2 more US troops killed on Friday (buried in another story-no headlines)

[rodeodance]

.......Separately, the military said an American soldier was killed in a roadside bombing in southern Baghdad and an Ohio National Guard pilot was killed when his F-16 fighter crashed shortly after takeoff from Balad Air Base in central Iraq. The two deaths on Friday brought to at least 3,522 the number of American military personnel who have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count...



Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070616/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

[senseandsensibility]

1. May they rest in peace

And thank you for drawing our attention to this.

[Solly Mack]

2. just more success

init right Bush?

[Eugene]

3. Detailed reports...

Pilot killed in F-16 fighter crash on takeoff in Iraq, Air Force says - AP

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Source: Iraq Coalition Casualty Count

Multi-National Corps – Iraq
Public Affairs Office, Camp Victory
APO AE 09342

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
RELEASE No. 20070616-11
June 16, 2007

MND-B patrol struck by improvised explosive device
Multi-National Division – Baghdad PAO

BAGHDAD — One Multi-National Division-Baghdad Soldier was killed when a
roadside bomb detonated near a patrol during combat operations in a southern
section of Baghdad June 15. Three other Soldiers were wounded in the attack.

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Read more: http://icasualties.org/oif/pdf/20070616-11-MND-B-MND-B.pdf (pdf at icasualties.org)

[AnotherMother4Peace]

4. K&R - lest they be forgotten. God help us for what is being done in our name n/t