Pentagon lying about # of dead soldiers today

[protect freedom impeach bush now]

BUZZFLASH

BBC Reports at Least Three American Soldiers Dead in Ambush Attack, Another Report Says Eight. Pentagon Says None, But Wouldn't Allow Reporters Near the Attack Scene.

here's the '2 wounded' story -

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&e=2&u=/ap/20030918/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq


here's the 3 killed story with photos -


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/09/18/ukhal.xml&sSheet=/portal/2003/09/18/ixportalto


here's the 8 killed -

U.S. Troops Ambushed in Central Iraq - eight reported killed
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-3162358,00.html



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G O O G L E News search -

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&edition=us&q=soldiers+killed


8 US soldiers killed in Iraq
Hindustan Times, India - 6 hours ago
At least eight American soldiers were killed and one wounded after an attack on
the main road of the central Iraqi town of Khalidiyah on Thursday, media ...
8 US Soldiers Killed In West Baghdad - Turks.US
8 US Soldiers Killed In West Baghdad: Al-Arabiya - Islam Online
8 US soldiers killed in Iraq - NDTV.com
The Globe and Mail - Boston Globe - and more »


8 American soldiers killed in heavy attack in Iraq
Xinhua, China - 8 hours ago
18 (Xinhuanet) -- Eight American soldiers were killed in a fierce attack Thursday
on the road to Khaldiyah, 80 km west of Baghdad, Dubai-based Arabiya TV ...
Reports: At least eight US soldiers killed west of Baghdad - Albawaba Middle East News
Iraqi ambush kills 8 US troops - Washington Times
Troops wounded in convoy attack - NEWS.com.au


Eight US soldiers killed in Iraqi ambush
Ananova, UK - 8 hours ago
Eight American soldiers are reported to have been killed in an ambush
in the Iraqi town of Khadiyah. Arab satellite TV station Al ...
Arab TV reports 8 US soldiers killed in attack outside Baghdad - WIS
Eight US Soldiers Killied In Mujahideen Attacks Inside Iraq - jihadunspun.com
'Eight US troops killed in Iraq' - The Bath Chronicle

[GR]

1. I Think They're Cracking Down As Casualty Reports Are Hurting Them...

Remember what Rummy said...The truth is so important it must be accompanied by a bodyguard of lies...

He's got the lie part down real good...the truth part is another matter.

[drewb]

2. Too bad "Rummy" wasn't in that Humvee...

What a shame, and for what????

[rwheeler31]

3. cnn just reported 3 dead

nt

[lindashaw]

4. Its is my opinion that troops with no family don't make the list of dead.

Pretty skeptical, I admit, but I've read about some not having family, and it seems to reason that it's been noted and talked about.

[Bucky]

5. Nutty DU thinking

Sorry. The Pentagon is not without honor on these matters. Sometimes when unofficial soldiers (mercs, security contractors, spies, special ops) go over there their deaths aren't reported. But for regular troops, they do report the deaths.

It's the news networks that aren't publicizing the non-hostile-fire deaths that makes the actual death rate seem smaller. In truth car accidents are as big a risk in modern warfare as being shot.

The first reports of a violent confusing incident are bound to be somewhat contradictory. That hardly makes the discrepancies a cover up. Sheesh.

[trumad]

6. LOL

Yah..they wouldn't cover up now would they... Dude, then why is the Military not allowing the press near the U.S morge and why no flag draped coffins on TV?

[protect freedom impeach bush now]

8. 5 o'clock follies ring a bell ?

If you havent figured it out yet, you must not have been
paying attention over the past 40 yrs --

The PENTAGON LIES.

Rumsfeld even publically said it would be lying.

The Pentagon LIED in Vietnam. EVERY GD DAY !
The Pentagon LIES so often you cant keep up.

If CIA has members killed, DO you think they admit it
to the public ?

If the "contract" 'employees' are killed,
Do you think the NSA tells the American public ?

When things go badly for our soldiers,
do you think for even an instant that the Bush admin would
LIE ?
<sarcasm>

[Karenina]

9. "The Pentagon is not without honor on these matters."

What flavor Kool-Aid have you been drinking? They're LYING about Afghanistan and their nose on Iraq is at least a 10 meters long. Do you realize "injured" are not reported unless there is a death? Do you realize those who subsequently DIE from ther injuries are ALSO not reported? Do you realize Rumsfeld prohibits caskets returning from making a blip on the American media's radar screen??? GIMME A FUCKING BREAK. :puke: :puke: :puke:

[sattahipdeep]

7. guardian.co.uk

Thursday September 18, 2003 6:49 PM

By TAREK AL-ISSAWI

Associated Press Writer

KHALDIYAH, Iraq (AP) - Guerrillas ambushed two U.S. military
convoys with remote-controlled bombs in separate attacks
Thursday, wounding two Americans and sparking a heavy
gunbattle in which a 3-year-old boy was shot in the chest and
two trucks were destroyed.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-3163386,00.html