Todays News from Iraq

There have been 1960 military fatalies as of 10-10-2005 in Iraq. 10/11/05 DoD Identifies Army Casualty Lt. Col. Leon G. James II, 46, of Sackets Harbor, N.Y., died at Walter Reed Army Medical Center...on Oct. 10, of injuries sustained in Baghdad, Iraq, on Sep. 26, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his HMMWV during combat operations. 10/11/05 AP: Three Suicides in Special Forces Unit Raise Questions Chief Warrant Officer William Howell was a 15-year Army Special Forces veteran ... Sgt. 1st Class Andre McDaniel was a military accountant. Spc. Jeremy Wilson repaired electronics. Each, however, committed suicide shortly after returning home 10/11/05 CENTCOM: Two Soldiers Killed by IED in Ar Ramadi Two Soldiers assigned to the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward), died of wounds sustained ... when their vehicle was attacked with an improvised explosive device in ar Ramadi on Oct. 10. 10/11/05 DOD Identifies Army Casualty Staff Sgt. Gary R. Harper Jr., 29, of Virden, Ill., died in Baghdad, Iraq on Oct. 9, when his reconnaissance mission was attacked by enemy forces. Harper was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 5th Special Forces Group, Fort Campbell, Ky. 10/11/05 AP: Central Ohio reservist dies in Iraq The father of Specialist Jeremy Hodge says his son has been killed in Iraq. He died yesterday, and was the lead driver in an armored convoy when a bomb went off. 10/11/05 USAToday: Iraq oil output falls behind pre-war levels Iraq's oil production has fallen below prewar levels to its lowest point in a decade, depriving the country's fledgling government of badly needed income and preventing the United States from achieving one of its main reconstruction goals. 10/11/05 Detroit News: Monroe GI, his dreams die in Iraq Army Pfc. Nicholas J. Greer died Friday in Haqlaniyah, Iraq, after he was shot while on patrol along a river near Syria. Greer was assigned to the Army's 3rd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, N.C. 10/11/05 AP: Knoxville soldier among two killed in attack in Iraq Army Sgt. Eric A. Fifer, 22, died Oct. 7 from injuries sustained when his unit was attacked by insurgents with small arms while on patrol in Haqlaniyah, Iraq. Fifer lated died in Al Asad. 10/11/05 Houston Chronicle: Soldier, formerly of Houston, is killed in Iraq Staff Sgt. Timothy J. Roark, 29, died in Balad, Iraq, on Oct. 2, of a noncombat injury, according to the Defense Department. No further information was available from the department because Monday was Columbus Day, a federal holiday. 10/11/05 PJStar: Atkinson fund-raiser aids injured Guardsman Spc. Dustin Hill suffered multiple burns and lost his right eye and both hands after a car bomb exploded in September 2004 near his Humvee in Baghdad, Iraq. 10/11/05 Reuters: Police Lieutenant killed in Tikrit Police lieutenant Soud Abdul Kareem was killed on Monday when a roadside bomb exploded near his house in the town of Tikrit, 175 km (110 miles) north of Baghdad, a police source said. 10/11/05 Reuters: Three bodies found near Samarra Police said a U.S. army patrol found three bodies in civilian clothes with multiple gunshot wounds on Monday in al-Tarisha village near Samarra, 100 km (62 miles) north of Baghdad. 10/11/05 WorldNow: Airman wounded in Iraq gets warm welcome home 21-year-old David Randolph was injured in Iraq on June 22nd when his humvee hit a land mine. Remarkably, he and two of his comrades suffered just minor injuries. 10/11/05 COX: Strenuous rehab can't discourage wounded soldier Spc. Richard Ingram the 22-year-old Army scout from LaGrange, Georgia, whose left arm was severed by a roadside bomb in Iraq, hunts for the package containing his first custom-made prosthetic. 10/11/05 MediaNews: Injured Stryker Brigade soldier recovering in D.C. Spc. Eric Edmundson with the Charlie Troop 4th Squadron, 14th Cavalry was injured Oct. 3 in northern Iraq when the Stryker vehicle he was driving hit an IED. He suffered injuries to his right leg and arm as well as shrapnel wounds to his abdomen. 10/11/05 Voices: Air Force Personnel Assuming Non-Traditional Roles in Iraq In an effort to augment a U.S. Army strained for manpower, the Air Force has begun assigning thousands of ground personnel in combat roles to support Army operations. 10/11/05 MEOnline: Two Police killed in Dura Iraqi police also came under attack, with two policewomen shot and killed while riding in a taxi in Dura. Sixteen other people, including 12 policemen, were wounded in two other attacks in Baghdad. 10/11/05 MEOnline: Suicide bombings kill 37 as Iraq prepares to vote (cont.) In Baghdad, five soldiers and two civilians were killed and four others wounded in a suicide car bombing in the western neighbourhood of Al-Amariyah, a defence ministry source said. 10/11/05 MEOnline: Suicide bombings kill 37 as Iraq prepares to vote Thirty people were killed when a suicide car bomb ripped through a crowded market in the volatile Iraqi town of Tal Afar on Tuesday, just four days before a referendum on the new constitution that insurgents have vowed to disrupt. 10/11/05 AP: Baghdad blast kills 9 A second suicide car bomb exploded at an Iraqi army checkpoint in western Baghdad, killing nine people, mostly soldiers, police said...The Baghdad blast occurred at about noon, killing eight Iraqi soldiers and one civilian... 10/11/05 Reuters: Suicide car bomber hits Iraqi troops in Baghdad A suicide car bomber attacked Iraqi soldiers on Tuesday in a district of Baghdad where Sunni Arab insurgents have been active, police said, and initial reports indicated there may be more than 25 dead.