ANOTHER soldier killed in Baquba, Iraq (NE Iraq) 11 PM last night --AFP

http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=a5zP31Rfo.ug&refer=us

U.S. Soldier Killed in Grenade Attack in Baquba, Iraq, AFP Says
July 28 (Bloomberg) --

A U.S. soldier was killed when a rocket-propelled grenade was fired at a tank guarding a hospital in Baquba, 60 kilometers (40 miles) northeast of Baghdad, Agence France-Presse cited unidentified witnesses as saying.

The incident happened at about 11 p.m. last night in a town regarded by the U.S. military as home to many loyalists of the ousted regime, AFP said. Three U.S. soldiers were killed by a grenade there as they guarded a children's hospital on Saturday, the news agency said.

There was no information immediately available on the incident from the U.S. military. The death would bring to 11 the number of U.S. soldiers killed by suspected Iraqi fighters since Saddam Hussein's sons were killed on July 22.

(AFP< 7-28)

the 17th in the last ten days?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1007292,00.html


Iraqis kill five more US
soldiers

Jonathan Steele in Baghdad and Duncan
Campbell in Los Angeles
Monday July 28, 2003
The Guardian

Iraqi guerrillas killed a US soldier in a grenade
attack south of Baghdad early yesterday morning,
bringing the American death toll in 24 hours to
five. The deaths came as the hunt for Saddam
Hussein intensified in the Tikrit area and in the
capital.

US special forces hunting him last night carried
out a bloody raid on the Baghdad house of one of
Iraq's most powerful tribal leaders, Rabiah
Muhammed, but failed to find the former
president.

An American soldier at a nearby hospital said five
bodies and at least eight wounded had been
brought in from the scene of the raid in the
wealthy al-Mansour district of the cap ital. An Iraqi
policeman said all the dead had been in cars fired
on by troops as they drove through the area. A
boy in his early teens was among the dead.

"Today has been off the wall," a US soldier
guarding the emergency ward of Yarmuk hospital
told Reuters news agency.

8 dead in 48 hours i guess

That damn liberal media again

An ongoing timeline sure would be helpful

There are so many, I'm getting confused.

There are so many announcements with different numbers, that I don't know whether the new ones should be included in the old ones or added to them. Is there a site on the net that keeps track of numbers and incidents?

chronological list of the US war dead. It details where and how they died and includes soldiers who die later from their injuries. So sad.

http://www.pigstye.net/iraq/

Thanks. (Link.)

Its sad to say but our troops are just sitting ducks in a country they know little about..


DEAN in 2004

we're being targeted by al-Quaeda. It's not all Saddam loyalists,
but Bergman contended Iraq had become a magnet for al-Quaeda
since Iraq now has 150,000 of al-Quaeda's favorite targets.

Until we know WHO we're fighting, we're sunk.

FUCK YOU BUSH*.

I was overly optimistic before the war that we weren't going. :(

Iraqis would greet us with flowers once we invaded or when the government was deposed or when we controlled the country or when Saddam's sons were dead or when Saddam was dead or when pigs fly or when...ad nauseam.
GGGRRRRRRRRR

Does anyone on this thread think that there is potential propaganda in the news releases? I am alluding to the '3 soldiers killed guarding a children's hospital' section. I am just cynical enough to resist buying all of that.:hippie:

WELL?

How many will die and for what? Your fake war?

Bring the troops home.

reprucussions:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=93214&mesg_id=93214&page=

To the board for me suggesting that the use of armor would curb the KIA's from Iraq of our soldiers. I fucked that up. My sincerest apologies.