if you are confused about US KIA's in the past week (esp. last 3 days)

[expatriot]

I know it is confusing, especially for people who are not as glued to the wires as people like me but here I think it is...

7/23 2
7/24 3 = the first five combat KIA's after the Hussein bros. deaths
7/25 0
7/26 4 (3 of them from the guarding a children's hospital in baquba... this from Forbes news wire...
http://www.forbes.com/business/newswire/2003/07/27/rtr1038804.html
07.26.03 3:00PM ----

BAQUBA, Iraq - A grenade attack killed three U.S. soldiers guarding a children's hospital north of Baghdad, the latest ambush in a guerrilla war that the killing of Saddam Hussein's sons has failed to check

the fourth is documented here in the Guardian after reporting the three earlier KIA's
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1007292,00.html

"The worst incident in the latest spate of attacks on Americans came on Saturday when a grenade was thrown at three soldiers guarding a children's hospital in Baquba, north of Baghdad. <b>A fourth soldier was killed in an attack on a convoy on the capital's outskirts. </b>"

7/27 2 (one very early in the morning which was the fifth kia of the 'five in 24' as reported here in an ft.com story...
http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1058868192504

"On Sunday, the fifth was killed by a grenade attack south of Baghdad near the city of Hilla."

one just recently reported by the afp occurred 11pm local time in Baquba and reported here

http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=a5zP31Rfo.ug&refer=us

The incident happened at about 11 p.m. last night in a town regarded by the U.S. military as home to many loyalists of the ousted regime, AFP said. Three U.S. soldiers were killed by a grenade there as they guarded a children's hospital on Saturday, the news agency said.

Note that this is in ADDITION to the three earlier deaths also in Baquba.

7/28: 2 (the two now reported dead after the grenade attack in downtown baghdad)

http://www.itv.com/news/1850809.html


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so a recap we have had 13 combat KIA's in the last week... 8 in the last 60 hours. and 16-18 in the last ten days.

[DUreader]

1. Thankyou , e.p.

It is confusing

[expatriot]

2. just think if they had the internet in the vietnam war...

...how impossible it would be to keep up... i hope to god we don't find out.

[DoYouEverWonder]

3. One thing I don't understand

why is Paul Bremmer's pocket hankerchief always clean and spotless? I guess he thinks he's managing things so well, that there's nothing to cry about?