Posted on 05/22/2011 2:37:25 PM PDT by Cardhu
BAGHDAD (AFP)--Two American soldiers were killed in central Iraq on Sunday, the U.S. army said, in what an Iraqi security official said was a roadside bombing on the outskirts of Baghdad.
"Two U.S. service members were killed Sunday while conducting operations in central Iraq," the army said in a statement, without giving further details.
But an Iraqi interior ministry official said two U.S. soldiers were killed and three others wounded when their convoy was struck by a roadside bomb on the outskirts of the capital.
The deaths were the first U.S. military fatalities in Iraq since April 29 and the first time in a month that two soldiers have died in the same incident, according to independent website www.icasualties.org.
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0 said we had pulled out of there.
Zero said we no longer had combat troops there. That all was well and we had pulled out of Iraq. Those two must have been tourists.
Zero disgraces our troops.
The only 2 for the month so far.
It is more dangerious to be in the US...
Only 2 in Iraq but 14 in Afghanistan this month
Still light. Safer deployed than in the US.
Deployed you have body armor and can shoot back.
Here in the states, the law doesn’t allow that...
In the States you will be safe if you stay away from LEOs
I see you were in the navy - so was I but a different navy when Britain had one. I joined in 1946 and gave away the British Empire during the next ten years
Actually, they get a bum rap.
The most dangerious place I have ever been was Washington SE.
80 percent of all murders in DC happen within 4 blocks of Bolling AFB/Anacostia NAS. The home of the Defense Intelligence Agency and Marine 1.
I was safer in Colombia with a 40,000 dollar price on my head than I was in DC for the 3 months I spent at school in the DIAC.
Combat zones are safer than any major US city.
Being KIA has not been in the top 10 list of US military cause of death since the peak of Vietnam.
My son’s working convoys part of the time in that area. Please pass on any additional information.
I do hope everything will be Ok for your son - the US is due to withdraw by the end of the year.
Things seem to be heating up:
Earlier on Sunday, more than a dozen bomb attacks in and around Baghdad claimed the lives of at least 19 Iraqis and left more than 80 other people wounded.
The deadliest attack saw 12 people killed and 23 wounded in a bombing in the town of Taji, 25 kilometres north of the capital, according to an Iraqi interior ministry official.
I had a communication from him early today. Hoping he was on base all day.
OK, I’ll ask—why on Earth did you have a $40,000 price on your head in Colombia?
Being in DC I believe you.
I travelled around the world and have been in all the seaports of the world and never had any problem, luckily after 35 years in the US I survived.
I am sure he will be OK they are not engaging in any combat missions unless requested by the Iraqis. Although just travelling in convoy is dangerous.
Yeah. Convoys are what he does, at least part of the time.
FARC offers 40,000 for any US Military Intellegence or SOF personnel. With all the drugs they run, they can afford to offer bounties on US personnel. Spooks and snake-eaters are at the upper end of the bounties...
Mind you. That was a decade ago. The bounties may have gone up...
43 countries in my 22 years in the USN.
The most dangerious locations were all in the US.
I am including war zones in this and
overseas shore tours where I was stationed at locations on the terrorists’ hit lists.
[E.G. 87-88 in the gulf for the Iran-Iraq War; 2 different embassies; The Navy House in Munich was on the Red Army Faction’s top 100 hit list in the mid-80s. Etc.]
Just wanted to let you know I got a message from my son and he’s fine.
I am so happy for you. I am sure he will make it home soon
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