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from:  http://dailywarnews.blogspot.com/

War News for Thursday, December 8, 2005

Bring 'em on: A suicide bomber who jumped on a bus after security checks
had been completed detonated an explosives belt among passengers heading to
a Shiite city Thursday, killing up to 30 people and wounding nearly 40,
officials said.

Bring 'em on: A Task Force Baghdad Soldier was killed when a convoy struck
an improvised explosive device in east Baghdad shortly after 10 a.m. Dec.
8.

Bring 'em on: Two Iraqi army servicemen were killed in a street gun battle
with unknown militants in western Baghdad on Thursday, a police source
said.

Bring 'em on: Unknown gunmen opened fire at a high-ranking police officer
in southern Baghdad on Thursday, killing a civilian and wounding the
officer and five other people, an Interior Ministry source told Xinhua

Bring 'em on: - Four Iraqi policemen were seriously wounded when a suicide
car bomber hit their patrol in Sulaiman Pek, a small town about 165 km (100
miles) north of Baghdad

Bring 'em on: A Soldier assigned to the 2nd Marine Division, II Marine
Expeditionary Force (Forward), was killed in action while conducting a
combat patrol against the enemy when his vehicle hit a mine in the vicinity
of Habbaniyah, Dec. 6.

Bring 'em on: Gunmen kidnapped the eight-year-old son of a guard at Saddam
Hussein's trial in front of his house in Baghdad, Iraqi police said on
Wednesday.

Bring 'em on: One Iraqi policeman was seriously wounded when a bomb planted
on the side of the road exploded and struck a police patrol in Musaib, an
area south of Baghdad known as the Triangle of Death, police said.

Bring 'em on: The bodies of three people who had been bound and shot dead
were brought to the main hospital of Falluja, 50 km (30 miles) west of
Baghdad, a medical source said. The victims were wearing civilian clothes
and were found on the outskirts of the city.

A soldier has been arrested in connection with the death of Army Pvt. Dylan
Paytas, an Army official said Tuesday.

Martha Rudd, a spokeswoman for Army Public Affairs at the Pentagon, said
her 
office was notified of the arrest on Monday. She could not name the
suspect, but did confirm that the suspect is a member of the military. The 
investigation into Paytas' death is being handled by the Army's Criminal 
Investigation Division, which said on Monday that Paytas died after an 
argument.

Paytas, 20, of Freedom was killed at a forward operating base in Baqubah, 
Iraq, northeast of Baghdad, on Nov. 16 after suffering multiple gunshot 
wounds. He was a combat engineer assigned to the Army's 3rd Brigade Troops 
Battalion, 3rd Infantry Division, which is responsible for sweeps, patrols 
and security.

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