http://icasualties.org/oif/pdf/20080...-W-Marines.pdf

Marines attacked by IED
Multi-National Force – West PAO
CAMP FALLUJAH, Iraq – Four Multi-National Force – West Marines were killed in
action May 2 when their vehicle was attacked by an enemy force with an improvised
explosive device in al Anbar Province.
The names of the deceased are being withheld pending next of kin notification
and release by the Department of Defense.

U.S. troop deaths in Iraq hit 7-month high

BAGHDAD — The killings of five U.S. soldiers in separate attacks in Baghdad pushed the American death toll for April up to 49, making it the deadliest month since September.

One soldier died when his vehicle was struck by a roadside bomb. The second died of wounds sustained when he was attacked by small-arms fire, the military said Wednesday. Both incidents occurred Tuesday in northwestern Baghdad.

A third soldier died after being struck by a bomb while on a foot patrol early Wednesday in a northern section of the capital, while another roadside bomb killed two American soldiers in southern Baghdad, the military said in separate statements.

The spike in U.S. troop deaths comes as intense combat has been raging in Sadr City and other neighborhoods between Shiite militants and U.S.-Iraqi troops for more than a month.

In all, at least 4,061 members of the U.S. military have died since the Iraq war started in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/i...s_N.htm?csp=34

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"We haven't turned any corners, we haven't seen any lights at the end of the tunnel. The champagne bottle has been pushed to the back of the refrigerator. And the progress, while real, is fragile and reversible."-------Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq:

Gee that bit of news is so helpfull - It put the whole question of the war and all its dimensions and what really counts into perspective.