Roadside bomb strikes MND-B patrol (2 incidents, 5 dead)

[Eugene]

Roadside bomb strikes MND-B patrol
Saturday, 17 March 2007

Multi-National Corps – Iraq
Public Affairs Office, Camp Victory
APO AE 09342


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
RELEASE No. 20070317-11 Roadside bomb strikes MND-B patrol
March 17, 2007


Roadside bomb strikes MND-B patrol
Multi-National Division – Baghdad Public Affairs

BAGHDAD – Iraqi security forces and Soldiers from Multi-National Division
– Baghdad conducted patrols March 17, as part of Operation Fardh Al-Qanoon
to help set the conditions for a stable Iraq.

During a patrol in western Baghdad, an improvised explosive device detonated
and killed four U.S. Soldiers and wounding another. Small arms fire followed
the blast wounding one additional Soldier.

During the month of March, units from this battalion have successfully found
eight caches, two IEDs and aided in the rescue of a kidnap victim. The unit
also established a Joint Security Station in the area.

The deceased Soldiers’ names are being withheld pending notification of next
of kin.

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Full article: http://www.mnf-iraq.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=10678&Itemid=128

(MNF Iraq)

Improvised explosive device strikes MND-B patrol
Sunday, 18 March 2007

Multi-National Corps – Iraq
Public Affairs Office, Camp Victory
APO AE 09342

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
RELEASE No. 20070317-10
March 17, 2007

Improvised explosive device strikes MND-B patrol
Multi-National Division – Baghdad Public Affairs

BAGHDAD – Iraqi security forces and Soldiers from Multi-National Division
– Baghdad conducted patrols Friday, as part of Operation Fardh Al-Qanoon
to help set the conditions for a stable Iraq.

While conducting a dismounted area reconnaissance patrol south of Baghdad,
an improvised explosive device detonated killing one Soldier and wounding
three others.

In the last few weeks, this particular unit has found numerous IEDs, in
which explosive ordnance disposal teams were called to disable and destroy
each explosive device.

-snip-

The deceased Soldier’s name is being withheld pending notification of next
of kin.

-snip-

Full article: http://www.mnf-iraq.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=10677&Itemid=128

Related: FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, March 17

[Miss Chybil]

1. Iraqi security forces, "Multi-national division" and four US soldiers dead.

What am I missing here?

[xchrom]

2. ooooooh-weeeee!!! we got us a surge, baby!!!

[Eugene]

3. MNF Iraq: Task Force Lightning Soldier dies in non-combat related incident

Task Force Lightning Soldier dies in non-combat related incident
Sunday, 18 March 2007

Multi-National Corps – Iraq
Public Affairs Office, Camp Victory
APO AE 09342

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
RELEASE No. 20070318-01
Mar. 18, 2007

Task Force Lightning Soldier dies in non-combat related incident
MND-N PAO

TIKRIT, Iraq – A Task Force Lightning Soldier died Saturday in a
non-combat related incident, which is currently under investigation.

The name of the deceased is being withheld pending notification of
next of kin and release by the Department of Defense.

-snip-

Full article: http://www.mnf-iraq.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=10679&Itemid=128

[maddezmom]

4. seems to me every day there are reports of non-combat deaths

under investigation. Will we ever know what the details were? Will the families? :(

[anitar1]

5. I have read that the suicide rate is climbing. n/t

[maddezmom]

7. Gen. Petraeus and a High-Profile Suicide in Iraq

Gen. Petraeus and a High-Profile Suicide in Iraq
Col. Ted Westhusing, a West Point scholar, put a bullet in his head in Iraq after reporting widespread corruption. His suicide note -- complaining about human rights abuses and other crimes -- was addressed to his two commanders, including Gen. David Petraeus, now leader of the U.S. "surge" effort in Iraq. It urged them to "Reevaluate yourselves....You are not what you think you are and I know it."

By Greg Mitchell

(March 14, 2007) -- The scourge of suicides among American troops in Iraq is a serious, and seriously underreported, problem, as this column has observed numerous times in the past three years. One of the few high-profile cases involved a much-admired Army colonel named Ted Westhusing.

A portrait of Westhusing written by T. Christian Miller for the Los Angeles Times in November 2005 (which I covered at the time) revealed that Westhusing, before putting a bullet through his head, had been deeply disturbed by abuses carried out by American contractors in Iraq, including allegations that they had witnessed or even participated in the murder of Iraqis.


http://editorandpublisher.com/eandp/columns/pressingissues_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003558239&imw=Y

[maddezmom]

8. Military goes online to stem troop suicide

Web site helps soldiers cope with trauma and stress of Iraq
Justin Berton, Chronicle Staff Writer

Friday, March 16, 2007

Here's a future scene from the Iraq battlefield, circa July 2007: A U.S. soldier battles against the enemy all day long. At night, after returning to base, he's troubled by what he's seen. But he knows better than to speak up.

Just outside the view of his fellow soldiers, he logs on to a virtual therapy Web site provided by the military called afterdeployment.org. He knows that if his comrades see him talking with one of the shrinks on base, they would lose trust in him, label him a head case. A medical file soon would contain records of the visit. If he ever wanted a promotion, he'd have to explain the weakness of his mind.

Or that's the thinking among the male-dominated, therapy-averse troops, according to researchers, therapists and military psychologists who met at the fifth annual Military Suicide Prevention Conference in Hollywood, Fla., last week. Attendees discussed how to stem military suicides -- in 2005 alone, the last year for which there are confirmed figures, 22 service members killed themselves in Iraq, Kuwait and Afghanistan.

more:http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/03/16/MNG4GOMICN1.DTL&feed=rss.news

[maddezmom]

6. Six US troops killed in Iraq

Six US troops killed in Iraq by Bryan Pearson
12 minutes ago



BAGHDAD (AFP) - Insurgent attacks killed six more US troops, the military said on Sunday, as security forces braced for more chemical attacks after dirty bombs left two policemen dead and 350 civilians sick.

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Almost exactly four years after the invasion of Iraq, American casualties are still mounting as US and Iraqi forces battle to quell the insurgent and sectarian violence gripping the country.

In other violence in the Iraqi capital, a city steeped in Sunni-Shiite bloodletting, insurgents killed a policeman and two bystanders in separate incidents on Sunday, security officials said.

A US military statement said four troops died on Saturday when a roadside bomb ripped through a patrol in west Baghdad while another soldier was killed the same day when a foot patrol was hit by a bomb in the south.

A sixth soldier was killed and five were wounded, also Saturday, in a bomb blast in Diyala province, where attacks are on the rise as insurgents focus on areas beyond the reach of an intensive security operation under way in Baghdad.

more:http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070318/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_070318103127

[saigon68]

9. More Meat for the Grinder

[Eugene]

10. AP: 7 U.S. troops die in Iraq violence

7 U.S. troops die in Iraq violence

By LAUREN FRAYER, Associated Press Writer

18 minutes ago

BAGHDAD - The U.S. military on Sunday announced the deaths of
seven more troops in Iraq, including four killed by a roadside bomb
while patrolling western Baghdad — the latest American casualties
in a monthlong security crackdown in the capital.

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After the explosion that killed four U.S. soldiers on Saturday, the
unit came under fire and another soldier was wounded. During this
month's crackdown in the capital, the battalion had found eight
weapons caches and two roadside bombs and helped rescue a
kidnap victim, the military said.

An explosion in Diyala province northeast of Baghdad killed another
soldier Saturday and injured five. A sixth soldier died Saturday in
a non-combat related incident, the military said. A U.S. Marine also
was killed Saturday in fighting in Anbar, according to a separate
statement.

Saturday's deaths brought to at least 3,217 members of the U.S.
military who have died since the Iraq war started in March 2003,
according to an Associated Press count.

-snip-

Full article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070318/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq