More "wonderful" news from Dumbya's "valley of peace" :
12/14/04 DoD Identifies Marine Casualty
The DoD announced the death of Lance Cpl. Richard D. Warner, 22, of Waukesha, Wis. Died as result of enemy action in Al Anbar Province. He was assigned to the Marine Corps Reserve’s 2nd Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division
12/14/04 DoD Identifies Marine Casualty
The DoD announced the death of Cpl. Ian W. Stewart, 21, of Lake Hughes, Calif. Died as result of enemy action in Al Anbar Province. He was assigned to 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary
12/14/04 DoD Identifies Marine Casualty
The DoD announced the death of Cpl. Jason S. Clairday, 21, of Camp Fulton, Ark. Died as result of enemy action in Al Anbar Province. He was assigned to 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary
12/14/04 AP: Vermont Guard chief says poor planning led to shortages
The commander of the Vermont National Guard says she's frustrated that some soldiers are being sent into Iraq without all the equipment they need.Maj. Gen. Martha Rainville says the military didn't adequately plan for the war in Iraq.
12/14/04 W.Post: Shattered gear from Iraq piles up
In muddy gravel lots, along weedy railroad tracks and in grassy fields, the flotsam of war is washing up at a sprawling Army-run repair post: five- and 10-ton trucks, road graders, riverboats, forklifts, coils of tank track, piles of road wheels...
12/14/04 Georgia Marine Killed in Iraq
A U.S. Marine (Jeffrey Blanton) from Georgia was killed over the weekend in Iraq after returning to the battlefield two days after being released from a hospital where he was treated for an earlier gunshot wound, his aunt said Tuesday.
12/14/04 DailyTimes: Wounded soldier coming home
Corporal Kyle Layer was wounded during a U. S. led assault of Fallujah on Sunday. He suffered a bullet wound that broke the femur of his left leg but his wounds are not life threatening.
12/14/04 Record: Marine, son of Ridgway residents, shot in Iraq
U.S. Marine Lance Corporal Will Duffield, 28, son of the Reverend Craig and Jeanne Duffield of Ridgway, was shot by insurgents in Fallujah on Saturday, Dec. 11. The insurgents fired on U.S. forces, hitting Duffield in the back of the thigh.
12/14/04 Reuters: update; Iraqi police killed in ambush
The police were ambushed near the town of Salman Pak, about 30 kms southeast of Baghdad, and between four and 10 of them were killed, a senior source said. A bus they were travelling in and two cars marked Basra Police were destroyed.
12/14/04 U.S.Army: 82nd Airborne back in Iraq
More than 1,500 paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division are back in Iraq to help provide security for the country's upcoming elections. Two battalions of the 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment.
12/14/04 AP: Developments in Iraq
In Baghdad's Sadr City, gunmen shot to death Mousa Jabar, a commander in the al-Mahdi army of anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. Gunmen in the northern city of Mosul killed Dr. Sinan Salem Salo, a provincial council member.
12/14/04 Reuters: Iraqi police buses ambushed
INSURGENTS attacked buses carrying Iraqi police from the southern city of Basra to Baghdad today and several police officers were killed, a senior police source said. "The street is littered with bodies," he said. "Fighting is still going on."
12/14/04 Middle East Online: Update; Bodies of 14 slain men found in Mosul
The bodies of 14 men killed with a single bullet to the head were found in a cemetery in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Tuesday, local medical officials and an AFP journalist said.
12/14/04 DoD Identifies Marine Casualty
Lance Cpl. Hilario F. Lopez, 22, of Ingleside, Texas died Dec. 12 as result of enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. He was assigned to 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force
12/14/04 DoD Identifies Marine Casualty
Staff Sgt. Melvin L. Blazer, 38, of Moore, Okla. died Dec. 12 as result of enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. He was assigned to 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force
12/14/04 DoD Identifies Marine Casualty
Lance Cpl. Gregory P. Rund, 21, of Littleton, Colo. died Dec. 11 as result of enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. He was assigned to 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force
12/14/04 DoD Identifies Army Casualty
Pfc. Joshua A. Ramsey, 19, from Defiance, Ohio, died Dec. 12 in Baghdad, Iraq, from non-combat related injuries. Ramsey was assigned to the 95th Military Police Battalion, Mannheim, Germany.
12/14/04 Xinhuanet: Poland to cut its military contingent in Iraq by about one-third
WARSAW, Dec. 14 (Xinhuanet) -- Poland will cut its military contingent in Iraq to 1,700 from 2,500 now from February, Defence Minister Jerzy Szmajdzinski said on Tuesday.
12/14/04 Novinite: Bulgarian Troops Under Fire in Iraq
Bulgarian troops patrolling the streets of the Iraqi city Diwaniyah have come under mortar fire.
12/14/04 CBS: 'Miracle' Soldier Battling Back
Staff Sgt. Dan Metzdorf was on routine patrol about 30 miles south of Baghdad, a roadside bomb went off. "I felt myself hit the ground," Metzdorf says. "Then, all the pain sets in. I couldn't feel my right foot, but it was still attached to me.
12/14/04 DailyNews: The women of war
Through last week, 27 women had been killed in Iraq and five in Afghanistan and more than 230 had earned the Purple Heart for wounds inflicted by the enemy, according to Pentagon records.
12/14/04 Journal: Stony Point native returns with Purple Heart
On Feb. 16, a 155-millimeter artillery round was planted in a flower pot. It was set off with a cell phone as U.S. forces drove by. Whelan, a staff sergeant with the 415th Civil Affairs Battalion of the Army Reserve, was a back-seat passenger.
12/14/04 AP: Eight more bodies found in Mosul, 150 since Nov.
U.S. troops discovered eight more bodies in the restive northern Iraqi city of Mosul, bringing the number of bodies found there since Nov. 10 to more than 150, the U.S. military said Tuesday.
12/14/04 Reuters: Senior Zarqawi Aide Killed by Iraqi Police - PM
A senior aide to Jordanian al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has been killed by Iraqi security forces, interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said on Tuesday.
12/14/04 AP: Insurgents Hit Green Zone With Second Suicide Attack In Two Days
A suicide car bomber killed seven people when he struck a checkpoint at Baghdad's Green Zone early Tuesday, the second attack in two days at the district that houses Iraq's interim government and the U.S. Embassy, officials said. |
