secondo dati ufficiali, quindi largamente al ribasso sono 84 i "pacificatori" uccisi in Iraq. Incalcolabili gli elicotteri, aerei, droni, "precipitati", da aggiungere la "liberazione" di ostaggi risultati poi morti....come nel caso del governatore di Al Anbar....addiritturain un primo tempo "liberato da un blitz degli americani".....

FORCE CRASH
Four U.S. Air Force and one Iraqi Air Force Airmen were killed May 30 when an Iraqi Air Force Comp Air 7SL aircraft crashed in eastern Diyala province during an operational mission.

05/31/05 AP: Governor of Anbar Province Killed
The governor [Raja Nawaf Farhan al-Mahalawi] of western Iraq's volatile Anbar province has been killed during clashes between U.S. forces and the insurgents who abducted him, the Iraqi government said Tuesday.

05/31/05 AP: 2 Iraqi soldiers killed near Buhriz
A suicide car bomber killed two Iraqi soldiers in an early morning attack on an army checkpoint near Buhriz, about 35 miles north of Baghdad, said Diyala provincial police spokesman Ali Fadhil.

05/31/05 AP: Iraqi journalist killed
Violence continued Tuesday when gunmen shot and killed Jerges Mohammed Sultan, an Iraqi journalist working for Iraqi state TV channel Al-Iraqiya, as he left his house in the northern city of Mosul, said Dr. Baha-aldin al-Bakri from al-Jumhouri hospital.

05/31/05 AP: (Update) Plane Carrying 4 Americans Crashes in Iraq
The fixed-wing aircraft crashed near the village of Jalula, about 80 miles NE of Baghdad, said U.S. military spokesman Lt. Col. Fred Wellman. It was unclear what type of aircraft it was ... The four Americans were all members of the U.S. Air Force.

05/31/05 AP: (Update) Italian military helicopter crashes in Iraq, killing four
The helicopter was coming back from the Kuwaiti international airport and had stopped to refuel at Camp Buehring, also in Kuwait ... A rescue team found the wreckage at dawn in the desert close to the Tallill air base in Iraq near Nasiriyah.

05/31/05 Reuters: (Update) Four Americans, one Iraqi killed in plane crash
Four Americans and an Iraqi were killed when an Iraqi Air Force plane went down in eastern Iraq on Monday ... The plane, a six-seater Comp Air turbo-prop usually used for reconnaissance, went down near the town of Jalawla ... near the Iranian border.

05/31/05 Reuters: Italian helicopter crashes in Iraq, 4 dead
An Italian army helicopter has crashed southeast of the Iraqi city of Nassiriya, killing four Italians, Italy's military command said on Tuesday. The cause of the crash was not immediately known.

05/30/05 DoD Identifies Army Casualty
Spc. Phillip N. Sayles, 26, of Jacksonville, Ark., died May 28 in Mosul, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his security position. Sayles was assigned to the Army's 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment...


http://icasualties.org/oif/