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  • • A soldier died of injuries from a roadside bomb in Amiriyah, a neighborhood in western Baghdad.

    July 2008 2008

  • • Army Staff Sgt. Bradley D. King, 28, Marion, Ind.; died in Amiriyah after an explosive detonated near his vehicle; assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 152nd Infantry Regiment, 76th Infantry Brigade, Marion, Ind. April 1

    April 2007 2007

  • • Army Spc. Romel Catalan, 21, Los Angeles; killed in Amiriyah when his vehicle struck an explosive; assigned to the 1st Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division (Stryker Brigade Combat Team), Fort Lewis, Wash.

    June 2007 2007

  • King, 28, of Marion, Ind., was killed by a roadside bomb April 2 in Amiriyah.

    Iraq glimpses for April 2007 2007

  • They've detained nine at a place called Amiriyah (ph).

    CNN Transcript May 19, 2007 2007

  • One day in late May [2007] in the western Baghdad neighborhood of Amiriyah, some local militiamen painted a sign on a wall, "Down with al-Qaeda, long live the honest resistance."

    The Gambler Is Seized | ATTACKERMAN 2009

  • Marion, Ind., died April 2 in Al Amiriyah, Iraq, of wounds suffered when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle during combat operations.

    Gulf War II 2007

  • The Washington Post article states that al-Qaeda in Iraq fighters had moved into Amiriyah because the Sunni tribes had pushed them out of Anbar.

    Matthew Yglesias » Occupation is Hard 2007

  • My brother, Awj Al-Jaibaji, 58, married, and a father of nine, was hit by a bullet in his abdomen, by the American military in Al-Amiriyah, Baghdad.

    Boing Boing 2007

  • It had been blown off three months before when his Humvee ran over an IED in Amiriyah, Iraq.

    Mona Gable: The Truth About the Surge: More Wounded Vets 2008

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