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Edited on Sun Jan-20-08 12:45 PM by Breeze54
U.S. Deaths Confirmed By The DoD: 3926
http://icasualties.org/oif/
Reported U.S. Deaths Pending DoD Confirmation: 1
:redbox: Total = 3927
DoD Confirmation List
Latest Coalition Fatality: Jan 18, 2008News from/about Iraq
Current Time in Baghdad: 7:39:43 PM01/20/08 NYTimes: An Iraq Veteran’s Descent; a Prosecutor’s ChoiceNot long after Lance Cpl. Walter Rollo Smith returned from Iraq, the Marines dispatched him to Quantico, Va., for a marksmanship instructor course. 01/20/08 NYTimes: Scenes From a Marriage in BaghdadMY wife, Diana, saw the explosion from a Humvee parked a few hundred yards away. Dirt rose over the palm trees, a deep thud shook the ground and Diana told herself I was nowhere near it. :redbox: 01/20/08 AP: New generation of homeless vets emergePeter Mohan traces the path from the Iraqi battlefield to this lifeless conference room, where he sits in a kilt and a Camp Kill Yourself T-shirt and calmly describes how he became a sad cliche: a homeless veteran.
:redbox: 01/20/08 AP: Suicide Bombing Kills 6 in Anbar
A suicide bombing killed six people in Anbar province on Sunday, but the target of the attack,
a U.S.-backed Sunni tribal sheik, was unhurt, police said. The bomber detonated explosives in
his belt after four guards stopped him at the checkpoint...
:redbox: 01/20/08 Xinhua: 4 killed in gunfire attacks in north of Baghdad
Four people were killed, including a former senior member of Saddam's Baath Party, in two attacks
in the city of Samarra in Salahudin province, a provincial police source said on Sunday.
:redbox: 01/20/08 AP: 2 Czech soldiers injured in rocket attack in Iraq
Two Czech soldiers were injured in a rocket attack on a base in southern Iraq early Sunday, the Czech
Defense Ministry said. The two servicemen suffered cuts to their arms and legs, ministry spokesman
Andrej Cirtek said in a statement.
01/20/08 Reuters: U.S. forces detained gunmen
U.S. forces detained 16 gunmen on Friday and Saturday during operations targeting al Qaeda in
central and northern Iraq, the U.S. military said...The U.S. military detained 10 gunmen during
a raid in northern Diyala province on Thursday
:redbox: 01/20/08 Reuters: Motar fire kills 5, wounds 30 in Balad
Five people were killed and 20 were wounded when mortar bombs hit Shi'ites observing Ashura
rituals in Balad, 80 km (50 miles) north of Baghdad, on Saturday, police said.
:redbox: 01/20/08 Reuters: Iraqi soldiers kill 8 gunmen, arrest 54
Iraqi soldiers killed eight gunmen and arrested 54 others during the last 24 hours across Iraq,
the Defence Ministry said.
:redbox: 01/20/08 Reuters: Police kill driver of car rigged with explosives
Police said they shot dead the driver of a car rigged with explosives during an attempted attack
on a police checkpoint in eastern Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad. The car detonated,
wounding two people.
:redbox: 01/19/08 KUNA: Eight Iraqi, US servicemen (not confirmed) killed in Ramadi :redbox:
Eight Iraqi and American servicemn were killed and 17 others injured in a twin suicide bombings
in the city of Ramadi on Saturday, a security source said.
01/19/08 AP: Suicide attack kills 5 police officers in Iraqi city of Ramadi
Three suicide bombers attacked a police station west of Baghdad on Saturday, killing five police
officers and wounding 10, police said. The attack took place in Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province.
Police shot and killed one of the attackers...
:redbox: 01/19/08 AP: U.S. army, short of soldiers, sends troops with minor injuries to Iraq :redbox:
Seventy-nine injured soldiers were pressed into war duty last month as the U.S. Army struggled
to fill its ranks, but most were assigned to light-duty jobs within limits set by doctors, two
Army leaders said.
01/19/08 Reuters: Two bodies found in Falluja
Police found two bodies with gunshot wounds near Falluja, 50 km (30 miles) west of Baghdad,
police said.
01/19/08 Reuters: Police detained 26 members of Shi'ite "Soldiers of Heaven" cult
Police detained 26 members of the Shi'ite "Soldiers of Heaven" cult in a pre-dawn raid on a house
in Hilla, 100 km (60 miles) south of Baghdad, police said. Sporadic fighting continued between
members of the cult and Iraqi security forces...
01/19/08 Reuters: Sunmen surrounded a Shi'ite mosque, security adviser escapes
Unidentified gunmen surrounded a Shi'ite mosque which Iraqi national security adviser Mowaffaq al-Rubaie
was visiting in northwestern Baghdad's Shula district on Friday, the Interior Ministry said.
Interior Ministry security forces safely escorted...
01/19/08 AP: Iraq's 'Awakening' pacts prove complicated
Sunnis across Iraq -- more than 70,000 at last count -- are turning to the Pentagon as generous
patrons and allies. Yet it could all sour quickly if the U.S. assistance to Sunnis dries up or
the Shiite-led government resists Washington's pressure...
:redbox: 01/19/08 AP: 9 killed in attacks on Iraqi worshippers during Shiite holiday
Bombs and a rocket attack killed at least nine worshippers in northern Iraq on Saturday during
the holiest celebration of Shiite Islam, as hundreds of thousands of bloody penitents across
Iraq honored the martyrdom of their revered saint.
01/19/08 Reuters: Most wanted al Qaeda leader in Salahuddin killed
The most wanted al Qaeda leader in Salahuddin province was killed on Jan. 16 by U.S. troops
and Iraqi police in Shirqat, 300 km (190 miles) north of Baghdad, the U.S military said.
01/19/08 Reuters: Mehdi ceasefire under threat in Iraq
A six-month ceasefire by one of Iraq's most powerful groupings may not be renewed, an aide
to influential Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's warned today. One of the key reasons for a
decline in Iraqi violence in recent months has been the cessation...
:redbox: 01/19/08 LATimes: Cult clash kills at least 80 in Iraq :redbox:
Members of an obscure messianic cult fought pitched battles Friday with Iraqi security forces in
two southern cities, leaving at least 80 people dead, injuring scores and spreading panic among
worshipers marking Shiite Islam's holiest holiday.
01/19/08 Canwest: Canadian commander takes a leading roll in Iraq
A former commander of the Joint Task Force 2 counter-terrorism unit is now in Iraq helping
U.S. forces there and preparing to co-ordinate coalition units in the war-torn country.
:redbox: 01/19/08 AP: Bombing in North Iraq during Ashoura kills 2
Two bombs hidden under trash struck Shiites marking Ashoura in northern Iraq on Saturday, killing
at least two marchers and wounding five, police said. The blast occurred as Shiites in the oil-rich
city of Kirkuk were beating themselves with chains...
01/19/08 AFP: Mosque raid 'ends southern Iraq bloodshed' during religious festival
Security forces on Saturday overran a mosque in southern Iraq where Shiite doomsday cultists
were holed up, ending two days of clashes in two cities that killed at least 70 people, police said.
01/19/08 Reuters: Millions mark Shi'ite ritual in Iraq after clashes
Iraqi forces imposed tight security on the city of Kerbala as 2.5 million pilgrims marked the climax
of a major Shi'ite rite on Saturday, a day after gunmen attacked worshippers and police in other
southern cities.
:redbox: 01/18/08 BBC: Iraqi refugees, "We can't return" :redbox:
The decrease in violence in Iraq over the past few months has seen a number of Iraqis return home.
But many of the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis who have fled the violence are unable or unwilling
to go back. In the second of two stories...
:redbox: 01/18/08 AFP: US - number of Iran bombs in Iraq already equals December :redbox:
US soldiers have already been targeted in the first two weeks of January by as many suspected
Iranian explosives as in all of December, the US defense chief said Friday.
01/18/08 AP: Sunni sheik offers guns and gets rewards
They know him as the sheik. But what that really means in this Sunni town is a bit of everything:
community leader, public works supervisor, agricultural planner, militia captain.
01/18/08 VOA: Turkish Army Reports Strikes Against Kurdish Rebels in Iraq
The Turkish military says its warplanes have struck nearly 60 positions of the Kurdish Workers Party,
the PKK, in northern Iraq. The strikes are the latest in an ongoing Turkish campaign against the PKK,
which Ankara claims is using bases in northern...
:redbox: 01/18/08 AP: At least 36 people were reported killed in Basra :redbox:
Iraqi authorities said at least 36 people were reported killed in Basra...and at least 10 in
Nasiriyah, where witnesses said U.S.-led coalition jet fighters and helicopter gunships targeted
a police station seized by cult gunmen.
:redbox: 01/18/08 MCT: 8 members of Islamic State of Iraq killed in west Kirkuk
8 members of the Islamic State of Iraq were killed as they passed the village of Sa’diyah,
Abbassi district, west Kirkuk. The Chief of suburban police in Kirkuk, Brigadier Sarhad Qadir
said that it is probable that the attack was carried out by members...
:redbox: 01/18/08 MCT: 3 bodies found in Shirween village
3 unidentified bodies were found in Shirween village, Muqdadiyah district by Iraqi Army
this afternoon. One body was decapitated.
:redbox: 01/18/08 MCT: 2 bodies found in Baghdad
2 unidentified bodies were found by Iraqi Police in Baghdad today.
1 in Saidiyah and 1 in New Baghdad
:redbox: 01/18/08 Reuters: Roadside bomb kills 2 in northeastern Baghdad
A woman and a child were killed when a roadside bomb targeting a U.S. patrol exploded
in northeastern Baghdad's Ur district, police said.
:redbox: 01/18/08 Reuters: 2 policemen killed, 2 wounded north of Baghdad
Two policemen were killed and two wounded when a bomb exploded in a house they were searching
in Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.
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