26 U.S. Troops Killed In 1 Week In Iraq
Military Announces 4 More Deaths Around Baghdad
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A U.S. Army soldier from Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division tries to organize a group of Iraqi residents that are queued for a medical clinic in the Amariyah neighborhood of west Baghdad, Iraq on Monday, Aug. 6, 2007. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)
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Umm Jihad, right, watches over her badly-burned son, Jihad Wali, 35, a victim of a roadside bomb that killed nine civilians and wounded eight, in a central Baghdad hospital, Aug. 6, 2007. (AP Photo/Adil al-Khazali)
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Most recently reported were the three Task Force Marne soldiers killed Saturday when a roadside bomb struck their convoy south of Baghdad, according to a brief statement that provided no more details.
One Multi-National Division - Baghdad soldier was killed and another wounded Monday when their vehicle was targeted by an armor-piercing explosively formed penetrator, or EFP, in a western section of the capital, the military said separately.
Lt. Col. Rudy Burwell, a military spokesman based at Camp Victory in Baghdad, told CBSNews.com that a total of six troops were killed in action Monday.
The U.S. military has accused Iran of supplying Shiite extremists with EFPs to step up attacks against American forces. Tehran denies the allegations.
The deaths raised to at least 3,678 members of the U.S. military have died since the Iraq war started in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
August has begun with a wave of U.S. troop deaths in Iraq, on the heels of a relatively low death toll in July, which was cited by commanders as an indication that that the build-up of American troops in and around Baghdad was reducing violence.
The military reported Monday that four U.S. soldiers had died from wounds suffered in a combat explosion in Diyala province north of Baghdad earlier that day. Twelve others had minor injuries and returned to duty.
The military statement announcing the deaths gave no other details and said identities of the victims were being withheld until family could be notified.
Earlier Monday the military said one soldier was killed during fighting in eastern Baghdad a day earlier. Two soldiers were wounded in the fighting.
In other developments:
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See all 299 CommentsUS casualties continue to climb.
$2 billion American dollars a week flow from our treasury into Iraq.
Maliki's government is in a shambles.
60,000 new Iraqi refugees are created each month.
Our own 16 intelligence agencies determined that the occupation causes more terrorism rather than diminish it.
And yet, Bush calls all this "progress".......
In a report issued Wednesday, the Government Accountability Office, the investigative arm of Congress, said the Defense Department had improved security in its surplus program to prevent improper sales of sensitive items.
But investigators found that roughly 1,400 parts that could be used on F-14 Tomcat fighter jets were sold in February. That came after the Pentagon announced it had suspended sales of all parts that could be used on the Tomcat while it reviewed the security situation.
Come on Ron Paul, get your backside on that Oval office chair and bring these people home.
Glenn Murphy, President of Yopung Republicans Club has resigned - cause he's been charged with sexuallt assaulting a young (sleeping) man in his sister's house - seems the guy woke up and was the unhappy and unwilling recipient of a BJ from Murphy!!
Glenn Murphy, President of Yopung Republicans Club has resigned - cause he's been charged with sexuallt assaulting a young (sleeping) man in his sister's house - seems the guy woke up and was the unhappy and unwilling recipient of a BJ from Murphy!!
26 is a lot of soldiers down.
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