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October U.S. death toll in Iraq hits 101 !!!! |
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/world/4298565.html
October U.S. death toll in Iraq hits 101
By STEVEN R. HURST Associated Press Writer
Oct. 30, 2006, 9:08PM
BAGHDAD, Iraq =E2=80=94 The American death toll for October climbed past 10=
0,
a grim milestone as a White House envoy turned up unexpectedly in
Baghdad on Monday following a rough patch in U.S.-Iraqi ties. At least
81 people were killed across Iraq, including 33 in a bombing targeting
workers.
A member of the 89th Military Police Brigade was killed in east Baghdad
on Monday, and a Marine died in fighting in insurgent-plagued Anbar
province the day before, raising to 101 the number of U.S. service
members killed in a bloody October, the fourth deadliest month of the
war. At least 2,814 American forces have died since the war began in
March 2003.
According to an Associated Press count, October has also recorded more
Iraqi civilian deaths _ 1,170 as of Monday _ than any other month since
the AP began keeping track in May 2005. The next-highest month was
March 2006, when 1,038 Iraqi civilians were killed in the aftermath of
the Feb. 22 bombing of an important Shiite shrine in Samarra.
The war and the rising American casualties have produced a huge drag on
Republican candidates as the U.S. midterm election approaches. The vote
is seen in many cases as a referendum on the war, which has stretched
into its 44th month. The Bush administration has invested heavy
attention on Iraq in recent weeks, trying to put a new face on the
conflict with mixed results.
Upon arriving for an unannounced visit, National Security Adviser
Stephen Hadley went straight into meetings with Prime Minister Nouri
al-Maliki and his security chief, Mouwafak al-Rubaie, telling them he
"wanted to reinforce some of the things you have heard from our
president."
Al-Rubaie told the AP late Monday that Hadley was here to discuss the
work of a five-man committee that al-Maliki and Bush agreed to
Saturday. Hadley also presented some proposals concerning the training
and equipping of Iraqi security forces as well as security plans.
"It was a useful visit," he said, but refused to give any details,
saying only that Hadley's meetings were limited to al-Rubaie and
al-Maliki.
The White House said Hadley was not on a mission to repair ragged
relations, accounts of which it said had been "overblown" by the news
media.
"Absolutely not," said Gordon Johndroe, spokesman for the National
Security Council in Washington. "This is a long-planned trip to get a
firsthand report of the situation on the ground from the political,
economic and security fronts."
But the timing of the visit argued otherwise.
Last week Al-Maliki issued a string of bitter complaints _ at one point
saying he wasn't "America's man in Iraq" _ after U.S. Ambassador Zalmay
Khalilzad unveiled adjustments in America's Iraq strategy.
The ambassador announced that the prime minister agreed to implement a
set of timelines, prompting al-Maliki to accuse the White House of
infringing on his government's sovereignty and say that he was not
consulted.
By week's end, al-Maliki and President Bush held a hastily convened
video conference call and agreed to speed the training of Iraqi forces
and the return of control over all territory to the Iraqi army.
With American voter support for the war at a low point as the Nov. 7
congressional election approaches, a top aide to al-Maliki said the
Iraqi leader was using the GOP's vulnerability on the issue to leverage
concessions from the White House _ particularly the speedy withdrawal
of American forces from Iraqi cities to U.S. bases in the country.
Al-Maliki has said he believes that the continued presence of American
forces in Iraq's population centers is partly behind the surge in
violence.
The case of a kidnapped American soldier, meanwhile, took a curious
turn when a woman claiming to be his mother-in-law said the soldier was
married to her daughter, a Baghdad college student, and was with the
young woman and her family when hooded gunmen handcuffed him and threw
him in the back seat of a white Mercedes last week. The marriage would
violate military regulations.
The soldier's disappearance has prompted a massive manhunt in Baghdad,
with much of it focused on Sadr City, the sprawling Shiite slum of 2.5
million people in extreme northeastern Baghdad.
The military still had checkpoints surrounding the district Monday when
a suspected Sunni insurgent bomber slipped in and set off a bomb among
day laborers. There were conflicting reports as to whether the
explosion was caused by a suicide bomber or a device concealed amid
debris by the roadside. The blast tore through food stalls and kiosks
shortly after 6 a.m., killing at least 33 and wounding 59.
Sadr City is a stronghold of the Mahdi Army, a militia loyal to radical
anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. The district has witnessed
repeated bomb attacks by suspected al-Qaida fighters in what were seen
as attempts to incite Shiite revenge attacks and drag the country into
full-blown civil war.
Al-Sadr, in a statement addressed to supporters in Sadr City, warned of
unspecified action if the "siege" continues and criticized what he
called the silence of politicians over actions by the U.S. military in
the district.
"If this siege continues for long, we will resort to actions which I
will have no choice but to take, God willing, and when the time is
right," he said in the statement, a text of which was obtained by the
AP.
Ali Abdul-Ridha, wounded in the head and shoulders, said he was waiting
for a job with his brother and about 100 others when he heard the
massive explosion and "lost sight of everything."
He said the area had been exposed to attack because U.S. and Iraqi
forces had driven into hiding the Mahdi Army fighters who normally
police the district.
"That forced Mahdi Army members, who were patrolling the streets, to
vanish," Abdul-Ridha, 41, said from his bed in al-Sadr Hospital, his
brother lying beside him asleep.
However, Falih Jabar, a 37-year-old father of two boys, blamed the
militia for provoking extremists to attack civilians in the district.
"We are poor people just looking to make a living. We have nothing to
do with any conflict," said Jabar, who suffered back wounds. "If (the
extremists) have problems with the Mahdi Army, they must fight them,
not us," he added.
The last major bombing in Sadr City took place Sept. 23 when a bomb
hidden in a barrel blew up a kerosene tanker and killed at least 35
people waiting to stock up on fuel for the Muslim holy month of
Ramadan.
Elsewhere in the capital Monday, gunmen killed hard-line Sunni academic
Essam al-Rawi, head of the University Professors Union, as he was
leaving home. At least 156 university professors have been killed since
the war began. Hundreds, perhaps thousands, more are believed to have
fled to neighboring countries.
Police and security officials throughout Iraq reported that at least 47
other people, many of them police, were killed in sectarian violence or
found dead Monday, many of them dumped in the Tigris River and a
tributary south of the capital.
The AP count that found a record number of Iraqi deaths in October
includes civilians, government officials and police and security
forces, and is considered a minimum based on AP reporting. The actual
number is likely higher, as many killings go unreported.
___
AP News Research Center in New York and AP correspondents Christopher
Bodeen and Qassim Abdul-Zahra contributed to this report.
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