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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: longnshort who wrote (24959)	1/5/2005 4:18:12 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

More "wonderful" news from Dumbya's "valley of peace" : 01/05/05 Ellsworth American: Daughters Miss Their Dad The condition of Sgt. Harold Gray of Penobscot, who is in the intensive care unit at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, is unchanged. Gray was flown to the Washington, D.C., hospital last Wednesday after he was wounded in Mosul, Iraq ... 01/05/05 The Star Grand Coulee: Local soldier injured in Mosul bombing Reggie George, 1999 graduate of Lake Roosevelt High School, was among the injured in a bombing in Iraq last month. He had shrapnel in his back, but was treated and sent back to work. 01/05/05 DoD Identifies Marine Casualty Sgt. Thomas E. Houser, 22, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, died Jan. 3 as result of enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. He was assigned to 2nd Force Reconnaissance Company, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, N.C. 01/05/05 UPI: Report: 53 journalists killed in 2004 Iraq proved to be the deadliest assignment for journalists, with 19 reporters and 12 people working directly for them killed in 2004. Most of the deaths were blamed on terrorists and Iraqi guerrillas, but four were killed by U.S. Army personnel. 01/05/05 AP: Religious Marine Jailed For Refusing To Carry Gun Joel Klimkewicz was sentenced last month to seven months in the brig for disobeying an order. He had sought conscientious objector status but was rejected. He said he should have not have re-upped in 2003 after joining the Seventh-Day Adventist Church. 01/05/05 Xinhuanet: At least six killed in car bomb in Iraq At least six people were killed and a number of others injured in a suicide car bomb attack in Baquba, northeast of Baghdad, on Wednesday, police said. The attack targeted a checkpoint manned by Iraqi police and National Guards in the city. 01/05/05 Shropshire Star: County's soldiers to leave for Iraq Hundreds of soldiers based at a north Shropshire army barracks look set to leave for Iraq within the next two weeks. More than 500 soldiers from the 2nd Battalion Princess of Wales' Royal Regiment 01/05/05 WorldNow: Macon, Missouri marine injured in Iraq Twenty-three-year-old Lance Corporal Josh Dunseith of Macon was just one of two men riding in a truck when they were recently attacked by Iraqi insurgents in central Iraq. Their truck was struck by an improvised explosive device. 01/05/05 Knight Ridder: Wounded soldier's family glad to have him home "I just laid there. One minute I was patrolling this neighborhood, and the next I was laying on the ground," said Pfc. Anthony Thompson , 22, who is home in Wichita on convalescent leave after being wounded in action near Ramadi, Iraq, on Nov. 27. 01/05/05 AP: West Texas-based Marines prepare for Iraq tour About 150 Marines from the Delta Company, 2nd Battalion, 14th Marines, 4th Marine Division are scheduled to leave El Paso on Saturday for a yearlong activation. 01/05/05 Reuters: Five Iraqi civilians killed in Ramadi clashes Five Iraqi civilians were killed and two wounded when they got caught up in clashes that erupted between insurgents and US troops in the restive city of Ramadi on Wednesday, witnesses and medical sources said. 01/05/05 Aljazeera: US helicopters in Iraq bomb Arbil Four Iraqis have been injured after US helicopters bombed residential buildings in the northern Iraqi city of Arbil, Aljazeera has learned. 01/05/05 AP: Iraqi police Col. Khalifa Hassan Killed in Baqoubah In a third attack Wednesday, gunmen killed Iraqi police Col. Khalifa Hassan and his driver as they headed to work in the restive city of Baqoubah, 30 miles northeast of Baghdad, Dr. Ahmed Fouad of the Baqoubah General Hospital said 01/05/05 VOA: Car Bomb in Baghdad Kills 2 Civilians Iraqi police say a car bomb exploded in Baghdad's Amiriyah district Wednesday, killing two civilians and wounding four others. 01/05/05 AFP: Member of major Iraqi Sunni party killed in Mosul "Yesterday Omar Mahmoud Abdullah, a senior leader in the Iraqi Islamic Party was kidnapped from his pharmacy and hours later was killed," it said Wednesday. 01/05/05 AP: Car Bomb Explosion Kills 20 in Baghdad A car bomb exploded outside a police academy south of Baghdad during a graduation ceremony Wednesday, killing at least 20 people, police said. Hours earlier, another car bomb killed two Iraqis in the nation's capital 01/05/05 Reuters: American Soldier Killed in North Iraq Attack An American soldier was killed and two others were wounded when their patrol came under fire in northern Iraq, the U.S. military said on Wednesday.