Tucson Arizona Unidentified Bodies 2006

daily war news for wednesday, january 10, 2007 photo: a woman ...

Photo : A woman cries outside a hospital morgue in Baghdad's Sadr City January 10, 2007 as she waits to claim the bodies of her relatives who were killed by what residents said was a U.S. air strike on Tuesday. A house in the volatile Shi'ite district was blown up and local residents said it was caused by a U.S. air strike. Doctors showed journalists the bodies of two men, a woman and two children they said died in the house. The U.S. military had no immediate comment. (Kareem Raheem/Reuters) said on Wednesday. "An armed group kidnapped on Tuesday afternoon the computer engineer Aqeel Adnan outside the newspaper head-office in al-Waziriyah neighborhood, northeast of Baghdad," the source, who asked not to be named, told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI). The source added "the kidnapped engineer has no political or sectarian ties." Eyewitnesses reported on Wednesday that the U.S. forces took over a residential complex in Rawa town, Anbar province, as a new base. The forces moved on Wednesday morning to Hasa residential complex, 15 km west of Rawa, one of the witnesses told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI). U.S. convoys began arriving this morning to the base and started building sand and concrete barricades around the new military base, he said. Sgt. Aron C. Blum, 22, of Tucson, Ariz., died Dec. 28 at Naval Medical Center, San Diego, Calif., of a non-hostile cause after being evacuated from Al Anbar province, Iraq, on Dec. 8. Blum was assigned to Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron 352, Marine Aircraft Group 11, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, Calif. Along Haifa Street, a desolate, mostly Sunni Arab enclave of residential buildings and shops, more than 1,000 U.S. and Iraqi troops descended early Tuesday to retake the insurgent stronghold. The larger goal was to reassert the authority of the U.S.-backed Iraqi government, weakened by sectarian and political divides and a failure to stem Iraq's violent slide. Instead, the troops encountered strong resistance as the well-organized insurgents appeared determined to protect their turf or fight their way out, surprising U.S. soldiers who fought in the battle. By evening, as many as 50 insurgents had been killed, Iraqi officials said, while 21 others, including several foreign fighters, were captured, but only after the use of massive U.S. firepower and technology.

Congressional Record, V. 152, Pt. 14, September 2006

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