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06/24/05 CENTCOM: FALLUJAH CONVOY ATTACK UPDATE
One Marine was killed by a suicide vehicle borne improvised explosive
device. The other Marine was killed by small arms fire immediately
after the car bomb attack. Three Marines and a Sailor [were also]
believed to be in the vehicle ...

06/24/05 AP: Iraqi Police Find Eight Beheaded Bodies
Six of the bodies belonged to Shiite farmers taken from their home in
Hashmiyat, 10 miles west of Baqouba, by an armed group wearing Iraqi
army uniforms late Thursday. The other two bodies were found in
al-Nahrawan district, southwest of Baqouba.

06/24/05 AP: Sacramento Guardsman Killed In Iraq
The California National Guard says details are sketchy, but Arnold
Duplantier was killed by small arms fire while providing security
outside the Al-Rasheed Hotel in Baghdad.

06/24/05 AP: West Monroe Marine killed in Iraq
Jerry Powell says the family was notified this morning that his son,
Corporal Chad Powell, a May 2001 graduate of West Monroe High School,
was one of those killed in the bombing in Fallujah.

06/24/05 NDTV: Failed Attack on Oil Ministry Official in Tikrit
A suicide car bomber in the northern Iraqi city of Tikrit failed to
kill the assumed target on Thursday, when a senior oil ministry
official escaped with his life.

06/24/05 ABC: Female Marines Killed in Iraq by Suicide Bomber
It is believed that three of the dead are female Marines, and that
several of the wounded are also women. If confirmed, it would be the
largest one-day casualty count for women serving in the military since
the start of the war in Iraq.

06/24/05 DoD Identifies Army Casualty
Sgt. Arnold Duplantier II, 26, of Sacramento, Calif., died June 22 in
Baghdad, Iraq, where he was providing cordon security, and was
attacked by enemy forces using small arms fire.

06/24/05 Reuters: IRAQ WRAPUP 1-Suicide bomber kills six U.S. troops
in Iraq
A suicide car bomber attacked a U.S. Marine vehicle in the city of
Falluja, killing six American troops in one of the deadliest single
assaults on U.S. ground forces in Iraq, the U.S. military said on
Friday.

06/24/05 Reuters: Six US troops presumed dead in Iraq attack-official
(Update)
"Two Marines were killed and we presume that the other four troops,
who are missing, were killed," the official, who asked not to be
identified, told Reuters ... The attack occurred late on Thursday in
the violent city west of Baghdad ...

06/24/05 CENTCOM: SVBIED HITS MARINE CONVOY IN FALLUJAH (UPDATE)
Two Marines assigned to II Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward) were
killed and 13 were wounded when a SVBIED struck their vehicle in
Fallujah. Three Marines and a Sailor are currently listed as Duty
Status Whereabouts Unknown.

06/24/05 AFX: US acknowledges torture at Guantanamo; in Iraq,
Afghanistan - UN
Washington has, for the first time, acknowledged to the United Nations
that prisoners have been tortured at US detention centres in
Guantanamo Bay, as well as Afghanistan and Iraq, a UN source said.

06/24/05 CNN: Marines killed in Falluja attack (update)
A Marine statement confirmed two Marines were killed and listed three
Marines and a sailor as "duty status whereabouts unknown."

06/24/05 CNN: Marines killed in Falluja attack
A suicide vehicle bomb killed two U.S. Marines and left four others
unaccounted for when it exploded near their convoy in Falluja, the
volatile city west of Baghdad, a U.S. military official said Friday.

06/24/05 UPI: Four dead in Iraq bomb, assassination
Police said two soldiers were among the three dead in the blast that
cut through a convoy of 10 military vehicles in the village of
Bouzayla. Gunmen assassinated Hassan Abdel Hadi, the head of a
religious Shiite association in the city of Khaless

06/24/05 AP: In Other Baghdad Violence
Gunmen killed police Lt. Col. Majid Faisl Aziz, a member of the
Interior Ministry's major crimes division, when he was driving his car
near western Baghdad. Iraqi troops clashed with gunmen in western
Baghdad and at least one soldier was abducted

06/24/05 KUNA: Violence in Iraq reaps more dead, injured victims
A woman died when assailants sent mortar shells into Mosul's police
academy. Police in the Alexandria province discovered in a village the
murdered bodies of four men who had previously been kidnapped by armed
gunmen in a car.

06/24/05 Seacoast Online: Three Shot to Death in Iskandariyah
Two brothers and their niece were shot south of Baghdad in the town of
Iskandariyah when two gunmen wearing Iraqi army uniforms broke into
their house, police said.

06/24/05 MediaNews: Car bombings in Iraq kill 580 in 2 months
Car bombers have struck Iraq 479 times in the past year, and a third
of the attacks followed the naming of a new Iraqi government two
months ago, according to an Associated Press count based on reports
from police, military and hospital officials.

06/24/05 CENTCOM: SVBIED HITS MARINE CONVOY IN FALLUJAH
A convoy carrying Marines assigned to II MEF was attacked with a
suicide vehicle-borne improvised explosive device last night in
Fallujah, Iraq. A number of casualties were sustained. More
information will be released when it becomes available.

06/24/05 KUNA: Additional 600 British reserves called up for Iraq
A further 600 reservists are to be called up to support British
military operations in Iraq, the British Government said Friday.

06/24/05 AP: At least five al-Qaida-linked militants killed in -
Baghdad
American and Iraqi troops battled al-Qaida-linked insurgents holed up
in an upscale Baghdad neighborhood Thursday, killing at least five
militants apparently waiting to carry out suicide bomb attacks.

06/24/05 middle-east-online: US military official - Baghdad attacks
set to rise
Rebel attacks in the capital are expected to rise in coming weeks
despite US-Iraqi efforts to stem them, as insurgents try to play up
insecurity in the country, a US military official said Friday.

06/24/05 AP: Suicide car bomber slams into U.S. Marine convoy west of
Baghdad
A suicide car bomber slammed into a U.S. Marine convoy west of Baghdad
and there were casualties, the military said Friday. A top U.S.
commander testified before Congress that the foreign fighter problem
in Iraq has worsened.

06/24/05 AP: Roadside Bomb Targets U.S. Convoy In Iraq
A roadside bomb targeting a U.S. military convoy exploded in eastern
Baghdad, police said. There were no reports of casualties. The blast
happened at about 9:30 a.m. on a highway near the Sadr City section of
the capital...

06/24/05 AFP: Humvee attacked in Samarra
but north of Baghdad in Samarra, an AFP correspondent reported that an
attack early Friday on a US convoy had left a Humvee all-terrain
vehicle and Bradley personnel carrier in flames.

06/23/05 CNN: Tariq Aziz's lawyer criticizes proceedings
The lawyer for former Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz said
Thursday his imprisoned client told him he will not testify in court
against Saddam Hussein and that he wants a trial on "independent
soil."

06/23/05 DoD Identifies Army Casualty
Sgt. James D. Stewart, 29, of Chattanooga, Tenn., died June 21 in Ar
Rutbah, Iraq, where an improvised explosive device detonated near his
military cargo truck. Stewart was assigned to the 57th Transportation
Company, 10th Mountain Division.

06/23/05 DoD Identifies Army Casualties
Spc. Christopher L. Hoskins, 21, of Danielson, Conn. and Spc. Brian A.
Vaughn, 23, of Pell City, Ala. died on June 21 in Ramadi, Iraq, where
their unit was conducting combat operations, and were attacked by
enemy forces using small arms fire.

06/23/05 AFP: U.S. Commanders Say There Are Enough U.S. Troops in Iraq
U.S. commanders have enough troops in Iraq to fight the insurgency
there, top U.S. military officials said June 23, warning that too
large a military presence could foster greater resistance.

06/23/05 DoD Identifies Army Casualty
Spc. Nicholas R. Idalski, 23, of Crown Point, Ind., died June 21 in
Ramadi, Iraq, where his unit was conducting combat operations and were
attacked by enemy forces using small arms fire.

06/23/05 AP: Top general in Iraq says Cheney wrong on insurgents
The top American military commander in the Persian Gulf disputed a
contention by Vice President ***** Cheney that the Iraqi insurgency was
in its "last thoes" and told Congress on Thursday its strength was
basically undiminished from six months ago.

06/23/05 AP: Soldier hurt in Iraq will get home makeover
Master Sgt. Luis Rodriquez, a medic with the 101st Airborne Division
based at nearby Fort Campbell, was injured in March 2003 when the
vehicle he was in was struck by a roadside bomb in Iraq.

06/23/05 Gannett: Soldier from Killingly dies in Iraq
Army Spec. Christopher Hoskins, 21, of Killingly was reportedly killed
Tuesday during a combat mission west of Baghdad, according to his
family. Family members said they were notified of his death at 6 a.m.
Wednesday morning.

06/23/05 Chicago Tribune: Crown Point soldier dies in Iraq fighting
Nick Idalski a specialist in the Army's 2nd Infantry Division, died
Tuesday morning in a gunfight outside of Ramadi, Iraq, his family
said. They were told he died of several gunshot wounds.

06/23/05 breakingnews: Leading fugitive Saudi militant 'killed in
Iraq'
One of Saudi Arabia's most wanted terror suspects was killed by an
air-strike during fighting with US and Iraqi forces in north-west
Iraq, the leader of the al-Qaida in Iraq group said in a website
statement posted today.
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1,735 American troops are dead, 13,084 have been wounded in deranged
Bush's obscene war and the Chickenhawk criminals roam free.

Harry