More "great" news from Dumbya's "valley of peace" :
11/05/04 BBC: Ex-policeman dies in Baghdad bomb A former police officer from Kent, who was working as a security contractor near Baghdad, has been killed in a suicide car bombing in Iraq. 11/05/04 AP:Saboteurs Damage Gas Pipeline in Iraq Saboteurs set off an explosion Friday damaging a gas pipeline in northern Iraq, police and oil officials said 11/05/04 Centcom: ONE SOLDIER KILLED, FIVE WOUNDED BY INDERECT FIRE NEAR FALLUJAH A 13th Corps Support Command Soldier is dead and five are injured as the result of an indirect fire attack on a Multi-National Force military base near Fallujah at about 1:45 p.m. on Nov. 5. 11/05/04 DOD Identifies Marine Casualties Cpl. Jeremiah A. Baro, 21, of Fresno, Calif. ... Lance Cpl. Jared P. Hubbard, 22, of Clovis, Calif. ... died Nov. 4 from injuries received as a result of enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. 11/05/04 Reuters: Allawi Meets EU After Anger at 'Spectator' Jibe Iraqi interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi met EU leaders on Friday and sought to calm anger over his description of states that opposed the U.S.-led war to oust Saddam Hussein as "spectators." 11/05/04 Fresno Bee: Two Buchanan High grads die in Iraq Jared Hubbard, 22, and Jeremiah Baro ... became the sixth and seventh service members from the central San Joaquin Valley to be killed in the Iraqi war. They were snipers in the U.S. Marine Corps, according to a close friend. 11/05/04 AP: Morgue ready for Fallujah attack Iraq Preparations are in place for the dead and wounded expected from a U-S-led assault on Fallujah, Iraq. 11/05/04 BBC: Two US Marines die in Iraq combat Two US Marines were killed and four hurt during fighting in Anbar province west of Baghdad, the US military says. 11/05/04 AP: Va. man working as medic at Abu Ghraib fatally shot A Spotsylvania County resident working in Iraq as a medic was fatally shot Tuesday, his family said 11/05/04 BBC: Dead Black Watch soldiers named Sgt Stuart Grey, 31, Pte Paul Lowe, 19, and Pte Scott McArdle, 22, died while manning a vehicle checkpoint, east of the River Euphrates, near Falluja. 11/05/04 Reuters: Iraqis Say U.S. Should Talk More, Shoot Less Leading Iraqi politicians called on re-elected President Bush on Thursday to rely more on talks and less on the gun to solve Iraq's problems. 11/05/04 aljazeera: Lebanese, Nepali captives in Iraq freed Two Lebanese and one Nepali held captive in Iraq have been freed, officials said. 11/05/04 Reuters: U.S. Forces Set for Imminent Assault on Iraq's Falluja The U.S. military sealed off Falluja on Friday and launched a night of air strikes on the rebel city ahead of an assault seen as critical to the interim government's attempt to pacify Iraq before January polls 11/05/04 atimes: More strain, more stress for US forces the typical active-duty US soldier in a deployable unit could literally spend the majority of the next three to four years abroad. In 2004 alone, 26 of the army's 33 main combat brigades in the active force will deploy abroad at some point 11/05/04 cjtf7: One Soldier killed, One Wounded in IED Attack One 1st Infantry Division Soldier died and one was wounded when their vehicle was struck with an improvised explosive device near Balad at about 10:38 p.m. on Nov. 4. |