Coalition Soldier Shot Dead in Baghdad - U.S. Army

[La_Serpiente]

Coalition Soldier Shot Dead in Baghdad - U.S. Army

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Guerrillas shot dead a coalition soldier overnight as he tried to defuse a roadside bomb in Baghdad, a U.S. spokesman said Sunday.

The spokesman said the soldier was not a member of the U.S. military, but declined to give his nationality.

He said coalition soldiers returned fire.

U.S.-led occupation forces blame guerrilla attacks on supporters of Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) and foreign Islamic militants.

Coalition Soldier Shot Dead in Baghdad - U.S. Army

[pinniped]

1. Why the secrecy?

Bad news from Iraq articles are getting shorter and shorter.

Was it the first Japanese soldier KIA or something?

RIP soldier.

[Columbia]

2. Could be waiting for that country to release the info first

[Mairead]

4. A mercenary, possibly?

[izzie]

3. And their blogs say the "News" is being hander out by our govt.

Our tax payers money. I am willing to bet that our army has been pulled back so the deaths will go down. We are going to sit over their behind walls so Bush will look good. What fools we are in this country. I do think this country has had its day in the sun. Now we are the Empire of war and power.So as with all empire we will fail.

[DoYouEverWonder]

8. Unfortunately they still have to protect

their supply lines, which are very vulnerable. But you are right about them pulling back. The US troops for the most part are staying out of the cities, except for raids, and they are letting the Iraqis fend for themselves. They don't care if they all kill each other. However, they are having major problems getting oil out of the northern fields. This is where you will see most of your American casualties. They can't just hide in their fortified bases all day, they have to protect the Oil Companies interests. Right now with the troop rotation and the situation in Afghanistan, things will be relatively quiet in Iraq for a bit at least until the next suicide bomber.

[Mari333]

5. Only 21

and his parents, just as the parents of the Iraqi children, must mourn with the same horror.
All because of a few powerful, greedy blackhearted bastards who sit in plush offices and count their monies at their marble desks and send out memos to allow more people to die and have their whole lives destroyed.
and where is the outrage.

[rfkrocks]

6. right on!

DU is so great-i get to read other people call shrub and thugs "greedy blackhearted bastards". I hope a majority (after florida) a large tamper proof majority feels the same way :yourock:

[leftchick]

7. Estonian Soldier Killed by Baghdad Bomb - Military

TALLINN (Reuters) - An Estonian soldier was killed by a roadside bomb in Baghdad, the first from his country to die in Iraq (news - web sites), a military spokesman said on Sunday.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&ncid=578&e=5&u=/nm/20040229/ts_nm/iraq_soldier_dc

RIP... :(

[saigon68]

9. Mercenaries

These foreign soldiers are paid on the same scale as U.S. soldiers by guess who??? your good old Uncle . They volunteer for the most part.

That is why at one time there were 50,000 plus of them in Viet-Nam from Korea, Philippines, Thailand. There were Aussies and N.Z. troops there, but from what I understood at the time they were paid "BETTER" than the U.S. troops by their own Uncles.

There were however "MASSIVE" kick backs bribes and graft from our Uncle Sam to all members of the "coalition of the committed" in Nam

That graft goes on today, whether it is a forgiveness of foreign debt, export-import credits, military hardware or just plain cash

Oh well to sum it up

"YOU PLAY YOU PAY"

R.I.P. nameless soldier, you just died, for Halliburton and a Scumbag named Cheney.