Insurgents Kill 3 U.S. Soldiers in Iraq

[leftchick]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040712/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq&cid=540&ncid=716

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On Sunday afternoon, a roadside bomb exploded as U.S. patrol passed in Samarra, a hotbed of violence 60 miles north of Baghdad, killing two soldiers and wounding three others, the military said.


Earlier, a U.S. convoy was attacked in Beiji, 90 miles south of the northern city of Mosul. After a roadside bomb exploded, an enemy vehicle raced toward the convoy and fired at the soldiers, who shot back and killed the driver, the military said.


A soldier and a civilian traveling behind the patrol were killed. A second soldier was injured and evacuated. Thick black smoke enveloped the area from an oil tanker set ablaze in the attack.


The deaths came a day after four U.S. Marines were killed in a vehicle accident near Camp Fallujah in western Iraq. At least 875 service members have died since the military operations in Iraq began last year, according to the U.S. Defense Department.

[markses]

1. ***NOT NEW*** Dupe Dupe Dupe Dupe Dupe Dupe Dupe

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x679503

[lottie244]

2. We really need to demand that the press cover the flag-drapped coffins

at Dover. Otherwise there is no reality to what is happening to our soldiers. It's not real to the FOX and Limbaugh audiences. Those of us at home should at least be made to feel the emotion of the losses.

[ramapo]

3. Dead soldiers are relegated to the "So What?" category

Iraq combat deaths get hardly a mention in the print media. The stories are hidden inside the paper.

I bet the majority of Americans have no clue that seven soldiers have died over the past few days.