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5 female Marines killed in Iraq car bombing, attack is the single deadliest toll for female servicemembers in Iraq.
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Will someone PLEASE justify for me why OUR men and women are STILL dying in Iraq?
[link to www.msnbc.msn.com]
5 female Marines killed in Iraq car bombing
Worst single-day toll for women servicing in military in Iraq
NBC News and news services
Updated: 9:11 a.m. ET June 24, 2005
BAGHDAD, Iraq - A suicide car bomber slammed into a 7-ton U.S. military vehicle in Fallujah on Friday, and military sources told NBC News that five female Marines were killed and 10 others wounded.
A review of casualty records indicates the attack is the single deadliest toll for female servicemembers in Iraq. Since the war started, 46 female soldiers have died in attacks or in accidents while in Iraq.
The vehicle, which had a total of 19 people on board, was ferrying members of a U.S. military civil affairs team headed to perform checkpoint searches of female Iraqi civilians, the officials said.
The team was assigned to the II Marine Expeditionary Force, which is based at Camp LeJeune, N.C.
No further information was immediately available.
Meeting in D.C.
The attack, underscoring the durability of the insurgency in Iraq, came as President Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari were to meet at the White House. Their agenda includes discussions on work being done to train Iraqi security forces — a precursor to bringing U.S. troops home — as well as efforts to draft a constitution and rebuild a nation still wracked by a violent insurgency more than two years after the fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime.
On Thursday, American and Iraqi troops battled al-Qaida-linked insurgents holed up in an upscale Baghdad neighborhood Thursday, killing at least five militants apparently waiting to carry out suicide bomb attacks.
Word also emerged that a senior al-Qaida leader was killed in a U.S. airstrike near Syria´s border. And in a devastating escalation in insurgent attacks in the capital, a string of car bombings carried over into Thursday morning with four more blasts that killed at least 15 people and wounded 28.
Overall, Thursday’s violence across Iraq left at least 20 civilians killed and 37 wounded.
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