A daily look at U.S. military deaths in Iraq

[wilheim]

By Associated Press, 8/5/2004 17:05

As of Thursday, Aug. 5, 921 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq in March 2003, according to the Defense Department. Of those, 684 died as a result of hostile action and 237 died of non-hostile causes.

The British military has reported 61 deaths; Italy, 18; Spain, eight; Poland, seven; Bulgaria, six; Ukraine, four; Slovakia, three; Thailand, two; and Denmark, El Salvador, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia and the Netherlands have reported one death each.

Since May 1, 2003, when President Bush declared that major combat operations in Iraq had ended, 783 U.S. soldiers have died 575 as a result of hostile action and 208 of non-hostile causes, according to the Defense Department on Thursday.


The latest deaths reported by U.S. Central Command:

A 13th Corps Support Command soldier was killed and five were wounded in Balad when their convoy was attacked Thursday with a rocket-propelled grenade and small arms fire near Najaf.

 

[wilheim]

Another day in Iraq.

17 killed in Iraq violence

* Oil pipeline attacked again in Kirkuk

NAJAF: Eight people were killed and a US helicopter was shot down as US troops battled Shia Muslim militiamen in Iraq Thursday, while a suicide bombing and shootout outside a police station left another nine people dead.

US helicopters circled above Najaf cemetery, while heavy gunfire and mortar rounds boomed across the Shia holy city. The clashes continued into the late afternoon after a brief lull following the downing of a helicopter attached to the 11th Marine Expeditionary unit.

Najaf’s general hospital came under rocket attack, killing a doctor and seriously wounding four other staff members, said a health ministry official. In all, medics said four people were killed and 19 wounded in the clashes, which erupted overnight when Shia radical leader Moqtada Sadr’s Mehdi Army militia attacked Iraqi police.

Sadr’s representative in Iraq’s second city of Basra declared holy war against British forces after four of their comrades were arrested.

Three militiamen were killed and another three wounded in a brief skirmish with British troops in northern Basra, Sheikh Saad al-Basri said. In Sadr’s Baghdad slum stronghold of Sadr City, another person was killed and two others wounded in fighting between US forces and the Mehdi Army, said officials at Al-Shuader hospital. Several loud mortar blasts shook central Baghdad late on Thursday and a plume of smoke rose close to the Sheraton and Palestine hotels.

Northern Iraq’s main pipeline connecting the oil fields of Kirkuk with the Turkish port of Ceyhan came under fresh attack on Thursday. agencies

Reuters

 

[Mr NJ Sports]

Here is my impresson of every liberal when they hear of a death in Iraq these days....

 

[wilheim]

I see because whenever events in Iraq get reported means that anyone who reports them has to be overjoyed to see US soldiers being killed every day in an unjust war. Very ignorant statement for anyone to make, from either side right or left. But not surprising considering the source.

wil.

 

[Mr NJ Sports]

You cannot wait to post the bad news. You must sit around praying for it. Admit it. We won't think you are any bigger of a dope than we already do.

 

[wilheim]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR> You cannot wait to post the bad news. You must sit around praying for it. Admit it. We won't think you are any bigger of a dope than we already do. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

First of all I could care less what you (not sure who we is) think of me. I do object seriously abour your implications that I am praying for US soldiers to be killed. You are very much out of line making such implications. These statements are a new low in ignorance on this forum

 

[Mr NJ Sports]

Ypu must mean "a new low in ignorance" besides all of your posts