European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 17, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                May 2007 stars and stripes Mideast edition Page 3 car bomb hits near shiite kills 32 by Thomas Wagner the associated press Baghdad a car bomb exploded near a Market in a shiite enclave North East of killing at least 32 people and wounding police said wednes Hospital officials and victims said chlorine Gas May have been used in the but police and the military denied clashes also broke out in the mostly shiite City of Nasir Yah in Southern when militants fought with police who had arrested two wanted militia Mem police nine iraqis were killed and 75 police in at least nine mortar rounds or rockets slammed into the Green killing two iraqis and wounding 10 people none of them embassy spokesman Lou Fintor it was the second such attack in As Many the Green a sprawling Complex on the West Bank of the Tigris also was hit by a rocket wounding nine Fintor said he could not provide specific nationalities but they were not americans or a recent increase in mortar and rocket attacks on the Green which houses the embassy and major iraqi government has raised especially since they Are occurring during the the car bomb attack occurred tuesday evening in the Village of Abu Saydah in vol Atile Dyala police residents of the farming Village of people said the attack appeared to be revenge for a confrontation a month ago in which locals killed 12 Al Aida fight they said residents had fought Back against sunni militants trying to storm the Village and 10 Days later received threats to leave the Village or face Jassim a 35yearold car dealer whose House was near the blast Karim injured iraqis from the Village of Abu Saydah in Dyala province lie in Hospital Beds in in Sadr City shiite District in Baghdad on a parked car bomb exploded near a Market in a shiite enclave near the killing said the car bomb was parked be tween two Tea shops and a Small i rushed to the scene and helped carry the wounded to civilian he describing bloodstained pavement and body parts strewn across the Hospital officials and victims said it appeared chlorine Gas was used in the attack since Many of the wounded were having difficulty breathing and their sight was of but Michael a military spokesman in Northern and provincial iraqi police officials denied that toxic Gas was our folks on the scene who Are investigating this do not have any of those Donnelly told the associated but the investigation was con he a Hospital official said the facility had received three bodies and 11 who All showed symptoms of chlorine Poi the official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the one Man had a White cloth across his eyes As he Lay in his Hospital bed others were bandaged from head to chlorine Gas attacks the eyes and lungs within causing difficulty in breathing and skin irritation in Low level inhaled at extremely High it Dis solves in the lungs to form hydrochloric the acid Burns lung essentially drowning a person As liquid fills the the chemical has been used a number of times recently in insurgent last a suspected Al Aida in Iraq suicide bomber smashed a truck loaded with int and toxic chlorine Gas into a police checkpoint in kill ing at least 27 it was the ninth such attack since the groups first known use of a chemical weapon in Abu Saydah is a mainly shiite Village about 25 Miles Northeast of the sunni in surgent stronghold of the Capi Tal of the province that has seen a recent Spike in violence largely blamed on Mili Tants who fled Baghdad ahead of a Security Kadi a 45yearold Farmer who was taken to the Imam a Hospital in Sadr a shiite area in claimed the hospitals in bad Cuba would Only accept my eyes became puffy due the chlo Rine Gas that was packed in the car he adding he also had difficulty i had Many pieces of shrapnel in my Chest and right military focusing on missing soldiers stars and stripes a trucks with speak ers broadcasting unmanned Aerial vehicles and Airdrop of thousands of leaflets Are being used in the search for the three troops missing after a saturday attack South of the military late tuesday identified three soldiers killed in the attack and released the names of four others a mix of three captured soldiers and one other Soldier who could not be confirmed As the attack also killed an iraqi interpreter working with the right now our focus is on searching for the missing and were trying to isolate the areas where we think they could Kenny the operations officer for 2nd 10th Moun Tain was quoted As saying in a military news the captors Courneya clarification a Story in wednesdays editions in correctly reported that the Market place car bombed on May 7 was added to the coverage area for 1st Bri Gade combat 3rd infantry i the brigades coverage area in the Region has been recently sex but the Market was in its orig Inal area of dont have Freedom of movement if they have the they cant move them from where they were doing a deliberate search of the areas for the people responsible for the soldiers were look ing military officials said iraqi tip lines also have been Busy Fielding possible leads in the Inci the leaflets being dropped in clude both an email address and a phone number for any information yielded from those officials is then routed on to units operating on the More than Ameri can and iraqi troops Are participating in the an insurgent group that includes Al Aida in Iraq has claimed responsibility for the attack and saying in web postings that a search would be the Pentagon identified those killed As James from Tennes see Daniel from Michigan and Christopher Mur from the iraqi Soldier acting As the units interpreter was identified As Sabah according to the 10th Mountain division web the four other soldiers whose names were released Are Anthony Schober Alex Jimenez Joseph Anzack and Byron the division members of their unit have been operating from a Small patrol base in South of the base Connell Murphy is part of the american military strategy to get troops into neighbourhoods and working More closely with the civilian its a hard transition for a lot of Robert of the 4th Bat 31st infantry 2nd Bri Gade combat 10th Mountain Divi told stars and stripes in an inter View last Griggs battalion holds patrol base Inchon in along with four other company sized units Are concerned that the enemy May try to overrun deaths in Iraq Iraq As of at least members of the military have died since the begin Ning of the Iraq War in March according to an associated press the figure includes seven military at least died As a result of hostile according to the military the a count is five higher than the de sense departments last updated tues Day at 10 the British military has reported 148 deaths 33 18 20 bul 13 11 seven Al Salva five four three Esto two each and aus one death the latest deaths reported by the military no new deaths the latest identifications reported by the military army Nicholas Rome died monday in Baghdad of wounds from an explosive assigned to the 1st 26th infantry 2nd Bri Gade combat 1st infantry sch army Rhys killed sunday in Laditha when his vehicle struck an explosive assigned to the 1114th transportation air Force staff John Pon killed monday in combat near Baghdad assigned to the 314th Security forces Little Rock air Force army 1st class James Connell Lake killed saturday in Tara while on patrol assigned to the 4th 31st infantry 2nd brigade combat 10th Mountain fort army Daniel Nash killed saturday in Tara while on patrol assigned to the 4th 31st in Fantry 2nd brigade combat 10th Mountain fort army Christopher killed saturday in Tara while on patrol assigned to the 4th 31st in Fantry 2nd brigade combat 10th Mountain fort Afghanistan and other areas As of at least 320 members of the military have died in Paki Stan and Uzbekistan As a result of the in Vasion of Afghanistan in late according to the defense the department last updated its figures May of the military reports 200 were killed by hostile outside the afghan the defense department reports 61 More members of the military died in support of operation enduring of two were the result of hostile the military lists these other locations As Guan Tanaro Bay naval Cuba Djibouti Eritrea Jordan Kenya Kyrgyzstan Philip Pines Seychelles Sudan Tajikistan Turkey and there were also four Cia officer deaths and one military civilian the latest deaths reported by the military no deaths the latest identifications reported by the military army Larry Bauguess Mora Vian killed monday by Small arms fire in ten Pakistan assigned to the 4th brigade special troops 4th Bri Gade combat 82nd airborne fort the associated press