Dear friends of peace and justice
jamie | 04.01.2005 16:03 | World
The recent disasters in south asia have rightfully attracted the attention of the world as humanity responds with the desire to support and assist that I believe is our specie’s nature when confronted with such need. However, we also know that this system has a compelling desire to divert our gaze from another and ongoing disaster of it’s own making. That is why I have sent to you these reports on the plight of the Iraqi people struggling against continuing war crimes and occupation. It is our duty and it is in our interest to put an end to this clear “crime against humanity.”
Dear friends of peace and justice,
The recent disasters in south asia have rightfully attracted the attention of the world as humanity responds with the desire to support and assist that I believe is our specie’s nature when confronted with such need. However, we also know that this system has a compelling desire to divert our gaze from another and ongoing disaster of it’s own making. That is why I have sent to you these reports on the plight of the Iraqi people struggling against continuing war crimes and occupation. It is our duty and it is in our interest to put an end to this clear “crime against humanity.” jamie
Five U.S. GI’s were killed today in a Baghdad blast. So far the “official” death count for military under our nation’s “poverty draft” is 1340. I wonder what the true figure is?
U.S. government/corporate propaganda media is trying very hard to convince our population that the continuing violence is the result of a brewing “civil war” between Sunni and Shia forces as they vie for power in the “new Iraq.” This is a lie. Most Iraqis are united on getting the foreign occupiers out of their country and protecting the oil wealth for the development of their nation and culture however they decide fit. If this were not true the Iraqi resistance would have been diminished to the point of irrelevance long ago. Rebel forces cannot exist without the active support of the local population. Anyone who has ever studied guerilla warfare knows this. Don’t be fooled by our system’s lying machine which has never told the truth through this whole sordid affair. Please spread this message and other notes that follow. jamie
An eyewitness account of the siege of Fallujah
By: Dahr Jamail on: 04.01.2005 [01:27 ] (556 reads)
Horror stories — including the use of napalm and chemical weapons by the U.S. military during the siege of Fallujah — continue to trickle out from the rubble of the demolished city, carried by weary refugees lucky enough to have escaped their city.
A cameraman with the Lebanese Broadcasting Corp. who witnessed the first eight days of the fighting told of what he considered atrocities. Burhan Fasa’a has worked for LBC throughout the occupation of Iraq.
“I entered Fallujah near the Julan Quarter, which is near the General Hospital,” he said during an interview in Baghdad. “There were American snipers on top of the hospital shooting everyone.”
He nervously smoked cigarettes throughout the interview, still visibly shaken by what he saw.
On Nov. 8, the military was allowing women and children to leave the city, but none of the men. He was not allowed to enter the city through one of the main checkpoints, so he circumnavigated Fallujah and managed to enter, precariously, by walking through a rural area near the main hospital, then taking a small boat across the river in order to film from inside the city.
“Before I found the boat, I was 50 meters from the hospital where the American snipers were shooting everyone in sight,” he said. “But I managed to get in.”
He told of bombing so heavy and constant by U.S. warplanes that rarely a minute passed without the ground shaking from the bombing campaign.
“The Americans used very heavy bombs to break the spirit of the fighters in Fallujah,” he explained. Then, holding out his arms, he added, “They bombed everything! I mean everything!”
This went on for the first two days, he said. Then on the third day, columns of tanks and other armored vehicles made their move. “Huge numbers of tanks and armored vehicles and troops attempted to enter the north side of Fallujah,” he said. “But I filmed at least 12 U.S. vehicles that were destroyed.”
The military wasn’t yet able to push into Fallujah, and the bombing resumed.
“I saw at least 200 families who had their homes collapsed on their heads by American bombs,” Burhan said while looking at the ground, a long ash dangling from his cigarette. “Fallujans already needed everything! I mean they already had no food or medicine. I saw a huge number of people killed in the northern part of the city, and most of them were civilians.”
At this point he started to tell story after story of what he saw during the first week of the siege.
Many of the dead in Fallujah were obviously not fighters. This person, whose body had been partially eaten by dogs, was disabled. His boot-shaped prosthetic leg is near the top of the picture.
“The dead were buried in gardens because people couldn’t leave their homes. There were so many people wounded, and, with no medical supplies, people died from their wounds. Everyone in the street was a target for the Americans; even I saw so many civilians shot by them.”
He looked out the window, taking several deep breaths. By then, he said, most families had already run out of food. Families were sneaking through nearby houses to scavenge for food. Water and electricity had long since been cut.
The military called over loudspeakers for families to surrender and come out of their houses, but Burhan said everyone was too afraid to leave their homes. So soldiers began blasting open the gates to houses and conducting searches.
“Americans did not have interpreters with them, so they entered houses and killed people because they didn’t speak English! They entered the house where I was with 26 people and shot people because they didn’t obey their orders, even just because the people couldn’t understand a word of English. Ninety-five percent of the people killed in the houses that I saw were killed because they couldn’t speak English.”
His eyes were tearing up, so he lit another cigarette and continued talking.
“Soldiers thought the people were rejecting their orders, so they shot them. But the people just couldn’t understand them!”
He managed to keep filming battles and scenes from inside the city, some of which he later managed to sell to Reuters, who showed a few clips of his footage. The Lebanese Broadcasting Corp., he explained, would not show any of the tapes he submitted to them. He had managed to smuggle most of his tapes out of the city before his gear was taken from him.
“The Americans took all of my camera equipment when they found it. At that time I watched one soldier take money from a small child in front of everyone in our house.”
Burhan said that when the troops learned he was a journalist, he was treated worse than the other people in the home where they were seeking refuge. He was detained, along with several other men, women and children.
“They beat me and cursed me because I work for LBC. Then they interrogated me. They were so angry at al-Jazeera and al-Arabia networks.”
He was held for three days, sleeping on the ground with no blankets, as did all of the prisoners in a detention camp inside a military camp outside Fallujah.
“They arrested over 100 from my area, including women and kids. We had one toilet, which was in front of where we all were kept, and everyone was shamed by having to use this in public. There was no privacy, and the Americans made us use it with handcuffs on.”
He said he wanted to talk more about what he saw inside Fallujah during the nine days he was there.
“I saw cluster bombs everywhere, and so many bodies that were burned, dead with no bullets in them. So they definitely used fire weapons, especially in Julan District. I watched American snipers shoot civilians so many times. I saw an American sniper in a minaret of a mosque shooting everyone that moved.”
He also witnessed something which many refugees from Fallujah have reported.
“I saw civilians trying to swim the Euphrates to escape, and they were all shot by American snipers on the other side of the river.”
The home he was staying in before he was detained was located near the mosque where the NBC cameraman filmed the execution of an older, wounded Iraqi man.
“The mosque where the wounded man was shot that the NBC cameraman filmed — that is in the Jubail Quarter — I was in that quarter. Wounded, unarmed people used that mosque for safety! I can tell you there were no weapons in there of any kind, because I was in that mosque. People only hid there for safety. That is all.”
He personally witnessed another horrible event reported by many of the refugees who reached Baghdad.
“On Tuesday, Nov. 16, I saw tanks roll over the wounded in the streets of the Jumariyah Quarter. There is a public clinic there, so we call that the clinic street. There had been a heavy battle in this street, so there were 20 bodies of dead fighters and some wounded civilians in front of this clinic. I was there at the clinic, and at 11 a.m. on the 16th I watched tanks roll over the wounded and dead there.”
After another long pause, he looked out the window for awhile. Still looking out the window, he said, “During the nine days I was in Fallujah, all of the wounded men, women, kids and old people, none of them were evacuated. They either suffered to death, or somehow survived.”
According to the Iraqi Red Crescent, which managed to get three ambulances into the city on Nov. 14, at least 150 families remain trapped inside the city. One family was surviving by placing rice in dirty water, letting it sit for two hours, then eating it. There has been no power or running water for a month in Fallujah.
People there are burying body parts from people blown apart by bombs, as well as skeletons of the dead whose flesh had been eaten by dogs.
The military estimates that 2,000 people in Fallujah were killed, but claims that most of them were fighters. Relief personnel and locals, however, believe the vast majority of the dead were civilians.
01/04/05 AP: Military says five Americans killed in Iraq attacksA roadside bombing killed three soldiers today in Baghdad. The blast also wounded two soldiers, another roadside bombing north of Baghdad killed a soldier and wounded another. Also a Marine was killed in action in the western Anbar province
01/04/05 AP: Death Toll Rises To 10 In Iraqi BombingIraqi police now say 10 people were killed when a truck packed with explosives blew up in western Baghdad. The attack, near an Iraqi National Guards barracks, wounded 60 people.
01/04/05 Knight Ridder: Army to upgrade armor on older personnel carriersThe Army, beset with complaints that its troops are going into combat in inadequately armored Humvees, will send an older and less used class of armored personnel carriers to Iraq after spending $84 million to add armor to them.
01/04/05 CENTCOM: THREE SOLDIERS KILLED, TWO WOUNDED IN IED ATTACKThree Task Force Baghdad Soldiers were killed by an improvised explosive device at approximately 11 a.m. in north Baghdad. Two other Soldiers were wounded in the attack. The wounded Soldiers were evacuated to a military hospital.
01/04/05 AFP: Truck driver killed in IraqA TURKISH truck driver and Three Iraqi soldiers were killed in a bomb attack on their convoy in the city of Samarra. Also three national guardsmen were killed in a roadside bombing near the town of Baquba
01/04/05 CENTCOM: ONE 1ST ID SOLDIER KILLED, ONE WOUNDED IN IED ATTACK NEAR BALADOne 1st Infantry Division Soldier was killed and another was wounded when anti-Iraqi forces detonated an improvised explosive device near Balad on Jan. 4 at about 11:34 a.m.
01/04/05 Sun-Sentinel: Haitian émigrés' son killed in IraqOn Saturday, the LeBruns, who live in Kissimmee, learned Spc. Jeff LeBrun had been killed in Baghdad when his military vehicle struck an improvised explosive device. He was 21.
01/04/05 BBC: Three Britons die in Iraq attacks Two of the victims worked for US security company Kroll, while the third worked for one of its clients, business consulting company BearingPoint. A fourth person, an American civilian, also died in the attack.
01/04/05 Centcom: ONE MARINE KILLED IN AL ANBAR PROVINCEOne Marine assigned to the I Marine Expeditionary Force was killed in action Tuesday, January 4, while conducting security and stabilization operations in the Al Anbar Province
01/04/05 iribnews: Bomb blast in Baghdad kills ten truck bombing Tuesday outside a special Iraqi forces command post in western Baghdad killed 10 people...
01/04/05 Reuters:Baghdad Suicide Car Bomb Kills at Least FourA suicide car bomb exploded on Tuesday at a police post near an entrance to the fortified Green Zone complex in Baghdad, killing at least four people, a policeman at the scene said
01/04/05 AP: Governor of Baghdad region assassinatedGunmen assassinated the governor of Baghdad province and six of his bodyguards on Tuesday, and a suicide truck bomber killed 10 people at an Interior Ministry commando headquarters in western Baghdad
01/03/05 DoD Identifies Army Casualty Sgt. 1st Class Pedro A. Munoz, 47, of Aquada, Puerto Rico, died Jan. 2 in Shindand, Afghanistan, of injuries sustained Jan. 1 when his patrol encountered enemy fire. Munoz was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 7th Special Forces Group, Fort Bragg, N.C.
01/03/05 AFP: Three Britons killed in Baghdad blastBut a spokesman for Kroll Associates in New York told Britain's domestic Press Association that at least two of the men killed were Britons employed in the Iraqi capital by the security firm.
01/03/05 XTRAMSN: Three Britons Killed In Iraq BlastThree British nationals died in an explosion in Baghdad on Monday, the Foreign Office said, in a day of violence that also killed 17 other people across Iraq.
01/03/05 AP: Pentagon Raises Iraq Toll in Dec. to 72The Pentagon on Monday released three additional names of U.S. servicemen killed in Iraq in December, raising the month's U.S. death toll to 72, including 20 members of the reserves.
01/03/05 Reuters: Kuwait Detains Soldiers for Plot Against U.S. ForcesKuwaiti security forces have detained up to eight Kuwaiti soldiers suspected of plotting to attack U.S. forces in the Gulf Arab state, a security source said Monday. The soldiers, some of whom are high-ranking officers, were detained a week ago
01/03/05 MENL: INSURGENTS FIRE KATYUSHAS AT IRAQI REFINERY For the first time, Iraqi insurgents have sought to fire Soviet-origin Katyusha rockets toward Iraqi oil facilities. On Jan. 1, the insurgents tried and failed to fire Katyushas toward an oil refinery near the southern city of Basra.
01/03/05 DoD Identifies Army CasualtySgt. Damien T. Ficek, 26, from Pullman, Wash., died Dec. 30 in Baghdad, Iraq, when his patrol was attacked by enemy forces using small arms fire. Ficek was assigned to the Army National Guard’s 1st Battalion, 161st Infantry Regiment, Spokane, Wash.
01/03/05 DoD Identifies Army CasualtySpc. Jeff LeBrun, 21, from Buffalo, N.Y., died Jan. 1 in Baghdad, Iraq, when his military vehicle was struck by an improvised explosive device. He was assigned to the Army’s 2nd Bat., 15th Field Artillery Reg., 10th Mountain Div. Fort Drum, N.Y.
01/03/05 San Francisco Examiner: S.F. Marine recovers at homeMarine Cpl. Jason Schreiber almost died last month when a bomb ripped through his camp in western Iraq, killing his roommate and another Marine. he is still recovering from internal bleeding and a pinched nerve.
01/03/05 AZERTAG: AZERBAIJANI MILITARIES RETURNED HOME FROM IRAQ 97 militaries of the Azerbaijan Armed Forces who served in the international peacemaking contingent in Iraq have returned home on January 31. They totals 150 people and they mainly carry out police-patrol services in Ramadi and other areas.
01/03/05 AP: National Guard Troops Return To NY With family members cheering, more than 700 National Guard soldiers were welcomed home in an emotional ceremony after a 15-month tour of duty, including more than nine months on the ground in Iraq.
01/03/05 Winston County Journal: Guardsmen prepare for IraqIn less than a week members of the local National Guard unit and other Winston Countians with the 155th Mississippi Rifles will be headed to the Middle East in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
01/03/05 AccessNorthGa: Oakwood city manger's USAF Reserve unit activatedOakwood City Manager Stan Brown, a member of the Air Force Reserves, has been activated for duty in Iraq.
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The recent disasters in south asia have rightfully attracted the attention of the world as humanity responds with the desire to support and assist that I believe is our specie’s nature when confronted with such need. However, we also know that this system has a compelling desire to divert our gaze from another and ongoing disaster of it’s own making. That is why I have sent to you these reports on the plight of the Iraqi people struggling against continuing war crimes and occupation. It is our duty and it is in our interest to put an end to this clear “crime against humanity.” jamie
Five U.S. GI’s were killed today in a Baghdad blast. So far the “official” death count for military under our nation’s “poverty draft” is 1340. I wonder what the true figure is?
U.S. government/corporate propaganda media is trying very hard to convince our population that the continuing violence is the result of a brewing “civil war” between Sunni and Shia forces as they vie for power in the “new Iraq.” This is a lie. Most Iraqis are united on getting the foreign occupiers out of their country and protecting the oil wealth for the development of their nation and culture however they decide fit. If this were not true the Iraqi resistance would have been diminished to the point of irrelevance long ago. Rebel forces cannot exist without the active support of the local population. Anyone who has ever studied guerilla warfare knows this. Don’t be fooled by our system’s lying machine which has never told the truth through this whole sordid affair. Please spread this message and other notes that follow. jamie
An eyewitness account of the siege of Fallujah
By: Dahr Jamail on: 04.01.2005 [01:27 ] (556 reads)
Horror stories — including the use of napalm and chemical weapons by the U.S. military during the siege of Fallujah — continue to trickle out from the rubble of the demolished city, carried by weary refugees lucky enough to have escaped their city.
A cameraman with the Lebanese Broadcasting Corp. who witnessed the first eight days of the fighting told of what he considered atrocities. Burhan Fasa’a has worked for LBC throughout the occupation of Iraq.
“I entered Fallujah near the Julan Quarter, which is near the General Hospital,” he said during an interview in Baghdad. “There were American snipers on top of the hospital shooting everyone.”
He nervously smoked cigarettes throughout the interview, still visibly shaken by what he saw.
On Nov. 8, the military was allowing women and children to leave the city, but none of the men. He was not allowed to enter the city through one of the main checkpoints, so he circumnavigated Fallujah and managed to enter, precariously, by walking through a rural area near the main hospital, then taking a small boat across the river in order to film from inside the city.
“Before I found the boat, I was 50 meters from the hospital where the American snipers were shooting everyone in sight,” he said. “But I managed to get in.”
He told of bombing so heavy and constant by U.S. warplanes that rarely a minute passed without the ground shaking from the bombing campaign.
“The Americans used very heavy bombs to break the spirit of the fighters in Fallujah,” he explained. Then, holding out his arms, he added, “They bombed everything! I mean everything!”
This went on for the first two days, he said. Then on the third day, columns of tanks and other armored vehicles made their move. “Huge numbers of tanks and armored vehicles and troops attempted to enter the north side of Fallujah,” he said. “But I filmed at least 12 U.S. vehicles that were destroyed.”
The military wasn’t yet able to push into Fallujah, and the bombing resumed.
“I saw at least 200 families who had their homes collapsed on their heads by American bombs,” Burhan said while looking at the ground, a long ash dangling from his cigarette. “Fallujans already needed everything! I mean they already had no food or medicine. I saw a huge number of people killed in the northern part of the city, and most of them were civilians.”
At this point he started to tell story after story of what he saw during the first week of the siege.
Many of the dead in Fallujah were obviously not fighters. This person, whose body had been partially eaten by dogs, was disabled. His boot-shaped prosthetic leg is near the top of the picture.
“The dead were buried in gardens because people couldn’t leave their homes. There were so many people wounded, and, with no medical supplies, people died from their wounds. Everyone in the street was a target for the Americans; even I saw so many civilians shot by them.”
He looked out the window, taking several deep breaths. By then, he said, most families had already run out of food. Families were sneaking through nearby houses to scavenge for food. Water and electricity had long since been cut.
The military called over loudspeakers for families to surrender and come out of their houses, but Burhan said everyone was too afraid to leave their homes. So soldiers began blasting open the gates to houses and conducting searches.
“Americans did not have interpreters with them, so they entered houses and killed people because they didn’t speak English! They entered the house where I was with 26 people and shot people because they didn’t obey their orders, even just because the people couldn’t understand a word of English. Ninety-five percent of the people killed in the houses that I saw were killed because they couldn’t speak English.”
His eyes were tearing up, so he lit another cigarette and continued talking.
“Soldiers thought the people were rejecting their orders, so they shot them. But the people just couldn’t understand them!”
He managed to keep filming battles and scenes from inside the city, some of which he later managed to sell to Reuters, who showed a few clips of his footage. The Lebanese Broadcasting Corp., he explained, would not show any of the tapes he submitted to them. He had managed to smuggle most of his tapes out of the city before his gear was taken from him.
“The Americans took all of my camera equipment when they found it. At that time I watched one soldier take money from a small child in front of everyone in our house.”
Burhan said that when the troops learned he was a journalist, he was treated worse than the other people in the home where they were seeking refuge. He was detained, along with several other men, women and children.
“They beat me and cursed me because I work for LBC. Then they interrogated me. They were so angry at al-Jazeera and al-Arabia networks.”
He was held for three days, sleeping on the ground with no blankets, as did all of the prisoners in a detention camp inside a military camp outside Fallujah.
“They arrested over 100 from my area, including women and kids. We had one toilet, which was in front of where we all were kept, and everyone was shamed by having to use this in public. There was no privacy, and the Americans made us use it with handcuffs on.”
He said he wanted to talk more about what he saw inside Fallujah during the nine days he was there.
“I saw cluster bombs everywhere, and so many bodies that were burned, dead with no bullets in them. So they definitely used fire weapons, especially in Julan District. I watched American snipers shoot civilians so many times. I saw an American sniper in a minaret of a mosque shooting everyone that moved.”
He also witnessed something which many refugees from Fallujah have reported.
“I saw civilians trying to swim the Euphrates to escape, and they were all shot by American snipers on the other side of the river.”
The home he was staying in before he was detained was located near the mosque where the NBC cameraman filmed the execution of an older, wounded Iraqi man.
“The mosque where the wounded man was shot that the NBC cameraman filmed — that is in the Jubail Quarter — I was in that quarter. Wounded, unarmed people used that mosque for safety! I can tell you there were no weapons in there of any kind, because I was in that mosque. People only hid there for safety. That is all.”
He personally witnessed another horrible event reported by many of the refugees who reached Baghdad.
“On Tuesday, Nov. 16, I saw tanks roll over the wounded in the streets of the Jumariyah Quarter. There is a public clinic there, so we call that the clinic street. There had been a heavy battle in this street, so there were 20 bodies of dead fighters and some wounded civilians in front of this clinic. I was there at the clinic, and at 11 a.m. on the 16th I watched tanks roll over the wounded and dead there.”
After another long pause, he looked out the window for awhile. Still looking out the window, he said, “During the nine days I was in Fallujah, all of the wounded men, women, kids and old people, none of them were evacuated. They either suffered to death, or somehow survived.”
According to the Iraqi Red Crescent, which managed to get three ambulances into the city on Nov. 14, at least 150 families remain trapped inside the city. One family was surviving by placing rice in dirty water, letting it sit for two hours, then eating it. There has been no power or running water for a month in Fallujah.
People there are burying body parts from people blown apart by bombs, as well as skeletons of the dead whose flesh had been eaten by dogs.
The military estimates that 2,000 people in Fallujah were killed, but claims that most of them were fighters. Relief personnel and locals, however, believe the vast majority of the dead were civilians.
01/04/05 AP: Military says five Americans killed in Iraq attacksA roadside bombing killed three soldiers today in Baghdad. The blast also wounded two soldiers, another roadside bombing north of Baghdad killed a soldier and wounded another. Also a Marine was killed in action in the western Anbar province
01/04/05 AP: Death Toll Rises To 10 In Iraqi BombingIraqi police now say 10 people were killed when a truck packed with explosives blew up in western Baghdad. The attack, near an Iraqi National Guards barracks, wounded 60 people.
01/04/05 Knight Ridder: Army to upgrade armor on older personnel carriersThe Army, beset with complaints that its troops are going into combat in inadequately armored Humvees, will send an older and less used class of armored personnel carriers to Iraq after spending $84 million to add armor to them.
01/04/05 CENTCOM: THREE SOLDIERS KILLED, TWO WOUNDED IN IED ATTACKThree Task Force Baghdad Soldiers were killed by an improvised explosive device at approximately 11 a.m. in north Baghdad. Two other Soldiers were wounded in the attack. The wounded Soldiers were evacuated to a military hospital.
01/04/05 AFP: Truck driver killed in IraqA TURKISH truck driver and Three Iraqi soldiers were killed in a bomb attack on their convoy in the city of Samarra. Also three national guardsmen were killed in a roadside bombing near the town of Baquba
01/04/05 CENTCOM: ONE 1ST ID SOLDIER KILLED, ONE WOUNDED IN IED ATTACK NEAR BALADOne 1st Infantry Division Soldier was killed and another was wounded when anti-Iraqi forces detonated an improvised explosive device near Balad on Jan. 4 at about 11:34 a.m.
01/04/05 Sun-Sentinel: Haitian émigrés' son killed in IraqOn Saturday, the LeBruns, who live in Kissimmee, learned Spc. Jeff LeBrun had been killed in Baghdad when his military vehicle struck an improvised explosive device. He was 21.
01/04/05 BBC: Three Britons die in Iraq attacks Two of the victims worked for US security company Kroll, while the third worked for one of its clients, business consulting company BearingPoint. A fourth person, an American civilian, also died in the attack.
01/04/05 Centcom: ONE MARINE KILLED IN AL ANBAR PROVINCEOne Marine assigned to the I Marine Expeditionary Force was killed in action Tuesday, January 4, while conducting security and stabilization operations in the Al Anbar Province
01/04/05 iribnews: Bomb blast in Baghdad kills ten truck bombing Tuesday outside a special Iraqi forces command post in western Baghdad killed 10 people...
01/04/05 Reuters:Baghdad Suicide Car Bomb Kills at Least FourA suicide car bomb exploded on Tuesday at a police post near an entrance to the fortified Green Zone complex in Baghdad, killing at least four people, a policeman at the scene said
01/04/05 AP: Governor of Baghdad region assassinatedGunmen assassinated the governor of Baghdad province and six of his bodyguards on Tuesday, and a suicide truck bomber killed 10 people at an Interior Ministry commando headquarters in western Baghdad
01/03/05 DoD Identifies Army Casualty Sgt. 1st Class Pedro A. Munoz, 47, of Aquada, Puerto Rico, died Jan. 2 in Shindand, Afghanistan, of injuries sustained Jan. 1 when his patrol encountered enemy fire. Munoz was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 7th Special Forces Group, Fort Bragg, N.C.
01/03/05 AFP: Three Britons killed in Baghdad blastBut a spokesman for Kroll Associates in New York told Britain's domestic Press Association that at least two of the men killed were Britons employed in the Iraqi capital by the security firm.
01/03/05 XTRAMSN: Three Britons Killed In Iraq BlastThree British nationals died in an explosion in Baghdad on Monday, the Foreign Office said, in a day of violence that also killed 17 other people across Iraq.
01/03/05 AP: Pentagon Raises Iraq Toll in Dec. to 72The Pentagon on Monday released three additional names of U.S. servicemen killed in Iraq in December, raising the month's U.S. death toll to 72, including 20 members of the reserves.
01/03/05 Reuters: Kuwait Detains Soldiers for Plot Against U.S. ForcesKuwaiti security forces have detained up to eight Kuwaiti soldiers suspected of plotting to attack U.S. forces in the Gulf Arab state, a security source said Monday. The soldiers, some of whom are high-ranking officers, were detained a week ago
01/03/05 MENL: INSURGENTS FIRE KATYUSHAS AT IRAQI REFINERY For the first time, Iraqi insurgents have sought to fire Soviet-origin Katyusha rockets toward Iraqi oil facilities. On Jan. 1, the insurgents tried and failed to fire Katyushas toward an oil refinery near the southern city of Basra.
01/03/05 DoD Identifies Army CasualtySgt. Damien T. Ficek, 26, from Pullman, Wash., died Dec. 30 in Baghdad, Iraq, when his patrol was attacked by enemy forces using small arms fire. Ficek was assigned to the Army National Guard’s 1st Battalion, 161st Infantry Regiment, Spokane, Wash.
01/03/05 DoD Identifies Army CasualtySpc. Jeff LeBrun, 21, from Buffalo, N.Y., died Jan. 1 in Baghdad, Iraq, when his military vehicle was struck by an improvised explosive device. He was assigned to the Army’s 2nd Bat., 15th Field Artillery Reg., 10th Mountain Div. Fort Drum, N.Y.
01/03/05 San Francisco Examiner: S.F. Marine recovers at homeMarine Cpl. Jason Schreiber almost died last month when a bomb ripped through his camp in western Iraq, killing his roommate and another Marine. he is still recovering from internal bleeding and a pinched nerve.
01/03/05 AZERTAG: AZERBAIJANI MILITARIES RETURNED HOME FROM IRAQ 97 militaries of the Azerbaijan Armed Forces who served in the international peacemaking contingent in Iraq have returned home on January 31. They totals 150 people and they mainly carry out police-patrol services in Ramadi and other areas.
01/03/05 AP: National Guard Troops Return To NY With family members cheering, more than 700 National Guard soldiers were welcomed home in an emotional ceremony after a 15-month tour of duty, including more than nine months on the ground in Iraq.
01/03/05 Winston County Journal: Guardsmen prepare for IraqIn less than a week members of the local National Guard unit and other Winston Countians with the 155th Mississippi Rifles will be headed to the Middle East in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
01/03/05 AccessNorthGa: Oakwood city manger's USAF Reserve unit activatedOakwood City Manager Stan Brown, a member of the Air Force Reserves, has been activated for duty in Iraq.
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