New Iraq War record! Four women killed in same attack in Falluja

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Since the politicians keep saying "our boys are fighting...." and the battle in Falluja is "over" and Rummy always gleans for new records made in the "War on Terror", now we have this wonderful record to post on the wall.

Perhaps Fixed News can post this new record!

Iraq Bombing Kills 4 U.S. Women, a Record Toll
By JAMES GLANZ and JOHN F. BURNS
This article was reported by James Glanz, John F. Burns and Eric Schmitt and written by Mr. Glanz and Mr. Burns.

BAGHDAD, Iraq, June 24 - At least four women serving in the American military, including three marines, are among the six known dead in a suicide car bombing in Falluja on Thursday, military officials in Baghdad and Washington said Friday.

It was the largest number of women in the armed services killed in a single attack during the Iraq war. Eleven women were also among the 13 marines wounded in the strike, which began when the car approached a military convoy carrying about 20 marines and sailors to checkpoint duties on the edge of Falluja. Most if not all of the personnel riding in the back of the truck when it was hit were American women assigned to search Iraqi women who pass through the checkpoint.

Of about 37 women in the military killed in Iraq as of Wednesday - among at least 1,728 service members killed over all - nearly all had died within units made up largely of men. On Thursday, for the first time in the war, a large number of women suffered and died together after a strike that military officials suspect was carefully planned and might have been aimed at the women.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/25/international/middleeast/25iraq.html?pagewanted=print

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1. Tough call.

They were assigned to the checkpoint in order to respect conservative Muslim sensibilities; that, in part, got them killed.

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2. Do you think they will cover this fin fact on the War on the Sundays Blab

...shows...

I'd mention it if was anyone representing the growing multi-party uprise against Bush's War, whether it's the impeachable lies from the Downing Street Minutes or the results of this PNAC-fueled stupidity.

PNAC? What's that? Ah, you nuffin' but a paranoid tin-ferl hattid lee-aberal. Y'all haye Merica. Dat's wut Kral Rove sid on the Rush Limbo show. I heared it all bah mah silf.

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3. Wonder if bush will mention this

when he uses US Soldiers as a backdrop for his photo op and latest propoganda speech on Tuesday night?

I know one thing..there will be no FUCKING MISSION ACCOMPLISHED BANNER FLYING OVER THEIR HEADS~