What the hell happened to the Iraq casualties today?

I have been out of town all day on business, and then I look at http://icasualties.org/oif/ and find that 14 troops died?! What happened?

sarcasm

and there were 11 injured besides, so there will probably be more casualties. It is just sickening.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/12/02/iraq.main/index.html

10 Marines killed near Falluja
In separate incident, three soldiers die in traffic accident

Friday, December 2, 2005; Posted: 6:01 p.m. EST (23:01 GMT)

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- A roadside bomb killed 10 U.S. Marines and wounded 11 others on nighttime foot patrol Thursday near Falluja, and three other soldiers died Friday in a traffic accident, the military said.

Few details were available about Friday's wreck. The three U.S. soldiers killed were members of the National Guard's 48th Brigade Combat Team, according to a news release. The wreck is under investigation, the military said.

The bomb that killed the Marines on Thursday was "fashioned from several large artillery shells," a Marine Corps statement said.

The Marines were from Regimental Combat Team 8, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward). Seven of the wounded Marines have returned to duty, the military said in a news release.

The attack was one of the deadliest in recent months. In August a homemade bomb killed 14 Marines and a civilian interpreter just south of Haditha, in western Iraq. That attack caused the greatest death toll among U.S. Marines since President Bush declared the major phase of the war over in May 2003, according to a Marine spokesman.

Two months earlier, in March 2003, 18 Marines were killed during a friendly fire incident near Nasiriya. The Pentagon has said some of those deaths resulted from hostile fire.

The Marines killed on Thursday were not involved in the large-scale operations being conducted near Fallujah.

Marines have been conducting counterinsurgency offensives in the Falluja and Ramadi areas to root out the insurgency ahead of the December 15 elections.

A U.S. soldier, also assigned to the 2nd Marine Division, has died of wounds from a rocket attack Thursday in Ramadi, the U.S. Marines said. He was traveling in a vehicle during combat.

Thursday's deaths bring the number of U.S. military deaths in Iraq to 2,124.

10 Marines killed near Falluja

I'm guessing we'll have to go in and flatten the city....for the fourth time.

They've been naming the military actions using "Iron" as a theme.

How long before they slip up and name one "Operation Iron Curtain"