Saturday, February 03, 2007 2:09 PM - MNF-Iraq is reporting the deaths of two Multi-National Division - Baghdad soldiers from a roadside bomb blast south of Baghdad on Friday, February 2nd. Two soldiers were also injured in the incident.

Tuesday, February 06, 2007 10:12 AM - CENTCOM is reporting the death of a Multi-National Division - Baghdad soldier at a security post southwest of Baghdad on Tuesday, February 6th, when insurgents attacked using small arms fire.

Tuesday, February 06, 2007 2:35 PM -
	(1) The DoD has identified the Marine who died of a non-hostile cause in Al Anbar Province on Thursday, February 1st: Corporal Richard O. Quill III, 22, of Roswell, Georgia. According to this CENTCOM release, the cause of death was a likely heart attack.
	(2) The DoD has also identified the soldier who died in a roadside bomb attack in Baghdad on Sunday, February 4th: Sergeant Randy J. Matheny, 20, of McCook, Nebraska. McCook was a Nebraska National Guardsman who served as a part of the 13th Sustainment Command while in Iraq.
Randy J. Matheny, 20, of McCook, Nebraska

Wednesday, February 07, 2007 7:32 AM - CENTCOM is reporting the death of a Marine from enemy action in Al Anbar Province on Tuesday, February 6th.

Wednesday, February 07, 2007 10:27 AM - The Associated Press is reporting the crash of a CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter near the village of Sheik Amir near Taji northwest of Baghdad on Wednesday, February 7th. The military has said that there were seven people aboard, all of whom are believed to have died. Although the military is saying that mechanical problems are likely responsible for the crash, several witnesses on the ground and an Iraqi air force officer have been quoted as saying it was shot down by an insurgent missile. The site has been secured. The craft was operated by Marines based in Al Anbar Province. According to a Reuters article, all on board were military personnel.

Wednesday, February 07, 2007 11:57 AM -
	(1) MNF-Iraq has confirmed the deaths of seven crewmembers and passengers in the crash of a CH-46 helicopter on Wednesday, February 7th.
	(2) The DoD has identified the Marine who died in enemy action in Al Anbar Province on Monday, February 5th: Lance Corporal Brandon J. Van Parys, 20, of New Tripoli, Pennsylvania.
Brandon J. Van Parys, 20, of New Tripoli, Pennsylvania
	(3) The Associated Press is reporting the death of a Polish soldier in a roadside bomb blast on Wednesday, February 7th. His convoy was about 20 miles outside of the city of Diwaniyah in Al Qadisiyah Province south of Baghdad when the explosion occurred. Three other soldiers were lightly injured in the incident.

Thursday, February 08, 2007 5:55 AM - CENTCOM is reporting the deaths of four more Marines in two separate incidents involving enemy action in Al Anbar Province on Wednesday, February 7th.

Thursday, February 08, 2007 7:25 AM - Baltimore station WJZ is reporting the identity of one of the two sailors killed in the crash of a Sea Knight helicopter on Wednesday, February 7th: Manuel Ruiz, 21, of Federalsburg, Maryland. According to his mother, he was a paramedic based out of Camp Lejeune, NC, on his second tour of Iraq.

Thursday, February 08, 2007 9:02 AM - The Polish media outlet Wiadomosci is reporting that Lance Corporal Piotr Nita, killed in a roadside bomb attack near Diwaniyah on February 7th, will be laid to rest on Sunday in the village of Wola Blakowa near Radomsko in central Poland, which we assume was his hometown. Polish soldiers at Camp Echo in Diwaniyah attended a mass on Thursday in Nita's memory. The body will be flown to Ramstein Air Base in Germany, and from there to Poland, arriving at the military airport at Łasku on Saturday.

Thursday, February 08, 2007 11:02 AM -
	The DoD has confirmed the death of Marine Sergeant Joshua J. Frazier, 24, of Spotsylvania, Virginia, in Iraq on Tuesday, February 6th.
Joshua J. Frazier, 24, of Spotsylvania, Virginia

Thursday, February 08, 2007 1:02 PM - The DoD has identified one of the Marines who died from enemy action in Al Anbar Province on Wednesday, February 7th: Corporal Jennifer M. Purcell, 20, of Bel Air, Maryland.

Friday, February 09, 2007 4:26 AM - CENTCOM is reporting the deaths of three soldiers from enemy action in Al Anbar Province on Thursday, February 8th.

Friday, February 09, 2007 6:17 AM -
	(1) The Associated Press has a very brief report out on the death of 19-year-old Marine Tarryl Hill of Shelby Township, Macomb County, Michigan. According to his father, he died when a bomb exploded under his vehicle on Wednesday, February 7th.
	(2) The Baltimore Sun has published an article covering the death of Marine Corporal Jennifer Parcell, 20, who died in enemy action in Al Anbar Province on February 7th. Ruiz's mother had served 20 years in the Navy herself ... and met Ruiz's father, a member of the Spanish army, while serving in Spain. Ruiz had always preferred to work on helicopter evac crews over working in hospitals, and had volunteered for a second deployment to Iraq. He was also a talented artist. Parcell joined the Marines after seeing her older brother graduate from Marine bootcamp. At one point Jennifer Parcell and her brother Joseph wound up stationed together briefly in Iraq. She planned to leave the Marines when her tour was up to attend college, even taking a college-level correspondence course while stationed in Iraq.
Jennifer Parcell, 20, of Bel Air, Maryland
	(3) The same Baltimore Sun article also covered the death of Navy Corpsman Manuel Ruiz, Jr., 21, who died when the helicopter he was in crashed near Baghdad on Februrary 7th.
Manuel Ruiz, Jr., 21, of Federalsburg, Maryland

Friday, February 09, 2007 6:39 AM -
	(1) The El Paso Times has revealed the identity of the second Navy death in the crash of a Sea Knight helicopter near Baghdad on February 7th: Hospital Corpsman Gilbert Minjares, Jr., 31, from El Paso, Texas. He had only been in Iraq for seven days. Minjares is survived by his wife, a 2-year-old son and a 4-week-old infant.
Gilbert Minjares, Jr., 31, from El Paso, Texas
	(2) The Southern California based Press-Enterprise is reporting the identity of the second Marine pilot who died in the Sea Knight crash on February 7th: 1st Lieutenant Jared Landaker, 25, from Big Bear City near San Bernardino, California. Like the rest of the crew, Landaker was assigned to Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 364 and flew medevac missions. He had graduated with a degree in physics from the University of La Verne, entering the Marine Corps shortly thereafter.
Jared Landaker, 25, from Big Bear City, California

Friday, February 09, 2007 7:01 AM - The British Ministry of Defense is announcing the death of one of their soldiers in a roadside bomb attack southeast of Basra City on Friday, February 9th. Three other British soldiers were injured in the explosion, one of whom is apparently in critical condition.

Friday, February 09, 2007 9:45 AM -
	(1) The DoD has confirmed the deaths of two Navy hospital corpsmen in the crash of a Sea Knight helicopter near Baghdad on Wednesday, February 7th:
		Petty Officer 1st Class Gilbert Minjares Jr., 31, of El Paso, Texas
		Petty Officer 3rd Class Manuel A. Ruiz, 21, of Federalsburg, Maryland
	(2) Nampa (Idaho) station KTRV is reporting that the three soldiers, whose February 8th deaths were described in this CENTCOM release, were Army Reservists from the 321st Engineer Battalion, 70th Regional Readiness Command, headquartered in Boise, Idaho. They died in the town of Karmah just north of Fallujah in Al Anbar Province when their vehicle hit an improvised explosive device. The 321st is responsible for clearing routes of IEDs.
	(3) The DoD has identified the pilots who died in the crash of an Apache helicopter northwest of Baghdad near Taji on Friday, February 2nd:
		Chief Warrant Officer Keith Yoakum, 41, of Hemet, California
		Chief Warrant Officer Jason G. Defrenn, 34, of Barnwell, South Carolina
		According to a brief Associated Press article, Yoakum had moved to Alabama two years ago with his wife and two children where he was in the process of restoring a single engine 1946 Fairchild military trainer.

Friday, February 09, 2007 5:53 PM -
	(1) Pocatello (Idaho) station KPVI is reporting the names of the three Army Reservists who died in a roadside bomb attack at Karmah in Al Anbar Province on Thursday, February 8th:
		Sergeant James Holtom, 22, of Rexburg, Idaho
		Specialist Ross A. Clevenger, 22, of Melba, Idaho
		Private 1st Class Raymond M. Werner, 22, of Nampa, Idaho
	(2) The DoD has released the identity of another of the 4 Marines killed in combat in Al Anbar Province on Wednesday, February 7th: Sergeant Major Joseph J. Ellis, 40, of Ashland, Ohio.

Friday, February 09, 2007 6:43 PM - St. Louis (Missouri) station KSDK is reporting the death of a young Marine from Ballwin, MO: Lance Corporal Matthew Pathenos, 21. According to a statement issued by his family, he died in combat in Fallujah on Wednesday, February 7th.

Friday, February 09, 2007 7:06 PM - The Associated Press now has more details on the death of Marine Private 1st Class Tarryl Hill, 19. His aunt has confirmed that he died in a roadside bombing at Fallujah, making it likely that he died with Marine Lance Corporal Matthew Pathenos. Hill joined the Marines in hopes of earning a college education in chemical engineering one day. He had been raised by his grandparents in Shelby Township, Macomb County, Michigan.

Saturday, February 10, 2007 5:35 AM -
	(1) MNF-Iraq is reporting the deaths of three soldiers in Diyala Province on Friday, February 9th. They were searching for a weapons cache and clearing a building when the building exploded. Four soldiers were wounded in the blast.
	(2) The British Ministry of Defense has provided a little more information on the British soldier killed in Basra in an IED attack on Friday, February 9th: he was with the 1st Battalion of The Yorkshire Regiment headquartered in York, England.

Saturday, February 10, 2007 6:23 AM -
	(1) The Staten Island Advance is reporting the identity of another of the Marines who died in the crash of a Sea Knight medevac helicopter northwest of Baghdad on Wednesday, February 7th: Marine Corporal Thomas Saba, 30, of Toms River, New Jersey. The chopper pilots were were with Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 364 out of Camp Pendleton and were due to finish their Iraq deployment shortly. Saba, on the other hand, was with Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 262 out of Okinawa, Japan, and had just begun his tour of Iraq. In fact, he had postponed his discharge from the Marines from April till September so that he could take on this deployment. He is survived by his parents and two sisters.
Thomas Saba, 30, of Toms River, New Jersey
	(2) The Army Times is reporting that Sergeant Major Joseph J. Ellis, 40, was actually one of the Marines who perished aboard the Sea Knight helicopter that crashed northwest of Baghdad on February 7th. He was the highest ranking enlisted man in Battalion Landing Team 2 of the 4th Marines attached to the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit. Ellis had a long and distinguished career with the Marines since his enlistment in 1984. An article in the North County Times reports that he spent more than a year in the Middle East during the first Gulf War, then served as a company communications chief at Camp Pendleton, and served three years as a recruiter in Cleveland before returning to his communications specialty. Ellis also serving as an infantry school instructor shortly before his first Iraq deployment in 2003. He attained his current rank in December of 2004.

Saturday, February 10, 2007 11:43 AM -
	The British Ministry of Defense has released the identity of the British soldier who died in a roadside bomb blast at Basra on Friday, February 9th: Private Luke Daniel Simpson, 21, of Howden in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. Simpson signed on with the army at the age of 16 ... and joined the same battalion in which his father had served as Sergeant Major, 1st Battalion The Prince of Wales' Own Regiment, which eventually became 1st Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment. He had an infectious and cheeky sense of humor, according to his friends in the army, that might have gotten him in trouble with his superiors on several occasions had they not truly liked and admired the young man themselves. His commanding officer said of him, "He used to refer to himself as Regimental Sergeant Major Simpson and thrust his chest forward for dramatic effect. It always made the lads laugh. Although he was a joker, I do not doubt for a moment that he would have achieved it."
Luke Daniel Simpson, 21, of Howden in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England

Sunday, February 11, 2007 12:01 AM - CENTCOM is reporting the death of a Task Force Lightning soldier from small arms fire in Diyala Province. The death occurred "today" on a report datelined Sunday, February 11th.

Sunday, February 11, 2007 8:18 AM -
	(1) The Portland (Maine) Press Herald is reporting the death of a soldier who was born in Maine. Army Staff Sergeant Eric Ross, 26, died in combat in Ba'qubah in Diyala Province on Friday, February 9th, according to the governor of Maine, John Baldacci. That would likely make him one of the three deaths in Diyala Province described in this CENTCOM release. He was assigned to B Company, 1st Battalion, 12th Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division out of Fort Hood, TX. Ross was married and had two children.
	(2) The Saipan Tribune is also reporting a death from what appears to be the same incident that killed Staff Sgt. Ross. Army Specialist Leeroy Apatang Camacho, 27, was also assigned to B Company of the 1-12 Cavalry operating in Diyala Province. He was killed on Friday, February 9th. Camacho was from Kagman on Saipan Island in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. He and his wife had three children, all boys, ranging in age from 3 years old to 8.

Sunday, February 11, 2007 1:30 PM -
	The Houston Chronicle has identified the fourth Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 364 crew member who perished aboard the Sea Knight helicopter that crashed northwest of Baghdad on Wednesday, February 7th: Marine Sergeant James Rodney Tijerina, 26, from Katy, Texas. Certain media articles published yesterday had led us to believe that Sergeant Major Ellis was the seventh chopper crash death. But Tijerina obviously belongs with the Sea Knight crew. He was a crew chief aboard the medical evacuation helicopter. Like the rest of his squadron mates, he was due to return to Camp Pendleton shortly. Tijerina is survived by the wife he married last summer before leaving for his Iraq deployment.
James Rodney Tijerina, 26, from Katy, Texas

Sunday, February 11, 2007 1:58 PM - MNF-Iraq is reporting the death of a Multi-National Division - Baghdad soldier in a small arms fire attack in a western neighborhood of Baghdad on Sunday, February 11th.

Sunday, February 11, 2007 9:57 PM -
	The Orangeburg (South Carolina) Times & Herald has published an article on Army Chief Warrant Officer 2 Jason DeFrenn, 34, who died near Baghdad on February 2nd when his Apache helicopter was shot down. Originally from Barnwell, South Carolina, DeFrenn had been flying military helicopters for five years and was on his second deployment to Iraq. He and his wife have a five year old son ... and an infant son who was born four days after his father's death when his grief stricken mother went into early labor. DeFrenn was scheduled for leave to attend to the child's birth himself. Instead plans are being made to bury the pilot in the family plot at Barnwell.
Jason DeFrenn, 34, of Barnwell, South Carolina

Monday, February 12, 2007 3:58 AM - CENTCOM is reporting the death of a Multi-National Corps - Iraq soldier from a non-hostile unspecified cause on Sunday, February 11th. The place of death was not given.

Monday, February 12, 2007 7:13 AM - Sacramento (California) television station KCRA-3 is reporting the death of a Sacramento native in Iraq: Sergeant Robert Thrasher, 23. Thrasher was killed by small arms fire while patrolling in Baghdad on Sunday, February 11th. He was assigned to the 1st Cavalry Division based out of Fort Hood, TX, and was on his second tour of duty. His wife is also in the army at Fort Hood.

Monday, February 12, 2007 7:56 AM -
	Little Rock (Arkansas) station KTHV is reporting the death of Army Staff Sergeant Alan Shaw when a booby-trapped building he was clearing exploded in Ba'qubah, Diyala Province, on Friday, February 9th. This was the same explosion that killed two other soldiers from his unit, Staff Sergeant Eric Ross and Specialist Leeroy Camacho. Shaw had served four years in the Marine Corps before signing up with the army and doing two stints in Iraq. He was stationed at Fort Hood, Texas. A native of Little Rock, Shaw leaves behind a wife and three children.
Alan Shaw, of Little Rock, Arkansas

Monday, February 12, 2007 12:24 PM -
	(1) February 1st, MNF-Iraq issued a press release reporting that a soldier had died "today" of wounds received in enemy action in Al Anbar Province on January 31st. It has now been 12 days since that release was published and the DoD has yet to identify a soldier whose death matches that description. At this point we feel that MNF-Iraq either inadvertently published two releases meant for the death of Corporal Stephen Shannon on the 31st, or they simply received bad information from the field. We are deleting that death from our database, thus reducing the death count by one.
	(2) The DoD has confirmed the identities of all five Marines who died aboard the Sea Knight chopper that crashed northwest of Baghdad near Taji on February 7th:
		Captain Jennifer J. Harris, 28, of Swampscott, Massachusetts
		1st Lieutenant Jared M. Landaker, 25, of Big Bear City, California
		Sergeant Travis D. Pfister, 27, of Richland, Washington
		Corporal Thomas E. Saba, 30, of Toms River, New Jersey
		Sergeant James R. Tijerina, 26, of Beasley, Texas
	(3) The DoD has also confirmed the death of Marine Lance Corporal Matthew P. Pathenos, 21, of Ballwin, Missouri, from enemy action in Al Anbar Province on February 7th. He was a Marine Reservist based in Bridgeton, Missouri.
	(4) An article published at the Polish-language media site Wiadomości indicates that the Polish soldier, Piotr Nita, who died on February 7th in a roadside bomb blast near Diwaniyah, was promoted posthumously to the rank of Kaprala, or Corporal.
Piotr Nita, 25, of Wola Blakowa (near Radomsko), Poland

Monday, February 12, 2007 2:00 PM -
	(1) The DoD has confirmed the identities of three Army reservists who died in a roadside bomb blast in Karmah near Fallujah on Thursday, February 8th:
		Sergeant James J. Holtom, 22, of Rexburg, Idaho
		Specialist Ross A. Clevenger, 21, of Givens Hot Springs, Idaho
		Private Raymond M. Werner, 21, of Boise, Idaho
	(2) The DoD has also confirmed the identities of the three soldiers who died in an explosion while clearing a booby-trapped building in Ba'qubah, Diyala Province, on Friday, February 9th:
		Staff Sergeant Alan W. Shaw, 31, of Little Rock, Arkansas
		Staff Sergeant Eric Ross, 26, of Kenduskeag, Maine
		Specialist Leeroy A. Camacho, 28, of Saipan, Mariana Islands
	(3) The DoD has announced a new death, not previously reported by CENTCOM: Army Sergeant James J. Regan, 26, of Manhasset, New York. Regan was with the 75th Ranger Regiment ... and died somewhere in northern Iraq on Friday, February 9th, when an IED detonated near his vehicle. Newsday has a piece up that describes him as a former star lacrosse player in both high school and also at Duke University which he attended before joining the Army Rangers.
James J. Regan, 26, of Manhasset, New York
	(4) The DoD is also announcing another new death ... that of Army Sergeant Russell A. Kurtz, 22, of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania. Kurtz died in Fallujah in Al Anbar province in a roadside bomb attack on Sunday, February 11th. The Associated Press has interviewed his mother who says Kurtz had always been interested in military history and joined the army in his senior year in high school. He had plans to eventually go to college and work for the Drug Enforcement Administration.

Tuesday, February 13, 2007 4:15 AM -
	(1) The DoD has confirmed the death of Army Sergeant Robert B. Thrasher, 23, in Baghdad from a small arms fire attack on Sunday, February 11th. He was from Folsom, California, northwest of Sacramento. According to an article in the Sacramento Bee, Thrasher was searching homes in the Baghdad area at the time of his death. With two homes left to go, he stepped out of his Humvee and was shot by a sniper.
Robert B. Thrasher, 23, of Folsom, California
	(2) The DoD has identified a soldier who died from small arms fire in Ba'qubah, Diyala Province, on Saturday, February 10th: Captain Donnie R. Belser Jr., 28, of Anniston, Alabama. The CENTCOM release that decribes this death had earlier reported the shooting as occurring on Sunday. It has since been corrected to place the death on Saturday.

Tuesday, February 13, 2007 10:51 AM - The DoD has confirmed the death of Marine Reservist Private 1st Class Tarryl B. Hill, 19, of Shelby Township, Michigan, in enemy action in Al Anbar Province on Wednesday, February 7th.

Tuesday, February 13, 2007 11:32 AM -
	(1) The DoD has confirmed the death of Army Private 1st Class Brian A. Browning, 20, of Astoria, Oregon, in a small arms fire attack in Baghdad on Tuesday, February 6th.
	(2) The DoD has also confirmed the death of Army Private Clarence T. Spencer, 24. Spencer was apparently wounded by small arms fire in Ba'qubah, Diyala Province, but died on February 4th in a medical facility in Balad in Salah ad Din Province. The DoD lists his hometown as San Diego. But media articles we have seen, including this one from Dallas-Fort Worth station WFAA and this one from the Fort Worth CBS affiliate, clearly indicate that he was raised in Fort Worth, Texas. He did however begin his military career in the Marines before transferring to the Army in order to be stationed closer to home. We suspect that stint in the Marines could have been spent in California, which might explain the San Diego reference. Spencer was on his fourth deployment to Iraq.
Clarence T. Spencer, 24, of Fort Worth, Texas

Wednesday, February 14, 2007 6:02 AM -
	(1) It is now official. MNF-Iraq is reporting that the CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter that went down on February 7th northwest of Baghdad killing 7 people was brought down by enemy action.
	(2) The Cincinnati (Ohio) Enquirer has published an article on Sergeant Major Joseph J. Ellis, 40, of Ashland, Ohio, who died in Al Anbar Province on February 7th. According to what the military told his daughter, "he was doing a routine checkpoint search when he approached a suspicious man who detonated a suicide bomb". The sergeant major was killed in the blast and another Marine was injured.

Wednesday, February 14, 2007 6:30 AM -
	(1) MNF-Iraq is reporting the death of a Task Force Lightning soldier from a non-hostile unspecified cause on Tuesday, February 13th. The place of death was not reported, although Task Force Lightning soldiers are assigned to areas north of Baghdad.
	(2) MNF-Iraq is also reporting the death of a Multi-National Division - Baghdad soldier from enemy small arms fire. His patrol had gone to secure an area north of Baghdad where an IED had been discovered on Tuesday, February 13th, when the attack came, wounding the soldier. He died the next day, February 14th.

Wednesday, February 14, 2007 4:39 PM - MNF-Iraq is reporting the deaths of four Task Force Lightning soldiers on Wednesday, February 14th. Three soldiers were killed immediately as a result of explosions near their vehicles in Diyala Province. In addition, three soldiers were wounded, one of whom died after being transferred to a medical facility.

Thursday, February 15, 2007 3:42 AM -
	The DoD has identified the soldier who died of a non-hostile unspecified cause on Tuesday, February 13th: Private 1st Class Nickolas A. Tanton, 24, of San Antonio, Texas. He apparently died in the vicinity of Kirkuk in northern Iraq.
N. Aaron Tanton, 24, of San Antonio, Texas

Thursday, February 15, 2007 6:50 AM - CENTCOM is reporting the death of a Marine from enemy action in Al Anbar Province on Wednesday, February 14th.

Thursday, February 15, 2007 7:18 PM -
	(1) The DoD has identified the soldier who died on Wednesday, February 14th, in a Baghdad medical facility. Sergeant 1st Class Allen Mosteiro, 42, of Fort Worth, Texas, was wounded on the 13th in an enemy small arms fire attack in the vicinity of Taji northwest of Baghdad.
Allen Mosteiro, 42, of Fort Worth, Texas
	(2) The DoD has also released the identity of the Marine who was killed in enemy action in Al Anbar province on Wednesday, February 14th: Lance Corporal Daniel T. Morris, 19, of Crimora, Virginia.
Daniel T. Morris, 19, of Crimora, Virginia

Friday, February 16, 2007 6:12 PM -
	An article from the Associated Press and also one appearing in the Picayune (Mississippi) Item are reporting the death of Army Sergeant Carl Leonard Seigart, 32, in Iraq on Wednesday, February 14th. According to the family, Seigart died in Balad, yet was a member of the 3rd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division operating out of Diyala Province north of Baghdad. This leads us to believe that he was likely one of the four soldiers who died from an explosion as described in this CENTCOM release ... specifically, the soldier who died later at a medical facility (Balad). He apparently was on a tank recovery mission when he was was wounded. Seigart was a native of San Luis Obispo, California, although in recent years he had spent much time in his wife's hometown of Picayune with the 4 stepchildren he took on when he married her.
Leonard Seigart, 32, of San Luis Obispo, California

Friday, February 16, 2007 6:55 PM -
	The DoD has identified one of the four deaths in an improvised explosive device attack in the vicinity of Ba'qubah, Diyala Province, on Wednesday, February 14th: Army Private 1st Class Branden C. Cummings, 20, of Titusville, Florida.
Branden C. Cummings, 20, of Titusville, Florida

Saturday, February 17, 2007 5:16 AM - MNF-Iraq is reporting the death of a Marine from enemy action in Al Anbar Province on Friday, February 16th.

Sunday, February 18, 2007 6:35 AM -
	(1) MNF-Iraq is reporting the death of a Multi-National Division - Baghdad soldier in a small arms fire attack north of Baghdad on Saturday, February 17th.
	(2) MNF-Iraq is also reporting the death of a Multi-National Division - Baghdad soldier in a northern neighborhood of Baghdad when an insurgent hurled a grenade at his patrol on Saturday, February 17th.

Monday, February 19, 2007 5:51 AM -
	(1) The DoD has released the identities of three more of the four soldiers who died in an IED attack in the vicinity of Ba'qubah in Diyala Province on Wednesday, February 14th:
		Sergeant John D. Rode, 24, of Pineville, North Carolina
		Sergeant Carl L. Seigart, 32, of San Luis Obispo, California
		Specialist Ronnie G. Madore Jr., 34, of San Diego, California
	(2) The Wichita (Kansas) Eagle is reporting the death of Army Private 1st Class Chad Marsh, 20, of Wichita, Kansas, on Saturday, February 17th. According to his mother, he was killed in Baghdad when an insurgent threw a grenade at the vehicle in which he was the gunner, wounding him with shrapnel in the neck and arm. He died shortly afterwards.
Chad Marsh, 20, of Wichita, Kansas
	(3) Pittsburgh station WTAE-TV is reporting the death of Marine Captain Todd M. Siebert, 34, of Franklin Park, Pennsylvania. According to his family he died in a roadside bomb blast in Al Anbar Province on Friday, February 16th. He had enlisted in the Marines in 1992 and had advanced to a sergeant's rank in 1994. He then earned a degree at Pennsylvania State University, graduating with honors in 1999, and accepting an officer's commission. He and his wife have a 6 year old son and a 9 year old daughter.
Todd M. Siebert, 34, of Franklin Park, Pennsylvania

Monday, February 19, 2007 6:26 AM -
	(1) CENTCOM is reporting the death of a Marine from enemy action in Al Anbar Province on Saturday, February 17th.
	(2) CENTCOM is also reporting the deaths of two soldiers north of Baghdad on Monday, February 19th. According to the release, a suicide car bomber rammed a Multi-National Division - Baghdad combat outpost, initiating a coordated attack by insurgents against the structure. In addition to the two U.S. deaths, 17 other U.S. soldiers were wounded.

Monday, February 19, 2007 7:22 AM -
	(1) The Associated Press is reporting the death of a Mississippi Army National Guardsman from a non-hostile, unspecified cause in Baghdad on Saturday, February 17th. Sergeant 1st Class William C. Spillers, 39, of Terry, Mississippi, was assigned to the 230th Finance Detachment out of Jackson, MS. This is a new death, not previously reported by CENTCOM.
William C. Spillers, 39, of Terry, Mississippi
	(2) CENTCOM is reporting the death of a soldier from enemy action in Al Anbar Province on Sunday, February 18th.

Monday, February 19, 2007 12:03 PM -
	(1) More information is turning up in the media on this morning's daring attack by insurgents on a U.S. military outpost north of Baghdad. An article that appears in the International Herald Tribune describes the place of attack as the small town of Tarmiyah (Salah ad Din Province) on the west bank of the Tigris about 18 km northeast of the Taji Air Base (which is just northwest of Baghdad). Apparently, the police presence in Tarmiyah collapsed last December under pressure from the insurgents, so a group of approximately 100 U.S. troops had taken over the police station, reinforcing it to serve as a U.S. military outpost. This morning, two suicide car bombers attacked the outpost's blast walls. Then when the Americans came out to assess the damage, a third suicide car bomber attacked. That was followed by a heavy exchange of gunfire. Despite the gunfire, helicopters were seen flying in and out to evacuate the wounded. Two U.S. soldiers died in the assault. An earlier article on the outpost at Tarmiyah was published by CENTCOM here.
	(2) The Petoskey (Michigan) News-Review is reporting the death of Army Private 1st Class Justin Paton, 24, of Alanson, Michigan. According to sources who had spent the weekend with the bereaved family, Paton died in the Baghdad area on Saturday, February 17th. He is likely the small arms fire death north of Baghdad described in this CENTCOM release. Paton is survived by his parents, a sister and a brother.
	(3) CENTCOM is reporting the death of a Marine from enemy action in Al Anbar Province on Sunday, February 18th.
	(4) CENTCOM is also reporting the death of a Marine from enemy action in Al Anbar Province on Monday, February 19th.

Monday, February 19, 2007 2:58 PM - CENTCOM is reporting the deaths of three Multi-National Division - Baghdad soldiers in a roadside bomb blast southwest of Baghdad on Monday, February 19th. Two other soldiers were wounded in the attack.

Tuesday, February 20, 2007 8:20 AM - The DoD has confirmed the death of Mississippi Army National Guardsman Sergeant 1st Class William C. Spillers, 39, of Terry, Mississippi, from a non-hostile unspecified cause in Baghdad on Saturday, February 17th.

Tuesday, February 20, 2007 2:30 PM -
	(1) MNF-Iraq is reporting the death of a soldier from enemy action in Al Anbar Province on Tuesday, February 20th.
	(2) The DoD has confirmed the death of Army Private 1st Class Chad E. Marsh, 20, of Wichita, Kansas, in Baghdad from a grenade that was thrown at him. Unfortunately, they give his death date as Sunday, February 18th. This does not jive with a single media article we have seen, all of which place his death on Saturday, the 17th. Plus, the only death notice from a grenade attack that CENTCOM has released has cited the 17th as well. Until we are sure that the DoD hasn't made an error, we will leave Marsh's death where we had it originally, on the 17th.
	(3) The DoD has also confirmed the death of Army Private 1st Class Justin T. Paton, 24, of Alanson, Michigan, in a small arms fire attack on Saturday, February 17th. The surprising thing here is the location of Paton's death. CENTCOM had earlier only stated that this death occurred "north of the Iraqi capital". The DoD places his death at Tarmiyah ... the very same town north of Taji where insurgents staged a coordinated attack involving three suicide car bombers two days later on February 19th. Paton's unit, the 2nd Battalion of the 8th Cavalry Regiment, is known to be stationed at Tarmiyah.

Tuesday, February 20, 2007 3:34 PM -
	(1) The DoD has announced a death that does not appear to have been previously reported by CENTCOM. Sergeant Matthew S. Apuan, 27, of Las Cruces, New Mexico, died from enemy small arms fire in Baghdad on Sunday, February 18th, according to the DoD statement. His unit, the 1st Battalion of the 5th Cavalry Regiment is believed to be based at Camp Liberty at Abu Ghurayb just north of Baghdad International Airport. In fact, a recent article from MNF-Iraq placed the unit on patrol in the Amariyah District of Baghdad very close to Abu Ghurayb. The Las Cruces Sun-News has reported, based on an interview with Apuan's father, that he was one of the Tarmiyah deaths on February 19th. But this is obviously not the case. The circumstances of his death match nothing CENTCOM has issued thus far, leading us to believe his death is a new one. Apuan had served seven years in the army at the time of his death. According to the family, he had hoped to get out within the year to return to college to complete a degree.
Matthew S. Apuan, 27, of Las Cruces, New Mexico
	(2) The DoD has released the identities of the two soldiers who were killed at Tarmiyah north of Taji on Monday, February 19th, when insurgents staged a coordinated attack on the U.S. outpost there using three suicide car bombers:
		Sergeant Pedro J. Colon, 25, of Cicero, Illinois
	Pedro J. Colon, 25, of Cicero, Illinois
		Specialist Montrel S. Mcarn, 21, of Raeford, North Carolina. An article in the Fayette Observer reports that Mcarn joined the Army in February 2005 as an armor crewman. His awards and decorations included the National Defense Service Medal, the Iraq Campaign Medal, the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal and the Army Service Ribbon.
	Montrel S. Mcarn, 21, of Raeford, North Carolina

Wednesday, February 21, 2007 6:45 AM - The Associated Press is reporting the death of Marine Reservist Brett Witteveen, 20, of Shelby, Michigan, in Iraq. They cite his regiment as their source: Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment out of Grand Rapids, MI. Witteveen is said to have died on Sunday, February 18th, which would make him a match for the death described in this CENTCOM release.

Wednesday, February 21, 2007 7:44 AM -
	The Allegheny County (Pennsylvania) Times is reporting the death of a Moon Township, Allegheny County, soldier in Iraq: Private 1st Class Matthew Bowe, 19. According to information provided by his family, he was killed along with "another soldier" when his vehicle hit an improvised explosive device in Baghdad. Because he was assigned to the 10th Mountain Division based at Fort Drum, NY ... a unit that operates southwest of Baghdad ... we feel that he was one of the three deaths reported in this CENTCOM release. The family may have misunderstood or not been correctly informed that two soldiers were killed in the incident along with Bowe. His mother stated that Bowe's goal was to become a doctor ... and that he felt that a stint as an army medic would help further that goal. Bowe was convinced that the Iraq war would be over by the time he finished his army training in spring of 2005. When he received his deployment orders, he was devastated. He is survived by his parents and four younger siblings.
Matthew Bowe, 19, Moon Township, Allegheny Co., Pennsylvania

Wednesday, February 21, 2007 9:21 AM -
	(1) CENTCOM is reporting the death of a Marine from enemy action in Al Anbar Province on Tuesday, February 20th.
	(2) CENTCOM is also reporting the death of a Multi-National Division - Baghdad soldier from enemy small arms fire in a northern part of Baghdad on Tuesday, February 20th.

Wednesday, February 21, 2007 3:44 PM -
	(1) The DoD has confirmed the death of Marine Captain Todd M. Seibert, 34, of Baden, Pennsylvania, in enemy action in Al Anbar Province on Friday, February 16th.
	(2) The DoD has identified the Marine who died from enemy action in Al Anbar Province on Saturday, February 17th: Lance Corporal Brian A. Escalante, 25, of Dodge City, Kansas.
	(3) The DoD has also identified the Marine who died from enemy action in Al Anbar Province on Sunday, February 18th: Lance Corporal Blake H. Howey, 20, of Glendora, California.
	(4) The DoD has confirmed the death of Marine Reservist Private 1st Class Brett A. Witteveen, 20, of Shelby, Michigan, from enemy action in Al Anbar Province. An earlier media report had led us to believe that Witteveen died on the 18th ... but the DoD is reporting his date of death as Monday, February 19th.
	(5) The DoD has identified the Marine who died from enemy action in Al Anbar Province on Tuesday, February 20th: Sergeant Clinton W. Ahlquist, 23, of Creede, Colorado.

Wednesday, February 21, 2007 4:12 PM - The Associated Press is reporting the death of a young soldier from Mesa, Arizona, in Iraq. Private Kelly Youngblood, 19, was killed by a sniper in Ramadi in Al Anbar Province on Sunday, December 18th. Youngblood had long set his sights on a career with the army and enlisted as soon as he turned 18. He was trained as a tank driver.

Thursday, February 22, 2007 4:28 AM -
	The DoD has confirmed the death of Army Private Kelly D. Youngblood, 19, of Mesa, Arizona, from enemy action in Ramadi in Al Anbar Province on Sunday, February 18th.
Kelly D. Youngblood, 19, of Mesa, Arizona

Thursday, February 22, 2007 5:29 AM - The Roanoke (Virginia) Times has identified one of the three 10th Mountain Division soldiers who died southwest of Baghdad in an IED blast on Monday, February 19th: Sergeant Shawn Micheal Dunkin, 25, of Alleghany County in western Virginia. Dunkin served his first tour in Iraq with the 4th Infantry Division as a tanker in a mechanized unit. But when he re-enlisted, he switched his specialty to infantry scout and was transferred to the Fort Drum, NY, based 10th Mountain Division. According to his family, although initially thinking of making the army a career, he had recently decided not to re-up again. "He said he'd had enough" of combat, said his mother. Dunkin was married.

Thursday, February 22, 2007 12:41 PM -
	The DoD has identified the three 10th Mountain Division soldiers who died in an IED blast southwest of Baghdad on Monday, February 19th:
		Sergeant Shawn M. Dunkin, 25, of Alleghany Co. in western Virginia
		Private 1st Class Matthew C. Bowe, 19, of Coraopolis, Pennsylvania
		Private 1st Class Adare W. Cleveland, 19, of Anchorage, Alaska
	The DoD gives Dunkin's hometown as Columbia, South Carolina. But media articles currently available, including this one from the Roanoke Times, all say that he grew up in Alleghany County in western Virginia, graduating from high school there in 1999. He had been in the service since 2000.

Thursday, February 22, 2007 12:58 PM - The DoD has announced the death of a Georgia Army National Guardsman in Iraq. Specialist Christopher K. Boone, 34, died in Balad of a non-hostile, unspecified cause on Saturday, February 17th. The DoD neglected to give his hometown at this time.

Thursday, February 22, 2007 1:39 PM - The Associated Press is reporting the death of a U.S. soldier assigned to the 13th Sustainment Command in a roadside bomb blast near the southern Iraqi city of Diwaniyah on Thursday, February 22nd.

Thursday, February 22, 2007 7:25 PM - The DoD has identified the soldier who died in a small arms fire attack in northern Baghdad on Tuesday, February 20th: Sergeant Richard L. Ford, 40, of East Hartford, Connecticut. Ford was serving with the 2nd Battalion, 325th Infantry Regiment of the 82nd Airborne Division ... a unit currently stationed at Camp Taji northwest of Baghdad.

Friday, February 23, 2007 8:29 AM -
	(1) CENTCOM is reporting the deaths of three Multi-National Force - West soldiers from enemy action in Al Anbar Province on Thursday, February 22nd.
	(2) The DoD has identified the 13th Sustainment Command soldier who died in a roadside bomb blast near Ad Diwaniyah on Thursday, February 22nd. According to the release, Kansas Army National Guardsman Staff Sergeant David R. Berry, 37, of Wichita, Kansas, was killed in the vicinity of Qasim, a small town about 35 km north of Diwaniyah in Babil Province. An article appearing in the Hutchinson (Kansas) News says that Berry had served for over 16 years in the Kansas ANG ... and was awarded the Soldiers Medal in 2005, the highest peacetime honor a soldier can receive.

Friday, February 23, 2007 2:47 PM -
	(1) The DoD has released the identity of the soldier who died from enemy action in Al Anbar Province on Tuesday, February 20th. Specialist Louis G. Kim, 19, of West Covina, California, was killed by small arms fire in the city of Ramadi.
	(2) The Nacogdoches (Texas) Daily Sentinel is reporting the death of Army Private 1st Class Travis Wayne Buford, 23, of Douglass, Texas, from an improvised explosive device on Thursday, February 22nd. He was based out of Colorado and currently stationed at Camp Corregidor at Ramadi in the Al Anbar Province. Thus he was likely assigned to the 1st Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division based at Fort Carson, Colorado. He is also likely one of the three deaths described in this CENTCOM release.

Sunday, February 25, 2007 7:29 AM -
	The Dayton Daily News is reporting the death of Army Specialist Ethan Biggers, 22, of Beavercreek, Ohio. Biggers was struck by a sniper's bullet on a mission southwest of Baghdad nearly a year ago ... March 5, 2006 ... and had been in a coma ever since. During that time, his wife gave birth to their son, and his father was killed in a traffic accident. The family struggled through it all to keep up hope that Biggers would one day wake up. However, it became clear recently that his condition was deteriorating. He died on Saturday, February 24th, at the Richard L. Roudebush Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Indianapolis, IN.
Ethan Biggers, 22, of Beavercreek, Ohio

Sunday, February 25, 2007 2:41 PM - The DoD has identified the three soldiers who died in an improvised explosive device attack in the vicinity of Ramadi in Al Anbar Province. According to the release, the attack itself occurred on Thursday, February 22nd, but the three soldiers did not die until the following day, the 23rd:
	Staff Sergeant Joshua R. Hager, 29, of Broomfield, Colorado
	Private 1st Class Travis W. Buford, 23, of Galveston, Texas
	Private 1st Class Rowan D. Walter, 25, of Winnetka, California

Monday, February 26, 2007 12:13 PM -
	CENTCOM is reporting the death of a Marine from enemy action in Al Anbar Province on Monday, February 26th. This death would appear to be that of Lance Corporal Anthony Aguirre, 19, of Houston, Texas, as reported by Texas news station KRGV in this article. Aguirre was born in Harlingen, Texas, but raised in Houston, spending summers with his father in Raymondville.
Anthony Aguirre, 19, of Houston, Texas

Monday, February 26, 2007 7:13 PM - The DoD has announced the death of a soldier at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany. Sergeant Jeremy D. Barnett, 27, of Mineral City, Ohio, was seriously injured in a mine explosion in the vicinity of Ad Dujayl near Balad in Salah ad Din Province, Iraq, on Wednesday, February 21st. He was flown to Germany for treatment but succumbed to his wounds on February 24th.

Tuesday, February 27, 2007 8:59 AM - CENTCOM is reporting the death of a 13th Sustainment Command soldier in a roadside bomb blast near the southern Iraqi city of Ad Diwaniyah on Monday, February 26th.

Tuesday, February 27, 2007 9:15 AM - MNF-Iraq is reporting the deaths of three Multi-National Division - Baghdad soldiers in an IED attack southwest of Baghdad on Tuesday, February 27th. A fourth soldier was wounded in the blast.

Tuesday, February 27, 2007 1:35 PM - The DoD has confirmed the death of Specialist Ethan J. Biggers, 22, of Beavercreek, Ohio, on Saturday, February 24th. Biggers was wounded while on combat patrol southwest of Baghdad on March 5, 2006. He had been in a coma ever since. He died at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Wednesday, February 28, 2007 4:57 AM -The British Ministry of Defense has announced the death of one of their soldiers from small arms fire in the Maqil District of Basra City on Tuesday, February 27th. The soldier was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, The Rifles.

Wednesday, February 28, 2007 6:52 AM -

The Niagara Gazette is reporting the death of a young soldier from Niagara Falls, New York: 21 year old Army Specialist Lorne E. Henry Jr. He is believed to be one of the three soldiers who died when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb southwest of Baghdad on Tuesday, February 27th. The Associated Press is reporting that a Fort Drum, NY, spokesperson has verified that the three soldiers killed in that attack were from the 2nd Brigade of the 10th Mountain Division, the same division that Henry was assigned to. Henry had just been home to visit his parents on leave a few weeks ago. He was the second oldest of four brothers.

Wednesday, February 28, 2007 10:20 AM -
	(1) CENTCOM is reporting the death of a Multi-National Division - Baghdad soldier in a small arms fire attack in a western district of Baghdad on Tuesday, February 27th.
	(2) The DoD has confirmed the death of Marine Lance Corporal Anthony Aguirre, 20, of Channelview, Texas, from enemy action in Al Anbar Province on Monday, February 26th. An article that has appeared in the Brownsville Herald states that he was on foot patrol when an improvised explosive device detonated near him. The Houston Chronicle also interviewed the family and is reporting the same. According to his father and sister, Aguirre had always intended to have a military career and had enrolled in JROTC in high school. A year after graduation in 2004 he enlisted with the Marines and was deployed to Iraq in September of 2006. Aguirre is also survived by two brothers.

Wednesday, February 28, 2007 2:42 PM -
	The British Ministry of Defense has identified the soldier who died on Tuesday, February 27th, in Basra: Rifleman Daniel Lee Coffey, 21, from the Exeter area in Devon in southwestern England. Coffey had already served a deployment to Iraq between April and November 2006 with the Devon and Dorset Light Infantry. Almost immediately after finishing, he volunteered to serve again, deploying to Basra City with C Company, Second Battalion, The Rifles ... a unit he then requested permanent transfer to. He was returning to base after patrol duties when his convoy was ambushed by two gunmen and Coffey was shot. Despite being taken immediately to a medical facility, he died later that same day. Coffey was single.
Daniel Lee Coffey, 21, from the Exeter area in Devon in southwestern England

Thursday, March 01, 2007 7:23 AM -
	The DoD has identified the soldier who died in a roadside bomb blast in the vicinity of Ad Diwaniyah south of Baghdad on Monday, February 26th: Sergeant William J. Beardsley, 25, of Coon Rapids, Minnesota.
William J. Beardsley, 25, of Coon Rapids, Minnesota

Thursday, March 01, 2007 7:34 AM - CENTCOM is reporting the death of a Marine from enemy action in Al Anbar Province on Wednesday, February 28th.

Thursday, March 01, 2007 2:18 PM -
	(1) The DoD has identified the Marine who died from enemy action in Al Anbar Province on Wednesday, February 28th, per this CENTCOM release: Sergeant Chad M. Allen, 25, of Maple Lake, Minnesota.
Chad M. Allen, 25, of Maple Lake, Minnesota
	(2) In addition, the DoD has identified another Marine death at the same time that MNF-Iraq issued their report on it. Marine Reservist Private 1st Class Bufford K. Van Slyke, 22, of Bay City, Michigan, died from enemy action in Al Anbar Province on Wednesday, February 28th.

Friday, March 02, 2007 8:00 AM -
	(1) The St. Paul (Minnesota) Pioneer Press has published an article, as has the Tulsa (Oklahoma) World, on the death of Army Sergeant William "B.J." Beardsley in Iraq on Monday, February 26th. Bearsley was born in Muskogee, Oklahoma, but spent his childhood living in various military bases with his mother and stepfather. Just after high school, he enlisted in the army himself, but left it after he met and married his wife, Stacy. The pair then moved to Coon Rapids, Minnesota, in 2002 or 2003 so that Beardsley could work as a heavy equipment operator in his father's business there. It was only after Stacy was found to require serious surgery that he began to think about re-enlistment as a way to get the medical insurance necessary to cover the procedure. On the very day that Stacy was released from the hospital after successful surgery, two men in military uniforms arrived at her home to tell her that "B.J." had died that very day, killed in a roadside bomb blast near Ad Diwaniyah in southern Iraq. He leaves behind a 3-year-old daughter and a 4-year-old son.
	(2) The Hudson Valley Times Herald-Record is reporting the identity of one of the three 10th Mountain Division soldiers who died in a roadside bomb blast southwest of Baghdad on Tuesday, February 27th: Specialist Jonathan Cadavero, 24, of Tuxedo, New York. Cadavero had graduated Cum Laude with a degree in counseling psychology from Columbia Union College in Maryland ... and was the medic on the route clearing patrol that was hit. Just a few days previous to his death, The Army Times had run a piece on his unit and the work that they do in Iraq clearing roads of IEDs. Cadavero was quoted as saying, “With IEDs, either we find them or they find us ...”

Friday, March 02, 2007 5:58 PM -
	The DoD has released the identities of the three soldiers who died in an IED attack southwest of Baghdad on Tuesday, February 27th:
		Sergeant Richard A. Soukenka, 30, of Oceanside, California
		Corporal Lorne E. Henry Jr., 21, of Niagara Falls, New York
		Specialist Jonathan D. Cadavero, 24
	All were with the 10th Mountain Division out of Fort Drum, New York. The DoD listed Cadavero's hometown as Takoma Park, Maryland. But that was where he attended college. He was actually from Tuxedo, New York, in the Hudson River Valley according to this media article.

Sunday, March 04, 2007 1:33 PM -
	The DoD has identified the soldier who died in a small arms fire attack in a western neighborhood of Baghdad on Tuesday, February 27th: Staff Sergeant Karl O. Soto-Pinedo, 22, of San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Sunday, April 01, 2007 2:28 PM - The LA Times has published a good article today on California Army National Guardsman Specialist Dennis L. Sellen Jr., 20, of Newhall, California. He died in the far south of Iraq at Umm Qasr on the Kuwait border on February 11th, 2007. His mother has been told that a fellow soldier was cleaning his gun when it accidentally discharged, killing Sellen. Known for his "comedic flair and a knack for entertaining people", Sellen came from a long line of entertainers ... including a grandmother who made 12 trips to South Vietnam during the Vietnam war as a comedian with the USO ... and a mother who was a successful singer in her native Panama. But his family also had a tradition of military service, prompting him to spend his later high school years at Marion Military Institute in Alabama. After graduation he returned to California and enlisted with the National Guard there.

Wednesday, April 04, 2007 3:51 PM - The DoD has issued a notice concerning a pair of deaths that happened in Ramadi in Al Anbar Province on February 2nd, 2007. At the time, the two soldiers, Specialist Alan E. McPeek and Private Matthew T. Zeimer, were said to have died of enemy small arms fire. Today, however, the DoD is saying that an ongoing investigation has revealed that the two may have died from friendly fire. Editor & Publisher adds a few details to the picture here.

Wednesday, July 11, 2007 4:05 AM - BELATED INCOMING - The DoD has confirmed an old death that had not previously been acknowledged by them. Marine Lance Corporal Angel R. Ramirez, 28, of Brooklyn, New York, had to be medically evacuated from Iraq on December 21, 2006, following a non-hostile, unspecified incident that occurred in the vicinity of Al Qaim near the Syrian border in Al Anbar Province. He subsequently died at the Marine Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, CA, on February 21, 2007.

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