AP: Five Marines Killed in Iraq, Military Says

[Cooley Hurd]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060108/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Five U.S. Marines were killed by small arms fire and roadside bombs this weekend, the military said Sunday.

Three Marines were killed Sunday by small arms attacks in Fallujah, 40 miles west of Baghdad, the military said.

On Saturday, two Marines were killed by roadside bombs in separate incidents, the military said. One blast occurred about 50 miles west of Baghdad, while the other happened about 35 miles north of the capital.
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[Oversea Visitor]

1. Hmm

is it part of yesterday 11.

[MaineDem]

2. Sounds like this just happened

I think it's in addition to the 11.

[Oversea Visitor]

4. Then very bad

Things starting to blow

[theHandpuppet]

3. My God, WILL THIS EVER STOP!!

Bring the troops home NOW!!!!!!!

RIP, Marines. ;(

[OKNancy]

5. Keep an eye out for the link

for us. Thanks.

[0007]

6. Heap five more on to the mound of death

Grass Bush

Pile the bodies high in Austerlitz and Waterloo Iraq
Shovel them under and let me work--
I am the grass; bush; I cover all.

And pile them high in Gettyburg Baghdad
And pile them high in Ypres and Vedum Mossoul and Al Fallaujah

Two years, ten years, and passengers ask the conductor:
What place is this?

I am the grass bush.
Let me work.

Carl Sandburg


Support the war - Donate a Son a daughter
The GOP working for a better America

[MaineDem]

7. The Prez of Maine's College Dems is a Marine over there now

I hope Alex is safe.

[maddezmom]

8. AP llink: Five Marines Killed in Iraq, Military Says

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Five U.S. Marines were killed by small arms fire and roadside bombs this weekend, the military said Sunday.

Three Marines were killed Sunday by small arms attacks in Fallujah, 40 miles west of Baghdad, the military said.

On Saturday, two Marines were killed by roadside bombs in separate incidents, the military said. One blast occurred about 50 miles west of Baghdad, while the other happened about 35 miles north of the capital.

Elsewhere, a French engineer taken hostage last month was pushed out of a car near a checkpoint in a Baghdad suburb, apparently freed by nervous captors who then fled, police said.

Bernard Planche was found Saturday night near the checkpoint in Baghdad's Abu Ghraib suburb, said Maj. Falah al-Mohammadawi.

more:http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060108/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq;_

[Cooley Hurd]

11. I've updated my OP...

...with your link.:thumbsup:

[qanda]

9. Oh, good grief!

What in the world?

[Oversea Visitor]

10. Blacjhawk down Blackhawk down

12 dead CNN.

[leftchick]

12. 30 US Troops DEAD in one week!

30!!! This should be 24/7 on the TV news shows! 30 DEAD for what???

[Cooley Hurd]

13. 12 miners > 30 US troops...

The absurdity of it all... :( :crazy:

[Rhiannon12866]

14. 30 human beings with lives, friends and families, lives cut short.

I agree. For what?! This absolutely boggles the mind. K&R.;(:grr:

[rodeodance]

21. article says 'a dozen U.S. troops were killed." during this 'bloody week"

The latest deaths followed an especially bloody week in which about 200 Iraqis and a dozen U.S. troops were killed. Iraqi politicians, meanwhile, claimed headway in forming a stable coalition government following the Dec. 15 elections, whose final results may be released this week.

[TheBaldyMan]

15. k&r n/t

[MaineDem]

16. One more kick n/t

[deadparrot]

17. RIP.

...

[rodeodance]

25. and their families find peace.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

18. K&R

When will this senseless loss of life end? :cry:

[rodeodance]

23. not soon I am afraid!

[Olney Blue]

19. Impeach the bastard.

:cry: RIP, young men.

[HuffleClaw]

20. some military guy, just the other day was boasting

that the roadside bombs were no longer very effective. this has been one ugly week in iraq. nearly forty dead i think.

[rodeodance]

22. says these five do "toll did not include those killed aboard the Black Haw

my gawd. more news of deaths to come.

Three Marines were killed Sunday by small arms attacks in Fallujah, 40 miles west of Baghdad, the military said. Two other Marines were killed Saturday by roadside bombs in separate incidents, the military said.

With the latest Marine deaths, at least 2,199 members of the U.S. military have died since the war started in 2003, according to an Associated Press count. That toll did not include those killed aboard the Black Hawk.

[rodeodance]

24. In other violence Sunday, according to Iraqi police:

In other violence Sunday, according to Iraqi police:

• Gunmen assassinated a member of former Prime Minster Ayad Allawi's secular Shiite Iraqi National List in Baghdad.

• A gunman was killed when clashes broke out between militants and Iraqi police.

• Militants opened fire on a vehicle in Baghdad, killing the driver.

• Gunmen killed a policeman in western Baghdad.

• Police found six bodies, most shot in the head, at a sewage plant in southeast Baghdad.