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On the 2nd of September, more than 100 members of the families of the killed and missing cadets and soldiers broke into the Iraqi Parliament and hit three of the security guards. [18] After a day, a session started in the parliament with the attendance of representatives of the families and Sa'dun al-Dulaimi , along with other military ...
LaVena Lynn Johnson (July 27, 1985 – July 19, 2005) was a soldier in the United States Army who was found dead in a tent in Iraq. Her death was controversially ruled as a suicide but the evidence of rape and battery led her family to believe the United States Department of Defense covered it up.
February 14 - 10 soldiers were killed when a police station was overrun in Fallujah. [699] March March 8 - Three soldiers were killed when they were ambushed while on their way to work in Baghdad. [700] March 17 - One soldier was killed by a roadside bomb in Mosul. [701] March 22 - One soldier was killed by a car bomb at Anaconda air base in ...
From June 2003, through December 31, 2010, there have been 16,623 Iraqi military and police killed based on several estimates. [41] The Iraq Index of the Brookings Institution keeps a running total of ISF casualties. [42] There is also a breakdown of ISF casualties at the iCasualties.org website. [43] Iraqi insurgents
On May 11, 2009, five United States military personnel were fatally shot at a military counseling clinic at Camp Liberty, Iraq by Army Sergeant John M. Russell. In the days before the killings, witnesses stated Russell had become distant and was having suicidal thoughts.
In September 2005, the 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines (3/1) deployed to Haditha, an agricultural town along the Euphrates river in western Iraq. [12] Prior to the deployment, a Guardian investigation reported that two Iraqi insurgent groups—Ansar al-Sunna and Al-Qaeda—had taken over operations of the town after driving out local police and civil servants. [13]
Sabrina Harman, posing over the body of Manadel al-Jamadi in November 2003 Charles Graner, posing over the body of Manadel al-Jamadi in November 2003 . US Navy SEALs had apprehended al-Jamadi following the 27 October 2003 bombing of Red Cross offices in Baghdad that killed 34 people, including one US soldier, and left more than 200 wounded.
[25] [26] Local Iraqi officials, and U.S. officials, denied the killing of the GIs was an act of retaliation, saying that the soldiers were killed days before the revelation leaked out that U.S. soldiers had committed the massacre in Mahmudiyah. At the time of Menchaca and Tucker's abduction on June 16, 2006, only the perpetrators and a few ...