IWR News

Iraq Body Count: 7/20/06
Americans Killed: 2555
Americans Wounded: 18,988
Iraqi Dead: Est.: 43,709
http://icasualties.org/oif/
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Latest Confirmed Casualties:

*Sgt. Thomas B. Turner Jr., 31, of Cottonwood, Calif., died on July 14 at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Landstuhl, Germany, of injuries sustained on July 13 in Al Muqdadiyah, Iraq.

*Sgt. Andres J. Contreras, 23, of Huntington Park, Calif., died on July 15 in Baghdad, Iraq.

*Staff Sgt. Jason M. Evey, 29, of Stockton, Calif., died on July 16 in Baghdad, Iraq.

*Sgt. Alkaila T. Floyd, 23, of Grand Rapids, Mich., died on July 13 in Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Landstuhl, Germany, of injuries sustained on July 8 in Ar Ramadi, Iraq.

*Staff Sgt. Michael A. Dickinson II, 26, of Battle Creek, Mich., died on July 17 in Ar Ramadi, Iraq.

*Cpl. Kenneth I. Pugh, 39, of Houston Texas, died on July 17 in Baghdad, Iraq.

*Sgt. 1st Class Scott R. Smith, 34, of Punxsutawney, Pa., died on July 17 in Al Iskandariyah, Iraq.

*Spc. Manuel J. Holguin, 21, of Woodlake, Calif., died on July 15 in Baghdad, Iraq.
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Turkey Announces Readiness for Iraq

If the US does nothing to fight Turkish Kurdish guerillas there
By: Ruxandra Adam, News Editor

"Turkish officials announced today that their country is now fully prepared to go into Iraq, if American, as well as Iraqi, forces do not combat Turkish Kurdish guerilla troops in the area. However, many analysts have stated that such a political and military move would force Turkey to be at odds with the United States..."
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Violence soaring despite growing number of Iraqi forces

By Tom Lasseter
McClatchy Newspapers

"BAGHDAD, Iraq - Despite the addition of almost 100,000 U.S.-trained Iraqi troops in the past year, American efforts to pacify central Iraq and the capital appear to be failing, challenging a central assumption behind the U.S. strategy in Iraq: that training more Iraqi security forces will allow American troops to start going home.

The number of trained Iraqi soldiers and police grew from an estimated 168,670 in June 2005 to some 264,600 this June. Yet Baghdad's morgue is receiving nearly twice as many dead Iraqis each day as it did last year. The number of bombings causing multiple fatalities has risen steadily. Attacks on American and Iraqi troops last month grew 44 percent from June 2005..."
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Peace,
Chad (The Left) Shue