More than 2,600
U.S. losses in Iraq
WASHINGTON, August 20.—Two Infantry Marines from
New York died at the hands of the resistance while
patrolling streets in Anbar province, the Pentagon
stated.
Pentagon losses are now more than 2,600 and to
date this month 30 U.S. troops have lost their lives
in that Arab country.
According to New York’s La Prensa daily,
Corporal Michael Glover, aged 28 and Captain John J.
McKenna IV, aged 30, perished in bullet fire. Before
joining the U.S. troops in Iraq in 2004, they were
reserves in the 1st Battalion of the 25th Marine
Regiment, based in Albany, capital of New York state,
PL reports.
Despite the opposition of U.S. social sectors to
the presence in Iraq of American troops, the George
W. Bush administration is insisting on maintaining
that contingent of 130,000-plus in that nation.
At the same time, AP informed that at least 20
people were killed and more than 300 injured in the
northern district of Kazimiya in Baghdad, when
snipers positioned in a cemetery and on roofs of
buildings opened fire on a Shiite procession.
