Attacks Kill 17 U.S. Soldiers in Iraq

[maddezmom]

Dozens Sickened by Gaseous Cloud in Bombing Outside American Base

By Joshua Partlow
Washington Post Foreign Service
Monday, June 4, 2007; 6:56 AM

BAGHDAD, June 4 -- A car bomb attack outside a major U.S. military base in Iraq discharged a gaseous cloud that sickened dozens of people Sunday, punctuating a flurry of violence that left 16 American soldiers dead during the first three days of June.

A 17th U.S. soldier, Staff Sgt. Juan Campos, died Friday in a military hospital in Texas, according to local news reports there. He had been injured by a roadside bomb near Baghdad in May.


The noxious gas cloud emanated from a bomb that exploded Sunday near the main gate of Forward Operating Base Warhorse, the largest U.S. military facility in Diyala province, a restive territory north of Baghdad. An Iraqi employee on the base said the bomb unleashed chlorine gas. The U.S. military cited an "unconfirmed report of off-color smoke" that caused soldiers to complain of "minor respiratory irritations and watery eyes," according to a statement. Soldiers were rushed to the clinic on base for treatment, but there were no deaths..

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On Sunday, the U.S. military announced that a series of other bombings and shootings, most of them in and around Baghdad, took the lives of 15 soldiers and wounded at least 22 since Friday. The independent website icasualties.org, which tracks U.S. military deaths, said another soldier also had been killed during the that time frame.

more:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/04/AR2007060400360.html

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[bdamomma]

1. the count of needless death still keeps mounting, sickening

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[madrchsod]

2. 19 waiting "confirmation" today

names not yet released

http://icasualties.org/oif/prdDetails.aspx?hndRef=6-2007
Period Details



looks like two more since the article was written

[madrchsod]

3. US Casualties By Calendar Year .....

2003 486
2004 849
2005 846
2006 822
2007 492 <- first 5 months. there`s going to be a lot of dead soldiers while everyone is on vacation....