GW Bush keeps saying "He can run but he can't hide." But it is the Bush administration that is doing the hiding from the mounting death toll of it's invading forces in Iraq (now 1079 GI's killed as reported by icasualties though we all know that this "official #" is too low). If the Iraqi people "loved" what we had done for them would this still be happening? I don't think so. Please spread this around. Joe

GW Bush keeps saying "He can run but he can't hide." But it is the Bush administration that is doing the hiding from the mounting death toll of it's invading forces in Iraq (now 1079 GI's killed as reported by icasualties though we all know that this "official # is too low). If the Iraqi people "loved what we had done for them would this still be happening? I don't think so. Joe

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10/13/04 NYTimes: U.S. and Iraqi forces strike rebel strongholds
The U.S. military staged a series of aggressive strikes on Tuesday in insurgent strongholds west of Baghdad, including firing missiles into the streets of Fallujah and conducting raids alongside Iraqi commandos in seven mosques in Ramadi
10/13/04 KRT: Marines' proximity to power plant adds danger
The Musayyab Power Plant sits on the eastern bank of the Euphrates River in this city like a steel giant laboring to breathe...

10/13/04 Reuters: Blast in Baghdad Kills Three U.S. Soldiers
Three U.S. soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb attack on their convoy in eastern Baghdad on Tuesday night, the U.S. military said Wednesday

10/12/04 AFP: US, insurgents clash in Fallujah
United States warplanes have dropped a huge bomb on the Iraqi rebel city of Fallujah after US marines clashed with insurgents on the eastern fringes of the Sunni Muslim bastion. Hospital sources said five people were killed and four wounded.

10/12/04 Xinhuanet: Mosul suffers acute medicine shortage
Iraqi medical sources in Mosul said the city is suffering an acute shortage of medicine and medical supplies of all kinds, Al Sabah Al Jadid newspaper reported Tuesday.

10/12/04 Xinhuanet: 73 Afghans arrested in Iraq
The Iraqi national guards announced the arrests of 73 Afghans who have entered the country illegally through Iran, said Al Mashriq newspaper Tuesday.

10/12/04 AFP: Iraqi Kurds ready to fight for Kirkuk: Barzani
Iraqi Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani said Tuesday that the oil-rich city of Kirkuk in northern Iraq had a Kurdish "identity" and vowed to fight any force attempting to oppress its people, whether Kurds or other ethnic groups.

10/12/04 DOD Identifies Army Casualty
Pfc. Aaron J. Rusin, 19, of Johnstown, Pa., died Oct. 11 in Baghdad, Iraq, of injuries sustained on Oct. 10 when his military vehicle came under fire from enemy forces.

10/12/04 Reuters: Report Faults Military Technology in Iraq War
Front-line U.S. troops often lacked access to surveillance and intelligence data during the invasion of Iraq because of computer glitches, Technology Review magazine reported on Tuesday, citing a classified report by Rand Corp.

10/12/04 AFP: Poland has repatriated 34 soldiers from Iraq for psychiatric problems
"PTSD syndrome (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder) has been diagnosed among seven soldiers in the first contingent (in 2003), 23 in the second, and four in the current one," Colonel Miroslaw Karasek told journalists.

10/12/04 DOD Identifies Army Casualty
Spc. Morgen N. Jacobs, 20, of Santa Cruz, Calif., died Oct. 7 in Tikrit, Iraq, of injuries sustained in Aaliyah on Oct. 6 when an improvised explosive device detonated near his patrol vehicle.

10/12/04 Reuters: Iraq Militants Behead Iraqi 'Spy' -Jazeera TV
An Islamic militant group said in an Internet statement on Tuesday it had beheaded an Iraqi because he had been spying for U.S. forces, Al Jazeera television said.

10/12/04 AP: Soldier Just Back From Iraq Hangs Himself In Jail
Police say Brian McKeehan hanged himself with a bedsheet early Saturday in the Virginia Peninsula Regional Jail in James City, about 12 hours after being arrested on a charge of assaulting his wife at their York County home.

10/12/04 Fox News: U.S. hits targets in Ramadi and Fallujah
The U.S. military launched large-scale military raids in Ramadi today, following two days of heavy clashes in the militant stronghold in Iraq's Sunni Triangle. U.S. forces also launched airstrikes in Fallujah that killed two people.

10/12/04 Novinite: Romania Might Boost Iraq Force
Romania's defence minister has said that the country could send more troops to Iraq, boosting security in the country prior to the 2005 elections. There are 700 Romanian troops currently deployed in Iraq, while Bulgaria has about 500.

10/12/04 Knight Ridder: Soldiers weary of Baghdad slum, Iraqis, mission
There's no shortage of dangerous, austere and just plain miserable military postings in Iraq, but the American soldiers of the 1st Cavalry Division bunking at this base just outside Baghdad's Sadr City slum might have drawn the shortest straw of all.

10/12/04 The Daily Item: Wounded Marine feels cuts
When Marine Lance Cpl. James Crosby was struck by enemy fire in Iraq last winter, his war duty came to an end, and so did the income that his family depended on. Crosby sustained severe leg injuries ... that left him paralyzed from the waist down.

10/12/04 Xinhua: Thailand may dispatch 200 soldiers to Iraq
Thailand will possibly send a company of 200 soldiers to Iraq at the request of the United States and the United Nations, the Bangkok Post newspaper said Tuesday. Thai government is likely to offer to send a company of military engineers and doctors ...

10/12/04 The Hour Online: Soldier home from Iraq
While most people his age are finishing college, drafting resumes and enjoying being of legal drinking age, Norwalk native Patrick LeBlanc is putting his life back together after returning from war.

10/12/04 Radio Australia: Fiji military contingent prepares to leave for Iraq
A 155-strong Fiji military contingent will leave on Wednesday for Iraq, where it will provide security for the United Nations headquarters in the capital, Baghdad.

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