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The War
Profiteers - War Crimes, Kidnappings, Torture and Big Money |
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Iraq: IED Attack (VIII) Against U.S. Convoy -
December 10th, 2006 |
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Background “The year 2006 proved to be the bloodiest year of the Iraq war for
U.S. troops, and December was the third deadliest month, according to new
Pentagon data. As President Bush, his war cabinet and numerous others debate
the way ahead in Iraq - and a surge of thousands more troops appears likely -
data shows that Iraq is an increasingly dangerous place. There were 703
hostile deaths among U.S. troops in 2006, up from 673 in 2005 and 675 in
2004, according to data obtained by Military Times but not yet released by
the Defense Manpower Data Center. Likewise, violence claimed the lives of 111
U.S. troops in December - the third highest monthly tally since the invasion
of Iraq in March 2003. The highest was 137 in November 2004, followed by 135
in April 2004. […]” Excerpt of an Army Times article from January 5th,
2007. |
Familiar image in 2006: an exploding IED |
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The Video |
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War Scenes from Baghdad - A Year in Review |
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Another day in February |
Another day in May |
Another day in September |
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Video & Photo Credits The Video 1) The video features an IED attack against an U.S. military convoy
north of Baghdad on December 10th, 2006. The video has been
published by the insurgent group “Jaish Al-Mujahadeen”; War Scenes from Iraq - A Year in
Review 1) Aftermath of an
IED explosion near Baghdad - February 1st, 2006 - Associated
Press; 2) A unit of US
forces providing rescue care for injured soldiers following an attack on a US
patrol in a Baghdad street - May 29th, 2006 - As-Safir; 3) An Iraqi woman
walks past a damaged residential building, following rocket attacks on
Thursday evening, in Baghdad, Iraq. A barrage of coordinated bomb and rocket
attacks on Aug. 31, 2006, across eastern Baghdad neighborhoods killed at
least 55 people and wounded more than 200 within about half an hour, police
said Friday. The attacks on mainly Shiite neighborhoods came even as Prime
Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Iraqi forces should have control over most of
the country by year's end. - September 1st, 2006 - Hadi
Mizban/Associated Press; |
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