Not one American soldier died today in

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

Iraq?

Does anyone find that odd?

the count is still 2998, and has been for 24 hours

source
http://icasualties.org/oif/
Iraq Coalition Casualties

[LynnTheDem]

1. Waiting on confirmation(s)

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

2. still adds up to 2998, has not changed

since this time yesterday

[LynnTheDem]

3. ICCC will update figures when ICCC has firm confirmations

[LynnTheDem]

5. 2 US died today

30-Dec-2006 1 | US: 1 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Baghdad (southwest part) Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Al Anbar Province Hostile - hostile fire

[snowbear]

19. icasualties doesn't update their site on a round the clock basis..

It's incredible how much they add once they've done the updates early each morning.

The site is run by a small handful of people who depend on donations to keep it going. I sent in a donation last year, and got the nicest e-mail from one of the people there!

Still.. I hope when we check tomorrow, there will be NO MORE FATALITIES too!

[havocmom]

4. One hopes that is correct. But one may have difficulty owing to source

Anything official with criminals in charge is best taken with some salt.

[GeneCosta]

6. Hopefully

Hopefully no one did die today. It would make for welcoming news!

But knowing who is in charge of confirming deaths.. :-/

[NMDemDist2]

10. welcome to DU GeneCosta!

:hi:

[silverlib]

15. Welcome!

Nice to see a new late night poster.

[Poll_Blind]

7. If there are/were casualties I think the DOD would sit on them.

Pretty typical Bushista thing to do. 24 hours, 48 hours, late Sunday night "news drop".

  Or maybe no soldiers have been hurt today. God, that would be good news.

  Also, I doubt we've sent many/any patrols outside the Green Zone. Don't want to go tempting fate.

PB

[Erika]

8. 72 hour curfews were set throughout Iraq

That's what the military does.

[doc03]

9. Question; Has there been any Special Forces people

listed as killed in Iraq? An x-Special Forces guy told me the other day that when they get killed in action it is not public knowledge. He said there were many killed in Iraq before the actual invasion.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

11. Sometimes they keep their deaths secret, but

I recall reading about SEAL, A Team guys and other specwar types getting killed. Of course they may not have died when and where the DOD says, but...

no, that old "secret even in death" thing seems to be gone.

[RaleighNCDUer]

13. Is it? No special ops guys gone missing in Iran? nt

[TahitiNut]

12. Huh? 4 on the 28th, 1 on the 29th, and 2 on the 30th.

http://icasualties.org/oif/prdDetails.aspx?hndRef=12-2006

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

16. Yeah, I see that, but the total

has not budged over 2998

that is what I don't understand.

[Monkeyman]

14. If True Thank God

[cwydro]

17. Before I turned off the TV today

I thought they updated it and said that soldiers HAD died and that made December the worst month this year...

[madeline_con]

18. If you had an explosive device to plant in the road....

would YOU go out of the house to do that during Saddam's execution?

[Crunchy Frog]

20. Not one fatality was reported today.

Sometimes it takes days for them to get around to reporting them all. It's not at all unusual for none of a day's fatalities to be reported until the following day.

Not that I'm hoping soldiers died today. But they may be holding off on the reporting till the Saddam execution brouhaha dies down a little.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

21. well yeah, that's my point

I think they are holding off so they can't say 3k happened in 2006