Dear friends,

Below please find details of some of the latest horrors from Iraq as compiled by www.icasualties.org Note that the death toll for U.S. GI's now stands at 905 and is rising fast. Please spread this report as widely as possible. jamie

07/23/04 AP: Explosion rocks Iraq
An improvised explosive device went off in A'dan square, northern Baghdad, on Friday, injuring six Iraqis and damaging a minibus, which was driving past.

07/23/04 AP: Iraq accident accounts differ
The U.S. military said a van was trying to pass another vehicle and ran into a tank near Baghdad ...Iraqi police and a witness said it was the other way around -- the tank hit the van.

07/23/04 AP: Florida Marine Dies After Car Bomb Explodes In Iraq
Staff Sgt. Michael J. Clark, of Leesburg, was killed in Anbar Province on Tuesday ... Clark approached a suspicious vehicle and it detonated, killing him, said his brother, Robert Clark.

07/23/04 Reuters: Deadly life for foreign lorry drivers in Iraq
Syrian truck driver Salim Jamouz knows first-hand the dangers of plying Iraq's deadly highways, where insurgents are increasingly kidnapping and killing foreign working men like himself.

07/23/04 Reuters: Iraqi General Assassinated by Gunmen in Mosul
Gunmen assassinated a senior member of Iraq's fledgling armed forces as he traveled to Friday prayers in the northern city of Mosul, police said.

07/23/04 KYTV: Rocket kills civilian employee from Texas County in Iraq
Mike Copley was a civilian maintenance technician for United Defense Industries, which has a contract with the Department of Defense to make and service Bradley Fighting Vehicles (tanks), naval guns, missile launchers and other equipment.

07/23/04 Al Jazeera: Several killed in Ramadi
Four civilians in the western Iraqi city of Ramadi have been killed in fighting between US occupation forces and resistance fighters.

07/23/04 AP: Navy: Ship, small boat collide in gulf
The USS John F. Kennedy aircraft carrier collided with a dhow in the Arabian Gulf while running night flights in support of U.S. operations in Iraq, the Navy said Friday. The crew of the small boat was missing.

07/23/04 CENTCOM: Confirmation of IED Attack on 22nd
Two 13th Corps Support Command Soldiers were killed, one was wounded and a vehicle was damaged in an improvised-explosive-device attack on a convoy near Samarra at about 6:30 p.m. July 22.

07/23/04 AP: U.S. forces attack insurgents linked to al-Zarqawi in Fallujah
American forces launched a "precision strike" Friday on insurgents tied to Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in the turbulent western city of Fallujah, the U.S. military said

07/23/04 AP: Kuwaiti firm willing to pull out of Iraq to save hostages
A Kuwaiti company on Friday said it would do anything to save the lives of its seven drivers, including three Indians, who have been kidnapped in Iraq.

07/23/04 AP: Tank accident in Baghdad kills nine
A van carrying Iraqi civilians collided with a U.S. tank in northern Baghdad, killing nine people and injuring 10 others, the U.S. military said Friday.

07/22/04 AP: Headless body found; Iraq hostage crisis deepens
Police discovered a decapitated body in an orange jumpsuit and a head in a bag on the banks of the Tigris River, authorities said Thursday, prompting fears that a second Bulgarian hostage has been killed.

07/22/04 DOD: Fatality Identified
Spc. Danny B. Daniels, II, 23, of Varney, W.V., died July 20, in Baghdad, Iraq, when his patrol vehicle came under attack by small arms fire and hit an improvised explosive device.

07/22/04 DOD: Fatality Identified
Pfc. Nicholas H. Blodgett, 21, of Wyoming, Mich., died July 21, in Abdalluyah, Iraq, when his patrol vehicle hit an improvised explosive device. Blodgett was assigned to the Army’s 1st Squadron, 4th Cavalry Regiment, Schweinfurt, Germany.

07/22/04 AFP: Roadside bomb kills US soldiers
TWO US soldiers were killed and one wounded when their convoy hit a roadside bomb outside the rebel city of Samarra north of Baghdad, the US military said today.

07/22/04 UPI: U.S. Military Spokesman Denies Nuclear Arms Found in Iraq
The daily al-Sabah newspaper Wednesday had quoted sources as saying three missiles armed with nuclear warheads were discovered ... near ... Tikrit.A U.S. military spokesman in Tikrit told United Press International that the report was untrue.

07/22/04 Ireland Online: 94 abuse probes since 2001, says US military
The US military has found a total of 94 cases of confirmed or alleged abuse of prisoners by American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan since the autumn of 2001, the US army’s inspector general said today ...

07/22/04 CENTCOM: 14 U.S. Troops WIA in Daylong Fighting at Ramadi
I MEF sustained fourteen casualties; 13 Marines and one soldier were wounded in action. However, none of the injuries suffered were considered life threatening in nature ...

07/22/04 Novinite: Bulgarian Hostage Death Proved
The corpse of Bulgarian hostage Georgi Lazov has been identified, the Foreign Ministry announced Thursday.