Five Women Marines Killed in Iraq; no wait it's Six; no wait it's Two; no wait it's Three

Eventually there will be a 'final' report. But this morning there are a number of reports with conflicting information about who was killed in the blowing up of the 7 ton US military vehicle. This is the nature of how we get the news of incidents of our troops killed in Iraq.
Below are some of the 'breaking' reports;

The first I heard was by my morning email before 8AM; Breaking News CNN

-- As many as six U.S. Marines killed by suicide bomber in Fallujah, U.S. military official tells CNN, with "some number of women" among the casualties.

Then as I searched around on internet, these are the other reports;

NBC News Service;

5 U.S. Marines slain in Iraq car bombing

Suicide attack on vehicle carrying female Marines injures 10
U.S. troops check the site of a suspected roadside bomb, in Baghdad on Friday.
NBC News and news services
Updated: 8:46 a.m. ET June 24, 2005

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A suicide car bomber slammed into a 7-ton U.S. military vehicle in Fallujah, killing at least five female Marines and wounding 10 more, the military told NBC News on Friday.

No further information was immediately available.

The attack, underscoring the durability of the insurgency in Iraq, came as President Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari were to meet at the White House. Their agenda includes discussions on work being done to train Iraqi security forces — a precursor to bringing U.S. troops home — as well as efforts to draft a constitution and rebuild a nation still wracked by a violent insurgency more than two years after the fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime.

Overall, Thursday’s violence across Iraq left at least 20 civilians killed and 37 wounded.



MSNBC

Just heard on MSNBC...
Five Marine women were killed by a suicide bomber. The five women were part of a force to investigate women carrying explosives. Waiting to hear more.



CNN

http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/06/24/iraq.main /

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- A suicide car bomb targeting a U.S. Marine convoy exploded in Falluja, the volatile city west of Baghdad, causing an unknown number of casualties, the U.S. military said Friday.

The troops were assigned to II Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward), the military said.

Thursday night's attack came at the end of another particularly violent day in the Iraqi capital. Four car bombings killed at least 17 people and wounded as many as 60 others in the city Thursday, the Iraqi Defense Ministry said.


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8202434 /

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A suicide car bomber slammed into a 7-ton U.S. military vehicle in Fallujah on Friday, and military sources told NBC News that five female Marines were killed and 10 others wounded.


A review of casualty records indicates the attack is the single deadliest toll for female servicemembers in Iraq. Since the war started, 46 female soldiers have died in attacks or in accidents while in Iraq.

The vehicle, which had a total of 19 people on board, was ferrying members of a U.S. military civil affairs team headed to perform checkpoint searches of female Iraqi civilians, the officials said.

The team was assigned to the II Marine Expeditionary Force, which is based at Camp LeJeune, N.C.


MSNBC

MSNBC now says that it was three not five women...2 men.


CNN
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/06/24/iraq.main/ind...
Marines killed in Falluja attack
Some of casualties are women, U.S. official says

Friday, June 24, 2005; Posted: 10:15 a.m. EDT (14:15 GMT)


BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- A suicide vehicle bomb killed two U.S. Marines and left four others unaccounted for when it exploded near their convoy in Falluja, the volatile city west of Baghdad, a U.S. military official said Friday.

Some of the casualties were women, the official said. The troops were assigned to the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force.

Thursday night's attack came at the end of another particularly violent day in the Iraqi capital. Four car bombings killed at least 17 people and wounded as many as 60 others in the city Thursday, the Iraqi Defense Ministry said.

A suicide attack near an old mall in the Karada area killed seven civilians and wounded 10 others, the defense ministry said, while the Iraqi police put the death toll at 12 civilians and three police officers, with 50 wounded.

Three police officers and seven civilians died in a second suicide blast targeting an Iraqi police patrol near a gas station, the ministry said. Ten civilians were wounded.



CNN just said it was six


FOX

Fox said a homicide bomber just slammed into Marines. 2 dead



NPR just upgraded to 6 Marines killed



NBC News

5 Marines killed in Iraq car bombing
Three were women, worst single-day toll for female servicemembers
U.S. troops check the site of a suspected roadside bomb, in Baghdad on Friday.
NBC News and news services
Updated: 9:29 a.m. ET June 24, 2005


AP

AP Link: 2 killed,4 missing and 13 wounded

AP says a total of 1, 730 total dead.
BAGHDAD, Iraq - A suicide car bomber slammed into a U.S. convoy in Fallujah, killing two Marines, a
Pentagon spokesman said Friday. Three Marines and a sailor were missing after the attack.
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Another 13 Marines were wounded in the Thursday night attack, spokesman Bryan Whitman. Some women were among the casualties, he said.

At least 1,730 members of the U.S. military have died since the war began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

The car bomber targeted troops assigned to the II Marine Expeditionary Force, an earlier military statement said. Fallujah, the Anbar province town 40 miles west of Baghdad, was the scene of a large-scale campaign in November by U.S. troops to rout militants.


MSNBC

MSNBC now says Only three were female



NBC News and news services
Updated: 9:29 a.m. ET June 24, 2005

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A suicide car bomber slammed into a 7-ton U.S. military vehicle in Fallujah on Friday, and Marine sources told NBC News that five Marines were killed and 10 others wounded.

Three of the dead were female Marines and two male, the sources said. Earlier reports said all five were women.

In any case, a review of casualty records indicates the attack is the single deadliest toll for female servicemembers in Iraq. Since the war started, 44 female soldiers have died in attacks or in accidents while in Iraq.

The vehicle, which had 19 people on board, was ferrying members of a U.S. military civil affairs team headed to perform checkpoint searches of female Iraqi civilians, the officials said.