U.S. Deaths Confirmed By The DoD: 3974
Reported U.S. Deaths Pending DoD Confirmation: 1
Total 3975
DoD Confirmation List
http://icasualties.org/oif/------------------
03/07/08 Reuters: U.S. soldiers kill eight suspected al Qaeda fighters
U.S. soldiers killed eight suspected al Qaeda fighters and detained 10 others in raids around Samarra, 100 km (60 miles) north of Baghdad, the U.S. military said. Seven other suspects were arrested in operations elsewhere in central Iraq.
03/07/08 AP: Shiite stronghold is not safe
The death toll rose Friday to 68 from twin bombings whose blow also reverberated beyond the body count: showing that insurgents can still bring bloodshed into the heart of Baghdad and rattle the fragile confidence that is returning...
03/07/08 AFP: Iraq, Turkey vow to boost ties, act against Kurdish rebels
The leaders of Iraq and Turkey pledged Friday to take measures against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq during talks to soothe tensions following a Turkish cross-border offensive against the militants.
03/07/08 AFP: Women bear brunt of Iraq bloodshed
"There was a stranger at the door. He gave me an envelope which had two bullets and a letter that said 'if you do not close your beauty parlour, we will kill you. Your work is haram (forbidden),'" says Asma Kadhim, 40, one of the ...
03/07/08 KUNA: US army kills eight armed men, finds weapon cache
US-led coalition forces killed eight terrorists and detained 17 suspected terrorists Thursday during operations to disrupt al-Qaeda networks operating in central Iraq, a US military statement said on Friday.
03/07/08 Reuters: Iraqi cleric Sadr explains long absence to followers
Powerful Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, who has not been seen in public for months, issued an unusual statement on Friday explaining his absence to his followers and admitting splits in his movement.
03/07/08 Xinhua: Suicide car bomb kills 4 policemen in Iraq's Mosu
Up to five policemen were killed and 33 people injured in the Friday morning suicide car bomb attack on a police station in the city of Mosul, the capital of the northern Nineveh province, a provincial police source said.
03/07/08 BBC: Death toll rises in Baghdad bombs
Sixty-eight people were killed in twin bomb attacks on a shopping area in central Baghdad, Iraq's interior ministry has said. The Thursday blasts left another 130 people injured, officials said.
03/07/08 AP: Psychiatrists Needed on Warfronts
U.S. troops on the battlefield found it harder to get the mental health care they needed last year, when violence rose in Afghanistan and new tactics pushed soldiers in Iraq farther from their operating bases.
03/06/08 Reuters: Bombs kill 55 in Baghdad shopping district
Two large bombs exploded within a few minutes of each other in a crowded Baghdad shopping area on Thursday, killing 55 people on the day that the U.S. military said it was withdrawing 2,000 troops from the Iraqi capital.
03/06/08 Reuters: Five killed in Baghdad blasts
TWO roadside bombs that exploded within a few minutes of each other in central Baghdad overnight killed five people and wounded 18 others, police said. A police spokesman said the successive blasts occurred in a shopping area in the Karrada district...
03/06/08 BostonGlobe: Top Iraq contractor skirts US taxes offshore
Kellogg Brown & Root, the nation's top Iraq war contractor and until last year a subsidiary of Halliburton Corp., has avoided paying hundreds of millions of dollars in federal Medicare and Social Security taxes by hiring workers...
03/06/08 AP: Iraq, China nearing oil deal
Iraq and China are close to re-signing a $1.2 billion oil deal that was called off after the
2003 U.S. invasion, an Iraqi Oil Ministry official said Thursday.
03/06/08 AP: Front Line Troop Morale Varies, Study Says
U.S. troop morale improved in Iraq last year, but soldiers fighting in Afghanistan suffered
more depression as violence there worsened, an Army mental health report says.
*** 03/06/08 AFP: Iraqi women lost rights after US invasion ***
The state of Iraqi women has become a "national crisis" since the March 2003 US-led invasion,
a report released by an international women's group said on Thursday.
03/06/08 AP: US/Iraqi raid kills 11 in northern Iraq
U.S. and Iraqi forces killed 11 suspected insurgents and detained 44 others in raids targeting
al-Qaida in central and northern Iraq, the U.S. military said Thursday. Three Iraqi troops were
killed in one of the operations.
03/06/08 AFP: Iraqi president to visit Turkey after incursion
Iraqi President Jalal Talabani will travel to Ankara Friday for a two-day visit, a week after
Turkish forces ended a military offensive against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq, officials
said Thursday.
03/06/08 Reuters: 2 people killed, 10 wounded in clashes near Baquba
Two people were killed and 10 wounded in clashes between al Qaeda and villagers
in Tal Asswad near Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad, on Wednesday, police said.
03/06/08 Reuters: Gunmen kill 4 off-duty prison guards in Mosul
Gunmen killed four off-duty prison guards in Mosul on Wednesday, police said
03/06/08 Reuters: Three bodies found in Mosul
The bodies of three men, two of them decapitated, were found in Mosul, 390 km
(240 miles) north of Baghdad on Wednesday, police said.
03/06/08 Reuters: Two bodies found in Baghdad on Wednesday
The bodies of two people were found in Baghdad on Wednesday, police said.
03/06/08 Reuters: Minibus bomb wounds 2 in Hilla
Two people were wounded when a bomb exploded inside a minibus in the city of Hilla,
100 km (60 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.
03/06/08 Reuters: Roadside bomb kills 1, wounds 5 in northern Baghdad
One person was killed and five wounded by a roadside bomb in northern Baghdad's
al-Waziriya district, police said.
03/07/08 MNF: MND-N Soldiers attacked in Salah Ah Din
One Multi-National Division - North Soldier was killed from injuries sustained from an explosion
while conducting operations in Diyala March One MND-N Soldier was injured during the attack and
evacuated to a Coalition forces hospital.
Escalation is working swell.... :eyes:
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