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03/19/06 Reuters: Policeman killed in Latifiya
Gunmen killed a policeman and wounded four civilians when they were
driving a civilian car in Latifiya, in an area dubbed the 'Triangle of
death' south of Baghdad, police said. The policeman was wearing
civilian clothes.
03/19/06 Reuters: Roadside bomb kills policeman in Baquba
A policeman was killed and 12 people were wounded when two roadside
bombs exploded in quick succession targeting a police patrol in the
city of Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. One of
the wounded was a police colonel, police added.
03/19/06 Reuters: Gunmen kill 4, including 2 policemen, in Mosul
Gunmen shot dead four people, including two policemen in civilian
clothes, and wounded another policeman in the northern city of Mosul,
390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police and hospital sources said.
03/19/06 NYTimes: Before and After Abu Ghraib, a U.S. Unit Abused
Detainees
As the Iraqi insurgency intensified in early 2004, an elite Special
Operations forces unit converted one of Saddam Hussein's former
military bases near Baghdad into a top-secret detention center.
03/19/06 Reuters: Thousands of Shiites mass in Iraqi city amid tight
security
Shiite Muslims have massed in their hundreds of thousands around
Kerbala for one of the biggest events of their religious calendar as
Iraqi security forces sealed off the city to protect pilgrims.
03/19/06 COLUMBUS DISPATCH: CHILDREN OF WAR
THEY ARE THE youngest victims of the Iraq war. Some crawl around in
diapers. Some play ball. Some are learning to drive. The younger ones
wonder when Dad is coming home. The older ones know better.
03/19/06 AP: two civilians killed in Ramadi
Elsewhere, two civilians were killed and 10 wounded when gunmen
attacked U.S. troops stationed at the governor's office in Ramadi, 70
miles west of Baghdad.
03/19/06 AP: 4 corpses, blindfolded and shot through the head, found
in Baghdad
Meanwhile, in Baghdad, four corpses, blindfolded and shot through the
head, were found in the southeast neighborhood of Rustumiya, at the
same water purification plant where seven bodies were found the day
before.
03/19/06 AP: Allawi Says Iraq in Middle of Civil War
Iraq's former interim prime minister said the increasing attacks
across his country can only be described as a civil war, and that the
United States and Europe could be touched by spreading violence,
according to an interview aired Sunday.
03/19/06 AP: Eight civilains killed in clashes in Duluiyah
Iraqi police said eight civilians, including a child, were killed in
clashes between U.S. troops and gunmen in Duluiyah, 45 miles north of
Baghdad.
03/19/06 KUNA: Two Iraqi soldiers found dead, suspected terrorists
arrested
Bodies of two dead Iraqi soldiers were discovered west of the northern
Iraqi city of kirkuk, Iraqi police announced on Sunday...the bodies
were discovered near a school in al Huwaija town near the oil-rich
city.
03/18/06 KilleenDailyHerald: 4th Infantry soldier dies of gunshot
wound on March 11
Pfc. Amy A. Duerksen grew up telling her parents she couldnt wait to
become a soldier girl. When she died March 11 from a gunshot wound she
received in Iraq, she was that soldier girl in two armies.
03/18/06 Fijilive: Fiji Army loses first soldier in Iraq
The Republic of Fiji Military Forces lost its first soldier in Iraq
since deploying in November 2004 due to illness. Corporal Sekuri Soko
of Ono-i-Lau died on Thursday March 16 of a suspected coronary artery
disease.
03/18/06 wchstv: Army identifies 101st soldier killed in Iraq
The Army has identified a 101st Airborne Division soldier killed in a
rocket and mortar attack in Iraq on Thursday. He is 22-year-old Carlos
Gonzalez Junior from Mount Hope, New York. Gonzalez was a specialist
with the Fort Campbell-based 101st Airborne
03/18/06 KUNA: One policeman killed, civilian wounded in armed attack
in Kirkuk
One policeman was killed and a civilian was wounded on Saturday by
unknown gunmen in the center of the city of Kirkuk in North Iraq. In
another incident...unknown gunmen opened fire at the Kurdish Communist
party center in Raheemawah in Kirkuk
03/18/06 twincities: Wolfowitz stays the course with wounded veterans
Sgt. Edward Wade,...He lost his right arm when an IED exploded and
suffered enough brain damage that he wasn't expected to live...Isaac
Serna, a 21-year-old Humvee gunner, described how he had been wounded.
03/18/06 AP: Grenade blast crippled Iraq vet's memory, but not his
determination
Staff Sergeant Douglas Piper...A grenade blast in Baghdad mangled his
right eye, collapsed his right eardrum and slammed his brain against
the inside of his skull...at least 80 percent of his short-term memory
has been destroyed.
03/18/06 Xinhuanet: Iraqi defense minister denies arresting killers of
journalist
Iraqi Defense Minister Saadoun al-Dulami denied on Saturday an earlier
report which said Iraqi forces had arrested six people suspected of
killing a female journalist of the Dubai-based al-Arabiya TV channel.
03/18/06 Reuters: Two gunmen killed, 18 suspects arrested in Baquba
Two gunmen were killed and 18 suspects arrested when the Iraq Army
launched a search operation near Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) north of
Baghdad, the Iraqi military said.
03/18/06 Reuters: Poice officer killed in Baiji, 16 bodies found in
Baghdad
A police officer and his brother were killed by gunmen in Baiji, 180
km north of Baghdad, police said...The bodies of sixteen victims of
shootings were found in different areas of the capital, police said.
03/18/06 Reuters: Two civilians found dead near Dujail
Two civilians were found dead inside their car near Dujail, 50 km
north of Baghdad on Saturday. The bodies of two brothers were also
found in the same area on Friday, police said.
03/18/06 MNF: Soldiers killed by indirect fire
Two Task Force Band of Brothers' Soldiers from the 101st Airborne
Division were killed and another wounded in an indirect fire attack on
Contingency Operating Base Speicher, northwest of Tikrit, March 16.
03/18/06 Reuters: 8 policemen wounded by roadside bombs
Five Iraqi soldiers were wounded when a roadside bomb exploded near
their patrol in Baghdad, police said...Three policemen were wounded
when a roadside bomb struck their patrol in northern Baghdad, police
said.
03/18/06 KUNA: Car bomb injured and kill 20 Iraqis in Baghdad
Twenty Iraqis were killed or injured in a car bomb blast Saturday in a
Baghdad suburb...two civilians were severely injured when a car
exploded before noon Saturday at the Al-Mesbah intersection in the
Al-Karada neighborhood southern Baghdad.
03/18/06 AP: Mortar fire kills one in Khan Bani Saad
police reported that six mortar rounds landed on six houses Friday in
a mixed Sunni-Shiite area of Khan Bani Saad, 10 miles north of
Baghdad, killing one person and wounding three.
03/18/06 BBC: Arrests in Iraq reporter killings
Six men have been arrested in Iraq on suspicion of involvement in the
murder of a female journalist and her crew from the al-Arabiya
television network.
03/18/06 LATimes: Offensive yields results
Iraqi military officials said Friday that a continuing offensive
targeting insurgents...has resulted in the capture of additional
weapons and a man who may have been among those responsible for the
recent bombing of a venerated Shiite shrine in Samarra
03/18/06 AP: Father avenging sons death in Iraq is ready to go home
Today it's Joe who mans the M-240 atop a Humvee, warily watching the
sides of the road, an unlikely Army corporal at 48, a father who came
here for revenge, a Christian missionary on a crusade against Islam...
after six months at war, is ready to go home.
03/18/06 AP: Bombs, bullets meet Shiite pilgrims in Iraq
The Muslim pilgrims' road to the holy city of Karbala was a highway of
bullets and bombs for Shiites on Friday. Drive-by shootings and
roadside and bus bombs killed or injured 19 people, ratcheting up the
sectarian tensions gripping Iraq.
03/18/06 Reuters: Two US soldiers killed and one wounded in Iraq
Two U.S. soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division were killed and
another wounded in an attack northwest of Tikrit on March 16, the U.S.
military said in a statement on Saturday. It said the soldiers were
killed and wounded in an "indirect fire attack"
03/18/06 MercuryNews:U.S. soldier with roots in Mideast killed in Iraq
war
When Angelo Zawaydeh was 16, the San Bruno boy wanted to join the
military. His parents refused. "When he was 18, he said, `Well, I
don't need anybody's permission,''' his mother, April Bradreau,
recalled Friday. He enlisted in the Army..
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