Nine Killed in Third Day of Iraq Attacks

[leftchick]

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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Insurgents began a third straight day of attacks in Iraq on Sunday, including ambushes, car bombs and a drive-by shooting, killing nine Iraqis and wounding 21, police said.


That raised the death toll from the latest wave of insurgent attacks that began on Friday to at least 74. The violence was timed to deflate hopes in Washington and Baghdad that the installation of the Iraq's first democratically elected government would curb the uprising.

One U.S. soldier also died in Saturday's attacks.

The strikes have been increasingly well coordinated, and that was the case in an ambush Sunday on a small road near Diala Bridge in eastern Baghdad, said police Lt. Col. Sabah Hamid al-Firtosi.

At 6:15 a.m., a pickup truck stopped near a checkpoint and insurgents jumped out and began firing machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades. Other insurgents appeared from behind nearby trees and joined the fight. Five policemen were killed and one was wounded, al-Firtosi said.

http://icasualties.org/oif/

How in the hell did we get to 1586 US DEAD so fast? :(

Military Fatalities: By Time Period

Period US UK Other* Total Avg Days
4 149 1 5 155 1.7 91
3 579 26 27 632 2.93 216
2 718 27 58 803 1.89 424
1 140 33 0 173 4.02 43
Total 1586 87 90 1763 2.28 774

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Time Periods Defined
Latest Fatality: Apr 30, 2005
2005: Iraqi Police and Guardsmen Deaths


Military Fatalities: By Month
Period US UK Other* Total Avg Days
4-2005 51 0 0 51 1.7 30

[DemonFighterLives]

1. Spiralling out of control

I heard news yesterday that the pentagon was releasing pictures of our caskets coming home. I haven't seen anything more on that.

[pnutchuck]

2. I heard about it on Thursday or Friday. Here's the link

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=103&topic_id=122323&mesg_id=122323&page=

[DemonFighterLives]

3. Thank you

I was just googling on it.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/04/28/AR2005042802078.html

clip..
The more than 700 photographs, taken by military photographers from 2001 to 2004, show coffins from Iraq and Afghanistan lining the mechanical silver interiors of Air Force C-17 jets. Many depict solemn honor guard ceremonies for the fallen troops at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware and other U.S. military facilities.




http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/gallery/2005/04/28/GA2005042801520.html

[leftchick]

4. Direct link to the photos....

Defense Department redactions obscure the faces and insignia of honor guard members in many of the war casualty images.

Why do they hide their faces? So no one can interview them about ALL of the dead?

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB152/index.htm

[DemonFighterLives]

5. Thanks

:kick:

I didn't know if it qualified for late breaking, but it deserves a thread of it's own. I started one in Genreal D.
I see you already found it.

[RedSock]

6. "Many depict solemn honor guard ceremonies for the fallen troops ..."

FALLEN?

FALLEN?????

No.

They are dead .. murdered ... slaughtered ... killed ... blown apart ... never to walk and breathe and love and think again ...


They did not fall down!!!

FUCK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[DemonFighterLives]

9. No Lie

They did not fall down. W fell down on his responsibility to the United States of America. We don't start wars or kill for oil round here.

After viewing some of those from Washington Post, the photographs themselves are beautiful, colorful, professional shots. Why did they hide these so long. If only people had seen these all along.

[DemonFighterLives]

10. Do you know how to pull the pictures out of Macromedia Flash?

I saw some at the end of the set that are available online. I assume the rest are not?

[leftchick]

12. no I don't

There are a few posted at the link on the left as you scroll down that you can link to.

[daleo]

18. Reminiscent of old-style pornography.

Or those old 'true-crime' magazines that used to have a sort of black bar like that put over the model's or the subject's eyes.

I guess these photos are a type of war pornography, or at least that's how the government sees it. Subliminal message is, you shouldn't really look at things like this.

[Roland99]

7. I count AT LEAST 331 Iraqi non-combatants killed in April

Culling from http://www.iraqbodycount.net and from news reports since 4/20 (the date of the last update at IBC.) BUT, this does NOT include the dozens of bodies found in Madain.

[leftchick]

8. I am sure there are literally hundreds

that don't get counted. :(

[Imagevision]

11. Could be the beginning for all we've been informed of.

Eversince The Pentagon installed it's own tv network and media the only way I get anynews is media from outside the US. news media journalists are (oops) accidently being killed??!!

[leftchick]

13. IRAQ ONSLAUGHT CONTINUES (20 dead today)

http://www9.sbs.com.au/theworldnews/region.php?id=110689®ion=6

At least 65 people have been killed in a two-day onslaught by insurgents in Iraq.

Almost 20 Iraqis and one US soldier were killed in the latest attacks.

At least five car bombs rocked Baghdad.

Six more exploded in the northern city of Mosul.

[NNN0LHI]

14. Insurgents Unleash Third Day of Deadly Attacks in Defiance of Iraq's New G

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBYX1PB78E.html

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Insurgents launched a third straight day of attacks in Iraq on Sunday, including ambushes, car bombs and a drive-by shooting, killing nine Iraqis and wounding more than 20, police said.

That raised the death toll from the latest wave of insurgent attacks that began on Friday to at least 79, including six U.S. soldiers. The violence was timed to deflate hopes in Washington and Baghdad that the installation of the Iraq's first democratically elected government would curb the uprising. snip

Many of the recent attacks have been well-coordinated, and that was the case on a small road near Diala Bridge in eastern Baghdad, said police Lt. Col. Sabah Hamid al-Firtosi.

At 6:15 a.m., a pickup truck stopped near a checkpoint and insurgents jumped out, firing machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades, al-Firtosi said. Other insurgents appeared from behind nearby trees and joined the attack, he said. Five policemen were killed and one was wounded.

[gratuitous]

15. And now, John, Paul, and George!

That's Negroponte, Wolfowitz and Bush:

"It's getting better all the ti-i-ime!
Better, better, be-e-tter!"

Not sure who should be Ringo.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

17. "The Cockroaches"?

I don't think they'll last-- I just don't care for the music they make. It's always just slightly off key, and the lyrics always suck.

And Ringo (I think it's Cheney) needs to play an instrument other than the drums of war.

[leesa]

16. So THIS is what happens when you try to force a phony democracy

at the point of a gun. Who could possibly have known??