The recently slain journalist Steven Vincent kept a blog entitled 'In the Red Zone', makes for interesting reading, a little insight into the day-2-day shit going on.
Update: News services are now reporting 18 dead.
Roadside bomb kills 14 marinescontinue reading.
Latest attack in insurgent stronghold brings death toll of US soldiers to 43 in 10 days
Michael Howard in Baghdad and Jamie Wilson in Washington
Thursday August 4, 2005
The Guardian
America yesterday faced one of its most deadly days in Iraq since the start of the war when a massive roadside bomb killed 14 marines in an insurgent stronghold close to the Syrian border and news emerged of the murder of a US journalist in Basra.
The dead soldiers were members of the 3rd battalion, 25th marines based in Cleveland, Ohio, who were travelling on a road south of Haditha when the device was detonated. Their civilian translator was also killed.
It was the second deadly attack on the battalion in the space of three days after six Ohio reservists on sniper duty were killed in a gun battle with insurgents near the same town on Monday. The latest casualties mean 43 US soldiers have been killed in Iraq in the last 10 days.
The Pentagon denied a claim by the Army of Ansar al-Sunna that it had captured and was holding an injured marine following Monday's ambush. However, military officials did say the body of one marine from the sniper team had initially been unaccounted for but was later recovered about three miles away from those of his dead colleagues, leading to speculation he may have briefly fallen into the hands of insurgents.
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