IED kills Sailor in Fallujah (1569)

[leftchick]

IED kills Sailor in Fallujah


CAMP FALLUJAH, Iraq – A Sailor assigned to the 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward), was killed yesterday by an improvised explosive device while conducting combat operations in Fallujah, Iraq.

The name of the deceased is being withheld pending notification of next of kin.


http://www.mnf-iraq.com/media-information/April/050424b.htm

RIP :(

[MaineDem]

1. A corpsman, perhaps?

Crap!

Eternal Father, strong to save,
Whose arm hath bound the restless wave,
Who bidd'st the mighty ocean deep
Its own appointed limits keep;
Oh, hear us when we cry to Thee,
For those in peril on the sea!

[0007]

2. RIP

Please bring the troops home and stop this insanity.

[UpInArms]

3. RIP sailor

perhaps you should have been sailing the seas instead of being in Fallujah :(

Another lost life in the pursuit of madness brought to you courtesy of the policies of this maladministration.

Period	US	UK	Other*	Total	Avg	Days	
4 	133	1	5	139	1.65	84	
3 	579	26	27	632	2.93	216	
2 	717	27	58	802	1.89	424	
1 	140	33	0	173	4.02	43	
Total	1569	87	90	1746	2.28	767

http://icasualties.org/oif/

[leftchick]

6. I believe there are 2 more dead today...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3534156

Finally! Here is the story...

Bombs Kill U.S. Sailor, Two Soldiers in Iraq
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=8273910

[UpInArms]

9. reuter certainly did a fine job minimizing the death toll

The deaths raise to at least 1,194 the number of U.S. military personnel killed by enemy action in Iraq since the 2003 invasion.

I guess those other 375+/- are really not "dead". :argh:

[leftchick]

10. I saw that....

I never use then in mt posts and I can't believe reuters is still doing this. :grr:

[Wright Patman]

4. He was sailing the "Eighth Sea"

The sea of blood created by our gallant forces who 'retook' the city last fall.

[Djinn]

5. very crappy for his loved ones

there are literally THOUSANDS of Iraqi families in Fallujah who can understand their pain, none of their dead relatives names will appear in any of our papers and no western strangers will mourn their deaths, but they're just as dead.

[leftchick]

7. Update: Bombs Kill U.S. Sailor, Two Soldiers in Iraq

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=8273910

:(

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A bomb killed a U.S. soldier in Baghdad Sunday, raising to at least three the number of American military personnel killed in Iraq this weekend, the U.S. military said.
A bomb targeting a patrol killed the soldier Sunday morning in east Baghdad, the military said in a statement.

A sailor was killed by a bomb during combat operations on Saturday in Falluja, about 50 km (30 miles) west of Baghdad.

A second U.S. soldier was killed Saturday when a bomb exploded near a military convoy near al Haswah, west of Baghdad. The second soldier and the sailor were assigned to the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force.

[soup]

8. Wasn't the soldier killed near al Haswah

reported on yesterday?

Or is this another in the seemingly endless stream of death?

May they rest in peace.

[TacticalPeek]

11. Bummer.

President AWOL must be proud of his 38 Republican lackeys in the Senate who voted against armor for these poor souls.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x1738103


Chickenhawk "conservatives", liars "strong on defense" - a bunch of chickenshit right wing zealots led by an AWOL draft dodger who is too yellow to admit it.




RIP, Corpsman.

[Pinboy]

12. icas now updated to 1570...

WMD still 0

[leftchick]

13. I don't think these two have been accounted for today

Iraqi street cleaners wait for US Army soldiers to clear the road after a roadside bomb exploded in the south part of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, April 24, 2005. Two US Army humvee's were targeted, killing two US Army soldiers and injuring two Iraqi's, according to Iraqi police at the spot. (AP Photo/Muhammed Uraibi)