European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 23, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                May 2007 stars and stripes Mideast edition Page 3 raids yield no clues in search for missing gis by Kim Gamel the associated press Baghdad soldiers raided suspected Safe houses near the euphrates River South of Baghdad on monday in their search for three captured com including one from Massa but found them empty after the militants apparently were tipped off and a Mili tary spokesman it was the latest in a series of frustrations for exhausted troops Hunting for any sign of the Trio missing since a May 12 As Sault on an outpost by insurgents linked to four other americans and an iraqi Soldier died in the Alex of is among the Webster a spokes Man for the 10th Mountain Divi Sions 2nd brigade combat said 27 airborne operations had been staged during the wide spread search the last nine dropping off soldiers to gain the element of Surprise and avoid bomb studded its very its very Sud he you can come from any different Angle and drop Down on a House without being pinned to the but he said the insurgents were catching on to tactics and had fled ahead of raids near the River we went after a couple of objectives and they had some warn ing systems Wright they were Able to slip away from he said planners were looking at targets to the West of the Divi Sions area of he want More but that would Likely include volatile Anbar a vast desert area that stretches to the Borders of Jordan and saudi Ara we Are looking at All of the possibilities that the enemy might be Wright Rick com Mander of troops South of said in a can interview that american soldiers and iraqis were involved in the he expressed cautious optimism that the three missing men Jimenez Joseph Anzack of and Byron of were still Lynch added the military was following up 249 intelligence re the majority of which said the three soldiers were still were pursuing All leads with a but right now we be Lieve our soldiers Are still Lynch each Day that passes when we dont see proof of it causes us Lynch said More than peo ple had been detained for ques and two had confessed to taking part in the May 12 so there giving us actual Intelli gence and we continue to follow he the platoon whose soldiers were attacked at an observation Post near the Village of Quarg huli began to receiving eight replacements for those killed and Maya soldiers from Bravo 4th 31st infantry 2nd 10th Mountain division search Farmland tuesday for clues 10 Days after a attack that left four soldiers and an iraqi Soldier dead and three comrades missing near the platoon Morgan of said he took the new men out on their first operation Mon Day to search for those behind the weve had two missions in the past 12 and this last one my new Guys went and we just got them like 12 hours i dont even know All of their its been a hectic schedule for every he his soldiers from company 4th 31st infantry regi ment fought exhaustion and dehydration As they searched farm Fields and houses in temperatures above 100 at one soldiers were told to Check looking for shirts and pieces of anything that the missing soldiers might have been wearing that Treyve been keeping these Guys Are walking them selves to these Guys Are Al most in some cases getting run into the Spring lace blast strikes outdoor Baghdad killing at least 25 the associated press parked car bomb ripped through a crowded outdoor Market tuesday in southwestern killing 25 people despite a three Montgold Security crackdown meant to re Duce violence in the at least 60 people were wounded in the blast in the shiite dominated neighbourhood of nearby buildings were badly damaged and set while others were reduced to the blast came on the first anniversary of prime minister Nouri Alma Likis in a Tele Vised he said the fight against terrorism would be open ended and and called for the creation of salvation councils across the country to unite iraqis against Al Aida residents ran through the streets with buckets and pots of while others frantically Tore through the looking for groups of men carried bodies wrapped in tarps out of the dam aged the Street was filled with presumably from a water main that the neighbourhood has seen an increase in Vio Lence in recent and sunni politicians expressed fears that shiite militiamen had resumed their Campaign of sectarian cleansing in Amil and nearby neighbourhoods of southwestern the blast came amid the and iraqi Security operation meant to flush out insurgents and restore order to deadly attacks targeting civilians and police have military officials say insurgent feel ing the pressure from the have hit Back by stepping up their car bombings with their devas Tating death a May 6 bombing in a Market in the neighbouring Bayaa District killed 30 people and wounded 80 violence was reported elsewhere in the capital a few minutes before the bombing in gun men in two cars drove through the nearby Khadra neighbourhood and ambushed a civilian car carrying three plainclothes police from the major crimes killing two and wounding the police another police officer was killed when a Roadside a shoe rests in water near a ruined building in the Baghdad neighbourhood of Amil on tuesday after a car bomb ripped through an outdoor bomb exploded next to a police patrol driving through an Eastern Baghdad police three other officers were in the sunni dominated Wazir Iya neighbourhood in Northern gunmen disguised As soldiers set up a fake checkpoint and stopped a minibus bringing College students to the shiite neighbourhood of Sadr the militants killed eight of the Stu dents and wounded three police at another fake checkpoint near 35 Miles Northeast of gunmen killed six peo ple from one family a her 5yearold son and four men and stole their police later two mortar shells slammed into a teachers College affiliated with Baghdad universe killing three students and injuring police deaths in Iraq the associated press As of at least members of the military have died since the beginning of the Iraq War in March a cording to an associated press count the figure includes seven military at least died As a result of hostile according to the Mili Tarys the a count is 20 higher than the defense departments last updated monday at 10 the British military has re ported 148 deaths 33 18 20 bulgar 13 11 seven Al five Slova four three two each and one death the latest deaths reported by no new deaths the latest identifications re ported by the military three army soldiers died thursday in Iskandar Yah when an explosive detonated near their killed were sgt 1st class Jesse Hager Coty and Victor a three were assigned to the 725th brigade support 4th brigade combat 25th infantry i fort army Ryan died Friday of Small arms fire in Karma As signed to the 3rd 509th infantry 4th brigade combat 25th in Fantry fort Richard army Justin wis was killed by an explosive Satur Day in Latif Yah assigned to the 2nd 15th Field Artil Lery 2nd brigade combat 10th Mountain fort three army soldiers Anselmo Martinez Texas Casey Baltimore and Joshua Texas were killed Friday by an explosive in All three were assigned to the 1st Battal 12th cavalry 3rd brigade combat 1st Cav airy fort v two army soldiers 1st class Scott and quis san Anto Nio were suied Friday by an explosive and Small arms fire in both were assigned to the 1st 325th borne infantry 2nd brigade combat 82nd airborne fort