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casualties stories: 29 news summaries

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 Bus Bomb Kills 12 in Baghdad

Follows a series of bombings in the capital

Aug 3, 08 9:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - Bombs ripped through a minibus this morning in Baghdad, reports CNN, killing 12 and injuring 22 after a string of similar bombings in the region. Two more roadside bombs injured nine near a hospital and two near a convoy of SUVs. Elsewhere, a soldier was killed in an unrelated accident,... More »

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civilian casualties • roadside bomb • bombing • soldier • CNN • wounded • casualties • Iraq war

 US Death Toll in Iraq Plummets  

Iraqi deaths down 75% from this time last year

Jul 31, 08 5:36 PM CDT
(AP) - The monthly US toll in Iraq fell to its lowest point since the war began, with 10 American deaths recorded as July drew to a close today. Iraqis also are dying at dramatically lower numbers in the sixth year of the war. July saw the lowest civilian toll since December... More »

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Iraq • troop surge • US military • Iraq death toll • troop withdrawal • Iraqi militias • casualties

 Military Blocks
 Iraq Casualty Photos

Journalists complain war is being sanitized

Jul 26, 08 5:07 AM CDT
(Newser) - Over 4,000 US troops have died in Iraq but only a handful of photographs of dead Americans have reached the media, the New York Times reports. Military regulations do not forbid taking photographs of casualties, but access to death sites is often denied. Photographers who do publish grim images... More »

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Iraq • US military • Iraq death toll • photograph • casualties • Iraq war

 Long Journey Home From Iraq 

A soldier's remains touches many

Jun 8, 08 5:13 AM CDT
(Newser) - One soldier's death reveals more of America's pain more starkly than Iraqi war statistics ever could. So one reporter discovered as he followed the remains of Indiana native son Sgt. Robert Joe Montgomery from a pass near the Tigris to a funeral in Scottsburg, meeting all who suffered along the... More »

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Iraq • Iraq death toll • America • cost • military families • casualties • Iraq war

 Hero Soldier's Parents 
 Accept Medal of Honor 

Teen killed smothering grenade, saving comrades' lives

Jun 2, 08 1:41 PM CDT
(Newser) - Ross McGinnis, a 19-year-old private who sacrificed his life in Iraq, was awarded the Medal of Honor today in a White House ceremony. Rather than fleeing a grenade an insurgent threw at his Humvee, McGinnis dived on it, saving four other soldiers, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports. His son "... More »

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Iraq • Humvees • US Army • casualties • Medal of Honor • Ross McGinnis

 Bush Sacrificed
 Golf to 'Honor
 War Dead' 

Says he did it for moms who lost their sons

May 14, 08 6:52 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Bush gave up playing golf five years ago because he felt it was inappropriate to play while families mourned loved ones killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, he revealed in an interview with Politico. Bush was lampooned for playing golf while discussing terrorism in Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 911. More »

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terrorism • golf • soldiers' families • casualties • Iraq war • George W. Bush • Afghanistan war

Baghdad Rockets Kill 3 US Soldiers, Wound 31

Another killed in roadside bombing; death count now 4,022

Apr 6, 08 5:18 PM CDT
(Newser) - Battles erupted in Baghdad today as rocket attacks killed three US soldiers and wounded 31, CNN reports. The first strike killed one and wounded 14 at a military outpost; “a couple of rounds of fire” killed two more and wounded 17 in the Green Zone soon after, a military... More »

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Nouri al-Maliki • US military • US troops • death toll • Shiite militia • casualties • Muqtada al-Sadr

Marines Demand Probe
Into Armor Delay

Blast resistant vehicles 'could have cut deaths in half'

Feb 26, 08 4:48 AM CST
(Newser) - The US Marine Corps has asked the Department of Defense to investigate delays obtaining vehicles with blast-resistant armor for combat units in Iraq. An internal USMC memo claims the money needed for the vehicles, which could have cut deaths from roadside bombings by 50%, was diverted to other projects, reports... More »

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Iraq • Pentagon • roadside bomb • budget • Department of Defense • MRAP • Marine • deaths • USMC • Plans, Policies and Operations Department • casualties • vetting • Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle • whistleblower • Naval Audit Service • Government Accountability Project

Anti-War T-Shirt Draws Flak

They want him to stop using fallen soldiers' names on shirts

Sep 24, 07 9:33 AM CDT
(Newser) - An Arizona entrepreneur who prints the name of troops killed in Iraq on anti-war T-shirts is getting heat from soldiers' families who say he's disrespecting the dead. Dan Frazier's shirts have slogans such as "Bush Lied" and "They Died" superimposed over the names.  Five states have passed... More »

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Iraq • soldier • T shirts • casualties • Iraq war

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