these facsimiles directly from Mr. Harring by sending him an email

message at: brianharring@yahoo.com ( As of October 3, 2006, Mr.

Harring has sent out over 17,402 lists. Ed )

"The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human l

ives, but of the products of human labour. War is a way of shattering to

pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent. Even when weapons of war are not actually destroyed, their manufacture is still a convenient way of expending labour power without producing anything that can be consumed".

George Orwell, ‘1984’

“Whether war is a necessary factor in the evolution of mankind may be disputed, but a fact which cannot be questioned is that, from the earliest

records of man to the present age, war has been his dominant preoccupation. There has never been a period in human history altogether free from war, and seldom one of more than a generation which has not witnessed a major

conflict: great wars flow and ebb almost as regularly as the tides. This

becomes more noticeable when a civilization ages and begins to decay, as seemingly is happening to our world-wide industrial civilization. Whereas but a generation or two back, war was accepted as an instrument of policy, it has now become policy itself.”

General J.F.C. Fuller, 1954

The Bush/Cheney Butcher’s Bill: Officially, 21 US Military Deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan from 1 October 2006 – 8 October 2006- Official Total of 3,016 US dead to date (and rising) The actual total of dead American military personnel

is now over 15,000 and also rising and the number of seriously wounded is

now ca 27,000. It should be noted that the death toll in August, and September 2006, was one of the highest and to date, the toll is higher than usual….ed

by Brian Harring, Domestic Intelligence Reporter brianharring@yahoo.com

Mr. President, why don’t you pull out…like your father should have? Brian Harring

Note: There is excellent reason to believe that the Department of

Defense is deliberately not reporting a significant number of the dead in Iraq.

We have received copies of manifests from the MATS that show far more

bodies shipped into Dover AFP than are reported officially. The actual death

toll is in excess of 10,000. (See the official records at the end of this piece.) Given the officially acknowledged number of over 15,000 seriously wounded

(and a published total of 25,000 wounded overall,), this elevated death toll is far more realistic than the current 2,000+ now being officially published. When our research is complete, and watertight, we will publish the results along with the sources In addition to the evident falsification of the death rolls, at least 5,500 American military personnel have deserted, most in Ireland but more have escaped to Canada and other European countries, none of whom are inclined t

o cooperate with vengeful American authorities. (See TBR News of 18 February for full coverage on the mass desertions) This means that of the 158,000 U.S. military shipped to Iraq, 26,000 deserted, were killed or seriously wounded. The DoD lists currently being very quietly circulated indicate over12,000 dead, over 25,000 seriously wounded and a large number of suicides, forced hospitalization for ongoing drug usage and sales, murder of Iraqi civilians and fellow soldiers, rapes, courts martial and so on -

The government gets away with these huge lies because they claim, falsely,

that only soldiers actually killed on the ground in Iraq are reported. The dying and critically wounded are listed as en route to military hospitals outside of the country and not reported on the daily postings. Anyone who dies just as the transport takes off from the Baghdad airport is not listed and neither are those who die in the US military hospitals. Their families are certainly notified that

their son, husband, brother or lover was dead and the bodies, or what is left of them (refrigeration is very bad in Iraq what with constant power outages) are shipped home, to Dover AFB. This, we note, was the overall policy until very recently. Since it became well known that many had died at Landstuhl, in Germany, the DoD began to list a very few soldiers who had died at other non-theater locations. These numbers are only for show and are pathetically small in relationship to the actual figures. You ought to realize that President Bush personally ordered that no pictures be taken of the coffined and flag-draped dead under any circumstances. He claims that this is to comfort the bereaved relatives but is designed to keep the huge number of arriving bodies secret. Any civilian, or military personnel, taking pictures will be jailed at once and prosecuted. Bush has never attended any kind of a memorial service for his

dead soldiers and never will. He is terrified some parent might curse him in

front of the press or, worse, attack him. As Bush is a terrible physical coward and in a constant state of denial, this is not a surprise.

Official Casualty List for October, 2006

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The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Spc. Robert F. Weber, 22, of Cincinnati, Ohio, died near the Qayyarah West Airfield, Iraq, (about 30 miles south of

Mosul, Iraq) as a result of a vehicle roll-over on Sept. 30. Weber was assigned to 1st Battalion, 37th Field Artillery Regiment, 25th Infantry Division, Fort Lewis, Wash. This incident is under investigation.

The Department of Defense announced today the death of two soldiers who were supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. They died in Al Asad, Iraq, on Sept. 30 of injuries suffered when their vehicle received small arms fire during security operations. Both soldiers were assigned to the National Guard's 1st Battalion, 133rd Infantry, Iowa Falls, Iowa. Killed were: Staff Sgt. Scott E. Nisely, 48, of Marshalltown, Iowa, Spc. Kampha B. Sourivong, 20, of Iowa City, Iowa.

The Department of Defense announced today the death of a sailor who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Petty Officer 2nd Class Michael A.

Monsoor, 25, of Garden Grove, Calif., died Sept. 29 while conducting combat operations against enemy forces in Ramadi, Iraq. Monsoor was a SEAL assigned to a West-Coast based command.

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The Department of Defense announced today the death of a Marine who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.Cpl. Aaron L. Seal, 23, of Elkhart, Ind., died Oct. 1 while conducting combat operations against enemy forces in Al Anbar province, Iraq. He was assigned to Marine Forces Reserve’s 6th Engineer Support Battalion, 4th Marine Logistics Group, Sound Bend, Ind.

The Department of Defense announced today the death of a Marine who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Lance Cpl. Christopher B. Cosgrove III,

23, of Cedar Knolls, N.J., died Oct. 1 while conducting combat operations

against enemy forces in Al Anbar province, Iraq. He was assigned to Marine Forces Reserve’s 2nd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division, Dover, N.J.

The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Cpl. Chase A. Haag, 22, of Portland, Ore., died in Baghdad, Iraq, on Oct. 1 when an improvised explosive device

detonated near his vehicle. Haag was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 22nd

Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, Fort Hood, Texas.

The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Staff Sgt. Joe A. Narvaez, 25, of San Antonio, Texas, died in Baghdad, Iraq, on Oct. 2 after being shot by enemy forces. Narvaez was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 26th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, Schweinfurt, Germany.

The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Sgt. Mario Nelson, 26, of Brooklyn, N.Y., died in Hit, Iraq, on Oct. 1 from injuries suffered when a rocket-propelled grenade detonated near his vehicle. Nelson was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 36th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division, Friedberg, Germany.

The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Pfc. Satieon V. Greenlee, 24, of Pendleton, S.C., died in Baghdad, Iraq, on Oct. 2 as a result of injuries suffered from

enemy small arms fire. Greenlee was assigned to the 4th Battalion, 31st

Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, Fort Drum, N.Y.

The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Pfc. Michael K. Oremus, 21, of Highland, N.Y., died in Baghdad, Iraq, on Oct. 2 after being shot by enemy forces. Oremus was assigned to the 57th Military Police Company, 8th Military Police Brigade, Seoul, Korea.

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The Department of Defense announced today the death of a Marine who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.Capt. Justin D. Peterson, 32, of Davisburg, Mich., died Oct. 1 from a non-hostile vehicle accident in Al Anbar province, Irq. He was assigned to 1st Tank Battalion, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Twentynine Palms, Calif. The incident is under investigation.

The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.Sgt. Denise A. Lannaman, 46, of Bayside, N.Y., died at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, on Oct. 1 from a non-combat

related incident. Lannaman was assigned to the Army National Guard’s 1569th Transportation Company, Newburgh, N.Y. The incident is under investigation.

The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. Spc. Angelo J. Vaccaro, 23, of Deltona, Fla., died on Oct. 2 in Korengal, Afghanistan, from injuries suffered during combat operations. Vaccaro was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 32nd Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, Fort Drum, N.Y.

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The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Staff Sgt. Daniel Isshak, 25, of Alta Loma, Calif., died on Oct. 3 in Tikrit, Iraq, from injuries suffered when his vehicle received enemy small arms fire at Hawija, Iraq, during combat operations. Isshak was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 27th Infantry, 3rd Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii.

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The Department of Defense announced today the death of two Marines who were supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Lance Cpl. Edward M. Garvin, 19,

of Malden, Mass. Cpl. Benjamin S. Rosales, 20, of Houston, Texas Both Marines died Oct. 4 while conducting combat operations in Al Anbar province, Iraq. They were assigned to 2nd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, N.C.

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The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. Spc. Fernando D. Robinson, 21, of Hawthorne, Calif., died on Oct. 2 in Korengal, Afghanistan, from injuries sustained when his patrol came under attack by enemy forces using small arms fire and rocket propelled grenades. Robinson was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 32nd Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division

(Light Infantry), Fort Drum, N.Y.

The Department of Defense announced today the death of four soldiers who were supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. They died in Taji, Iraq, on Oct. 2, of injuries sustained when an improvised explosive device detonated near their vehicle. All four soldiers were assigned to the 7th Squadron, 10th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, Fort Hood, Texas. Killed were:

Staff Sgt. James D. Ellis, 25, of Valdosta, Ga., Spc. Raymond S. Armijo, 22, of Phoenix, Ariz., Spc. Justin R. Jarrett, 21, of Jonesboro, Ga., Spc. Kristofer C. Walker, 20, of Creve Coeur, Ill.

The Iraqi Civil War Expands: Thank you, George!

Battle rages in Shia Iraqi town

October 8, 2006

BBC News

US and Iraqi troops have killed 30 suspected Shia militants during heavy

clashes in the southern Iraqi city of Diwaniya, the US military has said.

The fighting erupted as troops went in to arrest a militant responsible for

earlier killings, they said.

It is not clear whether militants loyal to cleric Moqtada Sadr were involved. Rebels said only three were wounded.

Elsewhere, police in Baghdad said they had found the bodies of 51 people who had been abducted, tortured and killed.

Meanwhile, a 36-hour curfew was lifted in the northern city of Kirkuk following

a huge security operation.

Thousands of Iraqi army and police force personnel backed by US-led coalition troops combed Kirkuk for insurgents, while US troops lent helicopter support.

Police said about 180 people were detained and large quantities of arms and ammunition seized.

The BBC's Jim Muir in Baghdad says tensions have been rising in Kirkuk, which

is home to Kurds, Arabs and Turkmens who claim ownership of the city and the oil-rich lands around it.

Regional tension

An indefinite curfew has been imposed in Diwaniya, a mainly Shia town, following the destruction of a US tank during the clashes.

Militants launched rocket-propelled grenades (RPG) against the troops who raided the house of Kifah al-Greiti, a commander of Moqtada Sadr's Mehdi Army militia, the Associated Press news agency says, quoting an Iraqi army officer.

"An M1A2 Abrams tank was struck by multiple RPG rounds and was severely damaged," the US military statement said.

Iraqi and US troops then "engaged the enemy forces and killed approximately

30 of the terrorists", it said.

It said coalition and Iraqi forces had suffered no casualties.

A curfew was imposed. Local eyewitnesses said American helicopters were rocketing parts of the town.

"There is an American tank on every corner of Diwaniya," one resident told Reuters news agency.

"Nobody slept in Diwaniya last night. The fighting was very fierce," he said.

Tensions high

Our Baghdad correspondent says tensions have been high in the area since fierce fighting in August between the Mehdi Army and Iraqi government forces and US troops.

It is not yet clear whether these latest clashes involve the Mehdi army itself.

Recent reports have suggested that the militia is not cohesive and that more radical elements may have split off, says our correspondent.

Whatever the case, the people fighting the Americans in Diwaniya are clearly not Sunni militants, who form the bulk of the insurgency against the coalition forces and the Iraqi government, our correspondent says.

Number of wounded U.S. troops surges

October 8, 2006

by Ann Scott Tyson

Mountain Standard

The number of U.S troops wounded in Iraq has surged to its highest level in nearly two years as Americans fight block-by-block in Baghdad to try to check a spiral of sectarian violence that U.S. commanders warn could lead to civil war.

Last month, 776 U.S. troops were wounded in action in Iraq, the highest number since the military assault to retake the insurgent-held city of Fallujah in November 2004, according to Defense Department data. It was the fourth-highest monthly total since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003.

The sharp increase in American wounded — with nearly 300 more in the first week of October — is a grim measure of the degree to which the U.S. military has been thrust into the lead of the effort to stave off full-scale civil war in Iraq, military officials and experts say. Beyond Baghdad, Marines battling Sunni insurgents in Iraq’s violent western province of Anbar last month also suffered their highest number of wounded in action since late 2004.

More than 20,000 U.S. troops have been wounded in combat and 2,700 killed in the Iraq war. (Over 3,000 official casualties as of October 5th, 2006, Ed) While much media reporting has focused on the number of dead, military experts say the number of wounded is a more accurate gauge of the fierceness of fighting because advances in armor and medical care allow many service members to survive who would have perished in past wars. The ratio of wounded to killed among U.S. forces in Iraq is about 10 to 1, compared with 3 to 1 in Vietnam.

‘‘These days, wounded are a much better measure of the intensity of the operations than killed,’’ said Anthony Cordesman, a military expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.

The surge in wounded comes as U.S. commanders issue increasingly dire warnings about the threat of civil war in Iraq, all but ruling out cuts in the

current contingent of more than 140,000 U.S. troops before the spring of 2007. Last month Gen. John Abizaid, the top commander in the Middle East, said ‘‘sectarian tensions, if left unchecked, could be fatal to Iraq,’’ making it imperative that the U.S. military focus its ‘‘main effort’’ squarely on Baghdad.

Thousands of additional U.S. troops have been ordered to Baghdad since July to reinforce Iraqi soldiers and police who failed to halt — or were in some cases complicit in — a wave of hundreds of killings of Iraqi civilians by rival Sunni and Shiite groups.

U.S. commanders have appealed for weeks for 3,000 more Iraqi army troops to help secure Baghdad but as of Thursday had received only a few hundred, according to military officials in the Iraqi capital. Mistrust of Iraqi police in Baghdad remains high, Abizaid said. Last week, an Iraqi police brigade with hundreds of officers was removed from duty over its involvement in sectarian killings.

‘‘The Baghdad security plan and the general spiral of operations is driving us to be more active than we have been in recent months,’’ said Michael O’Hanlon, a military analyst at the Brookings Institution, a Washington-based think tank. ‘‘We have more people on patrols and out of base, so we get more people hurt and killed in firefights,’’ he said, explaining that U.S. military offensives — more than other factors such as shifting enemy tactics — tend to drive the number of American casualties.

In March, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Iraqi forces — not U.S. troops — would deal with a civil war in Iraq ‘‘to the extent one were to occur.’’ Today’s operations in Baghdad demonstrate that that goal was not realistic, experts say.

‘‘In a sense, the Baghdad security plan is a complete repudiation of the earlier Rumsfeld doctrine where he said the Iraqis would prevent the civil war,’’ said O’Hanlon.

Despite the mounting cost in U.S. wounded and dead — including 13 American soldiers killed in combat in Baghdad in three days last week — Pentagon officials say aggressive military operations in the Iraqi capital are at best a short-term and partial solution, buying time for political compromise, which they call the

only way to arrest Iraq’s disintegration.

‘‘The Baghdad security plan will only be a temporary fix,’’ said a Pentagon official who has served in Iraq. ‘‘You need to address the root causes,’’ said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly.

The rising toll of wounded reflects ongoing heavy combat in Anbar as well as in Baghdad, where U.S. troops face an escalation of small-arms and other attacks as they push into the city’s most violent neighborhoods to rein in sectarian death squads, militias and insurgents, officers say.

‘‘Attacks against the coalition have definitely increased as ... the enemy is trying to come in and re-establish themselves’’ in a dozen religiously divided districts in east and west Baghdad, said Lt. Col. Jonathan Withington, a spokesman for the U.S. military command in the city. ‘‘There’s a lot of weapons in Baghdad,’’ contributing to an increase in enemy attacks using small arms, he said.

Withington said he was not authorized to release the number of U.S. military personnel wounded in Baghdad or the number of attacks in the city, although the military has released such data in the past.

The worsening violence in Baghdad has led some Pentagon officials to criticize decisions by the U.S. military since early 2005 to transfer responsibility for security in large swaths of Baghdad to Iraqi forces while cutting back on American patrols.

‘‘We made decisions to take an indirect approach, which is great if you want

low U.S. casualty rates,’’ said the Pentagon official. However, he said: ‘‘Passing responsibility to Iraqis does not equal defeating terrorists and neutralizing the insurgency. Period.’’

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US Casualty Rate in Iraq Worst Since Fallujah

October 9, 2006

by Andrew Buncombe

The Independent

The number of US troops being wounded in Iraq is now at its highest level for two years as American forces are confronted by increasing sectarian violence and a continuing insurgency.

Figures released by the Pentagon show that 776 soldiers were wounded in action in Iraq last month.

The September figure represents the fourth largest casualty rate since the US and UK invasion in the spring of 2003 and the largest since November 2004 when US forces were involved in a major offensive to clear the city of Fallujah. Some experts believe the number of wounded provides a better insight to the nature of the conflict in Iraq than the figure of 2,700 killed because - in relation to previous wars - many more wounded troops survive.

The ratio of wounded to killed is 8 to 1, compared with 3 to 1 during the Vietnam War. Anthony Cordesman, of the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, told The Washington Post: "These days wounded are a much better measure of the intensity of the operations than killed."

The release of the figure came as violence yesterday continued to rock Iraq. US and Iraqi forces were involved in clashes with Shia militia in the southern city of Diwaniyah for the second time in as many months. The US claimed about 30 militia fighters were killed during the operation to secure a "high value" target.

On Saturday two more US soldiers were killed, bringing the overall death toll to 2,741.

Military experts say the increasing toll of wounded US troops may in part be explained by a shift in their duties in recent months - with thousands being moved into Baghdad in an effort to stop the killing of civilians by rival Sunni and Shia factions.

US commanders have asked for 3,000 Iraqi troops to bolster their presence but so far have received only a few hundred.

Michael O'Hanlon, of the Brookings Institution in Washington, told The Washington Post: "The Baghdad security plan and the spiral of operations is driving us to be more active than we have been in recent months. "We have more people on patrols and out of base so we get more people hurt and killed."

At the same time, other figures show that the number of attacks against US forces is continuing to rise. In July a total of 2,625 explosive devices were encountered by US forces - with the devices either exploding or defused - compared with 1,454 in January. The increase suggested that despite the killing in June of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al-Qa'ida in Iraq, the anti-American insurgency is intensifying.

A spokesman for the American military in Baghdad, Lt Col Jonathan Withington, said: "Attacks against the coalition have definitely increased as the enemy is trying to come in and re-establish themselves. There's a lot of weapons in Baghdad."

In Diwaniyah, the US military said they came under attack from 10 teams of militia fighters armed with rocket- propelled grenades. A US M1A2 Abrams tank was struck by multiple rounds and was severely damaged.

The US soldiers were carrying out an operation to capture a target suspected of involvement in the killing Iraqi soldiers on 28 August.

The US and Iraqi operation focused on the house of Kifah al-Greiti, a commander of the Mehdi Army, a militia loyal to the Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. But Iraqi police sources said Mr Greiti was not arrested and it was unclear who the main target of the operation was.

Fadhil Qasir, a spokesman for the Mehdi Army, told the Associated Press: "They have tried to arrest [Mr Greiti] several times before and they failed this time also."

In recent weeks there has been a marked increase in US efforts to combat the Mehdi Army. American troops have been involved ina series of raids against Mehdi Army their leaders in Baghdad and elsewhere in an attempt to help quell the violence.

Comment: How can this be? Congress has just earmarked $30 million for a “great national celebration of our military victory in Iraq.” Do they know something else besides concealing perverts in their midst? When is this “victory celebration” happening? Bush has said during a recent press conference, in a cold, nasty voice, that as long as he was in the White House, U.S. soldiers would stay in Iraq. Can he be planning to leave before his term is up? Voluntarily never but perhaps in an involuntary sense, yes. Pray. Brian Harring