How Iraq spent Halloween while you were Trick Or Treating & U.S. Confirmed Deaths: 4,189

[Breeze54]

Halloween in Iraq while you were Trick or Treating......

http://icasualties.org/oif/

11/01/08 Reuters: U.S. forces detain 17 militants on Friday and Saturday

U.S. forces detained 17 militants on Friday and Saturday during operations
targeting al Qaeda across Iraq, the U.S. military said.


11/01/08 Reuters: Gunmen kill policeman on Friday west of Kut

Gunmen killed one policeman on Friday near his home just west of Kut,
150 km (105 miles) southeast of Baghdad, police said.


11/01/08 reuters: Gunmen kill 2 Iraqi soldiers on Friday in northern Mosul

Gunmen killed two Iraqi soldiers on Friday in an attack on a military checkpoint
in northern Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.


11/01/08 VOA: Death Toll Down for US Troops in Iraq

A count of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq shows the month of October tied for the
fewest fatalities since the war began. A website that compiles casualty figures
released by military authorities (icasualties.org) says 13 Americans were killed in October

....(AND IN JULY....)


11/01/08 LATimes: U.S., Iraq fatalities dip in October

The number of Iraqis killed in war-related violence in October was the lowest since the
U.S.-led invasion in March 2003, Iraqi officials said Friday. The death toll was 278,
including 22 policemen and 18 Iraqi soldiers..


11/01/08 AP: Iraq sends extra police to Syrian border

Iraqi police are heading to the Syrian border near the scene of a US raid last weekend
on a suspected al-Qaeda hideout in Syria. Police Col. Jubair Rashid Naief says a police
quick reaction force is moving Saturday to the border at Qaim...


11/01/08 AP: Yemen IDs attackers in US embassy attack

A Yemeni security official says authorities have identified the six suicide bombers who
carried out a deadly attack last month on the US embassy, linking them to al-Qaida in Iraq.


11/01/08 WSJ: Iraq Trims Budget Amid Oil-Price Decline

Because oil prices continue to fall, Iraqi Finance Minister Bayan Jabr said Saturday that
the country will trim its budget for next year by about 16%, which also represents a cut
from the 2008 spending program.


11/01/08 radionetherlands: Iraq and Iran to exchange war remains

Iraq and Iran are to exchange the remains of military personnel who died during the war
between the two countries in the 1980s. Baghdad will receive the remains of 200 victims,
while Tehran will receive the remains of 41.


10/31/08 USNews: Most Iraqi Refugees Unwilling to Return Home

An estimated 2 million refugees have left Iraq. And, although their lives in their temporary
homes are often difficult, "few of them are willing to return home," finds a new report from
Refugees International, a humanitarian group.


10/31/08 LATimes: Market in ruins after bulldozers move in

The day started like every other in Hurriya, a working-class district in Baghdad. By 7 a.m.,
vendors had begun opening the stalls that line the sidewalks and offer makeup, books, toys,
phones and just about anything else to shoppers browsing...


10/31/08 Reuters: Roadside bomb wounds 2 people in eastern Mosul
Two people were wounded by a roadside bomb blast in eastern Mosul, police said.


10/31/08 Reuters: Gunman kill man in eastern Mosul
Gunmen killed a man on his farm on Thursday in eastern Mosul, police said...
A sniper shot and wounded one policeman at his checkpoint in western Mosul, police said.


10/31/08 Reuters: Roadside bombs wound Iraqi soldiers in western and eastern Mosul

A roadside bomb wounded two Iraqi soldiers when it struck their patrol in western Mosul on
Thursday, police said...A roadside bomb wounded three Iraqi soldiers and a woman when it
struck their patrol in eastern Mosul, police said.


10/31/08 Reuters: Gunmen kill off-duty policeman in southern Mosul

Gunmen killed an off-duty policeman in southern Mosul, 390 km (240 miles)
north of Baghdad, on Thursday, police said.


10/31/08 Reuters: Militants blow up Baghdad drinking water main line

Militants blew up a section of a Baghdad water pipeline, shutting off drinking water
to hundreds of thousands of people, the U.S. military said on Friday.


10/31/08 AP: Syrian Riot Police Form Ring Around US Embassy

Hundreds of Syrian riot police ringed the closed U.S. Embassy here Thursday as tens
of thousands of people gathered about a mile away for a government-orchestrated protest
to denounce a deadly U.S. raid near the Iraqi border.


10/31/08 ModestoBee: Christian Iraqi refugees settle in Turlock

Samuel survived the ambush, but his attackers got rid of him just the same. Hours after a
round of bullets strafed his cab, Samuel and his wife decided to leave Iraq, joining an
exodus of Assyrian Christians who no longer felt safe in their country.


10/31/08 CNN: Marine motorcycle deaths top their Iraq combat fatalities

Motorcycle accidents have killed more Marines in the past 12 months than enemy fire in Iraq, a rate
that's so alarming it has prompted top brass to call a meeting to address the issue, officials say.


10/31/08 MCT: Iraqi hero forced to seek refuge in America

Two years ago, President Bush hailed Najim al Jabouri as a symbol of success in the battle
to curb Iraq's sectarian violence. Today, Jabouri is a symbol of how uncertain that success is.

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DoD Identifies Army Casualty

http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=12322

The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Sgt. Scott J. Metcalf, 36, of Framingham, Mass., died Oct. 29, in Balad, Iraq, of injuries sustained from a non-combat related incident. He was assigned to the 1st Squadron, 32nd Cavalry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, Fort Campbell, Ky. The incident is under investigation. Metcalf is survived by his wife, Betty, and daughter Korrine of Clarksville, Tenn., and his mother, Paulette, of Northbridge.

[EastTennesseeDem]

1. Clarksville, just outside of Nashville, where I was born and raised

[JeffR]

2. A somber K & R.

The only way in which the "surge has worked" is that it's succeeded in turning our illegal occupation of Iraq invisible, even - sadly - here in Left Blogistan.

Thank you for bringing it back into the spotlight, Breeze. Thank you.

[Breeze54]

3. You know....

I've kept quiet about it all for a while now but I read on this "Left Blogistan"
a list of first "must have's" after Obama is elected and Iraq and Afghanistan
weren't even included and the caveat was "anything else should be off the table!" :wtf:

:grr: :cry:

You're welcome, JeffR.

It's time for a DU reality check. It seems that some have fallen asleep. :(

[Muttocracy]

4. did you know the soldier who was killed (one with photo)? nt

[Breeze54]

5. No but I used to live in Framingham. I'm 15 mins away. He's from Tenn., I think

His Mom's from Mass. She lives in Northbridge.

Framingham is the biggest town in the USA or it used to be.

There's a lot of people living there.

[HopeFor2006]

6. Thanks for bringing this back to the forefront- K&R

:kick:

[JeffR]

7. Kicking this again

and hoping this gets to the Greatest Page where it damned well belongs.

[democrank]

8. K & R to the Greatest Page.

~peace~

[JeffR]

9. Kick.

:kick: