Iraq's bloodiest month for US troops since Fallujah(2 more Soldier killed Wed)

[maddezmom]

Source: AFP

BAGHDAD (AFP) - Two more US soldiers have been killed in Iraq, the military announced Thursday, confirming that May had become the deadliest month for American forces in two-and-a-half years.

Meanwhile, the hunt was continuing for five Britons who were snatched at gunpoint from a finance ministry building in the capital earlier this week.

The soldiers were killed Wednesday when a roadside bomb hit their foot patrol and brought US casualties for the month to 116, the most since November 2004, when marines fought a fierce battle to retake the city of Fallujah.

Unlike at Fallujah, US forces have fought no major set-piece enounters in May, but instead have been fanning out through Baghdad and a belt of flashpoint towns around the capital in a bid to quell sectarian violence.

"First and foremost, it's been a tough month," Brigadier General Perry Wiggins, deputy director of regional operations with the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters at a Defence Department briefing on Wednesday.



Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070531/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_070531085006

[wakeme2008]

1. And today is not over yet

:cry: :cry:

[bigscott]

2. icasualties

has 120 so far this month:mad:

[maddezmom]

9. Reuters has 122

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/B22611.htm

[mediawatch]

3. I cry with you

:cry: I suspect even those who were for the war/occupation cry too.

[Massachusetts]

4. FUBAR!

May OUR Troops RIP.

Why are the citizens of OUR country being held hostage to this madness? Where is the ANGER? OUR government and the people who are supposed to be representing us have FAILED!

[SavageDem]

5. The surge is working!

Uh...oh...I guess not-so-much.

[maddezmom]

6. Military announces 3 more U.S. soldiers killed

Military announces 3 more U.S. soldiers killed
BAGHDAD (CNN) -- The U.S. military announced Thursday that three more U.S. soldiers have been killed in Iraq.

Two Multi-National Division-Baghdad Soldiers were killed Wednesday by an improvised explosive device.

The bomb detonated as the troops were conducting combat operations in southwest Baghdad, the military said in a statement. Two other soldiers were wounded.

Separately, a soldier who was wounded Monday in an IED attack died of his wounds Tuesday, the military said.

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/05/31/thursday/index.html?section=cnn_latest

[bamacrat]

7. And according to B*sh its gonna get worse.

We'll hit 5000 dead before the end of the summer.

[Doctor_J]

8. Thank God May is almost over

So Smirk can reset the counter

:sarcasm:

[maddezmom]

10. Reuters: May toll for U.S. soldiers in Iraq climbs to 122

May toll for U.S. soldiers in Iraq climbs to 122
31 May 2007 15:12:40 GMT
Source: Reuters
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BAGHDAD, May 31 (Reuters) - The U.S. military reported three more deaths in Iraq on Thursday, taking the death toll to 122 for May, already the worst month for U.S. forces there in more than two years.

May is the third-worst month overall in the campaign for U.S. soldiers, behind November 2004, when 137 soldiers died, and April 2004, when 135 were killed.

A total of 3,473 U.S. soldiers have been killed since the start of the invasion in March 2003.

In the latest deaths, two soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb on Wednesday in southwestern Baghdad, the military said in a statement. Two more were wounded.

Another soldier wounded by a roadside bomb in Baghdad's northwest on Monday died of his wounds on Tuesday.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/B22611.htm