SOLDIER DIES FROM INJURIES SUSTAINED IN VEHICLE ACCIDENT(1499)

[leftchick]

March 1, 2005
Release Number: 05-03-01C


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


SOLDIER DIES FROM INJURIES SUSTAINED IN VEHICLE ACCIDENT

LOGISTICS SUPPORT AREA ANACONDA, BALAD, Iraq – A second 1st Corps Support Command Soldier is dead March 1 from injuries sustained during a vehicle accident that occurred about 20 miles northwest of Tikrit near the town of Bayji Feb 28.

The Soldier was evacuated to a combat support hospital in Tikrit Feb. 28 to be treated for head injuries, later dying as a result of those injuries.

The name of the Soldier is being withheld pending next of kin notification.

The accident is currently under investigation.

http://www.centcom.mil/CENTCOMNews/Casualty_Report.asp?CasualtyReport=20050301.txt

[Eagle_Eye]

1. It may be classified as an accident but

he died in bush's illegal war

[ClintonTyree]

2. I don't think vehicle accidents are considered................

in the official Pentagon "body count". They're in a category of their own, non-combat related. There are hundreds of these "non-combat related" deaths that are not reported. If all of these other deaths were included the actual number would be closer to 2,000 American lives lost. Thank god for these other categories :eyes:, people would start to think this war wasn't worth it! Of course the average American doesn't really care anyway. As long as they can drive their SUV to work and aren't made uncomfortable in any way, god bless president bush!

[ashmanonar]

3. and if all the combat deaths (not just the ones that are directly in

combat, not on the way to the hospital or in the hospital were counted, the number would be closer to 8000.

[shadowknows69]

4. is this "accident"

related in any way to a story I read yesterday about an attack on one of our convoys?

[ashmanonar]

5. i'm not sure.

i didn't post the op. but it seems awfully likely.

[ECH1969]

6. Yes car accidents

are added in with the Pentagon's body count.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

8. this report must have slipped through the PR net.

First report like this I've heard, out of the hundreds who have died this way.

[jmcgowanjm]

7. The name of the Soldier is being withheld pending next of kin notification

"local man woman killed wounded Iraq".

"Of course, for some reason, he's not included in the official totals."

I think there's about 4000 US KIA hidden
between these three sentences.

And no one was injured in the humvee?

About 35 000 WIA.

http://suburbanguerrilla.blogspot.com/2005/02/in-memoriamtoday-im-going-to-do.html

IRR 022805

Resistance car bomb kills six US troops in Mosul.

In a report posted at 12:45pm Monday afternoon,
Mafkarat al-Islam reported that a short while before, an
Iraqi Resistance car bomb had exploded by a US military
column in the al-Ba‘‘aj area of Mosul. Witnesses said that
a Resistance martyrdom fighter blasted into the US
column, made up of several vehicles, completely destroying
one American armored vehicle and killing six US troops
who were aboard it. An undetermined number of other US
troops were wounded in the
attack.

The correspondent reported while standing at the scene of
the attack that US forces had encircled the area and called in
an Apache helicopter to evacuate the dead and wounded.
The wreckage of the armored vehicle was hauled away by
a giant crane that took the hulk to a US military
vehicle “graveyard” near the al-Ghazlani base in
Mosul

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