DAILY WAR NEWS FOR TUESDAY, August 22, 2006

Bush: 'We're not leaving so long as I'm president'

Today in Iraq

...Two more Marines from New York have died in combat in Iraq, including the nephew of a city fire chief who led Sept. 11 rescue efforts. Lance Cpl. Michael Glover, 28, and Capt. John J. McKenna IV, 30, were each shot in the head on Wednesday while together on foot patrol in the volatile Anbar province, the Pentagon said. Nine corpses were discovered yesterday in Baghdad, four in the neighborhood of Karkh on the west side of the capital, and five in Rusafa, a neighborhood in the east. All the victims had been shot in the head, according to Iraqi police sources. A bomb hidden in a bag exploded on a street in Tayaran Square in central Baghdad, killing two civilians and wounding nine. An engineer was shot dead while he was in his car in Baghdad...

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