Guerra in Iraq

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LONDON - A British soldier has been killed in Iraq, the Ministry of Defense said on Friday.


A spokeswoman said the soldier, from the 12th regiment of the Royal Artillery, was injured in an attack in al Qurna in the south of the country on Tuesday and died of his injuries on Thursday.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060908/...raq_britain_dc


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U.S. marine killed in western Iraq

U.S. marine died of wounds sustained due to hostile action in the volatile Anbar province, the U.S. military said on Friday.

A marine died of wounds that sustained due to "enemy action" when he was on duty in the Anbar province on Sept. 6, the military said in a brief statement.

The name of the soldier is being withheld pending notification of next of kin, it added.

More than 2,650 U.S. military servicemen have been killed in Iraq since the outbreak of the U.S.-led war on the oil-rich Arab country in March 2003, according to media count.

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/20...08_300973.html


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One US soldier killed southern of Baghdad + two other soldier who were killed in two separate incidents in Huwaija and Ramadi. (pickup previous) mhg.__


MIL-LD IRAQ-UNREST
One US soldier killed southern of Baghdad

BAGHDAD, Sept 8 — One US soldier was killed on Friday in a blast in southern Baghdad, the US army reported.

An army statement said that the soldier, who was a member of the multinational forces, was killed by a bomb planted on the side of the road.

The name of the soldier has not yet been revealed until his family is informed.

A Marines soldier was killed today in Al-Anbar in addition to two other soldier who were killed in two separate incidents in Huwaija and Ramadi.

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KABUL - Due soldati americani e un militare afghano sono stati uccisi e tre soldati americano sono stati feriti ieri sera in uno scontro armato con ribelli nella provincia di Kunar, in Afghanistan orientale. Lo ha annunciato oggi la coalizione guidata dagli Stati Uniti.

I soldati - ha detto la coalizione in un comunicato - facevano parte di una pattuglia che si e' imbattuta nel distretto di Pech con ''nemici estremisti'' e lne e' nato uno scontro a fuoco con l'impiego di armi leggere e artiglierie. Tutti i soldati americani e afghani feriti sono stati evacuati per essere curati a Asadabad, capoluogo della provincia, e le loro condizioni di salute sono stazionarie, secondo il comunicato.

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BAGHDAD - Sei soldati americani sono stati uccisi in una serie di attacchi a Baghdad e nella parte occidentale dell'Iraq. Lo ha annunciato oggi il comando Usa.

Due militari sono stati uccisi in diversi attacchi nel nord della capitale e un terzo nel sud ovest di Baghdad dove la pattuglia con la quale stava viaggiando e' stata attaccata a colpi d'arma da fuoco.

Un altro soldato americano e' morto lunedi' notte per le ferite riportate dall'esplosione di una bomba, sempre nell'ovest di Baghdad. Nella valle dell'Eufrate, Iraq occidentale, due marines sono morti per le ferite riportate in combattimento mentre partecipavano ad operazioni nella provincia di al Anbar.

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BAGHDAD, 8 OTT- Violenti scontri nella notte a Diwaniya: l'esercito iracheno e le forze Usa hanno ucciso 20 'insorti' forse membri dell'Esercito del Mahdi. Lo hanno riferito fonti Usa confermando anche voci secondo cui un carro armato americano e' stato distrutto. Da stamani e' stato imposto il coprifuoco sulla cita', una delle roccaforti dell'esercito del Mahdi, la milizia che fa capo al giovane leader radicale sciita Moqtada Sadr. E' stato invece tolto il coprifuoco totale in vigore da venerdi' a Kirkuk.

[Wiking]

La situazione è ulteriormente peggiorata da inizio mese, infatti i caduti nei primi sette giorni del mese sono stati 30, di cui solo uno per fuoco non ostile.
In dettaglio:

8 per attacchi con armi IED
1 per attacco con RPG
11 per attacco con armi automatiche
1 per attacco con mortaio
8 per attacco con armi non specificate
1 per incidente stradale.

[kalashnikov47]

09/10/2006 18:29
Dal Mondo
IRAQ, UCCISO FRATELLO VICEPRESIDENTE
Amer Al Hashimi, fratello del vicepresidente iracheno, è stato assassinato da un commando che ha fatto irruzione nella sua casa a Bagdad. Nel blitz sono morte anche alcune guardie del corpo. Al Hashimi svolgeva attività di consigliere alla presidenza della Repubblica. Alcuni mesi fa vennero uccisi una sua sorella e un altro fratello. Un'autobomba è stata poi fatta esplodere in un mercato di Bagdad, provocando 13 morti e una trentina di feriti. Nel cuore del triangolo sunnita, tre marines americani sono rimasti vittima di attacchi ribelli.

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IRAQ: CINQUE SOLDATI USA MORTI IN AZIONE
Cinque soldati americani sono morti ieri in diversi attacchi in Iraq. L'attentato piu' grave contro le forze Usa e' stato compiuto in mattinata nella zona sud di Baghdad. Un veicolo di pattuglia e' finito su una mina e tre militari hanno perso la vita. Sempre nella capitale, un aviere e' morto mentre era in servizio insieme a un'unita' della polizia irachena. La quinta vittima e' un marine deceduto dopo essere rimasto ferito durante combattimenti nella provincia sunnita di al Anbar.

[kalashnikov47]

http://icasualties.org/oif/prdDetail...hndRef=10-2006

[Zero Sen]

http://icasualties.org/oif/prdDetail...hndRef=10-2006

11 marines uccisi nelle ultime 24 ore.


http://icasualties.org/oif/prdDetail...hndRef=10-2006

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11 US troops killed in Iraq


Iraq's most violent Ramadan ends in bloodshed as 86 US troops killed in first three weeks of October.


By Ammar Karim – BAGHDAD

Five more US soldiers have been killed in attacks in Baghdad and a sixth in western Iraq, the military said Monday, as October remains on course to be the worst month for American deaths since 2004.


The five were killed Sunday, three in gun attacks and the other two by roadside booby-traps, the US military said in a series of statements.


It said a sixth soldier was killed Saturday in western Iraq, following an earlier announcement of the deaths of five marines and a soldier the same day, all but one of them in the west of the country.

The deaths followed the killings of five more soldiers and marines on Saturday elsewhere around Iraq and brought to 86 the number of US troops killed in the first three weeks of October.


If the toll continues to mount at the same rate until the end of October it will become the bloodiest month for US forces in Iraq since November 2004, when they fought fierce streetbattles in the western town of Fallujah.


The latest casualties bring the number of US forces killed since the March 2003 invasion to 2,792, according to Pentagon figures.

About 15,000 American troops have been brought into the capital, including battle-hardened infantry from Alaska's Stryker Brigade, who are now in the 15th month of a planned 12-month tour, but nothing seems to slow the violence.

Meanwhile, two civilians and a policeman were killed and 13 wounded in a bomb attack in the centre of the capital as a police patrol passed near a Sunni mosque, the interior ministry said.


Overnight, the bang and flash of colourful fireworks mingled with the more familiar crack of automatic weapons and the bright glow of decoy flares from American helicopters flying low over the city skyline.


But while Sunnis began to celebrate the three-day festival of Eid al-Fitr - Iraq's Shiite majority will follow suit on Tuesday - doctors battled to save the survivors of a brutal ambush Sunday on a convoy of unarmed police recruits.


The death toll from the attack rose to 17 overnight, medics said, with more than 20 wounded after insurgents raked their buses with automatic fire.


"The incident took place while the victims were returning to Baghdad ... They were killed near Khan Bani Saad," said interior ministry spokesman Brigadier General Abdel Karim Khalaf.


The interior ministry said victims' bodies were rigged with booby-traps after the attack, while dozens of their colleagues were kidnapped.


Twenty-five recruits were released overnight in a joint rescue operation by US and Iraqi troops on the assailants' hideout. Those freed were all from the capital's Shiite district of Sadr City, a military official said.


Forty arrests were made, including the suspected kidnappers, he said.


Already, before Ramadan, United Nations and Iraqi officials were reporting more than 100 deaths per day. When the holy month began, US officials reported a "tremendous spike" in violence with attacks up by more than a fifth.


The constant litany of bad news from Iraq, more than three-and-a-half years after US forces invaded and toppled Saddam Hussein, has led to mounting pressure on US President George W. Bush to change his tactics.


With key congressional elections in two weeks, Bush's Democratic opponents and even some of his Republican allies have demanded a clearer strategy to either win the war or bring the 142,000 US troops home.


Bush met his top Middle East generals and diplomats on Saturday, but has announced no new plan, despite press reports that he will increase pressure on Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's government to disarm the militias.


"The truth of the matter is there's a need for radical change in policy," said Senator Joseph Biden, an influential Democrat on the foreign affairs committee said in an interview with Fox News.


Republican Senator Arlen Specter said he was encouraged by reports that Bush would push Maliki to take a bolder stance, but added: "I don't believe that a shift in tactics ought to wait until after the election.


"There are too many casualties there," he told CNN. "If we have a better course, we ought to adopt it sooner rather than later."


Iraq's deputy prime minister Barham Saleh, who was in London to meet Prime Minister Tony Blair, warned against allowing "panic" to grip British and US decision-making and urged the coalition to keep faith with his government.


"I'm obviously concerned about the debate both in the United States and in Europe, I have to say, because there is too much of the pessimistic tone to this debate, even I would say in certain circles a defeatist tone," he said.


The main Shiite militias, radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army and the Badr Organisation of Abdel Aziz al-Hakim's Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), have close ties to Maliki's ruling coalition.


The Iraqi prime minister is pursuing a strategy of binding the movements into the political process, rather than openly confronting them with his beleaguered security forces, despite a recent series of bloody clashes.

http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=17966