U.S. SOLDIER KILLED IN CAR BOMB ATTACK (#1838)

[leftchick]

http://www.centcom.mil/CENTCOMNews/Casualty_Report.asp?CasualtyReport=20050813.txt


August 9, 2005
Release Number: 05-08-13C


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


U.S. SOLDIER KILLED IN CAR BOMB ATTACK

BAGHDAD, Iraq — One U.S. Soldier was killed and two were wounded when a terrorist detonated a homicide car bomb near a Task Force Baghdad convoy at 1:50 p.m. Aug. 9 in central Baghdad.

The convoy was stopped at a crowded intersection waiting for traffic to clear. There were a number of civilian casualties.

An Iraqi Army battalion as well as local firefighters and emergency medical technicians responded to the attack to secure the area and evacuate casualties.

The name of the deceased Soldier is being withheld pending notification of next of kin. The incident is under investigation.

FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION CONCERNING THIS RELEASE, CONTACT THE TASK FORCE BAGHDAD PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICE AT [e-mail].

[leftchick]

1. more here.....

http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0805/250429.html

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - A suicide car bomber struck a U.S. convoy near a crowded square in Baghdad, killing at least seven people, including a U.S. soldier, in a wave of violence in the capital ahead of the resumption of talks on drafting a new constitution. A U.S. Marine assigned to the 2nd Marine Division also was killed Monday in action by small arms fire in Ramadi, 70 miles west of Baghdad, the military said.

The suicide bombing occurred Tuesday afternoon when a driver detonated a vehicle packed with explosives as a U.S. convoy was passing near a crowded square in downtown Baghdad, killing an American soldier and at least six Iraqi civilians. Scores of Iraqis and two U.S. soldiers were wounded.

In three separate attacks around 8 a.m., gunmen opened fire on police patrols in three separate attacks around the city, killing nine officers. A 10th policeman was killed later Tuesday.







US troops load a bodybag into an army ambulance in front of a US military Humvee damaged by a suicide car bomb explosion, Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2005, in Baghdad, Iraq. Iraqi government officials say five civilians were killed and 11 injured. It was not immediately known if there were any US military killed or wounded in the attack. (AP Photo/Mohammed Hato

[daleo]

2. I see they used the term homicide bomb

I guess the driver jumped clear before the explosion.

[leftchick]

3. interesting isn't it?

A term first coined by faux news and I am sure after a fax from kkkarl.

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