Death Toll 08/12 - 08/13/03

[DoYouEverWonder]

US kills Pakistani soldiers[br />

11 August, 2003


The United States military is investigating a friendly fire incident on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border that killed at least two people and wounded a third.

The incident happened after US aircraft flew in to support coalition forces who were being fired on while patrolling in Afghanistan's Paktika Province, said US Central Command.

"The incident resulted in the unfortunate and unintended engagement of Pakistani security forces in the area," said the statement.

The Pakistani army was reported to have said it had issued a "strong protest" to the United States over the incident.



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Police killed in Saudi gunfight


Tuesday, 12 August, 2003

Four Saudi police officers have died in a gun battle with suspected Islamic militants in the Saudi capital Riyadh, reports say.

Fighting raged into the evening after security forces attempted to storm villas in the southern district of al-Suwaidi late in the afternoon.

Seven people were reportedly arrested on suspicion of links to al-Qaeda and an eighth is said to have been killed.

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Since the bomb attacks, Saudi security forces have arrested some 200 suspected militants across the country and killed about 12.

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Bombings rattle Mid-East truce


Tuesday, 12 August

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Two Palestinian militant groups said they carried out Tuesday's attacks - in which two Israelis died - in specific retaliation for a deadly Israeli raid last week.

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Two Hamas members died and two Palestinians were killed in Friday's Israeli army raid in Nablus.

Tuesday's attacks killed a 43-year-old Israeli man from Rosh Haayin who was buying breakfast groceries, and an 18-year-old Israeli standing at a bus stop outside the Jewish settlement of Ariel.

The families of the two suicide bombers said they were teenage residents of the Askar refugee camp in Nablus, the scene of last week's Israeli raid.



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US soldier dies in Iraq attack


Tuesday, 12 August

A US soldier has died and two others have been injured in a bomb attack in the town of Ramadi, west of Baghdad.

A US military spokeswoman said three synchronised bombs blew up near a military convoy in the outskirts of the town on Tuesday.

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The attack brings to 58 the number of American soldiers killed since major combat operations ended on 1 May.

It comes a day after an American soldier died in a bomb blast in the town of Baquba, north-east of Baghdad.


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Afghan minibus blast kills 17


Wednesday, August 13, 2003


KABUL, Afghanistan -- An explosion on a minibus in southern Afghanistan has killed 17 people, including children, police say.

One official quoted by news agencies says the bomb was planted by fighters from the deposed Taliban regime.

The blast went off Wednesday morning in Nadi Ali district to the west of the capital of Lashkargah in the southern Helmand province.

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Among the dead were six children and a woman, Ghulam Mahaiuddin, head of the provincial administration, told news agencies.


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Afghans kill Taliban, al Qaeda fighters


Wednesday, August 13, 2003

KABUL, Afghanistan (Reuters) -- Afghan forces in the southeastern province of Khost said on Wednesday they had killed 13 Taliban and al Qaeda fighters near the border with Pakistan while pushing back a major attack.

Border police Major Ghafar told Reuters two Afghan border policemen were killed in the clash, which started on Tuesday. He said two Arabs from Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network had been captured.

Ghafar said the insurgents used heavy guns, recoilless rifles, mortars and rocket-propelled grenades in their attack on a base used by a border battalion in the Shinkai area to the east of Khost and adjacent to the border with Pakistan.

"Their attack had three phases," Ghafar told Reuters.

"The last attack lasted for several hours until 6:30 this morning and after that we staged a counter-attack and the sound you can hear is outgoing fire.


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A morgue worker tends to the body of a Pakistani man in Basra, southern Iraq (news - web sites), August 12, 2003. The man was killed during riots in the southern city of Basra over the weekend because crowds suspected he was collaborating with either the Kuwaitis or the British. Rioters have been protesting over fuel and power shortages that have gripped Iraq's second largest city. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra




Pakistani paramilitary soldier Amjad Hussain, who was injured when U.S. forces opened fire on a Pakistani patrol, lies in a local hospital in the Miran Shah border area, some 260 km (160 miles) southwest of the capital Islamabad, August 12, 2003. Pakistan said U.S. forces shot dead two of its soldiers and wounded another on Monday in an incident near the Afghan border. BEST QUALITY AVAILABLE REUTERS/Haji Mujtaba




Masked Saudi security forces armed with automatic rifles exhibit their readiness to protect the holy sites around Mecca. Three members of the Saudi security forces were shot dead by suspected extremists they were hunting in southern Riyadh, a security official told AFP.(AFP/File/Mahmoud Mahmoud)




Fernando Suarez del Solar, of Escondido, California, (C) is consoled by Ellen Barfield (L) and Maria Fritz while standing next to a picture of his son, Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Jesus Suarez, who was killed in the war in Iraq. Suarez was attending a news conference in Washington calling for the return of all U.S. troops currently stationed in Iraq, August 13, 2003. The event was sponsored by anti-war groups, who announced the launching of a new campaign entitled 'Bring Them Home Now.' (Larry Downing/Reuters)

[acmavm]

1. THESE are the pictures all of America should see. That would

change a lot of attitudes about this mess we're in because of Bush and his greedy, evil friends.

[alaine]

2. Great to know the war on terror is working...

Thanks for posting this.

http://www.bringthemhomenow.org

[TeeYiYi]

3. Here's a sad one . . .

Richard S. Eaton and his wife, Sharon Noble Eaton hold hands at their
home in Guilford, Conn., Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2003, as they speak about
their son, Staff Sgt. Richard S. Eaton Jr. The Eatons were informed
Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2003 that their son had died of pulmonary embolism
while serving in Iraq (AP Photo/Bob Child)

TYY

[Mari333]

4. I would die if this happened to any of my grown sons.

for nothing. all for

nothing.

[newyawker99]

5. kick

:kick:

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

6. Thanks. People need to be reminded that war

is about death and horrible injury, and not about the fratboy's poll numbers.