News From Iraq
Bombs Kill U.S. Sailor, Two Soldiers in Iraq
Sun Apr 24, 2005 09:59 AM ET
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A bomb killed a U.S. soldier in Baghdad Sunday, raising to at least three the number of American military personnel killed in Iraq this weekend, the U.S. military said.
A bomb targeting a patrol killed the soldier Sunday morning in east Baghdad, the military said in a statement.
A sailor was killed by a bomb during combat operations on Saturday in Falluja, about 50 km (30 miles) west of Baghdad.
A second U.S. soldier was killed Saturday when a bomb exploded near a military convoy near al Haswah, west of Baghdad. The second soldier and the sailor were assigned to the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force.
The deaths raise to at least 1,194 the number of U.S. military personnel killed by enemy action in Iraq since the 2003 invasion.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=8273910
---Notice the inaccurate death toll, parsing the dead to hide them.---
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Iraq suicide bombings kill 23, Pakistani hostage released
BAGHDAD (AFP) - At least 23 people died and more than 80 were wounded in a series of bomb attacks near a mosque in Baghdad and outside a police academy in the north of the country, security officials said.
At least 23 people died and more than 80 were wounded in a series of bomb attacks near a mosque in Baghdad and outside a police academy in the north of the country, security officials said.
Amid the violence, Islamabad said a Pakistani hostage held since two weeks had been released, while in Washington controversial politician Ahmed Chalabi said delays in forming a government were playing into the hands of insurgents.
Two explosions Sunday evening in a mixed Shiite-Sunni district of the Iraqi capital apparently targeted an area close to the Shiite Hussayniah al-Beit mosque, killing 16 and wounding 50.
"A bomb exploded and, when people ran out near the Hussayniah al-Beit mosque, a car driven by a suicide bomber ploughed into them," an interior ministry official said.
Earlier, two suicide car bombs went off outside a police academy in Tikrit, killing at least seven people and wounding 37. Police casualties accounted for five of the dead, police and hospital sources said.
The mosque bombing was the latest in a series of attacks on Shiites, with a suicide car bomb exploding outside another Shiite mosque during weekly prayers on Friday, killing nine people and leaving 26 wounded.
http://www.bakutoday.net/afps/english/shared/int/050424203146.4pb0e9iv.html
---Does THIS sound like democracy to you...?---
Sun Apr 24, 2005 09:59 AM ET
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A bomb killed a U.S. soldier in Baghdad Sunday, raising to at least three the number of American military personnel killed in Iraq this weekend, the U.S. military said.
A bomb targeting a patrol killed the soldier Sunday morning in east Baghdad, the military said in a statement.
A sailor was killed by a bomb during combat operations on Saturday in Falluja, about 50 km (30 miles) west of Baghdad.
A second U.S. soldier was killed Saturday when a bomb exploded near a military convoy near al Haswah, west of Baghdad. The second soldier and the sailor were assigned to the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force.
The deaths raise to at least 1,194 the number of U.S. military personnel killed by enemy action in Iraq since the 2003 invasion.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=8273910
---Notice the inaccurate death toll, parsing the dead to hide them.---
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Iraq suicide bombings kill 23, Pakistani hostage released
BAGHDAD (AFP) - At least 23 people died and more than 80 were wounded in a series of bomb attacks near a mosque in Baghdad and outside a police academy in the north of the country, security officials said.
At least 23 people died and more than 80 were wounded in a series of bomb attacks near a mosque in Baghdad and outside a police academy in the north of the country, security officials said.
Amid the violence, Islamabad said a Pakistani hostage held since two weeks had been released, while in Washington controversial politician Ahmed Chalabi said delays in forming a government were playing into the hands of insurgents.
Two explosions Sunday evening in a mixed Shiite-Sunni district of the Iraqi capital apparently targeted an area close to the Shiite Hussayniah al-Beit mosque, killing 16 and wounding 50.
"A bomb exploded and, when people ran out near the Hussayniah al-Beit mosque, a car driven by a suicide bomber ploughed into them," an interior ministry official said.
Earlier, two suicide car bombs went off outside a police academy in Tikrit, killing at least seven people and wounding 37. Police casualties accounted for five of the dead, police and hospital sources said.
The mosque bombing was the latest in a series of attacks on Shiites, with a suicide car bomb exploding outside another Shiite mosque during weekly prayers on Friday, killing nine people and leaving 26 wounded.
http://www.bakutoday.net/afps/english/shared/int/050424203146.4pb0e9iv.html
---Does THIS sound like democracy to you...?---
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