bamademo
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Thu Aug-28-03 08:15 AM
Original message |
Suicides and Drownings in Ar Ramadi |
|
This is from another board I frequent and this is from a soldier in Iraq.
Iraq. It hasn't been a good stretch for the 3rd ACR. This weekend we lost two soldiers. One to a suicide and another to a drowning. Yesterday we had three ambushes within 1 hour. Three soldiers were WIA and 1 was KIA.
Is the media reporting this? Deaths aren't getting much attention by the national media anymore.
|
DuctapeFatwa
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Thu Aug-28-03 08:22 AM
Response to Original message |
1. The regime has decreed that people should not focus on casualties |
|
We have been ordered to pay more attention to all the good news about Iraq.
|
searchingforlight
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Thu Aug-28-03 08:42 AM
Response to Original message |
2. Could you give me the source? I am interested in this type of information |
bamademo
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Thu Aug-28-03 08:53 AM
Response to Reply #2 |
3. It's from a football message board |
|
You have to be a subscriber to see it but I pasted it directly from the board.
|
htuttle
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Thu Aug-28-03 09:16 AM
Response to Original message |
4. There were threads in LBN about each of those...I think... |
|
But there has been no ongoing television coverage of the casualties. The LBN posts all referred to print articles -- some US papers, some foreign papers. In the US papers, you'll usually find stories about casualties on page A22, or thereabouts.
|
markses
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Thu Aug-28-03 09:39 AM
Response to Original message |
5. All of these noted in CENTCOM press releases |
|
Drowning http://www.centcom.mil/CENTCOMNews/news_release.asp?NewsRelease=20030851.txt"Non-Hostile Gunshot" http://www.centcom.mil/CENTCOMNews/news_release.asp?NewsRelease=20030850.txtIED Convoy Attack http://www.centcom.mil/CENTCOMNews/news_release.asp?NewsRelease=20030856.txtStrange part about the original post: All of this was widely publicized, but the "ambushes within the hour" were not all directed at the 3rd ACR, nor did all these things happen in ar-Ramadi. Maybe the poster on the football message board is playing a little game? I could easily have posted the same information, and I'm sitting in Brooklyn....
|
DU
AdBot (1000+ posts) |
Thu May 02nd 2024, 07:29 AM
Response to Original message |