FOUR MARINES KILLED IN ACTION IN AL ANBAR PROVINCE

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http://www.centcom.mil/CENTCOMNews/Casualty_Report.asp?CasualtyReport=20050133.txt

January 26, 2005
Release Number: 05-01-33C


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


FOUR MARINES KILLED IN ACTION IN AL ANBAR PROVINCE

CAMP FALLUJAH, Iraq -- Four Marines assigned to the I Marine Expeditionary Force were killed in action today while conducting combat operations against enemy forces in the Al Anbar Province.

The names of the deceased are being withheld pending next of kin notification.


on edit: 36 U.S. Troops Die in Iraq in Their Bloodiest Day

~snip~
CNN, quoting the U.S. military, reported 31 Marines died when their transport helicopter went down in the deserts of the restive Anbar province of western Iraq.


The military confirmed casualties to reporters but gave no figures, as search and rescue teams scoured the area. The cause of the crash was not immediately known.


Four U.S. Marines were killed in action in Anbar province, and an American soldier was killed in a rocket-propelled grenade attack north of Baghdad, U.S. officials said.


The latest surge of insurgent attacks appeared aimed at sowing panic even as the U.S.-backed interim government vowed stringent measures to safeguard the election, Iraq's first since the fall of Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) in April 2003.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&ncid=578&e=1&u=/nm/20050126/ts_nm/iraq_dc

... and let us not forget the 7 who died just yesterday. :(