The probe into the Haditha killings has found they were unprovoked: A preliminary military inquiry found evidence that U.S. Marines killed two dozen Iraqi civilians in an unprovoked attack in November, contradicting the troops’ account, U.S. officials said on Wednesday. Forensic evidence from corpses showed that victims had bullet wounds, despite the initial statements by […]
Since John Murtha became outspoken against the Iraq War last fall, conservatives could not wait to “swift boat” him. Now we are finding out one of the examples he used as a problem in Iraq is in fact true: US lawmaker and former Marine colonel accused US Marines of killing innocent Iraqi civilians after a […]
First Reuters gives us this: Gunmen wearing the uniform of Iraqi police commandos seized dozens of employees from the offices of a security company in eastern Baghdad on Wednesday, police sources said. Two sources said about 50 people were taken. They said that the gunmen, who arrived in at least 10 vehicles, broke into the […]
The numbers of causalities in Iraq keeps growing. First we wake up to news of 12 soldiers killed in a Blackhawk helicopter crash in northern Iraq. Nothing has been released yet on what caused the crash but the military is working to get to the crash site. Three marines were killed today in a small […]
Yesterday amounted to one of the deadliest days in Iraq since the war started. Sadly 11 soldiers are included in the deaths which plagued the country. What is even more troubling is the fact that these soldiers didn’t die in a single attack but rather in spread out attacks throughout the country. 2 Killed by […]
It looks like there has been another fatal error in Iraq WASHINGTON (CNN) — A bomb that killed six civilians Monday near Baiji, Iraq, missed its target by 65 feet (20 meters) and hit the wrong home, military officials said. The bomb, which was dropped by a U.S. fighter plane, was aimed at a building […]
Remember the news last week that the insurgency was “fizzling out”? Well that point seems to now be as invalid as Cheney’s “last throes” comment from last spring. Baghdad (Reuters) – Five U.S. soldiers were killed when a roadside bomb hit their vehicle while on patrol in Baghdad on Thursday, the U.S. military said. Another […]
The Government Accounting Office (GAO) released a report today showing that the recruitment levels of our military are worse than we had actually been told. The following is a highlight of the shortfalls as described in this New York Times article. Army, National Guard, Marines – Signed up 1/3 of special forces, translators and intelligence […]
Here’s a poll of a different twist. This one comes out of Iraq and is in regards to the war. Poll shows Iraqis back attacks on UK, US forces LONDON (Reuters) – Forty-five percent of Iraqis believe attacks on U.S. and British troops are justified, according to a secret poll said to have been commissioned […]
Lance Corporal Edward Schroeder was setting out for another day of duty in Iraq when his vehicle met with a roadside bomb. He and 13 other members of his unit lost their lives on that day. That attack happened this week and was the deadliest single attack since the war started. Christ Mattews had the […]