Women Marines Killed
Good evening,Body counts today are at 6. Two marines were killed when a car bomber slammed into a convoy of primairly women marines. At least one woman was killed and 11 of 13 wounded were female. The gender of all those killed has not yet been released, but it is presumed that there will be some more females in that body count. 1,731 US troops total have been killed since the US attacked Iraq, of which 36 have been women. 1,240 Iraqis have been killed since April 28th, 2005.
Gunmen today also killed an aide to Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq's most revered Shiite cleric. Police said two bodyguards were also killed trying to protect Shiite cleric Samara al-Baghdadi, who represented al-Sistani in Baghdad's predominantly Shiite al-Amin district.
The decapitated bodies of 8 men were also discovered today, six of whom were Shiite farmers. It remains amystery why these men were killed.
posted by Wink @ 8:24 PM
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