Roadside bomb strikes MND-B patrol (2 incidents, 5 dead)

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Related: FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, March 17

What am I missing here?

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under investigation. Will we ever know what the details were? Will the families? :(

Gen. Petraeus and a High-Profile Suicide in Iraq
Col. Ted Westhusing, a West Point scholar, put a bullet in his head in Iraq after reporting widespread corruption. His suicide note -- complaining about human rights abuses and other crimes -- was addressed to his two commanders, including Gen. David Petraeus, now leader of the U.S. "surge" effort in Iraq. It urged them to "Reevaluate yourselves....You are not what you think you are and I know it."

By Greg Mitchell

(March 14, 2007) -- The scourge of suicides among American troops in Iraq is a serious, and seriously underreported, problem, as this column has observed numerous times in the past three years. One of the few high-profile cases involved a much-admired Army colonel named Ted Westhusing.

A portrait of Westhusing written by T. Christian Miller for the Los Angeles Times in November 2005 (which I covered at the time) revealed that Westhusing, before putting a bullet through his head, had been deeply disturbed by abuses carried out by American contractors in Iraq, including allegations that they had witnessed or even participated in the murder of Iraqis.


http://editorandpublisher.com/eandp/columns/pressingissues_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003558239&imw=Y

Web site helps soldiers cope with trauma and stress of Iraq
Justin Berton, Chronicle Staff Writer

Friday, March 16, 2007

Here's a future scene from the Iraq battlefield, circa July 2007: A U.S. soldier battles against the enemy all day long. At night, after returning to base, he's troubled by what he's seen. But he knows better than to speak up.

Just outside the view of his fellow soldiers, he logs on to a virtual therapy Web site provided by the military called afterdeployment.org. He knows that if his comrades see him talking with one of the shrinks on base, they would lose trust in him, label him a head case. A medical file soon would contain records of the visit. If he ever wanted a promotion, he'd have to explain the weakness of his mind.

Or that's the thinking among the male-dominated, therapy-averse troops, according to researchers, therapists and military psychologists who met at the fifth annual Military Suicide Prevention Conference in Hollywood, Fla., last week. Attendees discussed how to stem military suicides -- in 2005 alone, the last year for which there are confirmed figures, 22 service members killed themselves in Iraq, Kuwait and Afghanistan.

more:http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/03/16/MNG4GOMICN1.DTL&feed=rss.news

Six US troops killed in Iraq by Bryan Pearson
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BAGHDAD (AFP) - Insurgent attacks killed six more US troops, the military said on Sunday, as security forces braced for more chemical attacks after dirty bombs left two policemen dead and 350 civilians sick.

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Almost exactly four years after the invasion of Iraq, American casualties are still mounting as US and Iraqi forces battle to quell the insurgent and sectarian violence gripping the country.

In other violence in the Iraqi capital, a city steeped in Sunni-Shiite bloodletting, insurgents killed a policeman and two bystanders in separate incidents on Sunday, security officials said.

A US military statement said four troops died on Saturday when a roadside bomb ripped through a patrol in west Baghdad while another soldier was killed the same day when a foot patrol was hit by a bomb in the south.

A sixth soldier was killed and five were wounded, also Saturday, in a bomb blast in Diyala province, where attacks are on the rise as insurgents focus on areas beyond the reach of an intensive security operation under way in Baghdad.

more:http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070318/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_070318103127

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