Blast
One Task Force Baghdad Soldier died of wounds received when a vehicle-borne explosive device detonated in eastern Baghdad on Oct. 10 about 7:15 a.m.
10/10/04 iribnews: 4 killed, 2 wounded in Baghdad blast
At least four people were killed and two wounded Sunday in an early morning rocket or mortar attack near the Oil Ministry in the Iraqi capital, according to medical sources, police and a correspondent at the scene
10/10/04 AP: Two explosions rock Iraqi capital, eight reported dead
A large explosion hit outside a police academy in downtown Baghdad on Sunday, killing eight people, officials said.
10/09/04 AP: U-S, Iraqi troops detain suspected insurgents in northern Iraq
The U-S command says U-S and Iraqi forces have detained 17 suspected insurgents after foiling a car bomb attack in Mosul
10/09/04 AP: U.S. Jets Target Terrorists In Fallujah
American warplanes struck a building in rebel held Fallujah where the U.S. command said leaders of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's terror network were meeting early Friday.
10/09/04 Sapa-AP: Red Crescent building blown up in Iraq
Insurgents blew up the Iraqi Red Crescent Society building in the Iraqi city of Ramadi, west of Baghdad, on Friday, the United States military said in a statement. There were no reports of injuries. |
