Bitter Fruit: A photo essay on the soldiers killed in Iraq:
http://www.magnuminmotion.com/bitterfruit/player.html


From Information Clearing House

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10352184


Informant: Steven L. Robinson

From ufpj-news]

by Robert Dreyfuss, TomPaine.com

American casualties just hit 2,000. Iraq's constitution was passed in rigged elections. Could civil war be next?

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20051026/iraqi_vote_lights_the_fuse.php

Scott Galindez interviews Mimi Evans of W. Barnstable, Massachusetts, whose son serves with the US Marine Corps and was newly deployed to Iraq in August 2005. He is expecting his first child in April 2006.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/102605I.shtml

Wired News

10/26/05

Iraqi Sunni leaders said on Wednesday they would focus on pressing U.S. forces to pull out after failing to block a controversial constitution, hoping a U.S. death toll of 2,000 will encourage Washington to withdraw. 'Our political program will focus more on getting the Americans out of Iraq,' Hussein al-Falluji, a prominent Sunni who took part in talks on the constitution, told Reuters. 'Our message to the American administration is clear: get out of Iraq or set a timetable for withdrawal or the resistance will keep slaughtering your soldiers until judgment day.' ... Insurgents have resumed deadly attacks again after a relative lull in violence during the referendum and the trial of Saddam Hussein last week. Gunmen opened fire on a convoy of bodyguards for Iraq's minister of water resources in western Baghdad on Wednesday, wounding two people. Police said that the minister, Abdul Latif Rasheed, was not present. Gunmen also killed an official at Iraq's Ministry of Culture, Nabil Moussawi, and seriously wounded his driver in southern Baghdad. Insurgents, who struck in dramatic fashion on Monday with a triple suicide bomb attack on a Baghdad hotel used by foreign journalists, set off new blasts on Tuesday in Baghdad and the normally tranquil city of Sulaimaniya, killing at least 15 people...

http://tinyurl.com/csecv


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

President George W. Bush, bracing for the fallout when the U.S. death toll in Iraq reaches 2,000, said on Tuesday the Iraq war will require more sacrifice and rejected critics calling for a U.S. pullout.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051025/pl_nm/iraq_bush_dc


From Information Clearing House

"The nearly 2,000 Americans killed in combat (1,998 on October 24, 2005) in Iraq since 2003 are more than were lost in Vietnam combat in the first four years of U.S. combat (1961-1965, when just over 1800 died). This total is more than were lost in the last two years of combat (1971-1972, when just over 1600 died)"

http://www.ascribe.org/cgi-bin/behold.pl?ascribeid=20051024.120319&time=13


From Information Clearing House

http://www.ww4report.com/node/1151


Informant: Michael Pugliese

From ufpj-news

The 2,000th soldier has died in Iraq. The Pentagon announced that Staff Sgt. George T. Alexander Jr., 34, of Killeen, Texas, died Saturday in San Antonio of injuries sustained October 17. Protests today have commenced after this milestone was announced and will continue throughout the week in Washington. Also, there will be combined vigils and protests in cities across the country tomorrow.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/102505Q.shtml

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051025/ts_afp/iraq_051025110145


Informant: John Johnson