Politics > Politics-USA > Sunday toll in the Bush-created bloodbath is 11 Americans dead, 40 wounded.
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"Harry Hope" |
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02 May 2004 05:52:06 PM |
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Sunday toll in the Bush-created bloodbath is 11 Americans dead, 40 wounded. |
From The Associated Press, 5/2/04:
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20040502_805.html
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -
11 soldiers were killed in separate attacks, the military said,
raising the U.S. death toll to 151 since a wave of violence began
April 1.
At least 753 U.S. troops have died in Iraq since the war began in
March 2003.
Six U.S. service members were killed and another 30 were wounded in a
mortar attack near the western city of Ramadi.
The city is about 60 miles west of Baghdad in Anbar province, which
includes Fallujah.
A military spokeswoman gave no further details and did not say whether
the victims were Marines or Army soldiers, but most Americans
stationed there are Marines.
Another U.S. soldier was killed and 10 were wounded in a bomb and
small arms attack on a coalition base near the northern Iraqi city of
Kirkuk.
Overnight, Shiite militiamen attacked a U.S. convoy with small arms
fire and rocket-propelled grenades near the southern city of Amarah,
180 miles south of Baghdad.
Two soldiers were killed, the military said. Through the night and
into Sunday morning, Iraqis set fire to the long line of abandoned
vehicles, jumping on the hoods and beating them with sticks.
An attack in northwest Baghdad killed two other soldiers and wounded
two Iraqi security officers and another American, the military said.
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Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz was asked about the toll at a
hearing of a House appropriations subcommittee.
"It’s approximately 500, of which -- I can get the exact numbers --
approximately 350 are combat deaths," he responded.
"He misspoke," spokesman Charley Cooper said later.
"That’s all."
Harry
Bush went AWOL. Why? Where'd he go? I dunno. His story keeps changing.
From Salon, 4/27/04:
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/04/27/bush_guard/index.html
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