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To: Knighty Tin who wrote (110815)	1/26/2008 1:55:47 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

First U.S. soldier killed in Bosnia Sniper fire wounds 2 British soldiers in Sarajevo map February 3, 1996 Web posted at: 7 p.m. EST (2400 GMT) TUZLA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (CNN) -- An American soldier died Saturday when he accidentally stepped on one of the millions of land mines that pock the once war-torn Bosnian region. He was the first U.S. soldier to be killed in action since NATO peace-keeping forces began deploying in December. The mine went off at about 3:45 p.m. (10:45 a.m. EST), just hours after Secretary of State Warren Christopher had paid a brief visit to the U.S. base in Tuzla, where American troops are headquartered for the Bosnia peace mission. The soldier triggered the mine while manning a checkpoint near Gradacac, about 25 miles north of the main U.S. base at Tuzla in northern Bosnia, an Army spokesman said. "We believe he was on foot," the spokesman said. Officials said they would release the soldier's name after the next of kin had been notified. It was the second U.S. death related to the Bosnia peace mission. Another American soldier died at a logistics base in Hungary last month, apparently of a heart attack. Clinton: 'I'm very sad about it' President Clinton, on a campaign trip to New Hampshire, offered his condolences to the family and said efforts to protect U.S. troops would be intensified. Clinton "I'm very sad about it," Clinton told reporters. "I'm in the process of getting the facts now." (President Clinton's reaction - 136K AIFF sound or 136K WAV sound) The president said he had always stressed that the mission was not risk-free. "I told the American people when we started that the place was filled with land mines. It's our biggest danger and we're going to have to redouble our efforts to ensure safety," he said. In a written statement, Clinton said the soldier had died "in the noblest of causes, in the pursuit of peace." As predicted, the land mines have proven the most perilous part of the peace mission for NATO troops. There are estimated to be between 3 million and 6 million of them hidden around Bosnia, and mine-clearing operations are difficult and time-consuming. Three British troops died last Sunday when their armored vehicle went over an anti-tank mine in northwestern Bosnia, and several other soldiers have been wounded in mine accidents.

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (110815)	1/26/2008 2:08:17 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

I also found this on a blogger site. The list of service members killed in Operation Iraqi Freedom includes people who were killed in traffic accidents, or died of heart attacks - and not necessarily just those in Iraq, but all who are in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, whether they are in Quatar, aboard a ship in the Persian Gulf, or, in one case, back home on leave. Using the same criteria for those service members who are counted as KIA in Operation Iraqi Freedom, I did a web search on Google for service members killed in Bosnia, Kosovo, and Albania. Certainly, if there were none, as those blog posts claim, I wouldn't find any. Without any further ado, I now give you the list of people who were killed. Who don't exist, apparently. Pfc. Floyd E. Bright Sgt. 1st Class Donald A. Dugan Sgt. Clement E. Southall Jr. Chief Warrant Officer 3 David A.Gibbs Chief Warrant Officer 2 Kevin L. Reichert Gunners Mate 2nd Class Chad Burkhart Sherwood Brim William Wright Anthony Gilmann SPC Blake Kelley "Twenty U.S. soldiers have died in Bosnia since 1995," says a 2004 article from Defense News, but it doesn't give the names of all twenty who died. I've had a hard time finding articles that list names. I guess it's much easier to find statistics such as x people died rather than, the people who died were. From (now deceased) Colonel David Hackworth's site comes the following information, "Sherwood Brim and William Wright have now joined David Gibbs, Kevin Reichert and Anthony Gilman, soldiers who also recently died in the Balkans. Let's not forget any of them or the scores of other service men and women who've paid the supreme price just since 1993, when "The Clinton Doctrine" received its baptism by fire and 18 American warriors were killed in the streets of Mogadishu. Since then, more than 100 uniformed guardians of this country have died while on global duty executing Madeleine Albright's "indispensable nation" strategy. But you seldom hear about these deaths unless the catastrophe is so big it can't be hidden or ignored -- like the shootout in Somalia or the U.S. Air Force hotel bombing in Saudi Arabia. "