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| 2005-06-13 |
| BAGHDAD, Iraq - The military announced the killing of four more U.S. soldiers over the weekend, pushing the American death toll past 1,700 -- more than double what it was a year ago. Since last June 13 -- when 825 members of the U.S. military had died in Iraq -- the insurgency that took shape with the fall of Saddam Hussein has increased its toll on American forces and Iraqi soldiers and civilians alike. When the toll gets to the number of innocent Americans killed in one day 4-1/2 years ago, somebody let me know. Separately, Reuters reported that a senior U.S. diplomat survived on Monday when a suicide car bomber struck a U.S. military convoy in Baghdad. The report cited several police sources although the U.S. embassy said it was unaware of the incident. A spokesman for the Iraqi Islamic Party, a major Sunni Muslim grouping, said the official had just left its compound in western Baghdad when the explosion went off. Talking to the Sunnis and almost got wacked? A leak, perhaps? A snippet of good news. Iraq has fulfilled a number of key goals set by the Bush administration, including historic elections, a new government and the drafting of a new constitution. But the deaths continued. In the volatile town of Tal Afar where a U.S.-Iraqi offensive to rout terrorists has been launched, three mortar rounds missed an Iraqi army barracks and landed on a house Sunday, killing a 6-year old child, police Capt. Amjad Hashim said. The motar rounds came from un-named Heroes of the Islamic Revolution, I guess. In one of Sunday's bright spots, the French journalist Florence Aubenas and her Iraqi assistant Hussein Hanoun al-Saadi returned home after five months in captivity. Hoo-ray! A journalist was freed! |
| Posted by:Bobby |
| #1 Cool inline! I remembers when Bman lerned to trademark. :) |
| Posted by: Shipman 2005-06-13 14:54 |