Quote: "When we hear about the American dead in Iraq, we normally
learn about the circumstances in which they died. Last Saturday, for
instance, was, for American troops, the third bloodiest day since the
Bush administration launched its invasion in March 2003 -- 27 of them
died. Twelve went down in a Blackhawk helicopter over Diyala
Province, probably hit by a shoulder-fired missile. Five died under
somewhat surprising and mysterious circumstances. They were attacked
in a supposedly secure facility in the Shiite city of Karbala by
gunmen who, despite their telltale beards, were dressed to imitate
American soldiers and managed to drive through city checkpoints in
exceedingly official-looking armored SUVs. They could, of course,
have been members of Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army, but were probably
Sunni insurgents from a neighboring province. The rest of the
Americans in that total died as a result of roadside bombs (IEDs)
around Baghdad or fighting with Sunni insurgents, mainly in al-Anbar
Province. The Pentagon announcements on which such news is based are
usually terse in the extreme. The totals, 29 dead for the weekend (as
well as hundreds of Iraqis), did, however, become major TV and
front-page news around the country."
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