4 U.S. servicemen killed in Iraq unrest

[Botany]

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060822/NEWS06/608220390/-1/ZONES04

August 22, 2006
Los Angeles Times
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Violence claimed the lives of three U.S. servicemen in Fallujah and one in Baghdad, the U.S. military announced Monday.

The deaths highlighted Iraq's two main battlegrounds: Anbar province, the heartland of the Sunni Arab insurgency, and the capital, where about 12,000 U.S. and Iraqi troops are conducting a crackdown on sectarian violence between Sunni and Shiite extremists.
Two Marines and a sailor who were wounded in Fallujah died Sunday, the military announced. The city in western Iraq, site of two major U.S. operations in 2004, has long been a troublesome area for American forces.

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Elsewhere in Baghdad, nine corpses were discovered Monday, four in the Sunni Arab neighborhood of Karkh on the west side of the capital, and five in Rusafa, a predominately Shiite neighborhood in the east.

Two Sunni Arab men were gunned down near their homes, according to officials at Yarmuk Hospital.

[babylonsister]

1. Did any of the media whores tell us about this yesterday?

R.I.P., soldiers; I'm very sorry you had to die for a lie told by the most detested man in history.

[bigdarryl]

2. No there to busy talking about John Karr

Thats the problem, American people care more about a ten year old murder case than current soldiers killed in iraq.INCREDIBLE!!!!

[RaleighNCDUer]

3. So now it's "unrest".

And next month it will be "unpleasentness", I suppose, as the casualties continue to accumulate.

I guess downgrading makes sense. Even if the rate of casualties remains the same, the proportion to the total casualties will constantly decrease -- that's success, I suppose.