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01/04/06 KUNA: US drone crashes in Iraqi city of Mosul
A US drone crashed Wednesday in a residential area in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, said a security source. MNF refused to make any statement concerning the accident before receiving a report from Mosul.
01/04/06 AP: Wyoming soldier recovering after Iraq War injuries
Staff Sergeant Mike Barrera was wounded on November 19th. Body armor stopped a shot Barrera took to the back. But he was shot twice in his right hand, once in his left hand and once in his right arm.
01/04/06 Reuters: Update on convoy attack (cont.)
However, by nightfall, police said there were still isolated clashes on the road and at least four people had been killed -- a driver and three members of the convoy's security team.
01/04/06 Reuters: Update on convoy attack
"The convoy left Baiji and was on its way to Baghdad when it came under fire. So far we know 20 have been destroyed," an oil industry official said. The statement did not mention casualties and the Oil Ministry said only one tanker had been destroyed
01/04/06 National Guard and Reserve Mobilized as of January 4, 2006
This week, the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps announced a decrease in the number of reservists on active duty. The Coast Guard number remained unchanged. The net collective result is 1,851 fewer reservists mobilized than last week.
01/04/06 NSTOnline: Three tankers torcher north of Baghdad
In a separate attack in the afternoon, rebels torched three tanker trucks just north of Baghdad.
01/04/06 AP: Update on Tanker convoy
Insurgents attacked a convoy of 60 tanker trucks with rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns, destroying three of the tankers and damaging 15 others. Three Iraqi army vehicles, which had been guarding the convoy, were also destroyed in the attack.
01/04/06 AP: Military passengers in and out of Iraq have topped one million
If you have a relative who's been deployed to Iraq, they've made the trip to or from the war courtesy of the 38th expeditionary wing of the U.S. Air Force--about a month ago, his operation transported it's one millionth soldier on an Iraq flight.
01/04/06 ABC: Separate attacks kill Iraqi policeman, soldier
In the capital, gunmen in separate incidents killed a former army captain. In Aziziyah, 35 miles southeast of Baghdad, gunmen fired on a police patrol, killing one policeman, Hadi al-Itabi of the Kut morgue said.
01/04/06 ABC: Iraqi violence kills two civilians
Gunmen in Mosul attacked the political offices of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, killing a civilian, Dr. Bahaldin al-Bakri said. A roadside bomb in Baqouba killed a woman, the Diyala police said.
01/04/06 Union-Tribune: Soldier who lost leg in Iraq war determined to get back
George Perez, 21, lost his leg to a roadside bomb in Iraq more than a year ago, but despite the phantom pains that haunt him, he says he is determined to prove to the Army that he is no less of a man ? and no less of a soldier.
01/04/06 AP: North Carolina soldier killed in Iraq had dodged war in Liberia
Prince Teewia avoided the violence that tore apart his home country of Liberia when he was a teen-ager. Instead, he found death in Iraq, wearing the uniform of the United States Army.
01/04/06 AP: Two injured soldiers continue recovery
Cory Briest is at the Bethesda Naval Hospital--he suffered a serious head injury. Specialist Allen Kokesh Junior, at a U-S Army hospital in Texas--is recovering from a leg amputation, an injury to his left elbow, burns and injuries to his eyes.
01/04/06 Reuters: Iraqi soldier killed in Latifiya
An Iraqi soldier was killed and two wounded when a bomb went off near their patrol in Latifiya, in an area dubbed the "Triangle of Death" south of Baghdad, an army source said.
01/04/06 Reuters: Makeshift bomb wounds two Iraqi policemen in Iakandariya
Two Iraqi policemen were wounded on Tuesday when a makeshift bomb went off near their patrol in Iskandariya, 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.
01/04/06 Reuters: Two Iraqi police commandos killed in mortar attack
Two police commandos were killed and nine others wounded when mortar rounds landed on their checkpoint in western Baghdad, hospital source said.
01/04/06 AP: Joint Chiefs Chairman: Failure is not an option
In an interview with A-P Radio, General Pace is upbeat about Iraq's future, but he's shying away from saying Iraq has now turned a corner. Instead, he calls it "a very steady ramp of progress."
01/04/06 Xinhuanet: Insurgents burn 19 fuel tankers north of Baghdad
"Dozens of armed men ambushed a convoy of fuel tankers in Meshaheda area, some 40 km north of Baghdad, and opened fire with RPG's and assault rifles, setting 19 tankers ablaze and damaging three police commando vehicles," Captain Ahmed Abdullah said.
01/04/06 Reuters: Two Iraqi security guards killed in Baghdad
Two guards of Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, the leader of one of Iraq's most powerful Shi'ite political parties, were shot dead on Tuesday while attending a funeral in southern Baghdad, police said.
01/04/06 Reuters: Two bodies found west of Baghdad
The bodies of two people, bound, gagged and shot dead, were found in Mahawil, about 75 km west of Bagdhad, police said.
01/04/06 AP: Fourteen members of Miss.'s 155th died during Iraq deployment
Capsules of the 14 soldiers of the Mississippi National Guard's 155th Brigade Combat Team who died in Iraq.
01/04/06 Reuters: Oil tanker convoy attacked, Twenty destroyed
rebels armed with rocket-propelled grenades and machineguns ambushed 60 fuel tankers on a road north of Baghdad, destroying 20 of them, police and oil officials said, saying the convoy's police escort was still fighting the attack.
01/04/06 Reuters: 8 dead in Baghdad car blast
At least eight people were killed and 12 wounded when a car bomb exploded in southern Baghdad. The car was parked close to a busy commercial market in the Doura district, they said. Earlier, three people were killed when a car bomb went off...
01/04/06 UPI: Iraqi policeman killed in Baghdad during firefight
in the western part of Baghdad, police became involved in a half-hour firefight with insurgents. One policeman was killed and 16 other officers injured.
01/04/06 Reuters: Iraq bomber attacks Shi'ite funeral, kills 36 (update)
A suicide bomber killed 36 people and wounded 40 at a Shi'ite funeral on Wednesday and a car bomb exploded in the lately peaceful holy city of Kerbala, ratcheting up tension between Iraq's Muslim sects.
01/04/06 newkerala: Car bomb in Iraqi city of Kerbala wounds three
A car bomb exploded in the southern Iraqi city of Kerbala today, injuring at least three people and damaging four cars, police said. Insurgent attacks are rare in Kerbala--It was the first car bomb to explode in Kerbala since December 2004
01/04/06 Honolulu Star-Bulletin: Attack in Iraq targets 100th Battalion camp
Even as soldiers of Hawaii's 100th Battalion packed up its combat flag this week as they prepared to return home, their base camp near Balad came under mortar attack. The attack occurred Monday...
01/04/06 AP: Contractor from DeSoto Parish killed in Iraq
Authorities say Michael williams, of Stanley, was one of four U-S civilian contractors killed when their bus was hit by a seven-ton truck. Another eighteen civilians were injured.
01/04/06 MSNBC: Suicide bomber kills 30 at Shiite funeral in Iraq
A suicide bomber killed about 30 people and wounded dozens during a Shiite Muslim funeral at Miqdadiya, 60 miles northeast of Baghdad, on Wednesday, an Iraqi security official said.
01/04/06 Paktribune: Senior Iraqi oil official shot dead in Baghdad
A senior official from Iraq`s oil ministry and his son were shot dead Wednesday in Baghdad...Rahim Ali Sudani, a director-general at the oil ministry, and his son were killed in a drive-by attack on their car in the west of the capital.
01/04/06 AP: Three civilians killed in Kirkuk
Three civilians are dead in Kirkuk after their car was hit by a bomb intended for a U-S patrol.
01/04/06 Yakima-herald: Soldier from Selah injured in Iraq blast
Spc. Evan Mettie, 22, of Selah remained in a coma Tuesday and was expected to be transported today to Washington's Walter Reed Army Medical Center, said his sister, Kira Mettie.
01/04/06 BBC: Car bomb in Baghdad kills three
At least three people were killed and 13 wounded when a car bomb exploded outside a police station in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, officials said. Witnesses said both police and civilians were among the casualties in the mainly Shia district of Kadhimiya.
01/03/06 DoD Identifies Army Casualty
Sgt. 1st Class Jason L. Bishop, 31, of Williamstown, Ky., died in As Siniyah, Iraq, on Jan. 1, when a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device detonated near his HMMWV during patrol operations.
01/03/06 DoD Identifies Army Casualty
Sgt. 1st Class Shawn C. Dostie, 32, of Granite City, Ill., died in Baghdad, Iraq, on Dec. 30, when an IED detonated near his HMMWV during patrol operations. Assigned to the 2nd Bat., 502nd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st