Articles 5.5.2005

The Morning Call, PA has an article on a Marine wounded in Ramadi. Chief Warrant Officer David Bednarcik suffered shrapnel wounds that shattered his jaw while riding in a humvee on 4.21.2005 in Ramadi (his unit wasn't given, but is based out of Camp Pendleton, so is likely the 1/5 Marines). No one else was wounded in the attack, and the family has not received any details of the event. CWO Bednarcik was transported to the National Naval Medical Center. He spent two days in intensive care, and will have several reconstructive surgeries over the next several months. CWO Bednarcik was on his third tour in Iraq, and was quoted in a Washington Post article during the initial April 2004 assault on Fallujah.
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The Washington Post has an update article on the hunt for Abu Musab Zarqawi. U.S. officials ""received a tip that there were terrorists in and around the hospital in Ramadi" last week. U.S. and Iraqi forces went to the hospital but made no arrests. According to the article, "Zarqawi's group asserted in a written statement posted at two mosques, one of them in Ramadi, that the Jordanian-born militant was at the hospital last Thursday during a raid by U.S. forces but that the Americans missed him."
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Other articles from the region:
- Chicago Tribune: Gloves are off in MP race full of Iraq war tension
- BBC: Militants' challenge to new Iraq