-->gut, einige davon waren auch aus Afghanistan, aber trotzdem:



The VA’s 2001 expansion of services has made a big difference to troops passing through the Landstuhl hospital, according to Jerl York, officer in charge for the seven-member VA staff at Landstuhl.

As of Tuesday, 20,802 troops have been treated at Landstuhl from injuries received in Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom.

York said that the predischarge program available at Landstuhl allows separating troops to work through the claims process while still in Germany, allowing them to circumvent most of the ponderous VA central claims system, based in Washington, D.C.


und diese 21.000 dürften wohl nur die Schwerstverletzten, mithin die Spitze des Eisberges, darstellen! Einige andere wurden aber auch nach Spanien, Italien oder direkt in die USA ausgeflogen worden sein, die fehlen hier also ebenso. Mit den"offiziellen" Daten des Pentagon



gruss,
Sorrento
<ul> ~ http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=24783&archive=true</ul>

-->beizeiten prognostiziert.
Jetzt schon schwere Schlappen um Fallujah, das immer noch nicht unterworfen ist.

Der Preis steigt täglich.

First US withdrawals from al-Fallujah reported.

In a dispatch posted at 9pm Mecca time, Friday night, a Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent reported that US forces outside al-Fallujah on Friday were subjected to Resistance bombardment with Grad and Tariq rockets. The Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent in the area reported that after receiving the pounding, US troops pulled their units from the western sector of their ring surrounding the city back in the direction of the US base at al-Habbaniyah.

Friday afternoon, a large number of armored vehicles were also withdrawn towards al-Habbahiyah without engaging the Resistance.

This was the first US retreat from any of the sectors of the ring around al-Fallujah since the siege began some weeks ago. US forces also withdrew the check points that they had set up to the west of the city on the old bridge and the new bridge. Also withdrawn was one of the US command points to the north of the city, but this was after it came under Iraqi Resistance bombardment.

These developments show a weakening of the US forces surrounding al-Fallujah, a kind of shocked reaction to their failure to dislodge the Resistance. In fact in the last three days, the Resistance has managed to regain its old strength and widen the areas of the city under their control so that now 65 percent of al-Fallujah is controlled by the Resistance.