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The IRAQ BODY COUNT Database

This is a human security project to establish an independent and comprehensive public database of civilian deaths in Iraq resulting directly from military actions by the USA and its allies in 2003. Results and totals are continually updated and made immediately available on this page and on various IBC counters which may be freely displayed on any website, where they will be automatically updated without further intervention. Casualty figures are derived from a comprehensive survey of online media reports. Where these sources report differing figures, the range (a minimum and a maximum) are given. All results are independently reviewed and error-checked by at least three members of the Iraq Body Count project team before publication. More...

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Das ist eine ernsthafte und traurige Angelegenheit und die Leute, die hinter dieser Page stehen, scheinen seriös zu sein.
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The IRAQ BODY COUNT Project Team are:

HAMIT DARDAGAN (Principal researcher and site manager) is a freelance researcher currently working in London. He has made an in-depth study of the research methods of Professor Marc Herold, who pioneered a media-based methodology for estimating civilian deaths in the Afghan war of 2001-2. He has written for Counterpunch, and has undertaken research for a number of organisations, including Greenpeace. He has been chair of "Kalayaan" a human rights campaign for overseas domestic workers in the UK, which led to significant enhancement in their legal rights.

JOHN SLOBODA (Associate researcher and archivist) trained as a research psychologist and is currently Professor of Psychology at the University of Keele, UK. In 1999-2000 he worked with the Committee for Peace in the Balkans, and researched effects on the civilian population of the NATO bombing campaign. Since September 11th 2001 he has been responsible for the daily peaceuk.net mailing list disseminating critical non-violent perspectives on "the war on terror". He is a founder member of the Network of Activist Scholars of Politics and International Relations (Naspir), and a local delegate to the Stop the War Coalition. He is currently Web Resources Manager for Peace News, and is undertaking consultancy work for the Oxford Research Group.

BÜLENT GÖKAY (Associate researcher) is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Keele University. He is co-founder and core researcher of the Keele Southeast Europe Unit. He has authored many books and articles on global politics, the Middle East, Balkans and Central Asia, including A Clash of Empires: Turkey between Russian Bolshevism and British Imperialism (1997), The Politics of Caspian Oil (2001), Eastern Europe Since 1970 (2002), and The Most Dangerous Game in the World: Oil, War, and US Global Hegemony (2002), and is co-editor of the forthcoming book, War, Terror and Judgement: 11 September 2001 (Feb 2003).

TORBEN FRANCK (Webmaster) is a musician and peace activist. He is webmaster for www.peaceuk.net, www.humanshields.org as well as Iraq Body Count. He has recorded a track (with Joe Wilson) for the recent Stop the War CD compilation, issued in December 2002. He is a delegate to the Stop the War National Conference.

MARC HEROLD (Research consultant) is an Associate Professor of Economic Development, International Affairs and Women`s Studies at the University of New Hampshire, USA, where he has taught since 1975. He holds a Master`s degree in international business and finance and a Ph.D in Economics from the University of California in Berkeley, as well as an engineering degree in electronics from the Swiss Federal Polytechnic University. He has focused his writings upon social and economic changes in the Second and Third Worlds and his current research interests are on Brazil and Afghanistan, including the latter country`s post-war situation. In December 2001 he released a widely cited study of the human costs of the U.S. military campaign in Afghanistan "A Dossier on Civilian Victims of United States` Aerial Bombing of Afghanistan: A Comprehensive Accounting"), updates to which may be found at: http://pubpages.unh.edu/~mwherold.

DAVID FLANAGAN (Technical consultant) is author of JavaScript: The Definitive Guide (among other standard works) and wrote the JavaScript code for Iraq Body Count that keeps our Web Counters updated while making them easy for webmasters to install.

JOHN BUCCHERI (Assistant researcher) is co-founder of MOW (Musicians Opposing War) at the School of Music, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, and a Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence in the Music Theory program. His scholarly interests center on teaching and learning, with emphasis on the practical application of analytical technique as a tool for learning and interpreting music. He is currently the Immediate Past President of The College Music Society. John has marched in Washington DC on Jan 18, in New York City on Feb 15 and Washington DC on March 15, and believes during these bad times, a PERSISTENT STRONG VOICE OF OPPOSITION must be heard.

ERIC CLARKE (Assistant researcher) is professor of music at the University of Sheffield, where he does research and teaching in the psychology of music. He was an active member of Camden CND in the 1980s, and is a member of Amnesty International.

NIKKI DIBBEN (Assistant researcher) is a lecturer in music at Sheffield University where she carries out research into music perception, and gender representations in popular music.

JOSHUA DOUGHERTY (Assistant researcher) is a guitarist, private instructor and a graduate student in music at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA, USA.

CHARLIE FORD (Assistant researcher) was awarded a doctorate for his holistic critique of Mozart`s Cosi fan tutte in 1989 and has since published on popular music. He is an active member of Amnesty International and an occasional contributor to peaceuk mailings.

JORDANA LIPSCOMB (Assistant researcher) is a retired litigation attorney and mother of two. Supporting member and event coordinator of Musicians Opposing War (MOW).

SCOTT LIPSCOMB (Assistant researcher) is a co-founder of Musicians Opposing War, a collective of Northwestern University faculty, staff, & students in the United States who came together for the purpose of expressing opposition to the War on Iraq, who believe that U.S. military aggression is likely to increase - not deter - terrorism on American shores, and who advocate seeking non-violent solutions to the world`s problems through a consensus of peace-minded nations. Scott is an Associate Professor in the School of Music at Northwestern, where he teaches in the Music Education and Music Cognition programs and carries out research related to the processes involved in music listening and their affect upon the listener. He is also co-author of "Rock and Roll: Its History and Stylistic Development" (2003, 4th edition, Prentice-Hall) and has been extremely concerned about the lack of response to this issue from the musical community. The recent appearance of organizations like Musicians United to Win Without War (Russell Simmons, Rosanne Cash, Michael Stipe, Dave Matthews, Peter Gabriel, Suzanne Vega, and others) is a welcome occurrence and hopefully only the first of many more that will follow.

DARELL WHITMAN (Assistant researcher) is a post-graduate student with the School of Politics, International Relations and the Environment at Keele University. He holds a Master’s degree in Government from California State University, Sacramento, a Master’s degree in Political Sociology from Southern Oregon University, and a Juris Doctorate in law from the University of Santa Clara. He is an attorney licensed to practice law in California and U.S. federal courts. He has been a long-time peace and environmental in the U.S., and served on the national organizing committee of the Emergency Committee to Stop the War (Gulf War I) from 1991-1992.

KAY WILLIAMS (Assistant researcher) is a recently retired librarian, who worked most recently as Head of Acquisitions in Keele University Library. She runs a mailing list for those in the Keele and Newcastle-under-Lyme area of Staffordshire who are interested in local and national anti-war activities.

ROWAN WILLIAMS (Assistant researcher) is a graduate in Modern Languages from the University of Cambridge. For a number of years she was Justice and Peace representative for the Anglican Community of St Francis, and a member of the steering group of the Justice and Peace Links of the interdenominational Conference of Religious. She is currently training for the priesthood in Cambridge.

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Der Blutzoll wird immer größer. 209 Menschen, Kinder, Frauen und auch Männer nur bei Zivilisten.
J.

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COLLATERAL DAMAGE

Quiet killing done in coats and ties
And spit-shined shoes,
Smoking during mutilation.
Far away from killer`s eyes
Babies burn, blown apart
By `surgical strikes`,
Blobs of brains splattered
On their mother`s faces.
Mounds of guts lying in the gutter.
Screaming kids,
Their bloody stubs dangling
Tripping over piles of limbs
Crying for their crippled fathers
Puking in the streets.
Dazed old people
Fumbling through
Piles of dead to find their families
Fainting from the stench
Of burning flesh.

Child killing and dismemberment-
A side effect of technological warfare,
Collateral damage.
(A giant video game on CNN)

The smoke clears;
Poison for air
Mud for medicine
Fire for light
Sweat for water
Shit for food.
Gagging for breath,
Praying for death.
Collateral damage-
A side effect
Of technological warfare.

These images were mined from the carefully guarded bank of memories of my experience as a US Naval officer in the Vietnam campaign and from horror stories recently reported from Afghanistan and the previous Gulf War, which share a lot of similarities. The description of `collateral damage` used here pales in comparison to the real thing, to be sure. Fifty percent of the citizens of Iraq are under the age of 18 years old. This poem attempts to inject some reality into the sterilized military language used to describe the scene of the massacre once the bombing starts and renders many of these children pieces of `collateral damage.`

Frank Lloyd Kramer
Former US Military Officer
Vietnam War

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278 Menschen

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Hier Minimum bzw. Maximum an getöteten Irakischen Zivilisten !

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Die nächsten Kollateralschäden ?
















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Wieviel Dollars braucht man um einen Menschen umzubringen.
391 zivile Opfer sollen es sein. Bis jetzt.
Wieviel Milliarden Dollar an Kosten stehen dagegen?
Und das für, nach Aussagen der Kriegspropagandafront, `Kameltreiber`.
Das alles im Namen der Freiheit und Menschenwürde. Heute hat A.I. ihren ersten Bericht über den Irak-Krieg veröffentlicht. Kein Ruhmesblatt für die Allierten.
J.

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[FCO_Alpha]

Wer weiss schon ob wirklich Zivilisten oder Fedayeen Saddam umgekommen sind?
Vielleicht waren auf den Dächern von Privathäusern Flakgeschütze aufgestellt?
Zivilisten werden als "menschliche Schutzschilde" missbraucht. Ich wäre mit diesen Zahlen seehr vorsichtig.

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Da hast du Recht, FCO_Alpha, aber genau so vorsichtig bin ich mit den Zahlen und "Fakten" der anderen Seite, die uns einen sauberen Krieg weismachen will !!

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Sollte man nicht aufhören im Tod Menschen zu beleidigen.

The Sydney Morning Herald.

`I saw the heads of my two little girls come off`

April 2 2003, 11:38 AM

An Iraqi mother in a van fired on by US soldiers says she saw her two young daughters decapitated in the incident that also killed her son and eight other members of her family.

The children`s father, who was also in the van, said US soldiers fired on them as they fled towards a checkpoint because they thought a leaflet dropped by US helicopters told them to "be safe", and they believed that meant getting out of their village to Karbala.

Bakhat Hassan - who lost his daughters, aged two and five, his three-year-old son, his parents, two older brothers, their wives and two nieces aged 12 and 15, in the incident - said US soldiers at an earlier checkpoint had waved them through.

As they approached another checkpoint 40km south of Karbala, they waved again at the American soldiers.

"We were thinking these Americans want us to be safe," Hassan said through an Army translator at a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital set up at a vast Army support camp near Najaf.

The soldiers didn`t wave back. They fired.

"I saw the heads of my two little girls come off," Hassan`s heavily pregnant wife, Lamea, 36, said numbly.

She repeated herself in a flat, even voice: "My girls - I watched their heads come off their bodies. My son is dead."

US officials originally gave the death toll from the incident as seven, but reporters at the scene placed it at 10. And Bakhat Hassan terrible toll was 11 members of his family.

Hassan`s father died at the Army hospital later.

US officials said the soldiers at an Army checkpoint who opened fire were following orders not to let vehicles approach checkpoints.

On Saturday, a suicide bomber had killed four US soldiers outside Najaf.

Details emerging from interviews with survivors of yesterday`s incident tell a distressing tale of a family fleeing towards what they thought would be safety, tragically misunderstanding instructions.

Hassan`s father, in his 60s, wore his best clothes for the trip through the American lines: a pinstriped suit.

"To look American," Hassan said.

An Army report written last night cited "a miscommunication with civilians" as the cause of the incident.

Hassan, his wife and another of his brothers are in intensive care at the MASH unit.

Another brother, sister-in-law and a seven-year-old child were released to bury the dead.

The Shi`ite family of 17 was packed into a 1974 Land Rover, so crowded that Bakhat, 35, was outside on the rear bumper hanging on to the back door.

Everyone else was piled on one another`s laps in three sets of seats.

They were fleeing their farm town southeast of Karbala, where US attack helicopters had fired missiles and rockets the day before.

Helicopters also had dropped leaflets on the town: a drawing of a family sitting at a table eating and smiling with a message written in Arabic.

Sergeant 1st Class Stephen Furbush, an Army intelligence analyst, said the message read: "To be safe, stay put."

But Hassan said he and his father thought it just said: "Be safe".

To them, that meant getting away from the helicopters firing rockets and missiles.

His father drove. They planned to go to Karbala. They stopped at an Army checkpoint on the northbound road near Sahara, about 40km south of Karbala, and were told to go on, Hassan said.

But "the Iraqi family misunderstood" what the soldiers were saying, Furbush said.

A few kilometres later, a Bradley Fighting Vehicle came into view. The family waved as it came closer. The soldiers opened fire.

Hassan remembers an Army medic at the scene of the killings speaking Arabic.

"He told us it was a mistake and the soldiers were sorry," Hassan said.

"They believed it was a van of suicide bombers," Furbush said.

Hassan, his wife, his father and a brother were airlifted to the MASH unit.

Three doctors and three nurses worked on the father for four hours but he died despite their efforts.

Today, Hassan and his wife remain at the unit. He has staples in his head. She has a mangled hand and shrapnel in her face and shoulder.

Major Scott McDannold, an anaesthesiologist, said Hassan`s brother, lying nearby, wouldn`t make it. He is on a respirator with a broken neck.

On March 16, Hassan and his family began to harvest tomatoes, cucumbers, scallions and eggplant. It was a healthy crop, and they expected a good year.

"We had hope," he said. "But then you Americans came to bring us democracy and our hope ended."

Lamea is nine months pregnant.

"It would be better not to have the baby," she said.

"Our lives are over."

KRT


This story was found at: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/02/1048962796085.html

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Poor pay with their lives in cratered suburbia

Suzanne Goldenberg in Baghdad
Thursday April 3, 2003
The Guardian

Yesterday`s strike took out two homes of an extended family of about a dozen. Tuesday`s raid destroyed the local school, and on Monday a poor baklava seller, pitied by the entire neighbourhood, lost his wife, mother, sister, nephew, and two sons to American missiles.
Here in Sueb, 22 miles from the centre of Baghdad and just beyond the ring of burning crude oil that marks the outer reaches of the Iraqi capital, where urban sprawl ends and desert begins, a battle that has gone largely unseen has been raging for days.

Yesterday, American troops were within 30 miles of the city, only days away from the bloodiest fighting - and ultimate prize - of this conflict.

But while the outcome of the war will be decided with the capture of the obscene palaces of Saddam Hussein along the banks of the Tigris in the heart of the city, the American forces must first conquer the periphery.

Sueb and the other suburbs that appeared as population growth outstripped available land in Baghdad lie directly on the Americans` path as they draw nearer to the columns of thick, oily smoke that mark the capital`s outer defences.

After the US troops suffered setbacks in the south of Iraq in the early days of the war, the people on the next frontline are ruing their fate.

The last five days have seen intense, round-the-clock bombardments, forcing locals to flee to makeshift underground shelters, or to relatives elsewhere in the city.

"We are beginning to believe that the Americans want to take revenge on us for what happened before," said Fareed Fathi. Like many in Sueb, he is a "free worker" - or unemployed. "All of the people are very afraid," he says.

And so this easily forgotten neighbourhood, part village, part spillover suburb, a dumping ground for Shias too poor to afford homes in Baghdad proper, finds itself in an unwanted - and lethal - position of strategic importance.

"There are bombings - missiles and airplanes - all day long, and all night," said Walid Hathem, whose home was replaced by a giant crater a few hours before dawn yesterday. "It`s continuous."

High above, a vapour trail from a US jet arced across the sky, and the ground shook from a nearby incoming missile.

While in central Baghdad the war has arrived as a series of interruptions to daily life, Sueb and the other extremities of this vast city are being softened up for America`s assault. Here, as in other outlying areas of Baghdad, civilians are also paying the price for living close to enticing targets.

On the far side of the village portion of Sueb, Saddam Hussein`s farmhouse emerges from a grove of palm trees, and a radar installation marks the start of the military zone of Radwaniyah, a few miles down the road.

As each day brings more people out into the streets of central Baghdad, the people on the outskirts of Sueb have spent their nights in tiny burrows in the mud - rudimentary bunkers reinforced with steel drums and scavenged wooden beams.

None of the shelters is large enough to stand in - nor sleep in. "There are 10 or 15 of us there every night," said Suad Abdur Rahman, a cousin and neighbour. "There is no room to lie down, no room to breathe. "We crouch one on top of another, with one child on each knee."

Despite such precautions, in Sueb as in other outlying areas, America`s bombardments have brought almost daily casualties.

On March 26, an explosion killed nearly 20 Iraqis on the main road of Shaab, on the northern perimeter of Baghdad. Two days later, more than 50 people were killed when a US missile struck a crowded marketplace in the Shouala neighbourhood, a hurriedly built suburb for working class Shias not unlike Sueb.

On Monday, tragedy struck in Sueb when US missiles killed six members of the family of the lowly baklava seller, Ali Abdul Rasul, and five others living in the same road. Twelve houses were destroyed in the blast, hastily built one storey structures crumpled into the earth.

"The people living in this area are the very poorest people. It really is so cruel that we are being hit," said Taliya Ali Mohammed, whose house, down the road from Mr Rasul`s, was strewn with shattered glass.

In these neighbourhoods, shared circumstance and geography - the houses are practically on top of each other - magnify the impact of America`s bombs. In Sueb`s case, they have been bound even tighter over the generations by ties of blood and marriage.

At 4am yesterday, after the children had cried themselves to sleep, the missiles destroyed two homes, leaving Mr Hathem with few possessions beyond a kerosene cooker and a television set. The entire clan felt the loss. They also witnessed it.

"When the missiles came in, everything shook," said Yas Khudayar, who shared a tunnel space of barely 2 square metres with a wife and five children. "We expected to be dead any minute."

Next door, at Ms Rahman`s house, the floors were carpeted with broken glass and chunks of plaster. Overhead fans were plucked from the ceilings like flowers.

"Just look at what those Americans have done," she said. "We hate them now more than ever. What have we done? Why should our children suffer? Saddam Hussein has not hurt us. He hasn`t been a nuisance to us."

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6 July:: A soldier (First Armoured Division) dies after being shot in the head on the Baghdad University campus.

3 July: A soldier (First Armoured Division) is killed in Baghdad when a Bradley vehicle comes under sniper fire.

3 July: A soldier (First Armoured Division) dies of gunshot wounds in a "non-combat" related incident.

2 July: A Marine (First Expeditionary Force) dies and three are injured while conducting mine clearing operations in Karbala.

2 July: A US soldier dies from wounds received when his convoy was hit by an improvised explosive device in Baghdad the previous day.

28 June: The remains of two soldiers missing since 25th June are recovered 20 miles outside Baghdad.

27 June: One soldier (First Armoured Division) killed and four injured in a grenade attack in the Thawra area of Baghdad.

26 June: One soldier (First Marine Expeditionary Force) killed in ambush while investigating a car theft in An Najaf.

26 June: One special forces soldier killed and eight injured in a `hostile fire` incident in south-west Baghdad.

25 June: One soldier (First Marine Expeditionary Force) killed and two are injured when their armoured vehicle overturns as they rush to help colleagues under fire.

24 June: Soldier (First Armoured Division) dies in a "non-combat incident". No details given.

22 June: One soldier (First Armoured Division) killed and one injured in a grenade attack on a military convoy south of Baghdad, in Khan Azad.

19 June: One soldier (804th Medical Brigade) killed and two injured in an RPG attack on a military ambulance in an area north of Camp Dogwood in the town of Iskandariya.

18 June: One soldier killed (First Armoured Division) and one wounded in a gun attack at a petrol distribution plant in Baghdad.

17 June: Soldier (First Armoured Division) mortally wounded by sniper in north-west Baghdad.

16 June: Soldier (First Marine Expeditionary Force) dies of "non-hostile gunshot wound" in An Najaf.

15 June: Soldier mortally wounded in "an apparent non-hostile incident" in the Taji area. No further details given.

13 June: One soldier (V Corps) dies and eight are injured in an armoured vehicle rollover accident 20 kilometres south of Asad Air Base.

13 June: Soldier drowns while swimming in lake near Falluja.

10 June: One paratrooper (82nd Airborne Division) killed and one injured in RPG attack in south-west Baghdad.

8 June: Soldier shot dead while manning a traffic control point in Qaim.

7 June: One soldier killed and four wounded in RPG and gun attack near Tikrit.

6 June: One soldier killed and two injured in a vehicle accident about 35 kilometres north of Baghdad.

6 June: Navy Seabee (serving with the First Marine Expeditionary Force) killed handling unexploded ordnance in Kut.

5 June: One soldier (101st Airborne Division) killed and five wounded in Falluja in an RPG attack.

Town vents its anger at US
2 June: Soldier (Fourth Infantry Division) mortally wounded in RPG and gun attack near Balad.

30 May: Three soldiers die as result of vehicle accident between Mosul and Tikrit.

29 May: Soldier "killed by hostile fire" while travelling on a main supply route. No further details.

27 May: Two soldiers killed and nine wounded in RPG and gun attack in Falluja.

26 May: Soldier drowns "after diving into an aqueduct" south of Kirkuk.

26 May: One soldier killed and three injured when their vehicles runs over mine or unexploded ordnance. No further details.

26 May: One soldier killed and two injured in a collision with a tractor.

26 May: One soldier (Third Armoured Cavalry Regiment) killed and one wounded in ambush on their convoy near Hadithah, about 193 km north-west of Baghdad.

25 May: One soldier killed and one injured in an apparent accidental blast at a former Iraqi munitions dump.

21 May: Soldier killed in vehicle accident near Baqubah.

19 May: All four crew members killed when Sea Knight helicopter crashes in the Shat Hilla Canal. One marine drowns while trying to rescue the crew.

19 May: One soldier killed in traffic accident near Safwan.

18 May: One soldier killed and one wounded in traffic accident near Samawa.

18 May: Soldier (Fourth Infantry Division) dies of "non-hostile gunshot wound".

17 May: One soldier killed and three injured while detonating unexploded ordnance in Baghdad.

14 May: One soldier killed and two injured in traffic accident near Irbil.

13 May: One soldier killed in accidental munitions explosion near Hilla.

12 May: Two soldiers killed in accidental munitions explosion.

9 May: Three soldiers killed and one injured in helicopter crash near Samarra.

8 May: Soldier killed by lone gunman in Baghdad.

4 May: Soldier dies in apparent suicide.

3 May: Soldier dies in apparent accidental shooting.

1 May: Soldier killed in traffic accident near Habbaniya.

Body count auch auf Amerikanischer Seite !

Quelle BBC online

VIETNAM lässt grüssen MR. BUSH !

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2 weitere us - soldaten wurden im irak getötet (=ntv).

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IslamOnline.net,tolle Quelle
keine news Agentur weiss davon.

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Vielleicht sollen sie auch nichts wissen / verbreiten

NTV : Weitere Angriffe im Irak

Im Irak wurden US-Soldaten abermals Opfer von Angriffen. Aufständische feuerten mehrere Granaten auf einen US-Stützpunkt nahe Balad, 90 Kilometer nördlich von Bagdad. In der irakischen Hauptstadt selbst wurde ein Militärfahrzeug der US-Streitkräfte attackiert. In Basra wurde ein britischer Soldat von zwei Heckenschützen angeschossen.
" target="_blank" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">http://www.n-tv.de/3170420.html

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US Truppen geben min. 7 Verletzte nach Angriffen zu !


http://www.albawaba.com/headlines/TheNews.php3?action=story&…

USA setzen Kopfgeld auf Angreifer aus 2500 $

[Joerver]

Um die Meldungen auf eine seriöse Basis zu stellen, hier der Bericht von AP in der WaPo.

Seven U.S. Soldiers Wounded as Iraqi Attacks Continue
Second U.S.-Appointed Governor Loses His Job Over Alleged Improprieties

By Paul Haven
Associated Press Writer
Tuesday, July 8, 2003; 10:14 AM


BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Insurgents dropped a homemade bomb from a bridge onto a passing U.S. military convoy in Baghdad on Tuesday, while another military vehicle struck a land mine in the capital. At least seven U.S. troops were injured in those and other attacks throughout the country, the military said.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25036-2003Jul…

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Gewaltiger Selbstmordanschlag auf US Truppen !

15 Tote US Soldaten ( islamonline.net )

Iraqi Resistance Carries Out First Martyrdom Operation


U.S. forces in Iraq come under daily attacks

By Hossam Ad-din Sayed, IOL Iraq Chief Correspondent

BAGHDAD, July 9 (IslamOnline.net) - The Iraqi national resistance carried out the first martyrdom operation that targeted U.S. troops stationed in Baghdad airport, Iraqi sources told IslamOnlin.net.

A statement obtained by IOL`s office in the Iraqi capital said that a man called Abu Abdullah, a truck driver, carried out the operation few days ago, leaving between 10 to 15 U.S. soldiers killed and dozens others wounded.

The statement further said that three armored vehicles and one tank at least were destroyed during the operation.

Eyewitnesses told IOL that U.S. troops were demolishing parts of Baghdad airport to build up a prison for Iraqi detainees, adding that they rented a number of trucks to lift the debris.

"Abu Abdullah was a driver of one of these trucks…He loaded the truck with explosives and blow it up inside the airport field, causing deafening sound heard by the inhabitants of the area and sending plumes of black smokes skyward," they added.

U.S. troops rent these trucks and hire laborers without checking the identities of the drivers or workers, which provides an easy access to under-construction sites.

U.S. troops also are moving around in streets without adequate protection, which made some Iraqi scholars issue a fatwa (religious edict) ruling that "it is not permissible to carry out martyrdom operations for the time being in Iraq because the enemy is an easy target and it is difficult to spare the blood of innocent Iraqis."

A spokesman for the U.S.-led occupation forces in Iraq, however, declined to comment, but admitted a number of anti-U.S. attacks had been carried out in the airport area and its surrounding suburbs, blaming, in the mean time, remnants of the deposed Baath party and loyalists to ousted Iraqi president Saddam Hussein for such attacks.



Ob die US Truppen eine Nachrichtensperre verhängt haben ??

Sehr wahrscheinlich angesichts dieser Verluste : 23 Soldaten an 2 Tagen !

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3 U.S. Soldiers Killed In Fresh Iraq Attacks


U.S. forces came under fresh mortar and grenade attacks in Iraq

BAGHDAD, July 10 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) – Three U.S. soldiers were killed and another wounded overnight in separate attacks in Iraq, U.S. army spokesmen said Thursday, July 10, as anti-American attacks showed no sign of abating.

One attack targeted a U.S. convoy in Saddam Hussein`s town of Tikrit north of Baghdad at around 10:30 pm (1830 GMT) Wednesday, July 9, killing one soldier and wounding another, Specialist Nicci Trent said, without providing further details.

In a separate attack in Mahmudiyah, south of the capital, two soldiers were killed when they were ambushed with small arms fire at around 6:30 pm (1430 GMT) on Wednesday, Sergeant Patrick Compton said. He did not elaborate.

Residents in the flashpoint town of Fallujah also said that U.S. positions had come under attack with RPGs and mortars overnight, again without reports of any casualties.

The U.S. military said it was unaware of any incidents in the town, around 50 kilometers (30 miles) west of Baghdad.

The killings came few hours after U.S. forces in Iraq came under four mortar or grenade attacks overnight, but there was no immediate reports of casualties, according to the U.S. military.

A U.S. military spokesman said troops came under rocket-propelled grenade attack in Tikrit north of Baghdad, while three separate mortar attacks hit Ramadi, west of the capital.

Wieder 3 Tote US Soldaten !



Bush erntet was er gesäät hat !