European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 12, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pages stars and strip p e s july 20n git two others dead As rockets hit Green zone by Joseph Giordono stars and stripes a barrage of mortars and rockets that struck the Green zone on tuesday afternoon killed three peo ple including an american Soldier and wounded 18 according to the embassy in Bagh the two others killed were an iraqi citizen and a foreign officials five of the wounded were american two were american ser Vic members and three were people working for an american around on the rounds began Landing in the Green the heavily fortified Cen Ter of government and military commands in Bagh the attacks were apparently launched from a shiite District Northeast of the and the barrage included Between 20 and 30 mortar and Katusha rocket american and iraqi military officials though mortar attacks have been a continuing threat since the War tuesdays incident is the latest in an increasing string of attacks against the Green in the United nations released a report that included serious concerns about Security in the also known As the International officials have scaled Back Many of their operations and have relocated some of their Baghdad Headquarters staff to a reinforced compound within the Green according to the 15page at least 26 people died in indirect fire attacks on the Green zone Between 19 and june the number of such attacks also going from 17 in March to 30 in april to 39 through the first three weeks of the Security situation has been further com pounded by the increase in car bombs in the Vicinity of entry checkpoints to the Green the report the area is Home to the the iraqi parliament and other government iraqi police officials said tuesdays attacks targeted the Ibn Sina which is staffed by american military medical and Homes of iraqi officials within the fortified according to the los Angeles tuesdays at tack came on the same Day unknown militants kid napped iraqi police Mahmoud Muhyi director of Security in the Green Hussein was reportedly abducted while driving in Central Bagh email Joseph Giordono at deaths the associated press Iraq As of at least members of the military have died since the beginning of the Iraq War in March according to an associated press the figure includes seven military at least died As a result of hostile a according to the military the a count is the same As the defense depart ments last updated tuesday at 10 the British military has reported 159 deaths 33 18 20 13 11 seven Al five Slova four three thai two each and kazakh Romania and South one death since the Start of military operations in service members have been wounded in hostile according to the de sense departments weekly the latest deaths reported by the military a service member was killed tuesday in an at tack on the Green zone in the latest identifications reported by the Mili tary army Kory killed Friday in Muhammad Sath by an explosive assigned to the 94th mine dog 5th Engineer 1st Engineer fort Leonard army Bruce Salazar of killed Friday in Muhammad Sath by an explosive assigned to the 1st 30th infantry 2nd brigade combat 3rd infantry fort army Jason Maine killed sunday in Baghdad by an explosive As signed to the 2nd 5th cavalry 1st brigade combat 1st cavalry fort tsp Jon died Friday in Baghdad in a noncombat relat de incident assigned to depart ment of the m Marine Jeremy killed thursday combat in Anbar 4th Marine 1st Camp Marine Lance Steven Coos killed thursday during combat in Anbar province 3rd 1st Marine regi 1st Marine i Marine expeditionary Camp army sgt Gene of killed Friday in Baghdad when his vehicle struck an explosive 3rd 7th cavalry Reg 2nd brigade combat 3rd infantry i fort army be Ron of new York killed Friday in Baghdad when his vehicle struck an explosive assigned to the 26th brigade support 2nd 3rd infantry fort Marine Lance Angel of new York died 21 at Marine air ground com Bat Twenty nine after being medically evacuated following a noncombat Inci Dent in on 2006 assigned to 3rd 4th Marine 1st Marine i i Marine expeditionary Twenty nine Afghanistan and other areas As of at least 345 members of the military had died in Pakistan and Uzbekistan As a result of the invasion of Afghanistan in late according to the defense department the department last updated its Fig ures june of the military reports 224 were tolled by hostile outside the afghan the defense depart ment reports 61 More members of the Mili tary died in support of operation enduring free of two were the result of hostile the military lists these other locations As Guantanamo Bay naval Cuba Djibouti Eritrea Jordan Kenya Kyrgyzstan Philippines 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 Mili tary army sgt 1st class Sean died saturday in in a noncombat related incident assigned to the 1st 10th special forces a member of the 1920 revolution guards two suspected Al Aida members found in a Home in on iraqi forces Stop exp olives belts at syrian Border by Lee Keath the associated press Baghdad iraqi Security forces seized a truck wednesday carrying 200 explosives belts the kind used by suicide bombers As it crossed into Iraq from said Abdulkarim a he said the Driver was being questioned but did not specify his also kurdish Lead ers spoke out against a key Oil casting new doubt on Progress to Ward a political Benchmark seen As crucial to the strategy in the Law would regulate the Oil Industry in a Way meant to address the sunni Arab minority fears of being shut out of Iraq main source of income by the dominant shiites and and iraqi officials Are hoping that easing those fears would persuade sunnis to turn away from the but the Bill has been blocked by a series of disputes within prime minister Nouri Alma Likis Coli leading to a series of 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