ONE 1ST ID SOLDIER DIES FROM GUNSHOT WOUND(1420)

[leftchick]

http://www.centcom.mil/CENTCOMNews/Casualty_Report.asp?CasualtyReport=20050137.txt

January 27, 2005
Release Number: 05-01-37C


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


ONE 1ST ID SOLDIER DIES FROM GUNSHOT WOUND

TIKRIT, Iraq – One 1st Infantry Division Soldier died from a gunshot wound sustained about 2:05 a.m., January 27 on Forward Operating Base Normandy. The Soldier’s name is being withheld pending notification of the next of kin. The accident is under investigation.

[liberalnurse]

1. It this in reference to the

aircraft crash yesterday?

[leftchick]

2. this was one of several "clashes" in Al Anbar province....

there were also several convoys hit, some "accidental shootings, etc. Another Day in IRAQNAM!

:(

[Scurrilous]

3. Yep, just another day...

...you've got mortar attacks, car bombings, roadside bombings, and accidents:

http://www.boston.com/dailynews/027/world/11_Iraqis_one_Marine_killed_in:.shtml

11 Iraqis, one Marine killed in pre-election violence; insurgents blow up school

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"The Marine was killed and five others injured when insurgents launched mortars at their base near Iskandariyah, about 30 miles south of Baghdad."

<snip>

"In a continuation of the pre-election violence plaguing the country, three Iraqi civilians were killed Thursday in a house in Samarra, 60 miles north of Baghdad, when a car bomb exploded nearby, said Alaadin Mohammed, a doctor at the local hospital."

<snip>

"Another three Iraqis were killed and seven injured when a roadside bomb missed a U.S. convoy in Mahmoudiya, 20 miles south of Baghdad, according to the area's hospital director, Dawoud al-Taie."

<snip>

"A U.S. soldier also died from a gunshot wound early Thursday on a base near Tikrit in what the American military command called an accident."


Not to mention various gunbattles, kidnappings, school attacks, and summary executions of Iraqi officials.