Event here in Iraq

[Apocalypse]

The blackout is over so...

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=71209&sectionid=351020201

Another US soldier dies in Iraq
Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:37:07 GMT
A roadside bomb explosion south of Baghdad has taken the life of an American soldier in war-torn Iraq, a US military statement says.

The incident occurred on Thursday when a bomb exploded near the deceased soldier's vehicle south of Amarah, a city 320 km (200 miles) southeast of the Iraqi capital.

The statement which was released on Friday said the soldier's name was being withheld pending notification of next of kin.

The Thursday blast comes shortly after a spate of violence rocked the Iraqi capital where multiple explosions on last Sunday left 33 people killed and 107 others injured.

One blast hit the capital's western Shurta neighborhood while minutes later a second shook Hai al-Ami neighborhood.

The deadliest of the attacks, however, targeted central Baghdad's busy Karrada shopping district where a car bomb a long with a roadside bomb went off within less than two hours after the first two explosions, claiming scores of lives and wounding another 72.

Iraqi official said the attacks sought to disturb the celebrations of Eid al-Fitr, a holiday marking the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.

I actually called in the medievac request to our landing zone. It took over an hour for a helicopter to land. I had attack helicopters come and help secure the site long before medievac came.

[Asher]

Iraq has the internet?

Why are you still there? The internet is everything. Pull out, pull out.

[Apocalypse]

I don't have clean running water but I do have internet.

[Winston]

I actually called in the medievac request to our landing zone. It took over an hour for a helicopter to land. I had attack helicopters come and help secure the site long before medievac came.

Awful as the circumstances are, you are in a position to make a difference that could help save lives and advance other people's opportunities in life.

I hope you're coping with the hardships that you're faced with. Keep us posted - and be safe.

[SlowwHand]

Originally posted by Asher

Pull out, pull out.

I had a girlfriend once that didn't use the pill or anything. She was always saying that.

Keep your head down, Apocalypse; and thanks very much.

[Boris Godunov]

I thought for a second you were going to try and organize a Polymeet in Iraq.

Stay safe, hope you get the hell out of there real soon.

[Wiglaf]

Did you find the people who did it and kill them?

[Tattila the Hun]

I'd suppose it's a good thing that this is actually newsworthy? Ergo, less deaths in general, so even one gets to be a news item.

I was wondering, there have been less reports of death and destruction from Iraq, whether it meant pacification, or that the news networks don't bother to write about it...

[Asher]

It's not a real news item, look at the source.

[SlowwHand]

More people have been murdered in Chicago in the last 6 months than have died in battle in Iraq. So yeah, Tattila, you're correct.

[Asher]

What's the population of Chicago vs the population of US troops in Iraq?

[Boris Godunov]

Care to compare the civilian death rates?

[Apocalypse]

Originally posted by Wiglaf
Did you find the people who did it and kill them?

No, we think the battalion commander might have let them go.

[snoopy369]

Originally posted by Tattila the Hun
I'd suppose it's a good thing that this is actually newsworthy? Ergo, less deaths in general, so even one gets to be a news item.

I was wondering, there have been less reports of death and destruction from Iraq, whether it meant pacification, or that the news networks don't bother to write about it...

They always have all gotten news articles; some may not be published nationally but I guarantee you each and every one was published in his/her local paper at a minimum. My brother wrote some of the articles (or supplied photos, more commonly).

In this case, it's newsworthy because of Apo's involvement, of course.

[Apocalypse]

There was one wounded. We thought he was much worse than he was initially because he was going into shock. He turned out to be less critical, but still over an hour is retarded.