Nighttime Blasts Shake Baghdad — 301 U.S. forces have died
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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – > Including US civilians killed in Iraq war. That is my count as of > tonite. Including the rest of the coalition, it is like 381 or so. > — > As of 8-13-03, in the 146 days since the start of the Iraq War, the US > has suffered 1,895 casualties (6,694 medevac’d)* in the Iraq Theater, > Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Djibouti, Palestine, Israel, Colombia, > Pakistan, the United States, Yemen, Jordan and Liberia – 312 killed, > 1582 wounded (6381 medevac’d) and 1 missing; or 2.1 killed per day. For > the Iraq War, there have been 1,795 US casualties (6,592 medevac’d), 282 > killed and 1513 wounded (6310 medevac’d); or 1.9 killed per day. The > British have suffered 52 killed or missing; their wounded tally is > unknown. US casualty totals cover both civilian and military victims of > the War on Terror in the locales listed above. British totals cover the > Iraq War only. A rough though incomplete estimate of Iraqi civilan > casualties so far is 7,870 killed and 19,733 wounded. The cost of the > Iraq War so far has been $74.3 billion. > *The medevac figure includes all troops airlifted home on medevac. The > figure is higher due to the inclusion of physical and mental illnesses > in the total. > http://tinyurl.com/natv http://tinyurl.com/m3b4 > http://tinyurl.com/nau9
Hey Free – a new Security report has just appeared on the U. N. site again – looks like they’re back online: Text sans maps: General: Unconfirmed report, from usually reliable source, suggests that groups of foreign fighters (F.F.) are entering into Iraq via the North-East of Iraq, more particularly trough the mountainous areas of Halabjah. This region is well known for being a traditional smugglers road between Iran and Iraq. F.F. groups attempting to sneak into Iraq will find there, a field favouring their insertion and various venal local supports. . While in Iraq, theses F.F. groups are reported following "clandestine insertion lines" trough the Province of Diyala and eventually hiding among the local inhabitants in the region of Ramadi, Fallujah and in certain quarters of Baghdad. The new surge of small scale "amateurs" style attacks against C.F. in the Baghdad Region could be attributed at this wave of new arrival without real connexion with the more organised groups linked to the former regime. Some of these F.F. are reported being former Foreigner Taliban having fled Afghanistan and clandestinely travelled trough Iran. There was a surge in number of attacks against C.F. in the area Northwest of Hilla. Baghdad and surrounding regions including the Western Desert: There were a low number of reported attacks against C.F. into Baghdad City for these last four days. However the number of attacks in the Baghdad Region, mainly on the HWY 1 on its section between Ramadi and Fallujah and in the all Diyala Provinces, remains the highest of the country. We have also observed a significant surge in the number of attacks against C.F. in the region south of Baghdad in the belt: Iskandariyah
