venceremos

Again we have a near to complete media black-out on current US
casaulties in IRaq. This is probably due to the increasing anti-iraqwar
sentiment in the US, which has been stimulated by last month's
horrendous US casualty figure (106).

This might also be the explaination for the mysterious cut which hit
the US fatality toll in the mid of the current month.


to the US occupation and its invader forces in Iraq as October. But
then the unexpected happened. Around 15th November the daily death toll
sank from 3++ to less than 1 (!)

See also:

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2003/ira...s/2006.11.html


And not only had November been as same as fatal as October, no, it
moreover had even been worse. As for the US, November started with the
loss of two high-rank senior military officers (!), killed by a single,
well placed IED.

Killed were:

Lt. Col. Paul J. Finken 40 1st Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment, 4th
Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division Mason City, Iowa One of
three soldiers killed when their vehicle was struck by a roadside bomb
in eastern Baghdad, Iraq, on November 2, 2006

and

Lt. Col. Eric J. Kruger 40 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry
Division Garland, Texas One of three soldiers killed when their vehicle
was struck by a roadside bomb in eastern Baghdad, Iraq, on November 2,
2006


Only once before had such a high-ranked US officer been killed by
direct hostile action in IRaq. But this time the IRaqi resistance had
got even two (!) of these high-ranked birds with one stone !

And the month continued like that, with the average daily death toll of
2.5 - 3, and a remarkable amount of US military officers being among
the killed.


By 13th November nearly 1/4 of the already more than 36 (!) killed
coalition soldiers had been US & UK officers.

By 14th November the US had to add another rarely killed high-ranked US
military officer to its November death toll in Iraq. Killed was:

Col. Thomas H. Felts Sr. 45 Assigned to the Command and General Staff
College, School of Advanced Military Studies, Combined Arms Center
Sandston, Virginia One of two soldiers killed when a roadside bomb
detonated near their vehicle during combat operations in Baghdad, Iraq,
on November 14, 2006


This aging loss was then galvanized the next two days when two
well-known and experienced army Captains of the 82nd US Airborne
Division were felled by sniper fire.

Killed were:

Cpt. John R. Dennison 24 5th Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment, 3rd
Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division Ijamsville, Maryland Died
as a result of small-arms fire in Balad, Iraq, on November 15, 2006

and


Capt. Rhett W. Schiller 26 5th Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment, 3rd
Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division Wisconsin Died of injuries
suffered when his unit came in contact with enemy forces using
small-arms fire during combat operations in Balad Ruz, Iraq, on
November 16, 2006


The next day the media-black-out kicked in, and the from one second to
the other, US announced daily losses shrank from 3++ to less than 1
(!).

Again see:

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2003/ira...s/2006.11.html


Notice that such surprising decrease in fatalities is very unlikely,
especially in a guerilla war like the one the US is fighting in IRaq.

Additionaly the Iraqi Resistance Reports indicate that from 16th
November till now there hasn t been any significant change in the
amount or effects of daily attacks against the invader forces.

And not only the IRR but also the chinese news agency Xinhua reported
lots of attacks and ambushes in which there had been 'US casualties'
between 16th November and now, with the IRR even reporting on several
IED incidents which inflicted certain death on several US soldiers.

Therefore, personally, I feel it very likely that the US military by
16th November has been ordered to stop announcing the full amount of
daily fatalies, as to prevent the US public - already raging against
the Bush-administration because of Iraq and the horrific October
personal losses - from demanding quick withdrawl from IRaq.


For overall numbers and names of US military officers announced killed
in November 2006 see:

1)

Lt. Col. Eric J. Kruger 40 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry
Division Garland, Texas One of three soldiers killed when their vehicle
was struck by a roadside bomb in eastern Baghdad, Iraq, on November 2,
2006

2)

Lt. Col. Paul J. Finken 40 1st Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment, 4th
Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division Mason City, Iowa One of
three soldiers killed when their vehicle was struck by a roadside bomb
in eastern Baghdad, Iraq, on November 2, 2006

3)

2nd Lt. Mark C. Gelina 33 2nd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion,
2nd Marine Division, 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force Moberly, Missouri
Died in a non-hostile incident in Anbar province, Iraq, on November 4,
2006


4)

Chief Warrant Officer John R. Priestner 42 1st Attack Reconnaissance
Battalion, 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division
Pennsylvania One of two soldiers killed when their AH-64 Apache
helicopter crashed in Balad, Iraq, on November 6, 2006


5)

Chief Warrant Officer Miles P. Henderson 24 1st Attack Reconnaissance
Battalion, 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division
Amarillo, Texas One of two soldiers killed when their AH-64 Apache
helicopter crashed in Balad, Iraq, on November 6, 2006


6)

Warrant Officer Class 2 Lee Hopkins 35 Royal Corps of Signals
Wellingborough, England One of four British military personnel killed
when a homemade bomb mounted on a bridge over the Shatt Al Arab River
exploded near their patrol boat in Basra, Iraq, on November 12, 2006


7)

1st Lt. Michael A. Cerrone 24 2nd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry
Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division Clarksville,
Tennessee One of two soldiers killed when a roadside bomb exploded near
their vehicle during combat operations in Samarra, Iraq, on November
12, 2006


8)

Col. Thomas H. Felts Sr. 45 Assigned to the Command and General Staff
College, School of Advanced Military Studies, Combined Arms Center
Sandston, Virginia One of two soldiers killed when a roadside bomb
detonated near their vehicle during combat operations in Baghdad, Iraq,
on November 14, 2006


9)

Cpt. John R. Dennison 24 5th Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment, 3rd
Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division Ijamsville, Maryland Died
as a result of small-arms fire in Balad, Iraq, on November 15, 2006


10)

Capt. Rhett W. Schiller 26 5th Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment, 3rd
Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division Wisconsin Died of injuries
suffered when his unit came in contact with enemy forces using
small-arms fire during combat operations in Balad Ruz, Iraq, on
November 16, 2006


BTW:

Today 23th Nov. the US death toll for soldiers of all ranks killed in
November 2006 in Iraq and officially announced stands at 49 , wherefore
it has been at 43 (!) at 16th November already.


If that's not MEDIA BLACK_OUT - then what's a media black out !?


(icasualties quotes DoD with even less announced fatalies for this
month, resp. only 48 - See : http://www.icasualties.org/oif/ right now
resp. 12:31 GMT it says latest US casualty was at 21th Nov.)

benyamin cramer

Interesting stuff.

I'd really love to know the real death toll re American service personnel.

Do the yanks count those who die in transit to, or in German and US
hospitals, as being Iraq war deaths? It appears not.

venceremos

Years after the Vietnam war, we still have no idea how many died in those massacres

joseph

***That's nothing compared to the 300 plus U.S. causalities suffered
during a single insurgent mortar and missile attack against Camp
Falcon. A complete military and news cover up ensued.

Turns out they hit a very large military ammo dump that ultimately
cooked off at least one nuclear explosion from tactical nuclear
weapons stored at that facility.

Up to this point in time I did not think a nuclear device could be
accidentally discharged by secondary conventional explosions.

See:

http://indexresearch.blogspot.com/20...-happened.html