The US bloodiest losses in Iraq
Yesterday, January, 20th, became the bloodiest day for the American armies in Iraq for last two years: not less than 19 military men were lost in a result of various incidents.
This day has taken the third place in the list of the bloodiest dates for American soldiers in Iraq from the beginning of the war in 2003.
On January, 20th, 2007, 13 soldiers were lost is a result of helicopter’s aircraft in the northeast of Baghdad. The reasons of the aircraft are still unknown. 5 more military men were lost during the insurgents in Kerbela - extremists have fired a building in which the discussion of safety measures for the pilgrims, arrived to their sacred city, had been held. One soldier was lost, having undermined on a mine in the north of Iraq, one more sea infantryman has died from the wounds received after the explosion of a mine in province Anbar in the West of the country.
The greatest quantity of victims among the American military men has been fixed on January, 26th 2005, (37 people were lost). The second place in this statistics leads to the March, 23rd 2003- the third day of war with 28 victims of the military conflict.
From the beginning of the intervention of the American armies, since March 2003, more than 2,8 thousand American military men were lost in Iraq.
Meanwhile the USA is not going to finish their campaign in Iraq. Today the first American armies within the course of the Washington program on the increase of the American contingent in Iraq have arrived to Baghdad. The brigade from 3, 2 thousand soldiers has arrived “to assist local security services in getting rid of the insurgents, monitoring and deduction of key areas of Baghdad on the terms of struggle against violence and creation of conditions for transfer of the safety control over the capital in hands of the Iraq forces “- as it was said by the chief of the American command. It is expected, that USA militaries will be ready to start their operation on February, 1st, 2007.