US soldier killed in Iraq's Tikrit area (Wed. 1785)

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.politicalgateway.com/news/read.html?id=4398

A US soldier was killed and five others wounded Wednesday when a bomb exploded near their patrol in the Salah Ad Din Province, where the restive Sunni city of Tikrit is located, the US military said.

Earlier in the day, US officials reported that four US soldiers had died in another bomb explosion Sunday in southwest Baghdad.

The deaths brought the total number of US military personnel who have died in Iraq since the March 2003 invasion to 1,782, according to an AFP tally based on Pentagon figures.

Note I went with 1785 listed on http://icasualties.org/oif/

[DeaconBlues]

1. more and more of our troops die in this useless war

and less and less time is spent reporting it by the media. This country has some serious problems.

[lvx35]

2. I must have missed 1,776. Shame. nt