"Where is my son? Where is my son?":

DAILY WAR NEWS FOR TUESDAY, May 2, 2006

"Where is my son? Where is my son?": Look at this picture. Now look at the grimace on the woman's face. The pieces of paper she is holding read: "Where is my son, O Government? Where is my son?" (Keep reading in "’Lost’ in the system" below)

Bring 'em on: The Department of Defense announced today the death of two soldiers who were supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. They died in Baghdad, Iraq, on April 28, when an improvised explosive device detonated near their HMMWV during combat operations. The soldiers were assigned to the 10th Cavalry, 4th Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, Fort Hood, Texas. (CENTCOM]

Bring 'em on: The Department of Defense announced today the death of two Marines, who were supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Both Marines died April 28 while conducting combat operations against enemy forces in Al Anbar province, Iraq. (CENTCOM) [The death of one of these Marines was reported in yesterday's post --- zig]

Bring 'em on: Roadside bomb kills U.S. soldier Monday night about 40 miles south of Baghdad in the Sunni-dominated "Triangle of Death."

U.S. soldier assigned to the 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team dies in Iraq from cardiac arrest.

OTHER SECURITY INCIDENTS

Baghdad:

American security contractors shot dead an Iraqi ambulance crewman, when they opened fire on his vehicle after a roadside bomb blasted their convoy. Two American civilians were wounded in the incident in north Baghdad, the US military said. Clearly marked with a red crescent symbol, its windows had been shattered by bullets.

Bomb hidden in parked minibus explodes in Baghdad's main wholesale market, killing two Iraqis and wounding five.

Roadside bomb misses U.S. convoy in Waziriyah, northern Baghdad, but kills an Iraqi pedestrian.

Roadside bomb targeting Iraqi police patrol in western Baghdad kills one civilian and wounds another.

Bodies of four Iraqi men found on the streets of Kazimiyah, a neighborhood in northern Baghdad. The legs and hands of the men were bound with rope, and each had been shot in the head and chest before being dumped on a street

Bodies of more bullet-riddled kidnap victims have found, eight so far Tuesday.

In the southern Baghdad neighbourhood of Al-Bayaa, a roadside bomb kills one civilian and wounds four.

An official at Yarmouk hospital in Baghdad says its morgue was full after receiving 65 corpses over the past three days of people who mostly died from gunshot wounds. Some others were beheaded. The victims included three schoolteachers who were gunned down in the capital.

Two civilians killed and one wounded in two drive-by shootings in two areas of the capital.

In Dora, one of the capital's most violent neighborhoods, a roadside bomb wounds three Iraqi soldiers in a convoy.

Baqubah:

North of Baqouba, gunmen attack a stone quarry, killing the guard and kidnapping the quarry owner's son.

Policemen at Baquba's police headquarters say they shot and killed two civilians who were suspected of being car bombers as they approached the headquarters on Monday evening. Two others were wounded.

Iraqi private security guard shot dead near Baquba, just north of the capital.

West of Baquba, gunmen attack family travelling in a car. One man was killed and two others were wounded in the attack.

Yusufiya:

Bodies of three people found, tortured and shot dead, in Yusufiya, 15 km (9 miles) south of Baghdad. >>>cont

QUOTE OF THE DAY: "The occupation is responsible for everything that happens. What happens are the symptoms. The occupation is the disease. The occupation works on division. The issue they are working on now is civil war." --- Eman Khamas, Iraqi journalist, author and human rights advocate quoted by Sarah Meyer, a researcher living in Sussex, UK.

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