http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/14/international/middleeast/14attacks-wire.html
U.S. Reports Five More Deaths By REUTERS Published: August 14, 2005 BAGHDAD, Aug 14 (Reuters) - Five U.S. soldiers have been killed and five wounded in roadside bomb attacks in little over 24 hours, the U.S. military said on Sunday. Three soldiers were killed and another wounded when their patrol struck a roadside device near Tuz, some 180 km (110 miles) north of Baghdad, late on Friday, the military said in a statement. It gave no further details. In western Iraq, on the main road leading to the border with Jordan, one U.S. soldier was killed and three wounded when their combat patrol hit a roadside bomb early on Sunday. In Baghdad, a fifth soldier died when his vehicle hit a device in the west of the city on Saturday, the military said. A second soldier was wounded in that attack. Roadside bombs, which the military calls improvised explosive devices, are the worst killer of U.S. troops in Iraq, responsible for more than a third of total deaths. They are made up of small and sometimes large amounts of explosive, packed with artillery rounds, buried in the side of the road and detonated as U.S. military vehicles pass. Sometimes they are disguised in dead animals, plastic bags or tin cans. U.S. commanders have acknowledged insurgents have been designing more effective bombs, killing entire crews of armoured vehicles with increasing frequency. In one incident last week, 14 Americans in one vehicle were killed by a landmine, the deadliest attack of its kind in the entire conflict in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003 to topple Saddam Hussein. A U.S. general said on Friday IED attacks on his convoys had doubled in a year and U.S. forces had increased the amount of armour on vehicles. A total of 1,850 U.S. troops have been killed in Iraq since the March 2003 invasion. While large-scale suicide car bombings of Iraqi targets are the mark of al Qaeda-linked militants, IEDs are mainly the work of Iraqi nationalist and Sunni Arab guerrillas, U.S. military intelligence analysts say. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> <font face=arial size=-1><a href="http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12hocjm5q/M=320369.6903865.7846595.3022212/D=groups/S=1705329729:TM/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1124017167/A=2896110/R=0/SIG=1107idj9u/*http://www.thanksandgiving.com ">Help save the life of a child. Support St. Jude Children¿s Research Hospital</a>.</font> --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> *************************************************************************** Berdikusi dg Santun & Elegan, dg Semangat Persahabatan. Menuju Indonesia yg Lebih Baik, in Commonality & Shared Destiny. http://www.ppi-india.org *************************************************************************** __________________________________________________________________________ Mohon Perhatian: 1. Harap tdk. memposting/reply yg menyinggung SARA (kecuali sbg otokritik) 2. Pesan yg akan direply harap dihapus, kecuali yg akan dikomentari. 3. Reading only, http://dear.to/ppi 4. Satu email perhari: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5. No-email/web only: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6. kembali menerima email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ppiindia/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
