10/22/05-Happy Birthday, Son

...Glad you're here... Iraq 'Coalition' (sic) Casulaties 10/22/05 Reuters: Poll shows Iraqis back attacks on UK, US forces Forty-five percent of Iraqis believe attacks on U.S. and British troops are justified, according to a secret poll said to have been commissioned by British defense leaders and cited by The Sunday Telegraph. 10/22/05 CENTCOM: TWO MARINES KILLED BY IED NEAR AL AMARIYAH (confirmed) Two Marines assigned to Regimental Combat Team 8, 2nd Marine Division, II MEF (Forward), were killed in action while conducting combat operations against the enemy when their vehicle was attacked with an IED near al Amariyah on Oct. 21. 10/22/05 CENTCOM: MARINE KILLED BY EXPLOSION NEAR HAQLANIYAH (confirmed) A Marine assigned to Regimental Combat Team 2, 2nd Marine Division, II MEF (Forward), was killed in action while conducting combat operations against the enemy when he was hit by an explosion in the vicinity of Haqlaniyah on Oct. 21. 10/22/05 Reuters: U.S. says kills 20 insurgents in western Iraq U.S. forces in Iraq killed 20 insurgents on Saturday near the Syrian border while conducting raids on houses believed to be hideouts for al Qaeda foreign fighters, the U.S. military said. 10/22/05 Reuters: Two Marines killed near Fallujah Two U.S. Marines were killed when their vehicle was attacked with a roadside bomb on Friday in Amiriya near Falluja, 50 km (32 miles) west of Baghdad, a U.S. military statement said. 10/22/05 Reuters: U.S. military says four contractors killed in Iraq Four U.S. contractors for the U.S. military were killed in Iraq last month, the military said on Saturday, confirming an attack that a British newspaper said saw two of the men murdered in front of a jeering crowd. 10/22/05 telegraph: US troops fighting losing battle for Sunni triangle The mob grew more frenzied as the gunmen dragged the two surviving Americans from the cab of their bullet-ridden lorry and forced them to kneel on the street. Killing one of the men with a rifle round fired into the back of his head... 10/22/05 AP: Two Policemen Killed By Roadside Bomb In the latest insurgent attacks in Iraq, two roadside bombs hit police patrols in southern Baghdad on Saturday, killing two policemen and wounding one, said police 1st Lt. Thaeir Mahmud. 10/22/05 Reuters: U.S. Marine was killed Friday near Haqlaniya A U.S. Marine was killed on Friday while conducting combat operations against insurgents near Haqlaniya, northwest of Baghdad, the U.S. military said. It said Marines killed four insurgents in the subsequent clash. 10/22/05 mytelus: Iraqi police infiltrated by militia: journalist An Irish journalist who was kidnapped in Iraq ...says the police in Baghdad have been infiltrated by militia. "Senior police commanders have admitted that their police force has been infiltrated by militia members..." 10/22/05 geo.tv: Seven killed in Iraq bloodshed Seven people including a security official killed in Iraq violence. A makeshift bomb killed a policeman south of Baghdad early on Saturday, while mortar fire targeted northern and western areas in the capital, injuring another, an interior ministry source 10/22/05 whittierdailyn: Glendora soldier injured in Iraq on long road to recovery The bullet never actually entered his body, rather it zipped around the inside of his helmet and back out, shaking his head violently and injuring his brain...Army Staff Sgt. Jarod Behee, 26, will face more surgery at a private hospital 10/22/05 Reuters: Insurgents kill 4,308 Iraqis in 2005 More than 4,300 Iraqis, nearly 70 percent of them civilians, were killed by insurgents in the first nine months of this year, an Interior Ministry official said on Saturday. 10/22/05 Reuters: Baath Party Member member member escapes assassination attempt A former member in the Baath Party...escaped an assassination attempt when gunmen attacked his house in Diwaniya, 180 km (110 miles) south of Baghdad. Police said one of his daughters was killed and two others wounded. 10/22/05 Reuters: 2 Iraqi Soldiers Wounded Two Iraqi soldiers were wounded when insurgents hurled grenades at their patrol in central Baghdad and the army returned fire, arresting six of them, the Iraqi army said in a statement. 10/22/05 Reuters: Iraqi Killed By Polish Forces One Iraqi was killed and another wounded when Polish forces opened fire on a street in the centre of Diwaniya, a medical source said. 10/22/05 Reuters: Top Iraqi cleric backs national reconciliation drive A push by the Cairo-based Arab League to gather Iraq's divided factions for a national reconciliation conference gained momentum on Saturday after Iraq's top Shi'ite cleric gave his blessing to the initiative. 10/22/05 KUNA: Six insurgents detained in Baghdad The Iraqi army arrested Saturday a half a dozen of Iraqi insurgents and seized a booby trapped car in Ramadi in the western side of the country in a couple of military operations, said a statement issued by the Iraqi Defense Ministry. 10/22/05 xinhuanet: Car bomb hits Iraqi army patrol in Fallujah "A car bomb parking on the side of a road near the industrial district in Fallujah detonated near an Iraqi army patrol at about 9:30 a.m. (0630 GMT)," Abdula Rahman, a local journalist who fled the scene unhurt, told Xinhua 10/22/05 Reuters: U.S. soldier killed A U.S. soldier died of a non-hostile gunshot wound on Oct. 20 in Baghdad, taking the death toll for U.S. forces in Iraq since the March 2003 invasion to at least 1,993. 10/22/05 One Iraqi killed in Diwaniya One Iraqi was killed and another wounded when Polish forces opened fire on a street in the centre of Diwaniya, a medical source said. 10/22/05 belfasttelegraph: Family still await the return body from Iraq THE family of a top military police investigator from Northern Ireland who was found dead in Iraq are still awaiting the return of his body. Captain Ken Masters was found dead in his accommodation in Waterloo Lines in...Basra 10/22/05 Reuters: Fighting reported in Fallujah A car driven by a suicide bomber exploded in central Falluja targeting a U.S patrol in an attack that Iraqi police officer Saif Sami said had destroyed a Humvee. There was no immediate comment from the U.S military. 10/22/05 Reuters: Two Iraqi soldiers wounded in Baghdad Two Iraqi soldiers were wounded when insurgents hurled grenades at their patrol in central Baghdad and the army returned fire, arresting six of them, the Iraqi army said in a statement. 10/22/05 Intervention Magazine: The Costs of War at Walter Reed Inside Walter Reed Army Hospital is the horrible reality of the Iraq War, a reality that few Americans see, and fewer want to see. By Stewart Nusbaumer 10/22/05 DOD Identifies Marine Casualties Staff Sergeant Richard T. Pummill, 27 ... Lance Cpl. Andrew D. Russoli, 21 ... Lance Cpl. Steven W. Szwydek, 20 ... died Oct. 20 from an improvised explosive device ... near Nasser Wa Salaam, Iraq.