Voices of Iraq is reporting that 11 US troops were killed Friday

[Contrary1]

I'm not finding it mentioned anywhere else. Is this a reliable source of information?

http://www.aswataliraq.info/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=41989&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

[TheWraith]

1. Never heard of it, and no Wikipedia entry either. That doesn't bode well for it. NT

[sabra]

3. it's a Reuters backed Iraqi news service

http://www.newstatesman.com/nma/nma2005/dispatches/archive/2005/07/19/website-gets-supersized/

GIVING A VOICE TO IRAQ
Reuters helps grass roots Iraqi web site

An Iraqi news web site is set to have a makeover to become the country’s first independent commercial news service.

According to the New York Times, the charitable foundation of the Reuters news agency plans to turn Aswat al-Iraq (which translates as ‘voice of Iraq’), into a fully-fledged news wire managed and staffed by Iraqi journalists in Baghdad. It will use $800,000 from the United Nations to create a newsroom and to base reporters in each Iraqi province. When the service goes live in a few months, it will feed breaking news to both Iraqi and foreign news outlets.

The web site has been relying on 30 freelance workers and help from three independent Iraqi newspapers to produce its articles. This new investment aims to encourage more Iraqi journalists to gain control of the news gathering process. Assem Abdel-Mohsen, an Egyptian and veteran Reuters correspondent in the Middle East who now edits Aswat al-Iraq from Cairo, said: “The standards of Iraqi journalists, were, in general, pathetic. Now they are enthusiastic and progressing rapidly.”

[frogcycle]

2. this is probably the attack they are talking about - got number wrong

http://www.mnf-iraq.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11380&Itemid=128

"BAGHDAD — Two MND-B Soldiers were killed and seven others were wounded when their patrol base came under attack by anti-Iraqi forces south of Baghdad April 12. Two Iraqi interpreters were also killed in the attack."