Iraq - Today's Casualties

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I think it's time to try to keep track of this info. Lately, so much happens that it's hard to keep the incidents apart. Especially, since the M$M refuses to do their job, it's up to us to do it for them.

Any contributions are greatly appreciated.

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Casualties for the last 24 hours - 05/03/05


Body of missing U.S. pilot found in Iraq

The body of a pilot from one of two missing Marine jets from the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier was found Tuesday, the U.S. command said. The jets had gone missing Monday night while flying in support of operations in Iraq, but there was no immediate word on the fate of the aircraft.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/IRAQ?SITE=FLPET&SECTION=HOME



The US military in Iraq has said its forces killed 12 insurgents in a clash near the Syrian border on Monday. It says nine were killed when US forces stopped a suspect truck. Three more died in a subsequent air strike. A number of people were reported to have been wounded in the operation, including a six-year-old girl and six coalition soldiers.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4507869.stm



At least 35 Iraqis were killed Monday, including eight soldiers cut down by a suicide attacker who blew up a truck at a checkpoint south of the capital, and six civilians caught in a car bombing that set fire to a Baghdad apartment building. An American and a British soldier were also killed in separate roadside bombings.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/IRAQ?SITE=FLPET&SECTION=HOME





They said nine people died in a blast in a busy shopping area of Baghdad. At least three people were killed in an explosion in the east of the capital and four more died in two blasts in the northern city of Mosul. The attacks by insurgents came the day after a bomb killed 25 in northern Iraq amid escalating violence since last week's announcement of a new cabinet.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4504989.stm


A British soldier died after being injured in "hostile action", the UK defence ministry said, giving no further details.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4504989.stm

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1. A couple more

Meanwhile, US and Iraqi army forces sealed off the northern town of Tal Afar, the scene of heavy fighting in the past, and imposed a curfew after a suicide bomb driven into the funeral tent of a Kurdish official killed 30 people and wounded 50 at the weekend.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=635173


A bomb yesterday slightly wounded Major-General Fuleih Rasheed, the commander of a police commando unit linked to the interior ministry, and two of his men in the Huriya district of northwest Baghdad. The bomb exploded as Maj-Gen Rasheed's convoy raced past the point.

A third bomb in Baghdad in the Zayouna district killed two policemen and wounded 10 people.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=635173

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2. A few more from this afternoon

A Coldstream Guardsman was killed and another injured by the blast of a roadside bomb in southern Iraq late yesterday, the Ministry of Defence said.

The two were on a night patrol in armoured Land Rovers of the 1st Battalion, Coldstream Guards, near Amara. The Shia-dominated city in the British-controlled zone has seen relatively few attacks in recent months.

The dead soldier was named as Guardsman Anthony John Wakefield, 24, from Newcastle upon Tyne, who was married with three children.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1475199,00.html




A U.S. Army soldier comforting a child fatally wounded in a car bomb blast in Mosul. (Fatally wounded? Doesn't that = dead?)

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3. Two more US casualties

May 3, 2005
Release Number: 05-05-01C

ONE SOLDIER KILLED, ONE INJURED IN IED ATTACK

LSA ANACONDA, BALAD, Iraq – One 1st Corps Support Command Soldier was killed and one other was injured when an improvised explosive device detonated near their vehicle during a combat logistics patrol south of Baghdad International Airport at approximately 9:45 p.m. May 2, 2005.

The names of the Soldiers are being withheld pending next of kin notification.

http://www.centcom.mil/CENTCOMNews/Casualty_Report.asp?CasualtyReport=20050501.txt

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4. Check out the list of "happenings" in Iraq today.

http://icasualties.org/oif/