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GOD FORGIVE ME BUT KNOW THEY KILL NOT IN MY NAME.
I Support our American troops but not this white house policies on Iraq
(God's) Ten Commandments - "You Are Not To Kill"
MARCH 20, 2003
Coalition forces took their first casualties of the campaign when a U.S. Marine CH-46 helicopter crashed in northern Kuwait early Friday morning, killing all 12 people on board -- 8 British military personnel and four American crew members, Pentagon officials said. There were no indications that hostile fire brought down the helicopter, according to the Pentagon. The accident took place about nine miles south of the Iraqi border.
MARCH 22, 2003
• Six British crewmembers and one American died when two U.K. Navy Sea King helicopters collided over the Persian Gulf, U.K. officials said Saturday. Full story • Iraqi officials reported Saturday that 207 civilians had been injured in air strikes on Baghdad. • An Australian cameraman and three Kurdish soldiers died Saturday when a bomber blew up his taxi at a checkpoint in northern Iraq, a Time Magazine reporter said. • At least 14 British and 6 American military personnel have died as a result of the conflict, according to coalition military sources.
MARCH 27, 2003
Coalition deaths in the Iraq war now total 47. Killed in Action: List of coalition fatalities • Iraq's health minister said Thursday that more than 350 Iraqis have been killed in the war so far, and he claimed coalition fighters were targeting Iraqi civilians. CNN cannot independently verify Iraq's claims.
American And Iraq's Casualties
Following are details of recent casualties in the Iraq
war as announced by US, British and Iraqi authorities or independently confirmed
by Reuters correspondents:
US AND BRITISH MILITARY CASUALTIES:
- 102 US killed and 11 missing
- 30 British killed
IRAQI CASUALTIES:
- Iraqi military: At least 2320 (US military estimates
for Baghdad alone).
- Iraqi civilians: More than 1250 killed (Minimum
Iraqi estimates as of April 3)
NOTE: Official figures usually lag behind actual battlefield
casualties. Does not include unspecified number of deaths from "friendly
fire" bombing of Kurdish and US special forces convoy on April 6.
US MILITARY IN COMBAT:
April 9 - The Pentagon said 101 members of the
US armed forces had been killed in the war against Iraq.
There were 399 wounded, 11 missing and seven prisoners,
according to the Pentagon's latest casualty figures.
April 10 - The US says one Marine has been killed
and more than 20 wounded in a battle at a mosque in Baghdad.
BRITISH MILITARY IN COMBAT:
April 6 - Three British soldiers were killed in
the southern Iraqi city of Basra, taking the British death toll in the war against
Iraq to 30, the Defence Ministry said.
IRAQI CIVILIANS:
April 3 - Iraq's Foreign Minister Naji Sabri said
more than 1250 civilians had been killed and 5000 injured since March 20, the
start of the war.
US & BRITISH NON-COMBAT DEATHS:
April 6 - A US plane mistakenly bombed a convoy
of US special forces and Kurdish fighters, killing 18 Kurds and wounding over
45, including the brother of Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani. Unknown number
of casualties among US special forces.
April 7 - Two US Marines were killed and three
injured in a friendly fire incident in fighting to secure two bridges over the
Nahr Diyala river, a tributary of the Tigris on the edge of Baghdad.
JOURNALISTS & MEDIA STAFF KILLED:
April 8 - Tarek Ayoub, a producer and correspondent
for al-Jazeera television, was killed in a US air raid on Baghdad. A second
al-Jazeera correspondent was slightly wounded.
April 8 - Reuters cameraman Taras Protsyuk, a
Ukrainian national based in Warsaw, and Spanish television cameraman Jose Couso,
who worked for Tele 5, died after a US tank fired at the Palestine Hotel, base
for much of the foreign media in Baghdad. Three other Reuters staff were wounded.
NON-IRAQIS:
April 8 - Iran says a boy was killed in Abadan
by a rocket fired by US forces in neighbouring Iraq.
- Canadian Vatche Arslanian, 48, a staff member with
the International Committee of the Red Cross was shot and killed in Baghdad
when the vehicle he was in was caught in crossfire.
NON-COMBATANTS MISSING:
March 22 - Two journalists from Britain's Independent
Television News missing after coming under fire on their way to Basra.
April 4 - International relief group Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said two of its six-member team in Baghdad had been missing since April 2. MSF announced it had suspended operations in Iraq