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On August 2, 2006, Job was shot in the head while on an overwatch mission with fellow SEAL members Chris Kyle and Marc Alan Lee in Ramadi, Iraq.A bullet fired by an enemy gunman ricocheted off Job's Mk 48 machine gun and struck him in the left side of his face; the bullet went through his head and left him permanently blind.
Saadoun Sughaiyer al-Janabi, shot in his home by masked gunmen in Iraqi Police uniforms. Adel al-Zubeidi, shot while driving through a Sunni neighborhood of Baghdad. Khamis al-Obeidi, abducted and shot while defending Saddam Hussein at his trial.
Juba [1] (Arabic: جوبا), sometimes spelled Joba, is the pseudonym of an anonymous sniper with the Sunni insurgent group Islamic Army in Iraq involved in the Iraqi insurgency, featured in several videos released between 2005 and 2007. Juba became famous after videos showing footage of his shootings appeared online.
On December 6, 2005, the Islamic Army in Iraq uploaded a video to the internet showing Schulz sitting in a white plastic chair with his hands tied behind his back. The group threatened to kill him in 48 hours unless the U.S. government freed all Iraqi prisoners and paid compensation to Iraqis affected by military offensives led by U.S. troops ...
An American aid worker, Stephen Edward Troell, has been shot dead in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, the U.S. government announced Tuesday.
The Iraqi air force said in a statement that the drone was issued a warning “according to protocol” and was then shot down by air defenses. It said the drone fell on a civilian house, causing ...
The Nisour Square massacre occurred on September 16, 2007, when employees of Blackwater Security Consulting (now Constellis), a private military company contracted by the United States government to provide security services in Iraq, shot at Iraqi civilians, killing 17 and injuring 20 in Nisour Square, Baghdad, while escorting a U.S. embassy convoy.
CAIRO (Reuters) -Three armed drones were shot down on Tuesday in two separate attacks over Erbil airport in northern Iraq where U.S. forces and other international forces are stationed, Iraqi ...