Casualty Count

ONE of the more poignant moments in “Betrayed,” George Packer’s play about a group of Iraqi translators that opens Wednesday at the Culture Project in SoHo, is presented by Intisar, an idealistic young woman employed by the American Embassy in Baghdad.

Mason County native Sgt. First class Matt Tolle is recovering in an Iraqi hospital after being wounded in battle. But back home in Kentucky his father has yet to hear from him.

Cpt. Michael A. Norman, 36, of Killeen, Texas, died Jan. 31 in Baghdad, Iraq, of wounds suffered when his vehicle encountered an improvised explosive device. He was assigned to the Military Transition Team, 1st Brigade, 1st Infantry Division...

1st Lt. David E. Schultz, 25, of Illinois, died Jan. 31 of wounds suffered when the Convoy Support Center at Scania, Iraq, was attacked by indirect enemy fire. He was assigned to the 3rd Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team...

In the Northern city of Mosul, four Awakening Councils members were killed and nine injured when an explosive device targeted their patrol, the Iraqi News Agency Voices of Iraq (VOI) reported.

Gunmen attacked a convoy of Abdul-Kareem al-Mohammedawi, deputy dean of Baghdad's dental college, killing two guards and wounding two others in the Zayouna district of eastern Baghdad, police said.

The Marine Corps has subpoenaed outtakes from a “60 Minutes” TV interview of Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich, who led a group of Camp Pendleton Marines in killing 24 Iraqi civilians about two years ago.

The death toll from two Baghdad market bombs allegedly carried by mentally disabled women and set off remotely has risen to nearly 100, say officials. The blasts on Friday at two animal markets in Baghdad left 99 people dead and up to 200 wounded...

ITT Federal Services International, a defense contractor hired to maintain battle gear for U.S. troops in Iraq, repeatedly failed to do the job right. Combat vehicles ITT declared as repaired and ready for action flunked inspections...

President Bush's top diplomat in Iraq said Friday that the U.S. plans to keep combat troops there into 2009, seen as the tipping point for establishing the nation's long-term security, and he offered no deadline for a full withdrawal.

Two women described as mentally disabled and strapped with remote-control explosives — and possibly used as unwitting suicide bombers — brought carnage Friday to two pet bazaars, killing at least 91 people in the deadliest day...

Eric O'Brien, 32, an Army staff sergeant...now suffers from traumatic brain injury...As a result of a rocket attack on a Baghdad gym where O'Brien was working out...

Lt. Col. Greg Gadson, U.S. Army, 2nd Batallion, 32nd Field Artillery...lost both his legs and suffered traumatic injuries to his right arm and shoulder...when his own vehicle was hit by an improvised explosive device.

Pvt. Zachary Ashbaugh, 20, faces months of recovery and rehabilitation, family members say. He is a patient at the military hospital at Fort Sam Houston, near San Antonio, Texas, where he arrived Jan. 21 after being treated at an Army hospital in Germany.

Gunmen killed two policemen and wounded four civilians when they stormed a bus terminal and opened fire in Kut, 170 km (100 miles) southeast of Baghdad, police said.

About 20 minutes later, a second female suicide bomber struck another bird market in a predominantly Shiite area in southeastern Baghdad. That blast killed at least 18 people and wounded 25, police said.

Senior aides to the powerful Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr yesterday warned the US and the Iraqi government that a six-month freeze on the activities of their militia may not be extended unless the prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki...

Iraq's winter rains have yet to arrive and the country's Northern provinces are suffering from a drought, Iraq's agriculture minister announced in January. The drought adds to the burden of farmers already dealing with poor soil...

A 316th Expeditionary Sustainment Command Soldier was killed during indirect fire at Convoy Support Center Scania Jan. 31. Additionally, one Soldier was wounded and evacuated to a Coalition hospital.

A Multi-National Division-Baghdad Soldier was killed in Baghdad Jan. 31 when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle during combat operations.