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bamademo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-28-03 08:15 AM
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Suicides and Drownings in Ar Ramadi
This is from another board I frequent and this is from a soldier in Iraq.

Iraq. It hasn't been a good stretch for the 3rd ACR. This weekend we lost two soldiers. One to a suicide and another to a drowning. Yesterday we had three ambushes within 1 hour. Three soldiers were WIA and 1 was KIA.

Is the media reporting this? Deaths aren't getting much attention by the national media anymore.
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DuctapeFatwa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-28-03 08:22 AM
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1. The regime has decreed that people should not focus on casualties

We have been ordered to pay more attention to all the good news about Iraq.
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searchingforlight Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-28-03 08:42 AM
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2. Could you give me the source? I am interested in this type of information
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bamademo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-28-03 08:53 AM
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3. It's from a football message board
You have to be a subscriber to see it but I pasted it directly from the board.
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htuttle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-28-03 09:16 AM
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4. There were threads in LBN about each of those...I think...
But there has been no ongoing television coverage of the casualties. The LBN posts all referred to print articles -- some US papers, some foreign papers. In the US papers, you'll usually find stories about casualties on page A22, or thereabouts.
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markses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-28-03 09:39 AM
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5. All of these noted in CENTCOM press releases
Drowning

http://www.centcom.mil/CENTCOMNews/news_release.asp?NewsRelease=20030851.txt

"Non-Hostile Gunshot"

http://www.centcom.mil/CENTCOMNews/news_release.asp?NewsRelease=20030850.txt

IED Convoy Attack

http://www.centcom.mil/CENTCOMNews/news_release.asp?NewsRelease=20030856.txt

Strange part about the original post: All of this was widely publicized, but the "ambushes within the hour" were not all directed at the 3rd ACR, nor did all these things happen in ar-Ramadi. Maybe the poster on the football message board is playing a little game? I could easily have posted the same information, and I'm sitting in Brooklyn....
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