Post by admin4laney on Aug 5, 2005 14:48:01 GMT -5
14 More Marine Deaths Deepen Ohio Mourning
Number Of American Deaths Since War Began Passes 1,800
POSTED: 6:56 am EDT August 3, 2005
UPDATED: 5:21 pm EDT August 3, 2005
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- The mourning was already under way in Ohio before the latest batch of bad news from Iraq.
Fourteen members of an Ohio-based battalion were killed in a roadside bombing Wednesday, the single deadliest attack of its kind for U.S. troops in Iraq.
Nine were from the same company in Columbus.
The same battalion saw six other Marines die near Baghdad Monday. (Click here for info on other deadly incidents.)
The military says Iraqi insurgents have stepped up their resistance in western Iraq, near the Syrian border. A top commander said that's why the situation is getting more dangerous.
He described the enemy they faced as "very lethal and, unfortunately, adaptive."
Brig. Gen. Carter Ham said Marines had been working in a number of towns, trying to make sure insurgents couldn't move around freely in the area along the Euphrates River.
Ham said he doesn't think the enemy has "an ability to freely operate in that area."
The Marines who died Wednesday were in an amphibious assault vehicle on patrol during combat operations about 140 miles northwest of Baghdad. It was hit by a roadside bomb -- killing the 14 Marines and a civilian interpreter. Another Marine was wounded.
The Marines were assigned to Regimental Combat Team 2, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward).
The six Marines who died earlier this week were reservists from Ohio serving as snipers. All were members of the Headquarters and Service Company, 3rd Battalion, 25th Marines, based in Brook Park, Ohio, a suburb of about 21,000 people southwest of Cleveland. The six slain marines were identified as Cpl. Jeffrey A. Boskovitch, 25, of Seven Hills, Ohio; Lance Cpl. Roger D. Castleberry Jr., 26, of Austin, Texas; Sgt. David J. Coullard, 32, of Glastonbury, Conn.; Lance Cpl. Daniel N. Deyarmin Jr., 22, of Tallmadge, Ohio; Lance Cpl. Brian P. Montgomery, 26, of Willoughby, Ohio; and Sgt. Nathaniel S. Rock, 26, of Toronto, Ohio.
American Journalist Found Dead
An American freelance journalist has been found shot to death in southern Iraq.
The U.S. Embassy said Steven Vincent had been shot multiple times. His body was found in Basra, several hours after he and his Iraqi translator were abducted by five gunmen while leaving a currency exchange shop. The translator was seriously wounded.
Vincent had been living in New York and police said he had been staying in Basra for several months, working on a book. In an opinion column printed in The New York Times three days ago, he alleged that Basra's police force had been infiltrated by members of Shiite political groups, including those loyal to radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.
Vincent had also been critical of the British military, which is responsible for security in the area, and had written that Iraqi police were behind a number of assassinations in Basra.
www.channelcincinnati.com/news/4802565/detail.html
Number Of American Deaths Since War Began Passes 1,800
POSTED: 6:56 am EDT August 3, 2005
UPDATED: 5:21 pm EDT August 3, 2005
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- The mourning was already under way in Ohio before the latest batch of bad news from Iraq.
Fourteen members of an Ohio-based battalion were killed in a roadside bombing Wednesday, the single deadliest attack of its kind for U.S. troops in Iraq.
Nine were from the same company in Columbus.
The same battalion saw six other Marines die near Baghdad Monday. (Click here for info on other deadly incidents.)
The military says Iraqi insurgents have stepped up their resistance in western Iraq, near the Syrian border. A top commander said that's why the situation is getting more dangerous.
He described the enemy they faced as "very lethal and, unfortunately, adaptive."
Brig. Gen. Carter Ham said Marines had been working in a number of towns, trying to make sure insurgents couldn't move around freely in the area along the Euphrates River.
Ham said he doesn't think the enemy has "an ability to freely operate in that area."
The Marines who died Wednesday were in an amphibious assault vehicle on patrol during combat operations about 140 miles northwest of Baghdad. It was hit by a roadside bomb -- killing the 14 Marines and a civilian interpreter. Another Marine was wounded.
The Marines were assigned to Regimental Combat Team 2, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward).
The six Marines who died earlier this week were reservists from Ohio serving as snipers. All were members of the Headquarters and Service Company, 3rd Battalion, 25th Marines, based in Brook Park, Ohio, a suburb of about 21,000 people southwest of Cleveland. The six slain marines were identified as Cpl. Jeffrey A. Boskovitch, 25, of Seven Hills, Ohio; Lance Cpl. Roger D. Castleberry Jr., 26, of Austin, Texas; Sgt. David J. Coullard, 32, of Glastonbury, Conn.; Lance Cpl. Daniel N. Deyarmin Jr., 22, of Tallmadge, Ohio; Lance Cpl. Brian P. Montgomery, 26, of Willoughby, Ohio; and Sgt. Nathaniel S. Rock, 26, of Toronto, Ohio.
American Journalist Found Dead
An American freelance journalist has been found shot to death in southern Iraq.
The U.S. Embassy said Steven Vincent had been shot multiple times. His body was found in Basra, several hours after he and his Iraqi translator were abducted by five gunmen while leaving a currency exchange shop. The translator was seriously wounded.
Vincent had been living in New York and police said he had been staying in Basra for several months, working on a book. In an opinion column printed in The New York Times three days ago, he alleged that Basra's police force had been infiltrated by members of Shiite political groups, including those loyal to radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.
Vincent had also been critical of the British military, which is responsible for security in the area, and had written that Iraqi police were behind a number of assassinations in Basra.
www.channelcincinnati.com/news/4802565/detail.html
